INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNMENT SCHEMES

Restructuring of Government Schemes: NITI Aayog appointed a Sub Group of Chief Ministers on Rationalisation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes under the Chairmanship of CM of MP for the restructuring of Centrally Government Schemes.

Recommendations of the sub-group are: • Number of Schemes: The total number of Centrally Sponsored Schemes should not exceed 30. • Categorisation of Schemes: Existing CSSs should be divided into Core and Optional Schemes. ο Core schemes: Focus of CSSs should be on schemes that comprise the National Development Agenda where the Centre and States will work together in the spirit of Team .

ο Core of the Core Schemes: Those schemes which are for social protection and social inclusion should form the core of core and be the first charge on available funds for the National Development Agenda.

ο Optional Schemes: The Schemes where States would be free to choose the ones they wish to implement. Funds for these schemes would be allocated to States by the Ministry of Finance as a lump sum. • Funding Pattern: ο Core of Core Schemes: Existing funding pattern of the core of core schemes would continue.

ο Core Schemes: . For 8 North Eastern States and 3 Himalayan States: Centre: State: 90:10 . For other States: Centre: State: 60:40 . For Union Territories (without Legislature): Centre 100% and for UTs with legislature existing funding pattern would continue.

ο Optional Schemes: a) For 8 North Eastern States and 3 Himalayan States: Centre: State: 80:20 b) For other States: Centre: State: 50:50

c) For Union Territories: (i) (without Legislature) - Centre 100% (ii) Union Territories with Legislature: Centre: UT:80:20.

Flexibility and flexifunds to the States/UTs a. While designing the CSS, the Central Ministries shall permit flexibility in the choice of components to the States as available under the Rashtriya Krishi Vikaas Yojana (RKVY). b. Moreover, the flexi-funds available in each CSS has been raised from the current level of 10% to 25% for the States and 30% for the UTs of the overall annual allocation under each Scheme so that the implementation can be better attuned to the needs of individual State /UT.

►CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEMES ►CENTRAL SECTOR SCHEMES

Funding by both centre and state in pre-determined ratio Funding entirely borne by centre Government such as 90:10, 70:30, 60:40 etc

Normally formulated on subjects placed under the State List Normally formulated on subjects placed under the Union List.

Implementation Agency: State Government Implementation Agency: Central Government

Eg. MGNREGA, National Social Assistance Program, PM Ex. Mudra Yojana, Bharat Net etc. Krishi Sinchai Yojana

According to Budget 2018-19 the distribution of schemes is:

Core of the core schemes 1. National Social Assistance Program

2. MGNREGA 3. Umbrella Scheme for Development of Schedule Castes

4. Umbrella Programme for Development of Scheduled Tribes 5. Umbrella Programme for Development of Minorities 6. Umbrella Programme for Development of Other Vulnerable Groups

CORE SCHEMES

1. Green Revolution 13. National Livelihood Mission - Aajeevika 2. White Revolution 14. Jobs and Skill Development 3. Blue Revolution 15. Environment, Forestry and Wildlife 4. PM Krishi Sinchai Yojana 16. Urban Rejuvenation Mission: AMRUT and Smart City Mission 5. PM Gram Sadak Yojana 17. Modernisation of Police Forces 6. National Rural Drinking Water Mission 18. Infrastructure facilities for judiciary 7. 19. Border Area Development Program 8. 20. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission 9. National Education Mission 21. Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan 10. National Program of Mid Day Meal in Schools 22. Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana 11. Umbrella ICDS 23. Infrastructure Facilities for Judiciary 12. Mission for Protection and Empowerment for Women

