Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana - deen dayal upadhyaya antyodaya yojna was launched on 25 September, 2014 which aims at alleviating urban and rural poverty through en hancement of livelihood op- portunities through skill development and other means It has two components, one for urban India and other for rural India.
The urban component will be implemented by the Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviatiorn while rural component named as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana will be implemented by the Union Ministry of Rural Development.
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana for urban areas extends the coverage to all the 4041 statutory cities and town.
The scheme will focus on -
1. Imparting skills with an expenditure of 15,000 rupees to 18,000 rupees on each urban poor.
2. Promotion of self-employment through setting up. individual micro-enterprises and group enterprises with interest subsidy for individual projects costing 2 lakhs rupees and 10 lakhs rupees for group enterprises.
3. Training urban poor to meet the huge demand from urban citizens by imparting market oriented skills through city livelihood centers. Each centre would be given a capital grant of 10 lakhs rupees.
4. Enabling urban poor from self-help groups for meeting financial and social needs with a support of 10,000 rupees per group who would in term would be helped with bank linkages.
5. Development of vendor markets besides promotion of skills of vendors.
6. Construction of permanent shelters for urban homeless and provision of other essential services .
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana is meant to open skill development training centers on a large scale to address the problem of unemployment particularly in rural India. It aims at training 10 lakh rural youths by 2017 .
The minimum age for entry under the Yojana is 15 years compared to 18 years under the Aajeevika Skills Development Programme.
