The Government has sanctioned a Special Project namely, ‘Towards Sustainable Employment Led Growth: Skill training of Rural Poor through NGOs’ in March 2005 under Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) with a total cost of Rs. 1200.21 lakhs to develop skills among un-employed rural poor to enable them to take up productive self-employment. A total of one lakh beneficiaries would be covered under the project.
The project has been formally launched in April, 2005. The project would be implemented by the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology(CAPART) with the support of Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR) and NGOs in the rural areas. The project would be implemented in 22 States i.e. Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh covering 50 districts. It is expected that the project would provide productive self-employment as well as waged employment based on market demand and local resources.
This information was given by Smt. Suryakanta Patil, Minister of State for Rural Development in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
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