Rural India
Initiated in 1985-86, the IAY is the core program for providing
free housing to families in rural areas, targets scheduled castes
(SCs)/scheduled tribes (STs), households and freed bonded laborers.
The rural housing program has certainly enabled many BPL families to
acquire pucca houses, the coverage of the beneficiaries is limited
given the resource constraints. The Samagra Awas Yojana (SAY) was
taken up in 25 blocks to ensure convergence of housing, provision of
safe drinking water, sanitation and common drainage facilities. The
Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) has extended its
activities to the rural areas, providing loans at a concessional rate
of interest to economically weaker sections and low-income group
households for construction of houses.The Food for Work program was
started in 2000-01 as a component of the EAS in eight notified
drought-affected states of Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Maharastra and Uttaranchal. The
program aims at food provision through wage employment. Food grains
are supplied to states free of cost. However, lifting of food grains
for the scheme from Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns has been
slow.
In an agro-based economy of, the structure of land ownership is
central to the wellbeing of the people. The government has strived to
change the ownership pattern of cultivable land, the abolition of
intermediaries, the abolition of zamindari, ceiling laws, security of
tenure to tenants, consolidation of land holdings and banning of
tenancy are a few measures undertaken. Furthermore, a land record
management system is a pre-condition for an effective land reform
program. In 1987-88, a centrally-sponsored scheme for Strengthening of
Revenue Administration and Updating of Land Records (SRA & ULR) was
introduced in Orissa and Bihar.
Initiated in 1985-86, the IAY is the core program for providing
free housing to families in rural areas, targets scheduled castes
(SCs)/scheduled tribes (STs), households and freed bonded laborers.
The rural housing program has certainly enabled many BPL families to
acquire pucca houses, the coverage of the beneficiaries is limited
given the resource constraints. The Samagra Awas Yojana (SAY) was
taken up in 25 blocks to ensure convergence of housing, provision of
safe drinking water, sanitation and common drainage facilities. The
Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) has extended its
activities to the rural areas, providing loans at a concessional rate
of interest to economically weaker sections and low-income group
households for construction of houses.The Food for Work program was
started in 2000-01 as a component of the EAS in eight notified
drought-affected states of Chattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Maharastra and Uttaranchal. The
program aims at food provision through wage employment. Food grains
are supplied to states free of cost. However, lifting of food grains
for the scheme from Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns has been
slow.
In an agro-based economy of, the structure of land ownership is
central to the wellbeing of the people. The government has strived to
change the ownership pattern of cultivable land, the abolition of
intermediaries, the abolition of zamindari, ceiling laws, security of
tenure to tenants, consolidation of land holdings and banning of
tenancy are a few measures undertaken. Furthermore, a land record
management system is a pre-condition for an effective land reform
program. In 1987-88, a centrally-sponsored scheme for Strengthening of
Revenue Administration and Updating of Land Records (SRA & ULR) was
introduced in Orissa and Bihar.