Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana (DDUAY)
Q. Which of the following is/are true regarding Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana?
1) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana plans to develop vendor markets besides promotion of skills of vendors.
2) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana is a flagship programme of the newly created Skill Development ministry.- Published on 21 Mar 16a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2
ANSWER: Only 1
The programme comes under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (urban part of the scheme)
The urban component of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana will focus on -- Imparting skills with an expenditure of Rs.15,000 – Rs.18,000 on each urban poor;
- Promotion of self-employment through setting up individual micro-enterprises and group enterprises with interest subsidy for individual projects costing Rs.2.00 lakhs and Rs.10.00 lakhs for group enterprises. Subsidized interest rate will be 7%;
- Training urban poor to meet the huge demand from urban citizens by imparting market oriented skills through City Livelihood Centres. Each Centre would be given a capital grant of Rs.10.00 lakhs.
- Enabling urban poor form Self-Help Groups for meeting financial and social needs with a support of Rs.10,000/- per each group who would in turn would be helped with bank linkages;
- Development of vendor markets besides promotion of skills of vendors; and Construction of permanent shelters for urban homeless and provision of other essential services.
