Village Poverty Reduction Plan

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Village Poverty Reduction Plan

• Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) brings together both the citizens and their elected representatives in the decentralized planning processes.
• GPDP is expected to reflect the development issues, perceived needs and priorities of the community, including that of the marginalized sections. 
• GPDP is conducted from 2nd October to 31st December, every year across the country, under the People’s Plan Campaign (PPC).
• The PPC guidelines and the joint advisory issued by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Ministry of Rural Development, has mandated SHGs and their federations under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) to participate in the annual GPDP planning process and prepare the Village Poverty Reduction Plan (VPRP).
• VPRP is a comprehensive demand plan prepared by the Self Help Group (SHG) network and their federations for projecting their demands and local area development which needs to be integrated with the GPDP. 
• The process allows poor families, who are members of SHGs formed under DAY-NRLM, to raise their demands in a participatory method and submit the final plan to the Gram Panchayats for consideration.

Objectives of VPRP are:

• Prepare a comprehensive and an inclusive demand plan of the community for local development
• Facilitate an interface between the SHG federation and Panchayati Raj institutions for development of demand plan
• Strengthen the community based organisations and their leadership for active participation in poverty reduction activities

Demands under VPRP are categorized into five major components:

• Social inclusion – plan for inclusion of vulnerable people/household into SHGs under NRLM
• Entitlement – demand for various schemes such as MGNREGS, SBM, NSAP, PMAY, Ujjwala, Ration card etc.
• Livelihoods – specific demand for enhancing livelihood through developing agriculture, animal husbandry, production and service enterprises and skilled training for placement etc.
• Public goods and services – demand for necessary basic infrastructure, for renovation of the existing infrastructure and for better service delivery
• Resource development – demand for protection and development of natural resources like land, water, forest and other locally available resources
• Social development – plans prepared for addressing specific social development issues of a village under the low cost no cost component of GPDP

SHGs

• Self Help Groups (SHGs) are small groups of poor people. The members of an SHG face similar problems. 
• They help each other, to solve their problems. SHGs promote small savings among their members. The savings are kept with the bank. 
• This is the common fund in the name of the SHG. The SHG gives small loans to its members from its common fund.
• SHG is an informal group and registration under any Societies Act, State Cooperative Act or a partnership firm is not mandatory. 

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