The Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Yojana (PMRY) is a Central government-sponsored scheme that helps educated unemployed people start self-employment ventures through business routes and industry services. The scheme has been in operation since October 2, 1993. Features of the PMRY scheme: Eligibility Criteria: 1. 8TH CLASS PASS 2. Age group between 18-40 years as…
The Scheme of Liberation and Rehabilitation of Scavengers (SLRS) is a government program launched on March 22, 1992. The scheme aims to help people who manually remove night soil and filth transition to cleaner, more dignified work. The scheme envisages primarily people of scheduled caste communities and helps those who manually remove night soil and…
The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) was launched on 01.12.1997 after subsuming the earlier three schemes for urban poverty alleviation, namely Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY), Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP), and Prime Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP). The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) was renamed the National Urban Livelihoods…