Features of sampoorna garmeen rozgar yojana
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The scheme has special provisions for women, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and parents of children withdrawn from hazardous occupations.[2]:709 While preference if given to families below the poverty line, people who live above the poverty line too are eligible under this scheme.[2]:709
A budget of Rs. 10,000 crore has been allocated for the scheme, which includes provision of 50 lakh tonnes of food grains.[2]:709 Again the investment is shared between the centre and the states in the 75–25 ratio.[2]:710 Food grains are, however, provided free of cost by the Central government, but the cost of transportation should be borne by the states.[2]:710
Despite the fact that EAS and JGSY were unified, funds were allocated separately for EAS and JGSY for the year 2001–02.[1]:3 This was done for the convenience of implementation and accounting.[1]{:3 However, from the fiscal year 2002–03 onwards, unified budgets were adopted for both EAS and JGSY.[1]:3sgry