RENAISSANCE IN KERALA : Social welfare schemes and Measures.

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In this post we  discuss about  various social welfare schemes and measures launched by Government of India.

TOPICS

1. Integrated Child development Scheme  ICDS (1975)
2. Rural-Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)  -1983
3. Jawahar rozgar yojana (1989)
4. National Rural Development Programme (NRDP)  1992
5. Mahila Samridhi Yojana(1993)
6. Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana  PMRY  - 1993
7. Indira Awas Yojana IAY (1996)
8. Balika Samriddhi Yojana (1997)
9. Kudumbashree (1998)
10. Antyodaya Anna Yojana(2000)
11. Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana(2001)
12. valmiki ambedkar awas yojana (2001)
13. National food for work Programme( 2004)
14. Bharat Nirmaan (2005)
15. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005)
16. Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana: PMAGY (2009)

Integrated Child development Scheme  ICDS (1975)

• To provide food, preschool education, and primary healthcare to children under  6 years of age and their mothers through anganavadi centers.
• For nutritional purposes ICDS provides 300 kcal (with 8-10 grams of protein) every day to every child below 6 years of age.For adolescent girls it is up to 500 kcal with up to 25 grams of protein everyday.

Rural-Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)  -1983

 To guarantee employment to at least one member of every landless household up to 100 days in a year ;
 creating durable assets for strengthening the infrastructure so as to meet the growing requirements of the rural economy.

Jawahar rozgar yojana (1989)

• To provide 90-100 days employment.
• implemented at end of Seventh Fifth year plan
• Central state contribution was in 80:20 ratio.
• Combination of NREP (National Rural Employment Program) and RLEGP (Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Program).

National Rural Development Programme (NRDP)  1992
NRDP is managed by a team of professionals from NGO background  striving to achieve excellence in NGO service delivery.

Mahila Samridhi Yojana(2 october 1993)

• With the objective of providing economic security to the rural women.
• the rural women of 18 years of above age can open their saving account in the rural post office of their own area with a minimum Rs. 4 or its multiplier.
•  On the amount not withdrawn for 1 year, 25% of the deposited amount is given to the depositor by the government in the form of encouragement amount(max 300 Rs.)
• Stopped in 1997.

Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana  PMRY  - 1993

• self-Employment to learned jobless Youth in the country by starting seven lakhs micro ventures.
• Age: Between eighteen to forty years , Permanent occupant of the region for minimum of three 3 years Document such as Ration Card.

Indira Awas Yojana IAY (1996)

A social welfare programme to provide housing for the rural poor.
Under the scheme, financial assistance worth Rs.70,000/- in plain areas and Rs.75,000/ in difficult areas.
The houses are allotted in the name of the woman or jointly between husband and wife.
cost shares between the Central Government and the State Government in the 75%:25% ratio

Balika Samriddhi Yojana (1997)

•  To change negative family and community attitudes towards the girl child at birth and towards her mother.
•     To improve enrolment and retention of girl children in schools.
•     To raise the age at marriage of girls.
•     To assist the girl to undertake income generating activities

100% central sponsered
    Girls born after 15th August 1997 to families living below the Poverty Line are eligible for this scheme.
    A maximum of two daughters in a family can benefit from this scheme.
    The scheme will pay annual scholarships into the girl’s account, starting at INR 300 (when the girl is in Class 1) to INR 1000( when the girl in Class 10).
    The girl will receive the money on attaining 18 years of age, provided she is not married.

    I-III Rs.300/- per annum for each class
    IV Rs.500/- per annum
    V Rs.600/- per annum
    VI-VII Rs.700/- per annum for each class
     VIII Rs.800/- per annum
     IX-X Rs.1,000/- per annum for each class


Samagra Awas Yojana   SAY  1998
 Easy access to sanitation, drinking water and waste disposal


Kudumbashree (1998)

• Female oriented poverty reduction scheme
• Launched at Kottakkunnu in malappuram by Prime minister A B Vajpayee.
• The largest women movement in Asia with a membership of 41 lakhs representing equal number of families.

Antyodaya Anna Yojana(2000)

• It was launched by NDA government in 25 December 2000.
• It is on the look out for the 'poorest of the poor'  by providing them 35 kilograms of rice and wheat at Rs.3 & Rs.2 per kg. respectively.
• 1.5 crore families are benefited

Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana(2001)
Aims to provide employment and food to people in rural areas who lived below the poverty line.
Combination of Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) and Jawahar Samridhi Yojana (JGSY).

valmiki ambedkar awas yojana (2001)
 facilitating the construction and up-gradation of dwelling units for urban slum dwellers living below the poverty line without adequate shelter.

National food for work Programme(14 November 2004)

 The programme is open to all rural poor who are prepared to do manual, unskilled labour. It is implemented as a centrally-sponsored scheme. Food grains are provided to the States[clarification needed] free of cost.The transportation cost, handling charges, and taxes on foodgrains will, however, be the responsibility of the States.
Now that the NREGA is in force, the NFFWP will be subsumed within this programme


Bharat Nirmaan (2005)
For creating basic rural infrastructure.
It comprises projects on irrigation, roads (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana), housing (Indira Awaas Yojana), water supply (National Rural Drinking Water Programme), electrification (Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana) and telecommunication connectivity.

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2005)

• Later renamed as the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act" (or, MGNREGA)
• Aims to provide at least 100 days of wage employment in a financial year to every household
• whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
• If work is not provided within 15 days of applying, applicants are entitled to an unemployment allowance.
• In its World Development Report 2014, the World Bank termed it a "stellar example of rural development".

Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana: PMAGY (2009)
 for the development of villages having a higher ratio of scheduled castes.
  launched by Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik


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