CONTENTS

►NAYI ROSHINI SCHEME 08 Section-1 ►HUMARI DHAROHAR SCHEME 08 ►SHADI SHAGUN YOJANA 08 Important Government Schemes MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS 02 (MOHUA) 09 ►PRADHAN MANTRI AWAS YOJANA - HOUSING FOR ALL MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (URBAN) 09 (MWCD) 02 ► DEENDAYAL ANTYODAYA YOJANA - NATIONAL URBAN LIVELIHOOD MISSION (DAY-NULM) 09 ►INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (ICDS) 02 ►SWACHH BHARAT MISSION URBAN 09 ►SABLA SCHEME (RAJIV GANDHI SCHEME FOR ►SMART CITIES 10 EMPOWERMENT OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS) 02 ►ATAL MISSION FOR REJUVENATION AND URBAN ►NATIONAL CRECHE SCHEME 02 TRANSFORMATION (AMRUT) 10 ►BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO (BBBP) 03 ►NATIONAL HERITAGE CITY DEVELOPMENT AND SUKANYA SAMRIDDHI ACCOUNT YOJANA 03 AUGMENTATION YOJANA (HRIDAY) 11 ►SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME ►NEW INITIATIVES 11 FOR WOMEN (STEP) 03 MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE ►NIRBHAYA FUND 04 ►IMPORTANT SCHEMES UNDER NIRBHAYA FUND 04 (MOHFW) 11 ►PRADHAN MANTRI MATRU VANDANA YOJANA (PMMVY) 04 ► (PM JAN AROGYA YOJANA) ►RASHTRIYA MAHILA KOSH (RMK) 04 11 ►UJJAWALA 05 ►NATIONAL HEALTH MISSION (NHM) 12 ►POSHAN ABHIYAAN 05 ►NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION 13 ►SAKSHAM (RAJIV GANDHI SCHEME FOR EMPOWERMENT OF ►NATIONAL URBAN HEALTH MISSION 13 ADOLESCENT BOYS) 05 ►JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA (JSY) 14 ►SWADHAR 05 ►LAQSHYA 15 ►SEXUAL HARASSMENT ELECTRONIC – BOX (SHE-BOX) 06 ►RASHTRIYA BAL SWASTHYA KARYAKRAM (RBSK) 15 ►BEIJING + 25 06 ►JANANI SHISHU SURAKSHA YOJANA 15 MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS 06 ►RASHTRIYA KISHORE SWASTHYA KARYAKRAM 16 ►PRADHAN MANTRI SWASTHYA SURAKSHA YOJANA (PMSSY) ►GHARIB NAWAZ EMPLOYMENT SCHEME 06 16 ►TAHRIK-E-TALEEM 06 ► 16 ►HUNAR HAATS 06 ►RASHTRIYA AROGAYA NIDHI (RAN) 17 ►MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP (MANF) 06 ►REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS PROGRAMME 17 ►PADHO PARDES 06 ►NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR TB ELIMINATION 2017-2025 ►NAYA SAVERA YOJANA 07 17 ►NAI UDAAN SCHEME 07 ►NIKSHAY POSHAN YOJANA 17 ►SEEKHO AUR KAMAO (LEARN AND EARN) 07 ►NATIONAL DEWORMING DAY 17 ►USTAAD 07 ►PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHIT MATRITVA ABHIYAN (PMSMA) ►PM JAN VIKAS KARYAKRAM (PMJVK) 07 18

i ►UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM (UIP) 18 ►NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON USE OF SPACE TECHNOLOGY

►MOTHER’S ABSOLUTE AFFECTION (MAA) PROGRAM 18 28 ►PROJECT CHAMAN 29 ►MISSION PARIVAR VIKAS 18 ►MISSION FINGERLING ►PROJECT SUNRISE 19 29 ►HAR MEDH PAR PED ►MISSION SAMPARK 19 29 ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE 29 ►EVIN (ELECTRONIC VACCINE INTELLIGENCE NETWORK) 19 ►INTEREST SUBVENTION SCHEME FOR FARMERS ►REPURPOSE USED COOKING OIL (RUCO) INITIATIVE 19 29 ►COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS IN INDIA 19 MINISTRY OF FISHERS, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND MINISTRY OF AYUSH 20 DAIRYING 30

►NATIONAL AYUSH MISSION 20 ►RASHTRIYA GOKUL MISSION 30 ►MISSION MADHUMEH 20 ►LIVESTOCK HEALTH & DISEASE CONTROL (LH&DC) 30 ►NATIONAL AYUSH GRID 21 ►BLUE REVOLUTION 30 ►NAMASTE PORTAL 21 ►NATIONAL LIVESTOCK MISSION (NLM) 30 MINISTRY OF CHEMICAL AND FERTILISERS 21 ►DAIRY ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT SCHEME 31 ►NATIONAL DAIRY PLAN PHASE-I 31 ►PRADHAN MANTRI BHARATIYA JAN AUSHADHI ►PASHUDHAN SANJIVANI PARIYOOJANA (PMBJP) 21 31 ►QUALITY MARK AWARD SCHEME 31 MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS’ ►DIGITAL INITIATIVES UNDER MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE WELFARE 22 31 ►NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAMME ►NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY MISSION (NFSM) 22 (NADCP) 31 ►RASHITRIYA KRISHI VIKAS YOJNA-RAFTAAR (RKVY RAFTAAR) 22 MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING 32

►MISSION FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF ►PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA YOJNA 32 HORTICULTURE (MIDH) 23 ►MEGA FOOD PARKS 33 ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ►OPERATION GREENS 33 (NMSA) 23 ►MARKET INTELLIGENCE AND EARLY WARNING SYSTEM ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR AGRICULTURE EXTENSION & (MIEWS) PORTAL 34 TECHNOLOGY (NMAET) 23 ►GRAM SAMRIDDHI YOJANA 34 ►PRADHAN MANTRI KRISHI SINCHAYEE YOJNA 24 ►KISAN CALL CENTRE (KCC) 24 MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND ►e-NAM 24 PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION 34 ►PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJNA 25 ►TARGETED PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SCHEME 34 ►PRADHAN MANTRI ANNADATA AAY SANRAKSHAN ABHIYAN 26 ► (AAY) 34 ►GREEN REVOLUTION - KRISHONNATI YOJANA 26 ►PILOT SCHEME ON FORTIFICATION OF RICE 34 ► 27 ►ONE NATION ONE 35 ►MISSION ORGANIC VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT FOR ►PRICE STABILISATION FUND 35 NORTH EAST REGION 27 MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY 35 ►PRADHAN MANTRI KRISHI SINCHAYEE YOJNA 28 ► 2.0 35 ►NATIONAL INITIATIVE ON CLIMATE RESILIENT AGRICULTURE 28 ►TRADE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EXPORT SCHEME (TIES) 36 ►KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRAS 28 ►MARKET ACCESS INITIATIVE SCHEME (MAIS) 36 ►MERA GAON MERA GAURAV 28 ►INTEGRATE TO INNOVATE SCHEME 36 ►PT. DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAY UNNAT KRISHI SHIKSHA ►E-BIZ 37 SCHEME 28 ►IPR 37 ►e-RaKAM 28 ► 37

