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Inviting Applications for Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows Scheme (PMRDF)

Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows Scheme (PMRDF) is an excellent opportunity to create a resource pool of high quality development professionals ready to be deployed as Prime Minister Rural Development Fellows (PMRDFs) in the IAP districts by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, New Delhi

Applications are invited from the committed young people to contribute to enhancing development and welfare of the people in rural and tribal areas of the country:

Post: Prime Minister Rural Development Fellows (PMRDFs)

Number of Positions: The final number of PMRDFs to be posted in the IAP districts will be 180. The recruitment of PMRDFs will be done in two phases. In each phase, 90 candidates will be finally selected after the training programme. This will assist in ascertaining the efficacy of the placement of the batch.

Duration of Posting: The fellows will be appointed for a period of two years on a fixed contract, extendable for one more year based on performance. The PMRDF will be offered an attractive compensation that would include HRA, health insurance and other support.

Eligibility Criteria:
- Must be 25-30 years old
- Must be a postgraduate in Social Science / Science / Management or a graduate in Law / Engineering / Medicine
- Knowledge of hindi and a local language used in an IAP district is desirable.
- Work experiemce is preferred

Method of Selection: Selection will be through an open advertisement process. Respondents will be asked to submit an application in a pre-designed form with supporting documents on academic and extra-curricular activities, particularly in social work and relevant fields. They would need to provide three recommendations, one of which should be from an academic institution.

- Fill the application and submit it online. The applicant will receive an acknowledgement of its receipt. All information asked for must be provided. Incomplete applications will be rejected.
- Assessment of the applicant’s intention to apply for the position will be based on the write up they submit with the application.
- Indicate knowledge of local languages and district preferences.

Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of their qualifications and experience. Selection will be on the basis of the written synopsis; group discussions and interviews will be used to test the candidate’s motivation, leadership, social and negotiating skills.
 
Last date for Submitting Applications - Dec 4th, 2011

For more information about this announcement, visit this link: http://rural.nic.in/pmrdfs/

Introduction to Interest Subsidy Scheme for Housing the Urban Poor (ISHUP)

Interest Subsidy Scheme for Housing the Urban Poor (ISHUP) has been designed for providing interest subsidy on housing urban poor to make the housing affordable and within the repaying capacity of EWS/LIG. The scheme encourages poor sections to avail of loan facilities through Commercial Banks for the purposes of construction of houses and avail 5% subsidy in interest payment for loans upto Rs. 1 lakh.

Loan will be available for construction of new houses. Loan repayment periods will be permissible generally ranging form 15-20 years. The subsidy will be 5% p.a. for EWS and LIG, admissible for a maximum loan amount of Rs. 1 lakh over the full period of the loan. Beneficiary borrowers may choose fixed or floating rates (the consequences clearly explained to the borrowers by PLIs).

Under the scheme, preference (subject to beneficiaries being from EWS/LIG segments) will be given to Scheduled Caste, Schedule Tribe, Minorities, Person with disabilities and women beneficiaries in accordance with their proportion in the total population of city/urban agglomerate during the 2001 census.

ISHUP Guidelines:

Introduction to Integrated Low Cost Sanitation (ILCS) Scheme

The “Integrated Low Cost Sanitation” Scheme aims at conversion of individual dry latrine into pour flush latrine thereby liberating manual scavengers from the age old, obnoxious practice of manually carrying night soil.

ILCS scheme was initially started in 1980-81 through the Ministry of Home Affairs and later through Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. The scheme was transferred in 1989-90 to Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation and from 2003-2004 onwards to Ministry of UEPA/HUPA. The scheme has helped in constructing/converting over 28 lakh latrines to liberate over 60000 scavengers so far. While implementing the ILCS scheme, it was observed that the scheme did not perform well due to various reasons. To make the scheme more attractive and implementable the Guidelines have been revised w.e.f. 17th January, 2008.

The main objective of the Scheme is to convert low cost sanitation units through sanitary two pit pour flush latrines with superstructures and appropriate variations to suit local conditions (area specific latrines), but 25% of the funds of the scheme are also made available for construction of new latrines where EWS households have no latrines.

The Scheme, as revised with effect from January 2008, envisages conversion of dry latrines into low cost twin pit pour flush latrines and construction of new individual toilets to Economically Weaker Section (EWS) house holds who have no latrines in the urban areas of the country.

Under the scheme the pattern of assistance is 75% Central Subsidy, 15% State Subsidy and 10% beneficiary share. An Upper ceiling cost of Rs.10,000/- is provided for the complete unit of a two pit pour flush individual latrine with superstructure (excluding States falling in difficult / hilly areas). For the States falling in the category of difficult and hilly areas, 25% extra cost is provided for each two pit pour flush latrine. The Scheme is limited to Economically Weaker Section (EWS) households only and does not entail a loan component. The Scheme is implemented by Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation directly.

The States have to select NGOs having adequate experience in this field who will be funded to a maximum extent of 15% over and above the total project cost to be borne by the Centre and States based on the ratio of 5:1 at different stages of implementation. 1% of total Central allocation is retained by the Ministry every year, to be utilized for Management Information System (MIS), Monitoring System, Capacity Building and Information, Education and Communication (IEC) components.

The urban local bodies or the state agencies designated/selected by the State Governments may send their proposals to the State Government, who after approval of the proposals by the State Coordination Committee will forward the same to the Regional Offices of HUDCO. Regional Offices of HUDCO after appraisal of the same will send the same to the HUDCO Headquarters. HUDCO Headquarters will scrutinize the proposals and send them to the Central Coordination Committee.

Integrated Low Cost Sanitation (ILCS) Scheme revised Guidelines:

Introduction to Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)

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 Rozgar 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 Rozgar Yojana (NRY) and Prime Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMI UPEP).

The Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) seeks to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed poor through encouraging the setting up of self-employment ventures (Individual of Group) or provision of wage employment. This programme relies upon creation of suitable community structures like Community Development Society (CDS), Neighbourhood Groups (NHGs), Neighbourhood Committees (NHC) etc. and delivery of inputs under this programme shall be through the medium of urban local bodies and such community structures.

The three key objectives of the revised Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) are:
• Addressing urban poverty alleviation through gainful employment to the urban unemployed or underemployed poor;
• Supporting skill development and training to enable the urban poor have access to employment opportunities provided by the market or undertake self-employment; and
• Empowering the community to tackle the issues of urban poverty through suitable self-managed community structures and capacity building programmes.

The revamped SJSRY has five major components,namely-
(i). Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP)
(ii). Urban Women Self-help Programme (UWSP)
(iii). Skill Training for Employment Promotion amongst Urban Poor (STEP-UP)
(iv). Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP)
(v). Urban Community Development Network (UCDN)

The above programmes have to be implemented in convergence with other programmes relating to slum development/urban poverty alleviation such as Jawharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNURM), Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana (AABY), Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Mid-day Meals Scheme (MMS), Integrated Child Development Scheme(ICDS), Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSS), National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), Skill Development Initiative Scheme (SDIS) – Modular Employable Skills (MES), etc.

Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY)revised Guidelines:



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