Schemes for employment generation in rural India

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  Schemes for employment generation in rural India

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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS)

• MGNREGS is a flagship programme which addresses poverty in a holistic manner by overcoming social inequalities and creating a base for sustainable and longterm development. It is transforming rural India into a more productive, equitable and connected society.

Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G)

• The Pradhan Mantri Awaas YojanaGramin (PMAY-G) has been devised in line with Government’s commitment to provide ‘Housing for All’ by 2022 in the rural areas. The scheme aims at providing a pucca house with basic amenities to all houseless householders living in kutcha and dilapidated houses by 2022.

Skill Upgradation and Mahila Coir Yojana

• The scheme comes under Coir Vikas Yojana and provides development of domestic and export markets, skill development and training, empowerment of women, employment/entrepreneurship creation and development, enhanced raw material utilisation, trade-related services, welfare activities of the coir workers. Mahila Coir Yojana in particular aims at women empowerment through the provision of spinning equipment at subsidised rates after appropriate skill training.

Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana

• The Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana was launched in 2015 with the twin aims of providing credit of upto Rs. 10 lakh to small entrepreneurs and act as a regulator for Micro-Finance Institutions. Mudra targets young educated or skilled workers and entrepreneurs including women entrepreneurs. The scheme is designed to promote and ensure access of financial facilities to Non-Corporate Small Business Sectors that will turn them into instruments of GDP growth and employment generation. 
• The loans are easily accessible in three categories: Shishu, Kishore and Tarun to signify the stage of growth/development and funding needs of the beneficiary micro unit/ entrepreneur and also provide a reference point for the next phase of graduation/growth.

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana

• The flagship scheme of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship. The objective of this Skill Certification Scheme is to enable a large number of Indian youth to take up industryrelevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. Individuals with prior learning experience or skills will also be assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana

• DDU-GKY is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission, tasked with the dual objectives of adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families and cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.

Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM)

• Undertaken by the Union Ministry of Rural Development, the SPMRM focuses on cluster-based integrated development through Spatial Planning. 
• Rurban clusters are identified across the country’s rural areas showing increasing signs of urbanisation i.e., increase in population density, high levels of nonfarm employment, presence of growing economic activities and other socioeconomic parameters. The Mission aims to transform these Rurban clusters by stimulating local economic development, enhancing basic services, and creating well planned Rurban clusters.

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