Social Welfare Schemes 6

RGGVY, NRLM, NREP, NRHM, JNNURM, DWCRA, TRYSEM, MWS തുടങ്ങിയ പദ്ധതികളുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ ഉൾപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്

• Prime minister who started Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY)

                    Manmohan Singh

• RGGVY started on

                    2005 April

• RGGVY started during the period of which five year plan

                    10th Five year plan

• Objective of RGGVY

                    Provide proper electricity to every rural households and to offer electricity to all BPL families with no charge

• Major nodal agency for RGGVY

                    REC (Rural Electrification Corporation)

• In 2015, RGGVY subsumed into

                    Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grama Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY)

• Prime minister who started National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)

                    Man Mohan Singh

• NRLM started on

                    2011 June

• NRLM started during the period of which five year plan

                    11th Five year plan

• Aims of NRLM

                    Removal of poverty with aims of creating and increasing opportunities for self employment amongst the villages

• Basic idea behind NRLM

                    Organise the poor into SHG (Self Help Group)

• Prime minister who started National Rural Employment Program (NREP)

                    Indira Gandhi

• NREP started on

                    1980 October

• NREP started during the period of which five year plan

                    6th Five year plan

• Food for work program was restructred in 1980 as

                    NREP

• NREP become a regular program from

                    1981

• In 1989, NREP was merged into

                    Jawahar Rozgar Yojana

• Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) was lunched in

                    1978

• Aim of IRDP was

                    Provide self employment and the economic and social upwardness for the poor

• Aim of Million Wells Scheme (MWS) was

                    Provide open irrigation wells free of cost to the members of the SC/ST categories

• In 1999, IRDP combined with TRYSEM, DWCRA, SITRA, GKY, MWS etc to form

                    Swarna Jayanthi Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SJGSY)

• Largest urban renewal program launched on 3rd December 2005

                    Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)

• Objective of JNNURM

                    Fastrack development of cities across the country with focus on bringing about efficiency in urban infrastructure

• Prime minister who started National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)

                    Manmohan Singh

• NRHM started on

                    12 April 2005

• NRHM is conducted by

                    Health Ministry

• Accredited Social Health Activits (ASHA) and Janani Suraksha Yojana are introduced under

                    NRHM

• 108 ambulance was introduced by

                    NRHM

• Home women skilled to perform as fitness education and advertisers in their societies are introduced under

                    Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA)

• Accredited Social Health Activits (ASHA) workers are selected by

                    Gram Panchayat

• Educational qualification for Accredited Social Health Activits (ASHA)

                    Class 8 or Higher

• Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) started in 

                    September 1982

• Aim of DWCRA

                    Improve the living conditions of women and children through the provision of opportunities for self employment and make them self reliant

• DWCRA implemented as a sub scheme under

                    IRDP

• Beneficiaries of DWCRA

                    Rural woman under below poverty line

• DWCRA merged with SGSY on

                    1st April 1999

• Prime minister who started Training Rural Youth for Self Employment (TRYSEM)

                    Chran Singh

• TRYSEM started on

                    15 August 1979

• TRYSEM started during the period of which five year plan

                    5th Five year plan

• Beneficiaries of TRYSEM

                    People between age group 18-35 and belonging to families below poverty line

• Objectives of TRYSEM

                    Provide technical skills to the rural youth to enable them to seek employment in fields of agriculture, industry, services and business activities

• TRYSEM infrastructure funds are used for 

                    Strengthening Nirmithi Kendras sponsored by HUDCO for training of Youth

• TRYSEM merged with SGSY in

                    April 1999
                                                                                                               (To be Continued...)