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Examples Of Major Employment Generation Schemes

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Major employment Generation Schemes Pre-Reform Period

Agro-Service Centres (ASS), early 1970s): To make available support for self-employment to the unemployed graduates and diploma holders by enabling them to setup workshops, repairing and hiring facilities7
Rural Works Programme (RWP- 1970-71): An employment oriented programme to build lasting civil works such as soil conservation, roads construction, afore station to alleviate paucity conditions and to encourage incorporated development in drought affected areas8.

Crash Scheme for Rural Employment (CSRE-1971): The purpose of the scheme is to take up projects of long-lasting temperament like Minor Irrigation, Soil Conservation, Aforestation, Land Reclamation, Anti Water-logging with a …show more content…

The wages were paid in the form of food grains, and Government surplus stocks were used for the purpose13.

Training for Rural Youth in Self Employment (TRYSEM-1979): To provide technical skills and to upgrade traditional skills of rural youth 18 to 35 years old and from families living below the poverty line and to enable them to take up self-employment in agriculture, industry and services in rural areas themselves14

Wage Employment Programs: Essential mechanism of the antipoverty approach, Wage Employment Programs has sought after to accomplish numerous objectives. They not only offer employment opportunities during slant agricultural seasons but also in times of floods, droughts and other natural calamities. They generate rural infrastructure which supports further economic bustle. These programs also

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