Answer» - Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) / Suvarana Jayanti Gram Svarojgar Yojna (SGSY):
- During 6th five year plan, various agencies were running different programmes for rural poor. On 2nd October, 1980 all these programmes were merged under one programme called Integrated Rural Development Programme (iRDP).
- Following programmes were integrated with IRDP:
- IRDP (Integrated Rural Development Programme)
- TRYSEM (Training Rural Youth and Self-Employment Programme)
- DWCRA (Development of Women and Child in Rural Areas)
- MWS (Million Well Scheme)
- SITRA (Supplying Improved Toolkit to Rural Artisans)
- GWS (Ganga Welfare Scheme)
- The main objective of IRDP is to encourage poor families for self-employment so that they can come above poverty line.
- This programme focused on few special groups which include small and marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and rural artisans.
- Later, on 1st April, 1990 IRDP and other programmes integrated with it were merged and named as Suvarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna.
- These schemes encouraged development of small trade. They also aimed at providing self-help groups the necessary infrastructural facilities, technology loan, facility of market to final goods, etc. to rural poor
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