Question

Write rural development plan considering the changing India.

Sampoorna Gramin Rojgar Yojana

Answer 1

1. Sampoorna Gramin Rojgar Yojana plan was launched by merging together ‘Rojgar Aashwasan Yojana’ and ‘Jawahar Gram-Samruddhi Yojana’ in 2001.
2. This plan made provisions for creating opportunities in rural areas of earning wages, to provide food-grains in exchange of work, etc.
3. In 2004, the scheme of giving food-grains in exchange of work was started in 150 districts in the country which were economically most backward.
4. Measures like water conservation, development of agricultural lands were given priority to overcome situations of famine. In 2006 this scheme was merged in ‘Rashtriya Gramin Rojgar Hami Yojana’.