Key facts

  • Budget 2023-24, Budget 2024-25 and Economic Review 2024-25 are the official welfare frame.
  • Ayushman Arogya is health risk pooling; Nishulk Dava and Nishulk Janch are facility services.
  • Maa Voucher is a maternal sonography service voucher, not a cash-transfer scheme.
  • Rajshri and Lado are girl-child milestone schemes with different benefit sizes and cycles.
  • Palanhar is family-based child support for vulnerable children across multiple categories.

Key Points at a Glance

  1. 1

    Budget 2023-24, Budget 2024-25 and Economic Review 2024-25 are the official welfare frame.

  2. 2

    Ayushman Arogya is health risk pooling; Nishulk Dava and Nishulk Janch are facility services.

  3. 3

    Maa Voucher is a maternal sonography service voucher, not a cash-transfer scheme.

  4. 4

    Rajshri and Lado are girl-child milestone schemes with different benefit sizes and cycles.

  5. 5

    Palanhar is family-based child support for vulnerable children across multiple categories.

  6. 6

    Annapurna Rasoi subsidises cooked meals through urban bodies and rural livelihood groups.

  7. 7

    Social Security Pension schemes create monthly income floors for age, widowhood and disability.

  8. 8

    Silicosis Policy connects occupational disease certification with rehabilitation and pension support.

  9. 9

    DMIC and Western DFC are economic-capacity anchors that indirectly support welfare sustainability.

How should Rajasthan welfare schemes be studied through the budget cycle?

Rajasthan welfare schemes should be studied through the budget cycle because the State Budget announces or reshapes benefits, while the Rajasthan Economic Review verifies expenditure, beneficiaries, delivery agencies and the fiscal base that sustains them.

Rajasthan State Budget 2023-24, Rajasthan State Budget 2024-25, the 2024-25 Vote on Account, the Modified Budget 2024-25 and the Rajasthan Economic Review 2025-26 together form the official frame for studying Major Welfare Schemes in the state economy. According to the Rajasthan Economic Review 2025-26, Rajasthan's GSDP at current prices is estimated to reach ₹17.04 lakh crore in 2024-25.

Budget And Review Frame

Document / stage Role in welfare-scheme study
Rajasthan State Budget 2023-24 Treated social security as a policy right for deprived sections and placed pensions, food kitchens, health insurance and child support in one welfare cluster.
Rajasthan State Budget 2024-25 / 2024-25 Vote on Account Moved quickly on relief measures such as subsidised LPG, Shree Annapurna Rasoi quantity enhancement, Lado Protsahan Yojana and pension increases.
Modified Budget 2024-25 Presented on 10 July 2024 and gave the full-year state budget after the interim period.
Rajasthan Economic Review 2025-26 Records expenditure, beneficiaries, delivery agencies and macro indicators, and updates the fiscal setting for schemes that were announced or expanded in the previous budget cycle.
  • Budget speeches announce or reshape schemes.
  • Rajasthan Economic Review 2025-26 matters because welfare schemes are not only charity headings; they sit inside state output, revenue capacity and social-sector expenditure.
  • Current-price GSDP is the macro base behind welfare spending: the latest review estimates it at ₹17.04 lakh crore in 2024-25, after ₹15.22 lakh crore in 2023-24 on the same series.

Welfare Delivery Logic

Welfare delivery uses this fiscal base through:

  • Cash transfers.
  • Health assurance.
  • Subsidised food.
  • Maternal support.
  • Child protection.
  • Pensions.
  • Worker rehabilitation.

A scheme name therefore has to be read with its:

  • Year.
  • Beneficiary group.
  • Implementing department.
  • Delivery route.

Why Corridors Appear In This Topic

The same frame explains why this topic includes both social schemes and economic corridors.

  • Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor in Rajasthan and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor through Rajasthan are not food or pension schemes, but they shape employment, industrial nodes and logistics around Alwar, Jaipur, Ajmer, Pali and Jodhpur.
  • Rajasthan's welfare approach links direct support with productive infrastructure:
    • Pensions protect old age and disability.
    • Health assurance reduces treatment shock.
    • Food kitchens protect urban and rural poor.
    • Corridors expand jobs and markets that reduce dependence on relief.

For RAS answers, this means a welfare-scheme note should not be read only as a list of subsidies. It should connect announcements, budget provisions, economic capacity and the department that actually delivers the benefit.

PREDICTED Predicted RAS Questions

Based on PYQ trends and 2026 syllabus analysis

1 MCQ Which Rajasthan document was presented on 10 July 2024 as the full state budget after the interim period?
  1. A Rajasthan Economic Review 2024-25
  2. B Rajasthan State Budget 2023-24
  3. C Rajasthan State Budget 2024-25 Correct answer
  4. D Rajasthan Silicosis Policy

Explanation

Rajasthan State Budget 2024-25 is correct because the Modified Budget speech was presented on 10 July 2024 after the Vote on Account. Economic Review 2024-25 is a statistical review, not the budget speech. Budget 2023-24 belongs to the previous annual cycle. Silicosis Policy is an occupational health policy, not a budget document.