ii ►REVENUE INSURANCE SCHEME FOR PLANTATION CROPS ►KIRAN (KNOWLEDGE INVOLVEMENT IN RESEARCH 37 ADVANCEMENT THROUGH NURTURING) AND “CONSOLIDATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOR ►NIRYAT BANDHU SCHEME 38 INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN WOMEN UNIVERSITIES ►FOREIGN TRADE POLICY (FTP) 38 (CURIE)” 45 ►DUTY REMISSION SCHEMES 38 ►THE MAKE TOMORROW FOR INNOVATION GENERATION 45 ►EXPORT PROMOTION OF CAPITAL GOODS (EPCG) SCHEME ►TEACHER ASSOCIATESHIP FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE 38 (TARE) SCHEME 45 ►INTEREST EQUALIZATION SCHEME 38 ►SERB DISTINGUISHED INVESTIGATOR AWARD (DIA) 45 ►KIMBERLEY PROCESS CERTIFICATION SCHEME 38 ►AWSAR (AUGMENTING WRITING SKILLS FOR ARTICULATING ►NIRVIK SCHEME: NEW EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE RESEARCH) 45 SCHEME 39 ►MANAK SCHEME 46 ►RODTEP SCHEME- REMISSION OF DUTIES OR TAXES ON ►NATIONAL BIOPHARMA MISSION 46 EXPORT PRODUCT 39 ►PT DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAY VIGYAN GRAM SANKUL ►“ORIGIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM” 39 PARIYOJANA 46 ►STATUTORY BODIES 39 ►BIOTECH KISAN 46

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 40 ►SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MAINTENANCE AND NETWORKS (SRIMAN) 47 ►UMMID (UNIQUE METHODS OF MANAGEMENT AND ►INSPIRE (INNOVATION IN SCIENCE PURSUIT FOR INSPIRED TREATMENT OF INHERITED DISORDERS) INITIATIVE 40 RESEARCH) 47 ►INDIA AND NETHERLANDS LAUNCHED THE SECOND PHASE OF THE LOTUS-HR (LOCAL TREATMENT OF URBAN SEWAGE MINISTRY OF SPACE 48 STREAMS FOR HEALTHY REUSEPLANT) 40 ►YOUNG SCIENTIST PROGRAM - YUVA VIGYANI KARYAKRAM ►ZERO WASTE POTASH TECHNOLOGY 40 (YUVIKA) 48 ►BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CAREER PROGRAM 40 ►RESPOND PROGRAM 48 ►NATURAL LANGUAGE TRANSLATION 40 MINISTRY OF FINANCE 48 ►QUANTUM FRONTIER 41 ►ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 41 ►NATIONAL INVESTMENT FUND 48 ►NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY MISSION 41 ►PRADHAN MANTRI JAN DHAN YOJNA 48 ►ELECTRIC VEHICLES 41 ►AAM AADMI BIMA YOJNA 49 ►BIOSCIENCE FOR HUMAN HEALTH 41 ►PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHA BIMA YOJNA 49 ►WASTE TO WEALTH 42 ►PRADHAN MANTRI JEEVAN JYOTI BIMA YOJNA 49 ►DEEP OCEAN EXPLORATION 42 ►ATAL PENSION YOJNA AND PRADHAN MANTRI SHRAM YOGI MANDHAN YOJANA 49 ►AGNII 42 ►NATIONAL PENSION SCHEME 50 ►NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND HARNESSING INNOVATIONS (NIDHI) 42 ►PRADHAN MANTRI VAYA VANDANA YOJNA 50 ►VISITING ADVANCED JOINT RESEARCH (VAJRA) FACULTY ►VIDYA LAKSHMI PORTAL 50 SCHEME 43 ►PRADHAN MANTRI MUDRA YOJNA (PMMY) 50 ►SURYA JYOTI 43 ►STAND UP INDIA 51 ►ATAL JAIANUSANDHAN BIOTECH MISSION - UNDERTAKING ►GOLD MONETISATION SCHEME 51 NATIONALLY RELEVANT TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION (UNATI) ►SOVEREIGN GOLD BOND SCHEME 51 43 ►PROJECT SAKSHAM 51 ►NATIONAL MISSION ON INTERDISCIPLINARY CYBER- PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (NM-ICPS) 43 MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS 52 ►DD SCIENCE AND INDIA SCIENCE 44 ►PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA (PMUY) 52 ►BIRAC-BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY RESEARCH ►PAHAL (PRATYAKSHA HASTAANTARIT LAABH) 52 ASSISTANCE COUNCIL 44 ►SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE TOWARDS AFFORDABLE ►BIOTECHNOLOGY IGNITION GRANT SCHEME (BIG) 44 TRANSPORTATION (SATAT INITIATIVE) 52

