Indias Poverty Alleviation Programmes
Post on 31,May 2012   8:39 PM
By - Mr. Om Singh
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At the turn of the century, around 260 million people in India who had no income to buy food which defines the poverty line. Of these 75 per cent in rural areas. India had 22 per cent of the world's poor. In order to overcome this social evil, India had launched various Anti-Social programmes. Some of them can be summed up as follows:

Swaranjayanti Gram Swaraozgar Yojana (SGSY): The below poverty line families from the basis for assistance under SGSY, Safeguards have3 been provided to vulnerable sections by reserving benefits for scheduled castes, scheduled Tribes, women and disabled persons. Under the programme, emphasis is also laid on training, capacity building and provision of rural infrastructure.

Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojna (SGRY):The SGRY is open to all rural poor who is need of wage employment and desire to do manual and unskilled work in an around the village. The programme is self- targeting in nature. While providing wage employment, preference is given to agriculture wage earners, non-agricultural unskilled wage earners, marginal farmers, women, members of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, parents of child labour withdrawn from hazardous occupations, parents of handicapped children of adults with handicapped parents. The programme is implemented through the Panchyati Raj Institutions (PRIs)

National Food for Work Programme: The National Food for Work Programme (NFFWP) was launched on 14 November 2004 in 150 indentified backward districts where there is high demand for wage employment in these areas.

Indra Awaas Yojana (IAY): The Indra Awaas Yojana was launched as the major scheme for construction of houses to be given to poor, free of cost at the unit cost of Rs 25000 in plain areas and Rs 27000 in the hilly areas. An additional component has been added, to the scheme for conversation of unserviceable kutcha houses to semi pucca houses. A Credit-Cum-Subsidy scheme for rural housing was also launched to target rural families having annual housing income up to Rs 32000. The loans under this scheme are disbursed by the commercial banks and housing finance institutions.

Swaran Jayanti Sahri Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY): The Swaran Jayanti Sahri Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) is the main poverty alleviation programme in the urban areas. The SJSRY seeks to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployment and under- employed poor by encouraging the setting up of self- employment poor by encouraging the setting up of self-employment ventures of provision of wage Employment. The two schemes under SJSRY are Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP) and the Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP). The UWEP includes a component for assistance to groups of urban poor women under the title "Scheme for Development of Women and Children in Urban Areas" (DWCUA).


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