The Employment Assurance Scheme envisages financial assistance to rural areas for guaranteeing employment to at least:
✓ Correct answer: c) one man and one woman in a rural family living below the poverty line
ExplanationEmployment Assurance Scheme (EAS) was launched on 2nd October, 1993, covering all the 1778 blocks under- Revamped Public Distribution System (RPDS).These blocks Indian Economy 329 were identified mainly in DPAP, DDP, Hill and Tribal areas.The main objective of the EAS was also on the lines of JRY, i.e. to pro- vide gainful employment during lean agriculture season in the form of manual works to all able bodied adults who were in need and desirous of working, but unable to find anything to do.The assurance of 100 days of employment was extended to men and women above 18 years and below 60 years of age, re- siding in the villages of the blocks covered by EAS.A maxi- mum of two adults per family were to be provided assured employment of 100 days under the scheme.The secondary objective was to develop economic infrastructure and commu- nity assets and resources for sustained employment and devel- opment.342
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