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What is the full form of SJSRY, an urban employment scheme launched in 1997?
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Answer: Option D — Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
Detailed Solution
SJSRY stands for "Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana" ("Golden Jubilee Urban Employment Scheme").
About SJSRY:
- It was launched on 1 December 1997, in the 50th year (golden jubilee, "Swarna Jayanti") of India's independence.
- It was a centrally sponsored scheme run by the Ministry of Urban Affairs (later the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation).
- Its funding was shared between the Centre and the states in the ratio of 75:25.
- It replaced three earlier urban poverty programmes: the Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY, 1989), the Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP) and the Prime Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP).
- Its aim was to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed poor, through self-employment ventures and wage employment.
Its components (after revision in 2009):
- Urban Self-Employment Programme (USEP): subsidised loans for individual micro-enterprises.
- Urban Women Self-help Programme (UWSP): support for groups of urban poor women.
- Skill Training for Employment Promotion amongst Urban Poor (STEP-UP).
- Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP): wage work on public assets in small towns.
- Urban Community Development Network (UCDN).
Its successor:
SJSRY was replaced by the "National Urban Livelihoods Mission" (NULM) in 2013-14, which was renamed the "Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission" (DAY-NULM).
Similar rural scheme:
"Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana" (SGSY), launched on 1 April 1999 for rural self-employment, was restructured as the "National Rural Livelihood Mission" (NRLM, "Aajeevika") in 2011, now DAY-NRLM.
Why not the other options?
- ✗"Swarna Jayanti Swarozgar Rural Yojana" is not the correct expansion.
- ✗"Sampoorna Jan Shahari Rozgar Yojana" is not the correct expansion.
- ✗"Swachh Jal Shahari Rozgar Yojana" is not the correct expansion.
Quick tip
Remember: SJSRY = Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (urban; 1 December 1997; replaced NRY, UBSP, PMIUPEP; later DAY-NULM); SGSY = Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (rural; 1999; later NRLM, 2011).
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