211. Major Welfare Schemes

Rajasthan State Budget 2023-24, Rajasthan State Budget 2024-25 and Rajasthan Economic Review 2024-25 form the official frame for studying Major Welfare Schemes in the state economy. The budget speeches announce or reshape schemes, while the Economic Review records expenditure, beneficiaries, delivery agencies and macro indicators. The 2023-24 budget treated social security as a policy right for deprived sections and placed pensions, food kitchens, health insurance and child support in one welfare cluster. The 2024-25 Vote on Account then moved quickly on relief measures such as subsidised LPG, Shree Annapurna Rasoi quantity enhancement, Lado Protsahan Yojana and pension increases. The Modified Budget 2024-25, presented on 10 July 2024, gave the full-year state budget after the interim period.

Rajasthan Economic Review 2024-25 matters because welfare schemes are not only charity headings; they sit inside state output, revenue capacity and social-sector expenditure. The review estimated current-price GSDP at ₹17.04 lakh crore in 2024-25 and showed how agriculture, industry and services support public spending. Welfare delivery uses this fiscal base through cash transfers, health assurance, subsidised food, maternal support, child protection, pensions and worker rehabilitation. A scheme name therefore has to be read with its year, beneficiary group, implementing department and delivery route.

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 links direct support with productive infrastructure: pensions protect old age and disability, health assurance reduces treatment shock, food kitchens protect urban and rural poor, and corridors expand jobs and markets that reduce dependence on relief.