Which one of the following poverty alleviation program was launched before year 2000 in India?
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Option 1 : Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana
The correct answer is Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana.
- The Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) was implemented at the beginning of the 1999–2000 fiscal year to replace six other related programmes.
- The initiative was created as a comprehensive plan to support rural impoverished people who work for themselves.
- It is funded by the Centre and the State in a 75:25 ratio and is implemented by commercial banks, regional banks and cooperative banks.
- Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana:
- The Government of India introduced the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana with the aim of giving the rural poor gainful work.
By combining the terms of the Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana and the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS), it was introduced on September 25, 2001.
- The Government of India introduced the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana with the aim of giving the rural poor gainful work.
- National Food for Work Programme:
- On November 14, 2004, the National Food for Work Program was introduced by the central government's minister of rural development in 150 of India's most underdeveloped districts with the aim of creating supplementary wage employment.
- It is implemented as a centrally-sponsored scheme.
- Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana:
- Launched in 2001, the Valmiki Ambedkar Awaas Yojana is a centrally sponsored scheme which aims to improve the living conditions of slum dwellers across India.
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