Volume : 7, Issue : 2, February - 2018

ECONOMIC IMPACT OF JANA UTHAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME IN INDIA

Mrs. S. Jayanthi, Dr. P. Soundararajan

Abstract :

Over the long field experience, BAIF has realised that the development organizations approach the rural communities with specific activities, which benefit only a few sections of the community, while the others are left out, due to lack of resources or skills. In this process, it is often the poor who are left out of these development programmes.  Therefore to overcome this situation, the new approach – known as ‘Jana Uthan Approach’ has been developed.  Under this approach, the Extension Workers interact with the local community with an open mind and to ing them together to identify the local problems.  The community is then encouraged to interact closely and identify the members into 3-4 economic categories based on their income and the access to various resources.   Then the local groups identify the resources and the opportunities for the individual families belonging to different categories with objectives of inging all the sections above poverty. In this process while the marginally poor get smaller support through 1 or 2 development intervention, to come out of poverty, the poorest families having limited resources are given opportunity to participate in multiple activities.  Thus the poor have scope to earn their income from several sources and the chances of failure are low. This approach is helpful to maintain transparency of the programme and promotes harmony among the members of different economic categories. <o:p></o:p>

Keywords :

‘Jana Uthan’ - Our New Approach – Rural Development

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Mrs.S.JAYANTHI, Dr.P.Soundararajan, ECONOMIC IMPACT OF JANA UTHAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME IN INDIA, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-7, ISSUE-2, FEBRUARY-2018