Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)

The SJSRY Scheme was in operation since 1.12.1997 in all urban and semi-urban towns of India.
The programme is applicable to all the cities and towns on a whole town basis.
The target population under SJSRY is the urban poor, those living below the poverty lines as defined by the Planning Commission from time to time.
Under the scheme, women are to be assisted to the extent of not less than 30 per cent. Differently abled at 3 per cent and SC/STs at least to the extent of the proportion of their strength in the local population. The scheme is funded on a 75 : 25
basis by the Central and the respective State Government.
The SJSRY had five components-
(a) The Urban Self-Employment Programme (USEP) which targets individual urban poor for setting up of micro enterprises;
(b) The Urban Women Self-help Programme (UWSP) which targets urban poor women self-help groups for setting up of group enterprises and providing them assistance through a revolving fund for thrift and credit activities; .
(c) Skill Training for Employment Promotion amongst Urban Poor (STEP-UP) which targets the urban poor for imparting quality training so as to enhance their employability for self-employment or better salaried employment;
(d) The Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP) which seeks to assist the urban poor by utilizing their labour for the construction of socially and economically useful public assets, in towns having population less than 5 lakhs as per the 1991 census; and
(e) The Urban Community Development Network (UCDN) which seeks to assist the urban poor in organizing themselves into self-managed community structures so as to gain collective strength to address the issues of poverty facing them and participate in effective implementation of urban poverty-alleviation programmes.
This programme was recasted as National Urban Livelihood Mission in 2013-14.