Given below are some statements. Read them carefully and choose the correct statement (s) from the given options.

Statement 1: Employment generation programmes run by government of India focuses only on employment generation.   

Statement 2: Many programmes that the governments implement, aimed at alleviating poverty, are through employment generation.   

Only Statement 2 is correct.

The correct answer is Option 2: Only Statement 2 is correct.

Statement 1: Employment generation programmes run by government of India focuses only on employment generation. This is false. All these programmes aim at providing not only employment but also services in areas such as primary health, primary education, rural drinking water, nutrition, assistance for people to buy income and employment generating assets, development of community assets by generating wage employment, construction of houses and sanitation, assistance for constructing houses, laying of rural roads, development of wastelands/ degraded lands. 

Statement 2: Many programmes that the governments implement, aimed at alleviating poverty, are through employment generation. This is correct.