►PRADHAN MANTRI URJA GANGA (JHBDPL) 53

iii ►PRADHAN MANTRI JI-VAN YOJANA (JAIV INDHAN- MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES 60 VATAVARAN ANUKOOL FASAL AWASHESH NIVARAN) 53 ►GAGAN ENABLED MARINER’S INSTRUMENT FOR MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION 53 NAVIGATION AND INFORMATION (GEMINI) DEVICE 60 ►NATIONAL BROADBAND MISSION (NBM) 53 ►MOU ON ANTARCTIC COOPERATION BETWEEN INDIA AND ARGENTINA 61 ►BHARAT NET 54 ►O-SMART (OCEAN SERVICES, TECHNOLOGY, ►MYGOV 54 OBSERVATIONS, RESOURCES MODELLING AND SCIENCE) 61 ►SAMPOORNA BIMA GRAM YOJANA 54 ►ACROSS (ATMOSPHERE & CLIMATE RELATED MODELLING ►PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS AND SERVICES) 61 (PMGDISHA) 54 ►DARPAN 55 MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT 61 MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS & IT 55 ►MGNREGA 61 ►DEENDAYAL ANTYODAYA YOJANA: NATIONAL RURAL ► PROGRAM 55 LIVELIHOODS MISSION 62 ►DIGILOCKER 55 ►DEEN DAYAL UPADHAYAYA GRAMEEN KAUSHALYA YOJANA ►STREE SWABHIMAN 55 (DDU-GKY) 63 ►COMMON SERVICE CENTRES (CSC) 55 ►KAUSHAL PANJEE 63 ►NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION 56 ►PMAY-GRAMEEN 64 ►MODIFIED SPECIAL INCENTIVE PACKAGE SCHEME 56 ►MISSION ANTYODAYA 64 ►CYBER SHIKSHA INITIATIVE 56 ►PM GRAM SADAK YOJANA 65 ►PM GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN 56 ►SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJI RURBAN MISSION (SPMRM) OR NATIONAL RURBAN MISSION (NRUM) 65 ►INDIA BPO PROMOTION SCHEME 56 ►SANSAD ADARSH GRAM YOJANA (SAGY) 65 ►NORTH EAST BPO PROMOTION SCHEME 57 ►DISHA (DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION AND ► 57 MONITORING COMMITTEE) 66 ►VISVESVARAYA PHD SCHEME 57 ►NATIONAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NSAP) 66 MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ►GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAN 67 ENTREPRENEURSHIP 57 MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ 67

►NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT MISSION 57 ►RESTRUCTURED RASHTRIYA GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAN ►PM KAUSHAL VIKAS YOJANA (PMKVY) 58 (RGSA) 67 ►PM-YUVA (PM YUVA UDYAMITA VIKAS ABHIYAAN) 58 ►E-PANCHAYAT MISSION MODE PROJECT 67 ►SKILL SAATHI INITIATIVE 58 ►GRAM PANCHAYAT DEVELOPMENT PLAN 68 ►SKILL LOAN SCHEME 58 ►GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAAN (GSA) 68 ►UDAAN 58 ►EXTENDED GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAAN 69 ►DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF TRAINING 58 MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE 69 ►LAUNCH OF NEW GUIDELINES FOR JAN SHIKSHAN ►ECOURTS MISSION MODE PROJECT 69 SANSTHAN 58 ►TELE LAW INITIATIVE 70 ►INDIAN INSTITUTES OF SKILLS 59  CITIZENS ELIGIBLE FOR TELE LAW SERVICE 70 ►SANKALP (SKILLS ACQUISITION AND KNOWLEDGE AWARENESS FOR LIVELIHOOD) 59 ►NYAYA BANDHU (PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES) 71 ►STRIVE (SKILLS STRENGTHENING FOR INDUSTRIAL VALUE MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT 71 ENHANCEMENT) 59

►NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP PROMOTION SCHEME 59 ►NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR PROJECT 71 ►ATAL BIMIT VYAKTI KALYAN YOJANA 72 MINISTRY OF HEAVY INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC ►PM SHRAM YOGI MAAN DHAN SCHEME 72 ENTERPRISES 60 ►NATIONAL CAREER SERVICE PROJECT 73

►FAME (FASTER ADOPTION AND MANUFACTURING OF ►PM ROJGAR PROTSAHAN YOJANA 73 (HYBRID) AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN INDIA 60 ►DEENDAYAL UPADHYAY SHRAMEV JAYATE KARYAKRAM 73

