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In response to the cries for help, the Indian government put together a nationwide welfare scheme aimed at targeting this very issue: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA. The Government of India introduced the MGNREGA social welfare program in 2005 to address the problem of unemployment and poverty in rural ...
The proliferation of CSS, top down approach, provision of flexibility to States to mould schemes according to local requirements, flow of funds, accountability, enforceability, implementation, involvement of PRIs etc. are still relevant topics today and to address some of these concerns, the Planning Commission had constituted a sub-committee ...
(SAGY, Saanjhi, Member of Parliament Model Village Scheme) — MoRD: 2014 Development, Rural To develop model villages. [95] [96] 223 CS/ CSS and 1,806 state schemes converge under SAGY. [97] By 2016, members of parliament adopted 703 Gram Panchayats. [98] Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (National Higher Education Mission) CSS MoE 2013 ...
Provision of Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (PURA) is a strategy for rural development in India. This concept was given by former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and discussed in his book Target 3 Billion which he co-authored with Srijan Pal Singh. The genesis of PURA can be traced to the work done by Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute in the early 1990s on Taluka energy self-sufficiency ...
Kudumbashree was set up in 1997 following the recommendations of a three-member task force appointed by the State Government. Its formation was in the context of the devolution of powers to the Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRIs) in Kerala, and the People's Planning in Kerala, the campaign which attempted to draw up the Ninth Plan of the local governments from below through the PRIs.
The Five-Year Plans of India were a series of national development programmes implemented by the Government of India from 1951 to 2017. [1] Inspired by the Soviet model, these plans aimed to promote balanced economic growth, reduce poverty and modernise key sectors such as agriculture, industry, infrastructure and education.
Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana (PMAGY) is a rural development programme launched by the central government in India in the financial year 2009–10 for the development of villages having a higher ratio (over 50%) of people belonging to the scheduled castes through convergence of central and state schemes and allocating financial funding on a per village basis.
There are two qualifications that uniquely position India for the implementation of a universal basic income (UBI) - the lack of women in the public labor force and the presence of a large informal sector. First, the UBI would help Indian women gain greater financial independence and thus enhance gender equality.