POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY TN
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social development planning with special focus on development of children and<br />
women, and<br />
environmental upgradation of slums.<br />
With these objectives, two schemes were launched.<br />
1989: i. Nehru Rozgar Yojana (NRY)<br />
ii. Urban Basic Services for Poor (UBSP)<br />
1995: Start of Prime Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMI<br />
UPEP) made applicable to 345 Class II towns and 79 specifically identified district<br />
headquarters and hill areas.<br />
1997: Swarnajayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY): In SJSRY, the earlier schemes of<br />
UBSP, NRY and PMI UPEP were merged. SJSRY has a urban self-employment<br />
programme (USEP) through promoting self-employment ventures, and the urban<br />
wage employment (UWEP) component. It also emphasises creating community<br />
structures, and applicable to all urban town in India. Much of the non-slum urban<br />
poor, live on streets, in and around railway and bus-stations, railway tracks,<br />
religious places. They are scattered all over the place, making urban governance<br />
difficult. Poor living conditions in slum and squatter conditions also leads to<br />
exposure to health hazards due to exposure to pollution and domestic and<br />
industrial waste.<br />
Some recent schemes include Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNURM).<br />
In Tamil Nadu, three cities, i.e. Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore have been selected for<br />
providing infrastructure development and basic services under this scheme. Preparation<br />
of City Development Plan is a pre-requisite under JNNURM assistance. The preparation<br />
of city development plans for the above mentioned cities had been taken up at the end of<br />
Tenth five year plan.<br />
One key issue for urban areas is provision of safe drinking water. Under<br />
Governmetn of Tamil Nadu initiatives, a Water and Sanitation Pooled Fund (WSPF), which<br />
is a Government Trust has been created to cater to the civic needs like water and<br />
sanitation for small and medium towns which are pooled together and debt is raised<br />
through market-oriented driven approach. The Government of Tamil Nadu has<br />
designated the Water and Sanitation Pooled Fund (WSPF) as the State Pooled Finance<br />
Entity (SPFE) under PFDF Scheme and authorized it to operate according to the<br />
guidelines issued by the Central Government. This fund aims to:<br />
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