Multiple choice

When was the SJSRY scheme started?

  1. December 1, 1996

  2. December 1, 1997

  3. December 1, 1999

  4. December 31, 1999
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Explanation

SJSRY scheme started on December 1, 1997. With a view to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed through encouraging the setting up of self-employment ventures or provision of wage employment, a new urban poverty alleviation programme, namely, Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana (SJSRY) was launched on 01.12.1997 after subsuming the earlier three Urban Poverty Alleviation Schemes, namely Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP), Nehru Rojgar Yojana (NRY) and Prime Ministers Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMI UPEP). 

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