Over the years, various policies and schemes to promote social security have been introduced in India. Some of the important schemes are discussed here. National Social Assistance Programme...
The Expert Group (Lakdawala Committee, 1993) An Expert Group on 'Estimation of Proportion and Number of Poor' was constituted under the Chairmanship of Professor D.T. Lakdawala, former Deputy...
The Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY) is a rural development scheme launched by the Government of India on 1st April 1999. The scheme has been designed to improve...
Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) is a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development to provide houses to the poor in the rural areas. e objective of the...
Demography is the statistical study of human population. 'Demos' in Greek means 'the people' and 'graphy' means a ''descriptive science'' or a 'field of study'. 'It encompasses the...
The Plan began amidst three problems'influx of refugees, food shortage, and mounting. Harrod - Domar growth model was adopted. The objectives of the Plan include To correct the...
There have been changes in the nature of planning and role of Planning Commission in India. In earlier decades, planning used to fix quantitative targets for individual sectors...
Economic planning is a sort of conceiving, initiating, regulating and controlling economic activity by the State according to set priorities with a view to achieving well defined objectives...
The poverty estimates indicate that the highest poverty headcount ratio (HCR) exists in Bihar at 53.5 per cent as against the national average of 29.8 per cent. In...
Definition of Rural and Urban Areas in Census 2011 Statutory Town All places with a municipality, corporation, cantonment or notified town area committee; Census Town All other places...