iv ►PRADHAN MANTRI ROJGAR PROTSAHAN YOJANA (PMRPY) ►SCHEME FOR INTEGRATED TEXTILE PARK 81 73 ►INTEGRATED PROCESSING DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IPDS) MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI 73 81 ►AMENDED TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION FUND SCHEME 81 ►GROUND WATER EXTRACTION RULES 74 ►NORTH EAST REGION TEXTILE PROMOTION SCHEME 81 ►FLOOD MANAGEMENT AND BORDER AREAS PROGRAMME ►BUNIYAAD 81 74 ►NATIONAL HANDLOOM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (NHDP) ►DAM REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 74 82 ►NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON DAM SAFETY (NCDS) 74 ►COMPREHENSIVE HANDLOOM CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT ►PROPOSED DRIP PHASE-II AND PHASE-III 74 SCHEME 82 ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR CLEAN GANGA (NMCG) 75 ►HANDLOOM WEAVERS’ COMPREHENSIVE WELFARE ► 76 SCHEME 82 ►JAL KRANTI ABHIYAN 76 ►YARN SUPPLY SCHEME 82 ►JAL MARG VIKAS PROJECT 76 ►CRAFTS CLUSTER OF INDIA 82 ►SWACHH BHARAT – GRAMEEN 76 ►NATIONAL HANDICRAFT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 82 ►GOBAR-DHAN (GALVANIZING ORGANIC BIO-AGRO ►COMPREHENSIVE HANDICRAFTS CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT RESOURCE–DHAN) 76 SCHEME 82 ►SWACHH SUNDAR SAUCHALAYA 77 ►NORTH-EAST REGION TEXTILE PROMOTION SCHEME (NERTPS) 82 ►SWAJAL PILOT PROJECT 77 ►RESTRUCTURED NATIOANAL RURAL DRINKING WATER MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 77 (MHRD) 83 ►SWACHH ICONIC PLACES INITIATIVE 77 ►GANGA GRAM 77 ►SHREYAS (SCHEME FOR HIGHER EDUCATION YOUTH IN APPRENTICESHIP AND SKILLS) 83 ►JAL JEEVAN MISSION 78 ►OPERATION DIGITAL BOARD 83 ►JAL SHAKTI ABHIYAN 78 ►REVAM MID-DAY MEAL SCHEME 83 MINISTRY OF MICRO SMALL AND MEDIUM ►MHRD INNOVATION CELL (MIC) 84 ENTERPRISE (MSME) 78 ►ATAL RANKING OF INSTITUTIONS ON INNOVATION ACHIEVEMENTS (ARIIA) 84 ►PRIME MINISTER EMPLOYMENT GENERATION PROGRAMME ►NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY 84 78 ►CONSORTIUM FOR ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ETHICS ►CREDIT GUARANTEE TRUST FUND FOR MICRO & SMALL (CARE) 85 ENTERPRISES 79 ►EK BHARAT SHRESTHA BHARAT 85 ►REVAMPED SCHEME OF FUND FOR REGENERATION OF TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIES (SFURTI) 79 ►BHASHA SANGAM INITIATIVE (A CELEBRATION OF LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY) 85 ►CREDIT LINKED CAPITAL SUBSIDY SCHEME(CLCSS) 79 ►PRIME MINISTER RESEARCH FELLOWS 85 ►NATIONAL MANUFACTURING COMPETITIVENESS PROGRAMME (NMCP) 79 ►SCHEME FOR PROMOTION OF RESEARCH COLLABORATION (SPARC) 86 ►A SCHEME FOR PROMOTION OF INNOVATION, RURAL INDUSTRY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ASPIRE) 79 ►NATIONAL ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY 86 ►COIR VIKAS YOJNA ►PARINAM MANJUSHA 86 ►TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION AND QUALITY CERTIFICATION ►RASHTRIYA UCHCHATAR SHIKSHA ABHIYAAN (RUSA) 86 80 ►UNNAT BHARAT ABHIYAAN (UBA) 86 MINISTRY OF TEXTILE 80 ►KALA UTSAV 86 ►PANDIT MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA NATIONAL MISSION ON ►SILK SAMAGRA - INTEGRATED SCHEME FOR DEVELOPMENT TEACHERS AND TEACHING (PMMMNMTT) 87 OF SILK INDUSTRY 80 ►MARGDARSHAN 87 ► ‘SAMARTH’- SCHEME FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN TEXTILE SECTOR 80 ►SAKSHAM 87 ►HANDLOOM SECTOR 80 ►SAMAGRA SHIKSHA 87

