The Jawahar Rojgar Yojana was launched in 1989 with a motive to ______ .

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  1. train the daily wage workers to look for additional income
  2. create housing opportunities for the needy rural labours
  3. generate foreign investment for the needy rural labours
  4. generate wage employment for the needy rural labours

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Option 4 : generate wage employment for the needy rural labours
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The correct answer is generate wage employment for the needy rural labours.

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  • Under the Wage Employment Programmes, the National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) and Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP) were started in Sixth and Seventh Plans.
  • The NREP and RLEGP were merged in April 1989 under the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY).
  • The JRY was meant to generate meaningful employment opportunities for the unemployed and underemployed in rural areas through the creation of economic infrastructure and community and social assets.

Additional Information

  • The JRY was revamped from 1st April 1999 and came to be known as Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana (JGSY).
  • It now became a programme for the creation of rural economic infrastructure with employment generation as the secondary objective.
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