Thursday, September 3, 2009

SOCIAL PROGRAMS

Social Programs

As promised to the people earlier, Dr. Reddy kept his word to bring “Indiramma Rajyam” to the state, distributing 1.55 lakh acres of land to in a single day, 1.12 lakh landless poor, including S.Cs, S.Ts, B.Cs, the pattas of which were provided to the woman of beneficiary’s family. On August 21st 2005,the Prime Minister Mr. Manmohan Singh launched the Second Phase of the Land distribution Programme, in which 1.68 lakh acres of land was distributed to about 1.06 lakh landless poor families. This mammoth programme is unique in the history of Andhra Pradesh. In all,in two phases, more than three lakh acres have been distributed among the landless poor in the State.

Samagra bhu abhivruddhi karyakramam (indira prabha)
To facilitate immediate and effective cultivation 3.23 lakhs of acres assigned to the poor, the State government has launched Indira Prabha scheme. The beneficiaries will get financial assistance from Indira Prabha to make their land cultivable.

Housing
Recognising the need to accelerate the tempo of the weaker sections housing programme, the government has embarked on a very ambitious plan to provide 40 lakh houses in 5 years as against the total of 49.64 lakh houses constructed since its inception under the programme, in a period of more than 2 decades. In all, 12,00,000 houses have already been completed since 2004. 1800000 houses are targeted during this financial year.

Integrated novel development in rural areas and model municipal areas (Indiramma)
This scheme is intended to provide basic amenities to one-third of villages and one-third of wards in the urban areas. This scheme is implemented starting from 2006-07 for about 5 years. About 1.82 crores rural and 45 lakh urban population will be covered by 2009. Housing, drinking water supply, sanitation and drainage system, link roads, power connection to habitations and households, health services, AIDS awareness and prevention, nutrition and pre-primary education for children, pensions to old, widows and weavers and disabled are some of the areas the scheme would cover.

Rajiv gruha kalpana padhakam
For low-income urban population, government has launched an innovative housing scheme, Rajiv Grihakalpa, with civil infrastructure and free land being provided by government. The government will provide Rs.30,000 towards the cost of land development charges. The beneficiaries should contribute 10 per cent of the remaining Rs.70,000. The rest of the amount would be arranged in the form of loans from banks.

Rajiv yuvasakthi padhakam
The Congress government launched a new scheme by name Rajiv Yuva Shakthi to provide wage employment and self employment to one lakh youth during 2004-05 with an outlay of Rs.321 crore. It also prepared an action plan for providing employment to 1.5 lakh youth with an outlay of Rs.624 crore during 2005-06.

Akshara bharathi
As part of improving literacy levels in the State from the present 61.11 per cent, the Congress government launched another spell of literacy programme ‘Akshara Bharathi’ in October, 2004.

Bapuji Vignana Kendras
By converging the Open Schooling System, the network of libraries and Continuing Education Centres, government has started 246 Bapuji Vignana Kendras to facilitate the local people to obtain new information, new competencies and new skills.

Jawahar Knowledge Centres (JKC)
Jawahar Knowledge Centres (JKC) was set up in every district to impart industry grade (soft) skills to female engineering students to ensure their campus selection by the industry.

Indira kranthi padham
The activities of DWCRA and Velugu were integrated under a programme called Indira Kranti Padham. The basic objective of this integration is to implement various programmes for strengthening of self-help Groups with similar implementation strategy. The new scheme Indira Kranti Padham had been designed by clubbing Women Empowerment with Poverty Alleviation

Ambedkar Jeevana dhara
A new Scheme "AMBEDKAR JEEVAN DHARA" with an outlay of Rs.250 crore has been launched on Ambedkar's Birthday(Apr,14) to provide safe drinkig water to all Dalit habitations of even less than 500 population each.

Praja Patham
Praja Patham was launched on April 11, 2005 in order to ensure visits of all mandal level officers, along with concerned legisletor, to all panchayats and sort out problems in the areas of drinking water supply, housing & employment assurance etc.

Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)
In order to promote the concept of one girl child norm particularly in the rural areas (BPL families), the state government has decided to provide an insurance cover of Rs. 1 lakh to newborn baby girls. Families of below poverty line (BPL) having an annual income below Rs.25,000 are eligible for the scheme. The insurance amount will be paid to the girl when she attains the age of 20. The government will pay the premium to the Life Insurance Corporation of India.

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