►POWERTEX 81

v ►DIKSHA (DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE ►ASPIRATIONAL DISTRICTS PROGRAM 96 SHARING) 88 ►SAMAVESH 96 ►STARS (SCHEME FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL AND ADVANCED ►ATAL INNOVATION MISSION (AIM) 96 RESEARCH IN SCIENCES 88 ►ATAL TINKERING LABS 97 ►UNNAT BHARAT ABHIYAN 2.0 (UBA) 88 ►ATAL INCUBATION CENTRES 97 ►STUDY IN INDIA PROGRAM 89 ►SCALE-UP SUPPORT TO ESTABLISHED INCUBATORS 97 ►IMPRESS (IMPACTFUL POLICY RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES) 89 ►ATAL COMMUNITY INNOVATION CENTRE SCHEME 97 ►IMPRINT-2 (IMPACTING RESEARCH INNOVATION AND MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGY) 89 ►GIAN (GLOBAL INITIATIVE OF ACADEMIC NETWORKS) 89 (MOSJE) 98 ►TEQIP (TECHNICAL EDUCATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ►SUGAMYA BHARAT ABHIYAN (ACCESSIBLE INDIA PROGRAM) 89 CAMPAIGN) 98 ►LEAP (LEADERSHIP FOR ACADEMICIANS PROGRAM) 90 ►PRADHAN MANTRI ADARSH GRAM YOJANA (PMAGY) 98 ►ARPIT (ANNUAL REFRESHER PROGRAM IN TEACHING) 90 ►DEENDAYAL DISABLED REHABILITATION SCHEME (DDRS) 98 ►ALL SCHOOL MONITORING INDIVIDUAL TRACING ANALYSIS (ASMITA) 90 ►2ND EDITION OF INDIA SIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARY 99 ►TITHI BHOJAN 90 ►SWACHHTA UDYAMI YOJANA 99 ►SWAYAM 91 ►ASSISTANCE TO DISABLED PERSONS FOR PURCHASE / FITTING OF AIDS AND APPLIANCES 99 ►SWAYAM PRABHA 91 ►RASHTRIYA VAYOSHRI YOJANA 99 ►VITTIYA SAKSHARATA ABHIYAN (VISAKA) 91 ►RASHTRIYA GARIMA ABHIYAN 99 ►ISHAN UDAY 91 ►CENTRAL SECTOR SCHEME OF ASSISTANCE FOR ►ISHAN VIKAS 91 PREVENTION OF ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE (DRUGS) ►PADHE BHARAT BADHE BHARAT 91 ABUSE 99 ►DIGITAL GENDER ATLAS FOR GIRL’S EDUCATION 91 ►NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION ►UDAAN 91 (2018-23) 99 ►RASHTRIYA AVISHKAR ABHIYAAN 92 MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 100 ►JEEVAN KAUSHAL CURRICULUM 92 ►SURYA MITRA SCHEME 100 ►SHAGUN PORTAL 92 ►JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (JNNSM) ►EDUCATION QUALITY UPGRADATION AND INCLUSION 100 PROGRAMME (EQUIP) 92 ►KISAN URJA SURAKSHA EVAM UTTHAAN MAHABHIYAN ►PRADHAN MANTRI VIDYA LAKSHMI KARYAKRAM 93 (KUSUM) 100 ►JIGYASA SCHEME 93 ►GREEN CORRIDOR PROJECT 101 ►HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING AUTHORITY 93 ►ATAL JYOTI YOJANA (AJAY) PHASE-II 101 ►NISHTHA : NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR SCHOOL HEADS' AND ►GRID-CONNECTED ROOFTOP SOLAR (RTS) PROGRAMME TEACHERS' HOLISTIC ADVANCEMENT 93 101 ►DHRUV (PRADHAN MANTRI INNOVATIVE LEARNING PROGRAM) 93 MINISTRY OF POWER 102 ►INSTITUTE OF EMINENCE 94 ►DEENDAYAL UPADHYAY GRAM JYOTI YOJANA (DDUGJY) 102 MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS 94 ►NATIONAL LED PROGRAMME 102 ►AVATARAN 94 ►UNNAT JYOTI BY AFFORDABLE LEDS AND APPLIANCES FOR ►VIKALP - ALTERNATE TRAIN ACCOMMODATION SERVICE ALL (UJALA) SCHEME 102 (ATAS) 95 ► (PRADHAN MANTRI SAHAJ BIJLI HAR ►PROJECT SAKSHAM 95 GHAR YOJANA) 102 ►UJWAL DISCOM ASSURANCE YOJANA (UDAY) 103 MINISTRY OF SHIPPING 95 ►INDIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCALE-UP PROGRAMME 103 ►SAGARMALA 95 ►MERIT PORTAL 103 NITI AAYOG 96

vi ►GUIDELINES FOR CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ►NATIONAL YOUTH PARLIAMENT 110 ELECTRIC VEHICLES 103 ►FIT INDIA MOVEMENT 111 ►DRAFT PLAN FOR POWER DISTRIBUTION SECTOR 104 ►MISSION XI MILLION 111 ►RENEWABLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT CENTERS (REMCS) ►SWACHH YUG CAMPAIGN 111 ►SMART METERING 104 MINISTRY OF TOURISM 111 MINISTRY OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS 105 ►SWADESH DARSHAN 111 ►NATIONAL EVIDHAN APPLICATION NEVA: FOR DIGITAL ►PILGRIMAGE REJUVENATION AND SPIRITUAL LEGISLATURES 105 AUGMENTATION DRIVE (PRASAD) 112 ►YOUTH PARLIAMENT PROGRAMME 105 MINISTRY OF CULTURE 112 MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS 106 ►PROJECT MAUSAM 112 ►EKLAVYA SCHOOL 106 ►SEVA BHOJ YOJNA 112 ►VANBANDHU KALYAN YOJANA 106 ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR MANUSCRIPTS (NMM) 112 ►VAN DHAN SCHEME 106 ►ADOPT A HERITAGE SCHEME 112 ►ADI-MOHATSAV 106 MINISTRY OF MINES 113 ►SUPPORT TO TRIBAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES (TRI) SCHEME 106 ►PRADHAN MANTRI KHANIJ KSHETRA KALYAN YOJANA ►SCHEME FOR RELEASE OF EQUITY SUPPORT TO THE (PMKKKY) 113 NATIONAL/ STATE SCHEDULED TRIBES FINANCE AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR SCHEDULED AREAS 113 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS (STFDCS) 107 ABOUT DISTRICT MINERAL FOUNDATION (DMF) 113 ►SPECIAL CENTRAL ASSISTANCE (SCA) TO TRIBAL SUB- SCHEME 107 MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS AND SPORTS 108 Section-2 ►RASHTRIYA YUVA SASHAKTIKARAN KARYAKRAM (RYSK) 108 MCQs & Answer Key ► (NSS) 109 ►RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT 109 114-122 ►REVAMPED PROGRAMME 109 ►TARGET OLYMPIC PODIUM SCHEME 110

