(a) the details of the schemes being implemented for employment and poverty alleviation
in urban areas;
(b) since when these schemes are implemented;
(c) the amount spent during each of the last three years in West Bengal and Sikkim under
these schemes; and
(d) the details of the number increased or decreased in respect of the people living
below poverty line in urban areas during the last three years?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION ( KUMARI SELJA )
(a)&(b): The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation is implementing an employment
oriented Urban Poverty Alleviation Centrally sponsored scheme named Swarna Jayanti Shahari
Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY), on all India basis, with effect from 1.12.1997. The SJSRY strives t
provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed poor through, firstly,
encouraging the setting up of self-employment ventures by those who have not studied beyond
9th standard and, secondly, by providing wage employment by utilizing their labour for
construction of socially and economically useful public assets.
(c): The Central funds released under Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) to the
States of West Bengal and Sikkim during the last three years are as under:-
(Rupees inLakh)
State 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
West Bengal 424.02 617.47 1063.13
Sikkim 0. 00 0.00 0.00
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
No. of beneficiaries assisted for 90566 98791 56357 setting up of micro enterprises
No. of beneficiaries provide 111831 142073 73203 skill training