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inefficiencies. Some of the major centrally sponsored schemes, particularly affecting the<br />

rural poor, are listed in Table 6.5.<br />

Table 6.5: Some Major Central and Centrally Sponsored Poverty Reduction Schemes<br />

Income Generating Schemes Asset Generating<br />

Other Schemes<br />

Schemes<br />

National Rural Employment Bharat Nirman<br />

Aam Admi Bima Yojana (AABY)<br />

Guarantee Scheme (NREGS)<br />

Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Pradhan Mantri Gram Rajeev Gandhi Gram Vidyutikaran<br />

Yojana (SJGSY)<br />

Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) Yojana (RGGVY)<br />

Sampoorna Grameen Swarozgar Indira Awas Yojana (IAY)<br />

Yojana (SGSY)<br />

National Old Age Pension Scheme<br />

(NOAPS)<br />

Some of the major schemes aimed at providing health and education services are<br />

listed in Table 6.6.<br />

Table 6.6: Schemes for Health, Education, and Safe Drinking Water<br />

Health Education Water<br />

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)<br />

National Programme of Mid-day<br />

Meals in Schools (Also impacts on<br />

education)<br />

Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana<br />

(RSBY)<br />

Universal Immunization<br />

Programme<br />

Pulse Polio Immunization<br />

Programme<br />

National Programme for Education of<br />

Girls at Elementary Education<br />

(NPEGEL)<br />

Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya<br />

(KGBV)<br />

Scheme for Universalisation of<br />

Secondary Education<br />

Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking<br />

Water Mission (RGNDWM)<br />

National Vector Borne Disease<br />

Control Programme<br />

Revised National Tuberculosis<br />

Control Programme<br />

National Aids Control Programme<br />

Some of the major national schemes some Tamil Nadu schemes are briefly<br />

discussed below:<br />

a1. Midday Meal Scheme: Universal Coverage<br />

The National Programme of Mid-Day Meals in Schools covers approximately 9.70 crore<br />

children studying at the primary stage of education in 9.50 lakh schools. The programme<br />

was extended, with effect from 1.10.2007, to children in the upper primary stage of<br />

education (classes VI-VIII) in 3479 Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs). The<br />

programme provides a mid-day meal of 450 calories and 12 grams of protein to children<br />

at the primary stage. For children at the upper primary stage, the nutritional value is<br />

135

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