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MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND NUTRITION NORMS BENEFICIARIES CALORIES PROTEIN (G) CHILD DEVELOPMENT Children 6-72 500 12-15 (MWCD) month Severely 800 20-25 ►INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT malnourished SCHEME (ICDS) Children (SAM)

INTRODUCTION Pregnant women 600 18-20 • Centrally sponsored scheme and lactating • Supported by the World Bank and the UNICEF. mothers • Target group: 0-6 years COMPONENTS ►SABLA SCHEME (RAJIV GANDHI • Early Childhood Care Education & Development SCHEME FOR EMPOWERMENT OF • Care and Nutrition Counselling ADOLESCENT GIRLS) • Health Services KEY FEATURES • Community Mobilisation and Awareness • Centrally sponsored scheme SERVICES • Target: Adolescent girls 11-18 year of age SERVICES TARGET SERVICE MAIN OBJECTIVES PROVIDER • self-development and empowerment Both Children (0-6 • Improve nutrition and health status. years) and Worker Supplementary • Awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, adolescent Mothers and Anganwadi Nutrition reproductive and sexual health (ARSH). (pregnant and Helper • Upgrade home-based skills, life skills and integrate with lactating) the National Skill Development Program (NSDP) for Both Children (0-6 Auxiliary Nurse vocational skills. years) and and Midwife Immunization COMPONENTS Mothers Beneficiary i) Nutrition Component (pregnant and identification: • Take Home Ration or Hot Cooked Meal lactating) Anganwadi Worker ii) Non Nutrition Component Both Children (0-6 • Iron and Folic Acid supplementation years) and Auxiliary Nurse Health Check-up • Mothers and Midwife Health check‐up and Referral services

(pregnant and Anganwadi Worker • Nutrition & Health Education (NHE) lactating) • Counseling / Guidance on family welfare Both Children (0-6 • ARSH years) and Auxiliary Nurse • Referral Services Child care practices - Life Skill Education and accessing Mothers and Midwife public services

(pregnant and Anganwadi Worker • Vocational training under National Skill Development lactating) Program for girls above 16 years of age Pre-school non- Children 3-6 years Anganwadi Worker formal education ►NATIONAL CRECHE SCHEME Auxiliary Nurse OBJECTIVES Pre-school non- Women (15-45 and Midwife • To provide day care facilities for children (6 months to 6 formal education years) Anganwadi Worker years) of working mothers who are employed for a 2 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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minimum period of 15 days in a month in both urban and • Launched as a part of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao rural areas. campaign. • Service is chargeable by the service provider • Small deposit scheme for girl child to motivate parents to SERVICES open an account in the name of a girl child.

ο Daycare facilities • The account can be opened at any time from the birth of a girl child till she attains the age of 10 years ο Early stimulatio • Under the scheme, an account can be opened for a ο Supplementary nutrition maximum two girl children in one family. If the first birth ο Growth monitoring results in twin/triplets girls, then more accounts cannot be ο Health Checkup and immunisation. opened in case of second birth of girl child. • A minimum of Rs. 250 and maximum of Rs. 1.5 lakh can be deposited during a financial year. ►BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO (BBBP) • Even if Rs 250 in a financial year is not deposited, it will still INTRODUCTION earn interest. • Centrally Sponsored Scheme to address the declining Child • The account will get matured in 21 years from the date of Sex Ratio. opening of account or marriage of the girl child • Nodal Ministry: Ministries of Women and Child afterattaining 18 years of age. Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human • The account cannot be operated by the girl child till she Resource Development attains the age of 18 years (as against 10 years as per old • It was extended to all districts in 2018. rules). MAIN OBJECTIVES • The premature closure of a Sukanya Samriddhi account is • To prevent gender biased sex selective elimination allowed in case of death of the girl child or on • To ensure survival and protection of the girl child compassionate grounds. • To ensure education and participation of the girl child • Partial Withdrawal for girl child education can be done when she cleared 10th class or turned 18 years. KEY INTERVENTIONS • Saving scheme to encourage parents to build a fund for MINISTRY INTERVENTION the future education and marriage expenses for their Ministries of Women • Awareness Generation female child. and Child • Community Mobilization • The account can be opened anytime between the birth of a Development girl child and the time she attains 10 years of age by the • Training of stakeholders guardian. • Gender Champions Rewards • Only one account is allowed per child. Ministries of Health & • Enforcement of PC&PNDT Act • Parents can open a maximum of two accounts for each of Family Welfare • Setting up Monitoring their children (exception allowed for twins and triplets). Committees • The girl can operate her account after she reaches the age • Increased institutional of 10. The account allows 50% withdrawal at the age of 18 deliveries for higher education purposes. The account reaches • Registration of births maturity after time period of 21 years from date of opening it. Ministries of Human • Universal enrolment of girls

Resource • Decrease drop-out rate Development ►SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND • Girl friendly schools EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME FOR • Implementation of RTE

