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In India the poverty is related to population, land and the social system and even today there exists ill health, illiteracy and backwardness of varied nature. Therefore, after independence, India was one among the other countries which went in for social and economic transformation of both urban and the rural population with the primary motive of attacking the poverty. Further, the Planning commission of India made many attempts to curb the poverty. Accordingly, a number of policies and programmes have been implemented in this direction to address the needs of small and marginal farmers and agricultural laborers. The focus later shifted to employment generation programmes. Now Swaran Jayanthi Swamjgar Vozajana (SJSY) is a major self employment programme that strives to seek a long run solution to the problem of poverty. This programme is currently is in implementation in these two states effectively. The important future of this programme is that, focuses on group approach and provides an integrated package among them loan, guidance, skills, and marketing facilities to the Self Help Groups. Thus, this programme is implemented from April 1991. As in both the states of Kamataka and Andhra Pradesh all the above mentioned programmes were implemented for several years. But, few programmes have achieved its targets in one state andhave not achieved its target in another state. Therefore, the present paper makes an attempt to assess the causes for the effective implementation of Poverty alleviation Programmes in these two slates and also identifies the obstacles fornot effectively implementing these programmes in the state pfAndhra Pradesh and Kamataka. Finally, the paper suggests the strategies to be implemented for the eradication of poverty through Self Help Groups Programme (public policy) in the state of Kamataka and Andhra Pradesh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social inequality is their in Indian society since from the ancient time. Among the other factors which contributed for the inequality, the caste system in the Indian society occupies the predominant role. As the lower caste were to subject traditional work with low income earnings. Scheduled caste has low Social and Economic Status. The low status is on account of socio-cultural economic and political restrictions imposed on them traditionally by the Society at large. These restrictions resulted it confining the arena of activity of the scheduled caste to a limit. As this environment continued even after India's independence, and the constitutional provisions came into force for the achievement of social justice and equality. As the process of transformation of lower caste people had taken place. Further, the impact of reservation provisions within the lower caste benefited and few of them emerged as elites among the lower caste. Particularly in the state of Kamataka the scheduled caste transformation is being taken place by the involvement of elite people from scheduled caste. Thus, the present paper examines the efforts of the scheduled caste elites and their organizations to improve the social, economic and culture of scheduIed caste people. It also intends to identify the roles of scheduled caste elites and organizations for creating political awareness among the schedule caste people. The paper also intends to focuses on the over all social transformation in Gulbarga District from the members of scheduled castes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]