Government of India
Grants-in-aid to State/Districts
Grants-in-Aid, in numbers
Projects approved for grant
9,127
Across 4 intervention types in 5 financial years. Income Generation is the largest at 46%.
Income Generation
46%
4,185 approved
Skilling
14%
1,290 approved
Infrastructure
40%
3,649 approved
Special Tutoring
0%
3 approved
Approvals by financial year
Projects approved for grant in each year, split by intervention. All years, whatever the filter
Income Generation
Skilling
Infrastructure
Special Tutoring
2023-2024 is the largest year at 7,435 approvals — more than the other 4 years put together. This card always shows every year, because it is the one that answers the question the Year control asks.
Which instrument carries the load
Share of approved projects by intervention, all years
Income Generation 45.9%
Skilling 14.1%
Infrastructure 40.0%
Special Tutoring 0.0%
Every intervention carries approvals in this period.
What income-generation grants actually fund
The eight largest domains by approved projects, all years
Unspecified
700
Industry, Service and Business
491
Animal Husbandry — Assistance for goat/sheep
326
Industry, Service and Business — Retail shops, Grocerys and Showrooms
274
Animal Husbandry — Assistance for milch cattle and dairy farming
212
Animal Husbandry — Assistance for poultry
189
Food Processing — Support for food processing activities
189
Animal Husbandry — Assistance for pigs and duck units
186
Livestock, retail and food processing dominate — the domains a household can start on its own land or in its own premises. Names are the source's own, shown as domain — sub-domain.
How skilling money is spent
Approved skilling projects by type of training, all years
Short-term Training
841
Unspecified
441
Up-skilling
246
Entrepreneurship Development
113
Long-term Training
90
Short-term training is the overwhelming majority. Long-term training and up-skilling — the two that change a wage rather than start one — remain a small share.
Infrastructure, by project type
Approved infrastructure projects, all years
Unspecified
3,260
Agriculture and Soil Conservation
1,291
Handicrafts and Handlooms
768
Horticlture
610
Minor Irrigation
285
Forestry Ecology and Environment
56
"Unspecified" is the source's own label for a project recorded without a type, and it is the largest single category — worth fixing upstream rather than hiding here.
From approval to execution
Projects on the books against projects reported in progress, every year
Projects on the books
67,193
Reported in progress
486
1% of the total
These are the department's project counts, which are larger than the approved-grant counts above and are not the same denominator — a grant may carry several projects. Read the two as separate questions, not as a funnel.