During $6th$ five year plan, various agencies were running different programmes for rural poor. On $2nd$ October, $1980$ all these programmes were merged under one programme called Integrated Rural Development Programme $(iRDP).$
Following programmes were integrated with $IRDP:$
$IRDP ($Integrated Rural Development Programme$)$
$TRYSEM ($Training Rural Youth and Self-Employment Programme$)$
$DWCRA ($Development of Women and Child in Rural Areas$)$
$MWS ($Million Well Scheme$)$
$SITRA ($Supplying Improved Toolkit to Rural Artisans$)$
$GWS ($Ganga Welfare Scheme$)$
The main objective of $IRDP$ is to encourage poor families for self-employment so that they can come above poverty line.
This programme focused on few special groups which include small and marginal farmers, agricultural labourers and rural artisans.
Later, on $1st$ April, $1990\ IRDP$ and other programmes integrated with it were merged and named as Suvarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojna.
These schemes encouraged development of small trade. They also aimed at providing self-help groups the necessary infrastructural facilities, technology loan, facility of market to final goods, etc. to rural poor
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