Were the Alien and Sedition Acts constitutional or unconstitutional? Did they follow the meaning of the Constitution or did they violate it in some way? Be prepared to cite the Constitution in your response.
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on the feedback provided and recommendations made by various studies, National
Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) was launched during 2009-10 to facilitate
effective implementation of the restructured SGSY scheme in a mission mode. NRLM
aims at reducing poverty in rural areas through promotion of diversified and gainful
self-employment and wage employment opportunities.
b) Wage employment programmes
The main purpose of the wage employment programmes is to provide a
livelihood during the lean agricultural season as well as during drought and floods.
Wage employment programmes were first started during the Sixth and Seventh Plan
in the form of National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) and Rural Landless
Employment Guarantee Programmes (RLEGP). These programmes were merged in
1989 into Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY). A special wage employment programme in
the name of Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) was launched in 1993 for the
drought prone, desert, tribal and hill area blocks in the country. Different wage
employment programmes were merged into Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana in
2001. NREGS, launched in 2006, aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people
in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year
to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
During 2008-09, 4.51 crore households were provided employment under the scheme.
c) Food security programmes: Under this, PDS is a very important poverty
alleviation programme directly acting as safety net for the poor.
d) Social security programmes include National Social Assistance Programme
(NSAP), Annapurna, etc. for the BPL.
e) Urban poverty alleviation programmes include Nehru Rozgar Yojana, Urban
Basic Services for Poor (UBSP), etc. involving participation of the
communities and non-governmental organizations.