Question : MONITORING OF PMRY

(a) whether the Government are aware about the concern expressed in the workshop of the India Habitat Centre organized in October this year that the benefits of Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Yojana are not reaching to the common people;

(b) if so, the details of the implementation work, monitoring of PMRY and the persons benefited thereunder during the last three years and thereafter, State/Union Territory-wise; and

(c) the new efforts made by the Government to ensure that the benefits of this scheme reach to the common man in a more effective way?

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRO & RURAL INDUSTRIES ( SHRI NIKHIL KUMAR CHOUDHARY )

(a): No, Sir.

(b): Does not arise.

(c): Some of the parameters of the PMRY Scheme with respect to age, educational qualification, activities covered, annual family income, residency criteria for the married women, collateral for projects under industry sector etc. have been made liberal so that the benefits of the Scheme reach to the common man in a more effective way.