- The plan named Urban Basi Services for the poor was started during 1990-91. - The objective of this plan was to introduce absolute improvement in the lives of the people living in the slums. - The Government also accepted it for the period of Eighth plan. - The expenditure made on this plan is shared by the Centre and the State Governments in the ratio of 60 : 40. During the fIrst year there...

- The Prime Minister's Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP) was launched on November 18, 1995. - The general objective of PMIUPEP was to attack the several root causes of urban poverty simultaneously. - Besides, the objectives of employment generation and skill development, the PMIUPEP also aimed at effective achievements of social sector goal, community empowerment cover...

- The Government of India started this programme in the year 1986, with the aim to provide Self-employment opportunities, with the assistance of subsidies and bank loans to the families living below the poverty line in the metropolitan, urban and semi-urban areas. - Under this programme, a financial assistance of Rs. 5,000 was to be granted, depending on the cost of the unit, to a beneficiary for...

A centrally sponsored programme was started in 1993-94 in five Mega cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore for infrastructural development. This programme was started on the demand of the State Governments to solve the problems of the Mega cities which resulted due to migration of the people from other places. This programme which is administered by the Urban Development Mi...

- During the sixth plan, this scheme (IDSMT) was started in the form of Union Government sponsored programme to stop the migration of the population from the rural areas to the urban areas, to create employment opportunities in small and medium towns, and to provide adequate infrastructural facilities in these towns. - This scheme was carried on in the Seventh and the Eighth plan also. In the Ei...