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    Measures: " The Biggest Enemy of Health in The Developing World Is POVERTY" - Kofi Annan

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    Here are the answers to the questions: 1. NREGA promises 100 days of assured employment every year. 2. The cost sharing between the Centre and State governments for implementing the Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna is 75:25. 3. BPL stands for Below Poverty Line. 4. The presence of banks in villages is important to generate self employment because they can provide bank credit and loans to rural entrepreneurs, which is crucial for setting up micro-enterprises and self-employment ventures.

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    Here are the answers to the questions: 1. NREGA promises 100 days of assured employment every year. 2. The cost sharing between the Centre and State governments for implementing the Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna is 75:25. 3. BPL stands for Below Poverty Line. 4. The presence of banks in villages is important to generate self employment because they can provide bank credit and loans to rural entrepreneurs, which is crucial for setting up micro-enterprises and self-employment ventures.

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    Here are the answers to the questions: 1. NREGA promises 100 days of assured employment every year. 2. The cost sharing between the Centre and State governments for implementing the Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna is 75:25. 3. BPL stands for Below Poverty Line. 4. The presence of banks in villages is important to generate self employment because they can provide bank credit and loans to rural entrepreneurs, which is crucial for setting up micro-enterprises and self-employment ventures.

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    MEASURES

    “The biggest enemy of health in the


    developing world is POVERTY”
    -kofi annan
     Poverty alleviation is expected to make better
    progress in the next 50 years than in the past, as a
    trickle-down effect of the growing middle class.

     Increasing stress on education, reservation of


    seats in government jobs and the increasing
    empowerment of women and the economically
    weaker sections of society, are also expected to
    contribute to the alleviation of poverty.
     The growth of the middle class indicates that
    economic prosperity has indeed been very
    impressive in India, but the distribution of
    wealth is not at all even.

     After the liberalization process and moving


    away from the socialist model, India is adding
    60-70 million people to its middle class every
    year. At the current rate of growth, a majority
    of Indians will be middle-class by 2025.
     Provides 100 days assured employment every year.
     Provides unskilled manual work.
     1/3rd of proposed jobs reserved for women.
     If employment not provided in 15 days of registration then
    unemployment allowance will be paid.
     Employment will be provided within a radius of 5 km.
     This scheme is partly financed by central government and
    partly by state government.
     Minimum wage for all workers is Rs.100/- per day
     Covered 150 most backward
    districts.
     Desire to do manual
    unskilled labour.
     100% centrally sponsored
    scheme.
     They are paid partly with
    cash and partly with food
    grains.
     25 kg of food grains was made
    available at a highly subsidized
    rate of Rs. 2 per kg for wheat
    and Rs. 3 per kg for rice.

     Quantity enhanced from 25 kg


    to 35 kg from 2002 onwards.

     State government and Union


    Territory administration
    identify these families among
    the below poverty line (BPL)
    families.
     Assistance is given to BPL families in rural areas for
    taking up self employment.

     The person taking up self employment are called


    Swarozgaries.

     They are given assistance through bank credit and


    government subsidy.

     Cost sharing between Centre and State is 75:25.


     Providing self employment to
    educated unemployed youth of
    economically weaker and
    underprivileged sections.

     22.5% reservation for SC & ST in


    government jobs only

     27% for OBC in government jobs


    only

     This scheme was withdrawn on


    31.03.2008.
     General employment in rural areas.

     Develop entrepreneurial skill and attitude among


    rural unemployed youth.

     Achieve the goal of rural industrialization.

     Facilitate participation of financial institutions for


    higher credit flow to rural industries.

     Generate ideas for self-employment among the youth


    through the involvement of NGO’s, Gram Panchayat
    and Government Agencies.
     It is launched by combining two schemes,
    i.e. PM Rozgar Yojana and Rural
    Employment Generation Program.

     It was launched in the year 2008.

     In this program, micro enterprises would be


    set up in rural as well as urban areas.
     Gram Swarozgar Yojana (GSY)

     Employment Assurance Schemes (EAS)

     Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY)

     Food For Work Programme (FWP)

     Krishi Shramik Suraksha Yojana (KSSY)

     Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana (JGSY)


     Prime Minister Rojgar Yojna (PMRY)

     Swarnajayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojna (SJSRY)

     National Social Assisstance Programme


    (NSAP)

     Indira Awaas Yojna (IAY)

     Shiksha Sahayog Yojna (SSY)


     How many days of work has been promised
    under the NREGA scheme?

     How does the state and the central


    government share the costs of implementing
    the Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojna?

     What is the full form of BPL?

     Why is the presence of banks in villages


    important to generate self employment in
    villages?

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