Gogoi for self employment to alleviate poverty

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has stressed poverty alleviation with gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities.

Addressing the General Body meeting of the Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission Society on Saturday, Gogoi said that importance would be on providing them access to credit, marketing and other livelihood services to facilitate their upward mobility. He said that ASRLMS would implement the NRLM, the redesigned and restructured programme of Swarnajayanti Gram Swaroajgar Yojana (SGSY) to bail out the rural BPL families.

Union Rural Development Ministry's Joint Secretary T Vijay Kumar called for focused attention on building grassroots capacity to make poor people manage their own affairs.