05/06/2015
Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
(SJSRY) in India is a Centrally Sponsored
Scheme which came into effect on 1
December 1997. The scheme strives to
provide gainful employment to the urban
unemployed and underemployed poor,
through encouraging the setting up of self-
employment ventures by the urban poor
living below the poverty line .[1]
Government of India have launched a
rationalised poverty alleviation scheme
Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana
replacing three existing schemes, viz.
Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY), Urban Basic
Services for the Poor (UBSP), and Prime
Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty
Eradication Programme (PMI UPEP)
The Ministry of HUPA currently runs an
employment-oriented scheme, namely,
SwarnaJayantiShahariRozgarYojana
(SJSRY). This scheme, started in 1997,
seeks to provide gainful employment to
the unemployed and underemployed urban
poor by encouraging skill development and
self-employment and also through wage
employment for construction of socially
and economically useful public assets.
Revamped in 2009, SJSRY has five
components.