Schemes

Community Healthcare Management Initiative (CHCMI)

CHCMI is an initiative of P&RD Department aiming at awareness generation and behavioral change of community on different public health issues. “Community’s health in Community’s Hands” being the motto of the programme, CHCMI seeks to converge community action at the grass root level to the cause of promoting good health and preventing sickness in the community.

Social Security

National Social Assistance Programme represents a significant step towards the fulfillment of the Directive Principles in Article 41 of the Constitution. The programme aims at ensuring minimum national standard for social assistance. NSAP at present, comprises of Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS), Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS) and National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS)

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

The scheme aims at improving livelihood and standard of living of the rural population, allowing them to be self-sustainable and independent at the same time by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.

PMGSY

The primary objective of this Yojana is to provide connectivity by way of all weather road (with necessary culverts and cross drainage structures which is operable throughout the year), to the unconnected habitations in the rural areas of the State.

Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen)

Objective of Mission Nirmal Bangla is to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas by promoting sustainable sanitation facilities with focus on Solid & Liquid Waste Management for overall cleanliness in the rural West Bengal.

PMAY-G

This scheme with the objective of addressing housing needs in the rural areas aims at providing a pucca house, with basic amenities, to all houseless households and households living in kutcha and dilapidated house, by 2022 with a minimum unit (house) of 25 sq. m including a dedicated area for hygienic cooking.