Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana (SGRY)

- The ongoing schemes-the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) and the Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) were merged into the Sampoorna Grameen Rojgar Yojana (SGRY) on September 25, 2001.
- The objective of the programme was to provide additional wage employment in rural areas and also to provide food security, alongside creation of durable community, social and economic assets and infrastructure development in these areas.
- The programme was self-targeting in nature with special emphasis on woman, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and parents of children withdrawn from hazardous occupation.
- While preference was given to BPL families for providing wage employment under SGRY, poor families above the poverty line were also offered employment under SGRY.
- The annual outlay was Rs.10,000 crore which included 50 lakh tonnes on foodgrains.
- The cash component was shared between the Centre and the States in the ratio of 75:25 Foodgrains are provided free of cost of the States/UTs.
- The payment of foodgrains was made directly to FCI at economic cost by the Centre.
- However, the cost of the transportation of foodgrains from the FCI godown to the work-site/PDS and its distribution are the responsibility of the State Government.
- Minimum wages are paid to the workers through a mix of minimum five kg of foodgrains and at least 25 per cent of wages in cash.
- The programme was implemented by all the three-tiers of PRIs. Each level of Panchayat was an independent unit for formulation of Action Plan and executing the scheme.
- The resources were distributed among District Panchayat, Intermediate Panchayats and the Gram Panchayats in the ratio of 20 : 30 : 50.