The document summarizes several key poverty alleviation programmes in India, including: - Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY), which consolidates prior self-employment programs. - Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana (SGRY), which merged rural employment guarantee schemes. - Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), which aims to connect rural villages through roads. - Drought Prone Area Programme (DPAP) and Desert Development Programmes (DDP), which address environmental issues. - Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), which supports

1. Poverty Alleviation Programmes
PreparedBy :
SONDARVA AGNES
M.sc.(Agri) Extension
1st semester
BACA, AAU, Anand

2. SGSY
 Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana
 The Union Ministry of Rural Development Launched a restructured poverty
alleviation programme , Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana (SGSY) with effect
from April 1,1999 which has replaced IRDP and its allied scheme viz.,
 Training of Rural Youth For Self Employment (TRYSEM),
 Development of Women And Children In Rural Areas (DWCRA),
 Supply Of Improved Toolkits to Rural Artisans (SITRA),
 Ganga Kalyan Yojana (GKY) and
 Million Wells scheme(MWS)

3. Objectives:
 Focussed Approach to Poverty Alleviation.
 Capitalising Advanatages of Group lending.
 Over coming the problems associated with multiplicity of
programmes.
 To Bring Poor family above the poverty line in 3 years by
providing them income generating assets through a mix
of bank credit and government subsidy.

4.  The SGSY is conceived as a holistic programme of micro enterprises covering
all aspects of self-employment which includes organizing rural poor into Self-
Help Groups (SHGs).
 It integrates various agencies-District rural Development Agencies ,Banks , Line
departments, Panchayati Raj Institutions, Non-government Organizations.
 It is Only Self Employment programmes Currently being implemented for the
rural poor.

5.  The Schemes of SGSY covers all aspects of self-employment such as organization
of the poor into self-help groups , training, credit, technology infrastructure &
marketing.

6. SGRY
 Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana
 The ongoing schemes- The employment Assurance Schemes (EAS) and The
Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) were merged into the Sampoorna
Grameen Rojgar Yojana (SGSY) On september 25,2001.

7. Objectives
 To provide additional wage employment in rural areas
 To provide food security , alongside creation of durable
community social and economic assets and infrastructure
development in these areas.
 The programmes was self-targeting in nature with special
emphasis on woman, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes
and parents of children with-drawn from hazardous
occupation.

8. PMGSY
 Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
 Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) a 100
percent centrally sponsored scheme was launched on
Decembers 25,2000.
 Objectives
 To provide connectivity to all unconnected habitations in
the rural areas having population of more than 500
persons , through goods all weathers roads , by the 10th
plan period(2007).

9.  In respect of the Hill States (North-East , Sikkim , Himachal Pradesh , Jammu and
Kashmir and Uttarakhand ) , Desert Areas and Tribal areas ,the objectives is to
connect habitations with a population of 250 persons and above.
 Under the Bharat Nirman goal has been set to provide connectivity to all the
habitations with population of more than 1000 in the plain areas and habitations
with a population of 500 or more in hilly and tribal areas in a time bound manner
by 2009.
 The systematic up-gradations of the existing rural road networks is also an
integral component of the scheme.

10. DPAP
 Drought Prone Area Programme
 This National Programme was launched in 1973-74 in
some selected Drought Prone Areas of the country.
 Objectives
 To re-establish the environmental balance in these areas
by promoting the balance development of land , water
and other natural resourses .

11.  For this programme, arrangement of the finance is done by the Central and
state concerned in the ratio of 75:25.
 Presently 972 blocks of 182 districts in 16 states are covered under the
programme.

12. DDP
 Desert Development Programmes
 The Desert Development Programmes was started in
1977-78 in some selected districts to check the formation
of deserts , to end the drought effects in the deserts

13. Objectives
 To Re-establish the ecological balance in the affected areas and to increase the
land productivity and water resources in these areas.
 This programme is being implemented totally on the basis of union support
but the division of the funds in the hot arid areas is done between the union
and the states on the basis of 75:25.
 Presently 235 blocks of 40 districts in 7 states are covered under this
programme.

14. CAPART
 Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural
Technology (CAPART).
 Established in september 1 , 1986.
 CAPART is a registered body under the ministry of rural
development .
 The head office of CAPART is at New Delhi.
 CAPART has 9 Regional committees / centres at Jaipur ,
Lucknow , Ahmedabad ,Bhubaneshwar , Patna ,
Chandigarh , Hyderabad, Guwahati and Dharwad.

15.  The Regional committees are empowered to sanction projects proposals to
voluntary agencies up to an outlay of Rs.25 lakh in their respective regions.
 Its Main Objectives is to encourage and assist the voluntary activities for
implementing projects for rural prosperity.
 CAPART extends assistance to Jawahar Rojgar Yojana, Organization of the
Beneficiaries of the poverty eradicating programme, integrated rural
development of programme.
 The Rural Development Department of the Indian government provides the
required funds to CAPART.