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The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation project implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, a branch of the Government of India.This plan is focused on promoting self-employment and the organization of rural poor.
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Aawas Yojana (lit. ' Prime Minister's Rural Housing Scheme ') is a social welfare programme under the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to provide housing for the rural poor in India. [1]
It was introduced by the Indian government's Ministry of Housing and urban poverty Alleviation. The programme was a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, which ran from 2013 to 2014. [17] The scheme aimed to make India slum-free by 2022 by providing people with shelter or housing, free of cost. It began with a pilot project, before launching in mission ...
Employment generation programmes created after 2005 include the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP). [26] The colonial era, when India was governed by the British, is when the problems of poverty and a lack of employment possibilities in rural areas first surfaced. The lopsided economic development pattern was caused by the ...
The programme aims at bringing the assisted poor families above the poverty line by organising them into self-help groups (SHGs) through a mix of bank credit and government subsidy. [4] The main aim of these SHGs was to bring these poor families above the poverty line and concentrate on income generation through combined effort.
The PMGSY is under the authority of the Ministry of Rural Development and was begun on 25 December 2000. [6] It is fully funded by the central government. During November 2015, following the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission, the Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored Schemes, it was announced that the project will be funded by both the central ...
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.
Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme began in 1972. [31] Restructured into National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) in 2009. [32] [31] To provide water to each rural household through individual taps. Financial outlay in 2022 is ₹ 60,000 crore (equivalent to ₹ 670 billion or US$7.8 billion in 2023). [7]