Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur   

`This is a scheme most advanced'

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: Chairman of Rural Support Programmes Network of Pakistan and Ramon Magsaysay awardee, Shoaib Sultan Khan, has observed that the model of poverty alleviation initiatives in Andhra Pradesh is most advanced, though not fully matured. World Bank has been following its progress to replicate elsewhere, he said.

Interacting with newspersons Mr. Sultan Khan said "there is a tremendous change in the poverty alleviation initiatives here since I last visited the State, particularly Anantapur, 12 years ago." Nowhere in the world is such an advanced model being implemented now, the former international coordinator of UNDP poverty alleviation programme complimented. Convergence of Government programmes with availability of finance was giving a new dimension to micro credit facility here, he said.

Women were dominant in the poverty alleviation programme here and cases of their assistance to children's higher education were ample proof of their economic empowerment, he noted. Nowhere in India does the poverty alleviation initiatives have such a dominant role for women as in Andhra Pradesh, he said.

Asked to differentiate the poverty alleviation initiatives here with those in other South Asian countries Mr. Sultan Khan said other countries "did not believe in people." .

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