Question

Which of the following statements is/are correct about the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana?
(A) The scheme was launched in $2001$ by merging some of the schemes running that time.
(B) In this scheme preference is given to Below Poverty Line families for the jobs.
(C) The wages under the scheme are paid partly in cash and partly by giving food grains.

• A. Only (A)
• B. Only (B)
• C. Only (C)
• D. All (A), (B) and (C)

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

All (A), (B) and (C)

Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana(SGRY): The on going schemes - The Employment Assurance Scheme(EAS) and the Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana(JGSY) were merged into the Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana(SGRY) on September $25$, $2001$. The objective of the programme was to provide additional wage employment in rural areas and also to provide food security, alongside creation of durable community, social and economic assets and infrastructure development in these areas. The programme was self-targeting in nature with special emphasis on woman, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and parents of children withdrawn from hazardous occupation. This scheme has been subsumed in National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme(NREGP) which has been initiated since February $2$, $2006$.