Question
State differences between self-employment programmes and wage- employment programmes.

Answer

No. Employment Program $($Yojna$)$ Objective
$1.$ Integrated Rural Development Programme $(IRDP) /$ Suvarana Jayanti Gram Svarojgar Yojna $(SGSY)$ To encourage poor families for self employment so that they can get more income than the poverty line
$2.$ Wage Employment Schemes To provide self employment to poor in non agricultural season and during flood, drought, scarcity and other natural calamities.
$3.$ Prime Minister Rojgar Yojna $(PMRY)$ To enable educated unemployed people to start their own ventures and hence become employed
$4.$ National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, $2005 (NREGA)$ To provide employment to one person per family for minimum $100$ days a year to rural and urban poor as well as lower middle class families
$5.$ Housing Schemes To provide houses to urban poor at very reasonable prices
$6.$ Social Security Schemes To provide accidental and life insurance, pension, etc.
$7.$ Jan Dhan Yojna To encourage poor to open bank account and to deposit subsidy directly into their account
Self-employment Wage employment
$1.$ Self-employment encourages people to start their own ventures.
$1.$ Under wage employment people get employment with wages.
$2.$ Government provides several training to learn a skill and then venture into self-employment.
$2.$ No training is provided.
$3.$ It is an indirect way of solving the problem of unemployment.
$3.$ It is a direct way of solving the problem of unemployment.
$4.$ Prime Minister Rojgar Yojna is one. such self employment programme.
$4.$ Jawahar Rojgar Yojna $(JRY)$ and Employment Assistance Scheme $(EAS)$ are examples of wage employment programmes.

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