National Scheduled Tribes Finance Development Corpn
The loan lending schemes are : Ter m Loan, Br idge Loan, Adivasi Mahila Sashaktikarana Yojana, Working Capital Loan, Grant for skill and entrepreneural development programme etc.
The loan lending schemes are : Ter m Loan, Br idge Loan, Adivasi Mahila Sashaktikarana Yojana, Working Capital Loan, Grant for skill and entrepreneural development programme etc.
Development Corporation should be extended and utilised by PWDs belonging to SC/ST/OBC/Minority/Women categories. Section-40 of PWD Act, 1995 has made mandatory that not less than 3% reservation shall be kept for PWDs in poverty alleviation programs.
The nationalized banks provide loan to poor people, including persons with disabilities and the institutions working for PWDs, orphanage, women etc., who desire to engage themselves in productive activities or gainful business, at the very nominal rate of interest. There is provision that all nationalized banks should try their level best to provide at least 1% DRI loan of total credit amount.
S.G.S.Y. is a credit-cum-subsidy program in which credit is critical component and subsidy is a minor segment aiming to bring people above the poverty line. Group activities and vulnerable groups (PWDs, SC/ST & Women) are the focus area of SGSY. Beneficiaries are called SWAROZGARIES. Identified key activities of block are being supported and quantum of loan depends on nature of project.
To channelise educated unemployed youth into self- employment activities, SEEUY (1983) was launched which was redesignated as PMRY (1993). Individuals and groups within the individual admissibility, may apply for loan.
The scheme IEDC was meant to cover all classes in the school education stage. With the coverage of children with special needs in the elementary stage under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the scheme of IEDC was replaced by IEDSS under which children with disability in the secondary stage (classes IX to XII) are covered.
SJSRY was launched to provide income generation option such as setting up gainful self-employment venture, training & upgradation of entrepreneurial skill to urban unemployed people, living under poverty line. This scheme consists of two special schemes
Reservation for the physically handicapped persons in Group A and B posts/ services under the Central Govt. The undersigned is directed to state that Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 provides that Government shall appoint in every establishment such percentage of vacancies not less than 3% for persons or class of persons with disability of which 1% each shall be reserved for persons suffering from
Clarifications have been sought by various Ministries/Departments in the manner in which the vacancies reserved for the physically handicapped persons is to be calculated for providing reservation to them and their adjustment in the various reservation roster. The instructions so far issued on the subject have, therefore, been consolidated.
Reservation for physically handicapped and OBCs – appointment of Liaison officers. Association of physically handicapped persons that the reservation benefits in direct recruitment and in promotion are not being properly extended to them by various offices of the Government of India