Question

Explain any 3 Poverty alleviation programs of the Government of India with special
reference of MGNREGA​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poverty alleviation programmes in India can be categorized based on whether it is targeted either for rural areas or for urban areas in the country.

Most of the programmes are designed to target rural poverty as the prevalence of poverty is high in rural areas. Also targeting poverty is a great challenge in rural areas due to various geographic and infrastructure limitations. The programmes can be mainly grouped into 1) Wage employment programmes 2) Self-employment programmes 3) Food security programmes 4) Social security programmes 5) Urban poverty alleviation programmes. 6) skill india programmes for employment. The five year plans immediately after independence tried to focus on poverty alleviation through sectoral programmes.

Answer 2

Poverty alleviation programs refer to tools such as free education, free school meals for children, debt relief to small farmers, free healthcare facilities for poor, etc to improve living conditions of the section of society which is unable to fulfill even the basic necessities of life by the government.these are
Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY)
National Old Age Pension Scheme (NOAPS)
National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS)
National Maternity Benefit Scheme.
Annapurna.
Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP)