Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme

Rajasthan launched Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
This scheme would provide work for 100 days to the poor and needy families living in the cities. o Members aged between 18 and 60 years in the job card holder families will be eligible. o Employment would be in the segments of environment and water conservation, cleanliness and sanitation, stopping defacement of property, etc.
Earlier Odisha, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu, have introduced job schemes in urban areas.

Consideration of urban poor in policy making, as always the focus is on rural poor.
Resolve low employment in urban areas
It calls for secured, and guaranteed sources of livelihood in urban areas. Improve nature of jobs in urban areas.
Secured jobs to women