IMPACT OF SWARNAJAYANTI GRAM SWAROZGAR YOJANA ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS- WITH REFERENCE TO KALABURAGI DISTRICT

Abstract

India’s achievement in the development sectors is moderate, even after seventy four years of independence. Since independence, rural development and poverty alleviation in particular has been the objective of the development policy. In order to achieve the objective of eradicating poverty and creating sustainable employment in the rural areas by promotion of self managed micro enterprise for income generation. The Ministry of Rural Development has launched SGSY. The SGSY is envisaged as a holistic programme for setting up micro enterprises in the rural areas targeting individual and group both the beneficiaries.  Therefore, SGSY is an important tool for combating socio-economic co-ordination, formation of groups helping each other through SHGs, self reliance and eradication of unemployment for attacking rural mass poverty with the potent means for achieving the desired goals. The objective of this paper is to analyse the socio-economic profile of the beneficiaries and to study how it impact the beneficiaries from SGSY programme. Perception of the beneficiaries towards the scheme has been collected through structured questionnaire with 5 point Likert scale.  Chi-square test has been used to test the effectiveness of the scheme.   The study proves that the performance of SGSY Scheme is effective.  But,creativity and experimentation is needed and promotional activity is needed to create awareness on effective utilization of SGSY scheme.