Important Antipoverty Employment Generation Programs
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
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Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGRY)
Started on April 1, 1999. It has replaced
the following programs:
Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) :
Started in 1978 - 79).
Training Rural Youth for Self -Employment
(TRYSEM): Started in 1978-79.
Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas
(DWCRA): Started in 1978 -79.
Ganga Kalyan Yojana (GKY): Started in 1997.
Million Wells Scheme (MWS): Started in 1989.
Supply of Improved Tool-kits to Rural Artisans
(SITRA).
The yojana takes into account all the strengths
and weaknesses of the earlier self-employment
programs.
Every assisted family will be brought above the
poverty line. It is proposed to cover 30% of the
rural poor in each block. To Target at atleast
50% Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, 40%
women and 3% disabled.
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Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY)
It was introduced in 2000-01 with the
objective of focusing on village level
development in five critical areas I.e., primary
health, primary education, housing, rural roads
and drinking water and nutrition with the
overall objective of improving the quality of
life of people in rural areas. Rural
electrification was added as an additional
component from 2001-02.
It has the following components:
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (Gramin Awas).
Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (Rural Drinking
Water Project).
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Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana (SGRY)
It was started on Sept. 25,2001, with the
mergence of the Employment Assurance Scheme
(EAS) and the Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana
(JGSY). Earlier Jawahar Rozgar Yojana, which
started in 1989, was merged with Jawahar Gram
Samriddhi Yojana.
The objective of the program is to provide
additional wage employment in rural areas and
also to provide food security.
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Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)
The SJSRY came into operation in Dec, 1997,
through a restructuring and streamlining of the
earlier urban poverty alleviation programs, the
Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY), the Urban Basic
Services for the Poor (UBSP) and the Prime
Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty alleviation
Program (PMIUPEP).
It seeks to provide employment to the urban
employed or underemployed living below poverty
line and educated up to IX standard through
encouraging the setting up of self-employment
ventures or provision of wage employment.
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Antyodaya Anna Yojana
Launched on Dec. 25,2000. The scheme aims at
providing food security to poor families.
The scheme contemplates identification of 10
million 'poorest of the poor' families and
providing the \m with 25kg of food grains per
family per month at a low price of Rs.2 per Kg
for wheat and Rs.3 per Kg for rice.
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Annapurna Yojana
Inaugurated on March 19, 1999.
Initially the scheme provided 10 kg food grains
to senior citizens who were eligible fore old
age pension but could not get it due to one
reason or the other. Later on, it was extended
to cover those people who get old age pensions.
Food grains are provided to the beneficiaries at
subsidized rates of Rs.2 per kg of wheat and
Rs.3 per kg of rice.