The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
(HUPA) Kumari Selja has said that the revamped Swarna
Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) has five
major components:-
(i)
Urban Self
Employment Programme (USEP)-Targeting individual urban poor for setting up of
micro-enterprises.
(ii)
Urban Women
Self-help Programme (UWSP)-Targeting urban poor women self-help groups for
setting up of group-enterprises and providing them assistance through a
revolving fund for thrift & credit activities.
(iii)
Skill Training
for Employment Promotion amongst Urban Poor (STEP-UP)-Targeting urban poor for
imparting quality training so as to enhance their employability for
self-employment or better salaried employment.
(iv) Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP) -Assisting
urban poor by utilizing their labour for construction
of socially and economically useful public assets, in towns having population
less than 5 lakhs as per 1991 census.
(v)
Urban Community
Development Network (UCDN)-Assisting the urban poor in organizing themselves in
self- managed community
structures so as to gain collective strength to address the issues of poverty
facing them and participate in the effective implementation of urban poverty
alleviation programmes.
In a
written reply in the Rajya Sabha Kumari Selja said,
the scheme is implemented through the State Governments. Ministry monitors
their performance regularly to ensure that benefits of the scheme reach to all
sections of the urban poor. Regular training of the functionaries of State,
District and Urban Local Bodies are held to orient them towards better
implementation of this scheme. Statement showing year-wise,
State-wise achievement of SJSRY during the last two plans are at Annexure-I & II. The Statement
showing physical targets set and achieved under the Swarna
Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) in the
State of Andhra Pradesh during the last five years is at Annexure-III.
The Ministry does not set district-wise targets.
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