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Lok Sabha
The Government is taking various steps/measures for upliftment and empowerment of the rural women. The Ministry of Rural Development implements a number of rural development and poverty alleviation programmes in the rural areas of the country. While framing the guidelines of various programmes of the Ministry, special components for women have been provided in order to ensure their socio-economic development. The Ministry is implementing a wage employment programme of Sampurna Gramin Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) under which it has been stipulated 30% of employment opportunities should be reserved for women.
The Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) is a self-employment programme to organize the rural poor into self-help groups to enable them to set up sustainable self-employment. Under this programme, the 50% of the groups formed in each block are to be exclusively for women which will account for at least 40% of the total Swarozgar.
Under Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), houses are to be allotted in the name of women members of the household, or alternatively, in the joint names of husband and wife. Similarly under Rural Sanitation Programme, it has been provided that 10 % of the allocated funds can be utilized for construction and maintenance of public latrines for women and under Rural Water Supply also due representation in village level committees is given to the rural women.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Rural Development, Smt. Suryakanta Patil in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
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