Q. Nehru Rozgar Yojana was launched to tackle the menace of which of the following ?
Solution:
In order to alleviate the conditions of urban poor, a Centrally Sponsored programme – Nehru Rozgar Yojana – was launched at the end of the Seventh Five Year Plan (October 1989) with the objective of providing of employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed poor. The Central Government indicated its overall contribution while the essential task of identifying, earmarking and coordinating the relevant sectoral inputs was undertaken by the State Governments. The NRY consisted of three schemes namely (i) the Scheme of Urban Micro Enterprises (SUME); (ii) the Scheme of Urban Wage Employment (SUWE); and (iii) the Scheme of Housing and Shelter Upgradation (SHASU).
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