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It is a part of India’s strategy to create a cashless economy, improving financial inclusion and transparency while reducing reliance on cash-based transactions. PM Ujjwala Yojana (PM Lighting Scheme) CSS MoP&NG: 2016 Energy, Health, Poverty Launched to provide free LPG connections to women from below poverty line families. [48]
In its annual report of 2012, the Reserve Bank of India named the state of Goa as having the least poverty of 5.09% while the national average stood at 21.92% [7] The table below presents the poverty statistics for rural, urban and combined percentage below poverty line (BPL) for each State or Union Territory. [7]
The program was announced on 3 March 2019, at the manifesto's release event at the All India Congress Committee's headquarters at New Delhi. [ 8 ] The scheme was backed by Rahul Gandhi , then-president of the INC, who stated that "the Nyantam Aay Yojana is "an extremely powerful, extremely dynamic, extremely well-thought-through idea ...
The scheme is administered by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. It is fully funded by the Central Government, unlike some other welfare programs where the Union government shares costs with the State Governments. Allocation of funds for NSAP by Government of India between 2009–10 and 2014–15 (in Crore Rs.): [9]
Unconditional cash transfer, widely credited as a successful anti-poverty program, is based on actions such as enrolling children in school or receiving vaccinations. [66] In Mexico, for example, the country with the largest such program, dropout rates of 16- to 19-year-olds in rural area dropped by 20% and children gained half an inch in ...
The National Food for Work Programme (NFWP), 2004 was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development, central government on 14 November 2004 in 150 of the most backward districts of India to generate supplementary wage employment. The programme is open to all Indian poor who are ready to do manual unskilled labour work sponsored scheme.
The Minimum Needs Programme (MNP) was introduced in the first year of the Fifth Five Year Plan [1] (1974–78), to provide certain basic minimum needs and improve the living standards of people. [2]
Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) is a government-sponsored program in India that aims to provide food at highly subsidized rates to millions of the poorest families in the country. It was launched on December 25, 2000, by the NDA government and was first implemented in the state of Rajasthan.