Extending MNREGA to Urban Areas
The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that the 43rd Session of India Labour Conference held on 23-24th November, 2010 recommended for introduction of an urban employment guarantee scheme on similar lines of MGNREGA.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, in the urban areas what is more required is skill development of urban poor as well as sustainable self employment. The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation is implementing scheme of Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) aimed at to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed and under-employed poor, through encouraging the setting up of self employment ventures by the urban poor living below the poverty line, skills training and also through providing wage employment by utilizing their labour for construction of socially and economically useful public assets. The SJSRY scheme has been comprehensively revamped with effect from 2009-2010.
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