Poverty Alleviation Programmes

Prepared By :SONDARVA AGNES M.sc.(Agri) Extension1st semesterBACA, AAU, Anand

SGSY

Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana The Union Ministry of Rural Development Launched a restructured

poverty alleviation programme , Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) with effect from April 1,1999 which has replaced IRDP and its allied scheme viz.,

Training of Rural Youth For Self Employment (TRYSEM), Development of Women And Children In Rural Areas (DWCRA), Supply Of Improved Toolkits to Rural Artisans (SITRA), Ganga Kalyan Yojana (GKY) and Million Wells scheme(MWS)

Objectives:

Focussed Approach to Poverty Alleviation. Capitalising Advanatages of Group lending. Over coming the problems associated with

multiplicity of programmes. To Bring Poor family above the poverty line in 3

years by providing them income generating assets through a mix of bank credit and government subsidy.

The SGSY is conceived as a holistic programme of micro enterprises covering all aspects of self-employment which includes organizing rural poor into Self-Help Groups (SHGs).

It integrates various agencies-District rural Development Agencies ,Banks , Line departments, Panchayati Raj Institutions, Non-government Organizations.

It is Only Self Employment programmes Currently being implemented for the rural poor.

The Schemes of SGSY covers all aspects of self-employment such as organization of the poor into self-help groups , training, credit, technology infrastructure & marketing.

SGRY

Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana

The ongoing schemes- The employment Assurance Schemes (EAS) and The Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) were merged into the Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana (SGSY) On september 25,2001.

Objectives

To provide additional wage employment in rural areas

To provide food security , alongside creation of durable community social and economic assets and infrastructure development in these areas.

The programmes was self-targeting in nature with special emphasis on woman, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and parents of children with-drawn from hazardous occupation.

PMGSY

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) a 100

percent centrally sponsored scheme was launched on Decembers 25,2000.

Objectives To provide connectivity to all unconnected

habitations in the rural areas having population of more than 500 persons , through goods all weathers roads , by the 10th plan period(2007).

In respect of the Hill States (North-East , Sikkim , Himachal Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand ) , Desert Areas and Tribal areas ,the objectives is to connect habitations with a population of 250 persons and above.

Under the Bharat Nirman goal has been set to provide connectivity to all the habitations with population of more than 1000 in the plain areas and habitations with a population of 500 or more in hilly and tribal areas in a time bound manner by 2009.

The systematic up-gradations of the existing rural road networks is also an integral component of the scheme.

DPAP

Drought Prone Area Programme This National Programme was launched in 1973-

74 in some selected Drought Prone Areas of the country.

Objectives To re-establish the environmental balance in these

areas by promoting the balance development of land , water and other natural resourses .

For this programme, arrangement of the finance is done by the Central and state concerned in the ratio of 75:25.

Presently 972 blocks of 182 districts in 16 states are covered under the programme.

DDP

Desert Development Programmes The Desert Development Programmes was started

in 1977-78 in some selected districts to check the formation of deserts , to end the drought effects in the deserts

Objectives

To Re-establish the ecological balance in the affected areas and to increase the land productivity and water resources in these areas.

This programme is being implemented totally on the basis of union support but the division of the funds in the hot arid areas is done between the union and the states on the basis of 75:25.

Presently 235 blocks of 40 districts in 7 states are covered under this programme.

CAPART

Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART).

Established in september 1 , 1986. CAPART is a registered body under the ministry of

rural development . The head office of CAPART is at New Delhi. CAPART has 9 Regional committees / centres at

Jaipur , Lucknow , Ahmedabad ,Bhubaneshwar , Patna , Chandigarh , Hyderabad, Guwahati and Dharwad.

The Regional committees are empowered to sanction projects proposals to voluntary agencies up to an outlay of Rs.25 lakh in their respective regions.

Its Main Objectives is to encourage and assist the voluntary activities for implementing projects for rural prosperity.

CAPART extends assistance to Jawahar Rojgar Yojana, Organization of the Beneficiaries of the poverty eradicating programme, integrated rural development of programme.

The Rural Development Department of the Indian government provides the required funds to CAPART.

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