The present research work was taken up to evaluate the impact of government schemes in rural areas of Nuh district of Haryana. Nuh is one of the least developed districts in the state with a significant rural population. The impact of government schemes has been measured on household assets, income and consumption expenditure by seeking information from random 240 households out of which 190 came to be beneficiaries and 50 households were non- beneficiaries of government schemes. All the sample households have been categorised into four landholding groups i.e., landless, marginal, small and medium households. It has been observed that government schemes have helped the beneficiary households by analysing the values of assets, income and consumption expenditure before and after the implementation of such programmes. A significant difference has been found in the living standard of beneficiary and non-beneficiary households as well. However, some shortcomings were also identified in the implementation of government schemes like wrong identification of beneficiaries, lack of adequate monitoring and evaluation processes, delay in the distribution of benefits and insufficient amount of transferred benefits. Therefore, it becomes important for the administration and policy makers to keep a check on such irregularities so that needed benefits reach the poorer households on time.