As India steadily moves forward with its vision of becoming Viksit Bharat by 2047, the year 2025 serves as a milestone of double-speak reflecting the government’s developmental agenda. The central government has announced an array of progressive and inclusive schemes this year to boost the economy, enhance social welfare and ensuring that the fruits of development reach the last mote of the country.
These interventions cover the full spectrum of agriculture, education, employment, entrepreneurship and skill development indicating a comprehensive approach to building the nation. For lobbying farmers and upskilling youth to backing gig workers and opening up education, the 2025 policy roadmap aims to fortify India’s base for enduring growth.
All these schemes have transformative aspirations – generating millions of jobs, reforming technical education, raising rural productivity levels, and increasing access to health care and research. They collectively reflect a clear intent to inclusive development and self-reliance in ensuring that the story of India’s progress touches each and every citizen.
Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana
Among the most challenging 2025 job schemes is the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PMVBRY) launched on 15 August 2025, with a whopping outlay of Rs. If successful, this employment-linked incentive scheme would lead to the creation of 3.5 crore jobs in two years, with maximum benefit going to first time job seekers entering workforce.
The new scheme is aimed at the youth who makes up 68 percent of the country’s population first-time employees would be eligible to receive up to Rs 15,000 in two installments and the employers will get an incentive of up to Rs 3,000 per month for the hire of new staff. The scheme has a special emphasis on manufacturing and MSME sectors and extends financial assistance by way of direct benefit transfer to incentivise formal employment and cover social security.
MERITE Scheme: Transforming Technical Education
The MERITE Scheme is expected to provide around 7.5 lakh students the benefits of enhanced quality, equity and governance in technical education in line with National Education Policy 2020. Major interventions comprise internship options, updation of curriculum aligned with the industry, faculty development programmes, research centres and skill labs for increasing the employability and diminishing the unemployment of engineering graduates.
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PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana
The PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojna was announced by prime minister Narendra Modi in October 2025. Inspired from Aspirational Districts Programme, this scheme focuses on 100 low-productivity districts of the country covering around 1.7 crore farmers, of which the majority are small and marginal.
The schema subsumes 36 existing schemes of agriculture and allied sectors and is being implemented through 11 ministries with focus on districts which have low crop productivity, medium cropping intensity and have been identified as “having languishing status of credit flow”. The programme is expected to enhance irrigation facilities, increase crop productivity, facilitate greater access to credit and storage facilities and promote sustainable farming practices.
PM Internship Scheme
The Prime Minister’s Internship Scheme was launched on 3 October, 2024 with an aim to provide 1 crore paid internship in top 500 companies of India for a period of five years. The scheme provides 1.25 lakh seats for institutions which are of 12 months duration during 2024-25 and out of that duration, 6 months is to be spent in gaining practical experience. Interns in the age group 21-24 years get a monthly stipend of Rs. 5,000 and a one-time assistance of Rs.6,000 along with industry exposure in 24 sectors, ranging from IT, banking, automotive, manufacturing to hospitality.
One Nation One Subscription
From January 1, 2025, the One Nation One Subscription scheme for students and faculty will cover 13,000 international scholarly journals from 30 leading publishers, allowing 1.8 crore students and researchers of 6,500+ government higher education and R&D institutions to access these journals. Backed by Rs.6000 crore for 2025-2027, ONOS is set to remove subscription barriers and duplication, providing free access to research of publishers including that of Oxford, Cambridge and Elsevier, thus making it easier to conduct interdisciplinary research and democratising knowledge in all Indian institutions – including those in tier 2 and tier 3 cities.
Healthcare for Gig Workers
In a major social security boost, the government also said it had registered 1 crore gig and platform workers on the e-Shram portal, offering them healthcare coverage under PM Jan Arogya Yojana (Ayushman Bharat). The program acknowledges the expanding workforce in the gig economy and offers some formal social security protection to workers in ride sharing, food delivery and other platform-based services who, until now, were without universal health insurance coverage.
Conclusion
The 2025 government schemes seem to be focused on the overall development of a nation including employment generation, skill building, farm output, excellence in education, support to entrepreneurs and social welfare. These schemes pitch in billions of dollars in investments and underline the government’s dedication to realising Viksit Bharat by 2047. If you are a farmer, student, entrepreneur, job seeker or researcher, these schemes can help you find paths to empowerment, prosperity and inclusive growth. Keep track of the eligibility requirements and how to apply through the official portals to make the most out of these programmes that are transforming the future of India.
