(a) whether the Government has made any change in the target fixed for achievement during the Eleventh Five Year Plan to eradicate poverty prevailing in cities;
(b) if so, the reasons therefor;
(c) whether Government machinery is also being sensitized for the purpose; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY
ALLEVIATION ( KUMARI SELJA )
(a)&(b): No, Sir. The Target fixed for achievement during the
Eleventh Five Year Plan for eradication of poverty viz reducing
the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10 percentage
points has not been changed.
(c)&(d): With a view to ameliorate the living conditions of the
urban poor, an employment-oriented Urban Poverty Alleviation
programme named Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY), is
already being implemented by the Ministry of Housing & Urban
Poverty Alleviation on all India basis, with effect from
1.12.1997. The programme strives to 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.