Rural development is fundamental to achieve sustainable development goals. Covid 19 has forced daily wage earners in the urban slum to return to their village. Rural-urban migration can be limited if better earning opportunities are created in rural areas A socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable rural transformation is needed today. Many programs have been launched by the Central and State Government for rural development in independent India. The first Community Development Program (C.D.P) initiated in 1952 and National Extension Service in 1953, was an organized effort to solve the problem of rural India which enable the farmer to adopt technology in agriculture and abolition of the intermediary landlord. This paper examines various Central Government Scheme that affects rural development from 2014 onwards.

KEYWORDS: Central Government Scheme, Rural Development, SRLM, Child Sex Ratio, Rural Transformation.