List of beneficiaries

Introduction:                                                        List of SGRY beneficiaries

Creation of employment opportunities with food security has been an important objective of developmental planning in India. The relatively higher growth of population and labour force has led to an increase in the volume of unemployment and under-employment from the one Plan period to another.The Government of India aim at bringing employment through wage and self employment into a larger focus with the goal of reducing unemployment and under-employment to a negligible level and of providing food security against hunger. Such an approach is necessary, because it is realized that larger and efficient use of available human and other resources is the most effective way of alleviating poverty, reducing inequalities, improving nutritional levels and sustaining a reasonably high sapce of economic growth.

To make a dent on the prevailing poverty, unemployment and slow growth in the rural economy and to provide food security, it is necessary to provide a demand driven infrastructure at the village level to facilitate faster growth in the rural areas and to increase opportunities of employment through access to the market oriented economy

To provide a greater thrust to additional wage employment, infrastructural development and food security in the rural areas, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India announced on 15^th August 2001, launching of an ambitious New Scheme with an annual outlay of Rs.10,000 crores. Accordingly the Ministry of Rural Development reviewed the hitherto on-going Schemes of the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS), (the only additional wage employment Scheme for rural areas), the Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) (a rural infrastructure development Scheme) and by merging them into one Scheme, launched the New Scheme of the Sampoorna Gramin Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) w.e.f 25^th September, 2001.