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S tarted in 1985 as part of the Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP), Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) was subsumed in Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) in 1989 and has been operating as an independent scheme since 1996.From 1995–96 the scheme has been further extended to widows or next-of-kin of defence personnel killed in action, ex-servicemen and retired members of the paramilitary forces who wish to live in rural areas as long as they meet basic eligibility criteria. "Indira Awaas Yojana" (IAY) was launched by Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India in 1985 and was restructured as "Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana" (PMGAY) in 2015. The broad purpose of the scheme is to provide financial assistance to some of the weakest sections of society for them to upgrade or construct a house of respectable quality for their personal living. Allocation of Rs 23,000 crore has been done to the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana in UB 2017.
Two resources are said to be substitutes when the change in the price of one leads to a change in demand for another which leads to:
The main purpose of blanching vegetables before freezing is to
The inability of a household or an individual to meet the minimum daily food requirements for a long period of time is known as
Crops cultivated to catch the forthcoming season when main crop has failed are called ___
While using Aluminium Phosphide which of the following things should be kept in mind?
At Stage II of production, the elasticity of production is
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The age of the tree is determined by
Lactose found in milk is a disaccharide composed of:
International centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) is located at
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