MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTRY OF URBAN EMPLOYMENT & POVERTY ALLEVIATION ( KUMARI SELJA )
(a)to(e): The World Bank, in its Report titled `India :
Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty`, while reporting on the
progress on social indicators for the period 1980-2000, have
reported that the percentage of incidence of poverty in India
has declined as follows:-
POVERTY INCIDENTS (PERCENTAGE)
1980s 1990s 2000s
44.5% 36.0% 26.1%
The Report, inter-alia, deals with assessing development
outcomes, progress on social indicators, macro-economic trends
over the past two decades, fiscal policy, reforms in power
distribution, delivery of public services, improving the
investment climate for industry and services, agriculture and
rural development and development prospects and risks.
Insofar as the Ministry of Urban Employment & Poverty
Alleviation is concerned, it has been implementing through the
State/Union Territory Governments, a Centrally Sponsored Urban
Poverty Alleviation Programme named Swarna Jayanti Shahari
Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY), on all India basis, with effect from
1.12.1997 with a view to providing gainful employment to the
urban unemployed or under-employed poor through, firstly,
encouraging the setting up of self-employment ventures by those,
who have studied upto 9th standard and secondly, by providing
wage employment by utilizing their labour for construction of
socially and economically useful public assets. The programme
is meant to alleviate the urban poverty and the same has been
continued in the 10th Five Year Plan (2002-07). In addition,
other programmes, such as, Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana
(VAMBAY), National Slum Development Programme (NSDP), & Housing
for Economically Weaker Sections are being vigorously
implemented with a view to ameliorate the conditions of the
urban poor.