WOMEN (STEP) SUKANYA SAMRIDDHI ACCOUNT KEY HIGHLIGHTS • Centrally sponsored scheme towards the welfare of YOJANA women in informal sector

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• It aims at extending training for upgradation of skills and ►IMPORTANT SCHEMES UNDER ensuring sustainable employment in various sectors NIRBHAYA FUND • Important Sectors include Agriculture, Small Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Handlooms, MAHILA POLICE VOLUNTEERS Handicrafts, Khadi and village industries, sericulture, Social Link between Police and women in distress forestry and waste land Development SAKHI SERVICES • One stop service centre to provide integrated support and • Up gradation of skills through training assistance under one roof to women affected by violence, • Sustainable employment opportunities both in private and public spaces. • Backward and forward linkages • To support all women including girls below 18 years of age • Facilitation of organization of women affected by violence, irrespective of caste, class, religion, • Health Check-ups, Referral Services, Mobile creches and region, sexual orientation or marital status. Education facilities TARGET GROUP ►PRADHAN MANTRI MATRU VANDANA • Wage labourers, unpaid daily workers, female headed YOJANA (PMMVY) households, migrant labourers, tribal and other dispossessed groups. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • • Poor/ assetless marginalized women with special focus on Incentive-based maternity benefit scheme. SC/ST households, women headed households and • . families below the poverty line. • Cash incentive of Rs. 5000/- is provided through DBT to pregnant and lactating mothers for 1st living child of the ►NIRBHAYA FUND family • Dedicated fund towards projects designed to improve BENEFITS safety and security of women. • Cash incentive of Rs 5000 in three instalments

• It is a non-lapsable corpus fund, being administered by the ο first instalment of Rs 1000/ - on early registration of Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. pregnancy at the Anganwadi Centre (AWC) / approved • Minister of Women and Child Development (MWCD) is the Health facility as may be identified by the respective nodal ministry to appraise/recommend proposals and administering State / UT, schemes. ο second instalment of Rs 2000/ - after six months of • Projects under Nirbhaya Fund should have following pregnancy on receiving at least one ante-natal check-up features: (ANC) and ο Direct impact on safety and security concerns of women ο third instalment of Rs 2000/ - after child birth is ο Optimum use of existing infrastructure registered and the child has received the first cycle of ο Innovative use of technology BCG, OPV, DPT and Hepatitis - B, or its equivalent/

ο No duplication of existing government substitute. schemes/programs • The eligible beneficiaries would receive the incentive given ο Provision of real time intervention as far as possible. under the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) for institutional delivery (Rs 6000) ο Strict privacy and confidentiality of women’s identity and information.

ο Defined monitoring mechanism – from lowest level up ►RASHTRIYA MAHILA KOSH (RMK) to MWCD KEY FEATURES ο Support of State WCD/Social Welfare Department, State • Single window facility to provide financial services to Home Department etc. women in the unorganized sector • Funding patter for projects: 60:40 for all States, 90:10 for • It is set up as an autonomous body registered under States with difficult terrains, 100% for UTs, Few initiatives Societies Registration Act 1860. are 100% funded. 4 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• It acts as a facilitating agency to provide loans to • Iron Folic Acid supplements through life-cycle approach intermediary Micro Finance Organizations who will in turn covering all life-cycles including children, women of lend to Self Help Groups (SHGs) reproductive age, expectant mothers, adolescent girls etc. INDICATORS OF MALNUTRITION ►UJJAWALA • Wasting: Children whose weight is below the average for Comprehensive scheme for Prevention of trafficking and their height are considered wasted. Wasting is an indicator Rescue, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Victims of of acute malnutrition. Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation • Stunting: Children whose height is below the average for COMPONENTS their age are considered to be stunted. Stunting is an indicator of chronic malnutrition. 1. Prevention • Underweight: Children whose weight is below the average 2. Rescue for their age are considered under-weight. Under-weight is 3. Rehabilitation an indicator of acute or chronic malnutrition or both.

4. Re-integration 5. Repatriation ►SAKSHAM (RAJIV GANDHI SCHEME

FOR EMPOWERMENT OF ADOLESCENT ►POSHAN ABHIYAAN BOYS) INTRODUCTION • Aims at holistic development of Adolescent Boys, on the • Launched in March 2018 with a budgetary support of pattern of SABLA. Rs.9000 Cr over the next three years. • Make boys self-reliant, gender-sensitive and aware • The International Bank of Reconstruction and citizens, when they grow up. Development of World Bank has contributed 50%. • Focus group - Adolescent Boys between 11 to 18 years. OBJECTIVE • Information and vocational skills through National Skill • The Mission seeks to reduce the levels of stunting, under- Development Program. nutrition, anemia and low-birth weight of babies. • Awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition and Adolescent TARGETS Reproductive & Sexual Health and family and child care.

• Reduce mal-nutrition by 2% every year by reducing stunting, wasting and under-nutrition by 2% each every ►SWADHAR year. • Scheme to develop institutional framework to support • Reduce incidence of anemia by 3% every year. women victims of difficult circumstances • Mission 25 by 2022: Reduction in Stunting among children • Under the scheme, Swadhar Greh will be set up in every up to the age of six years from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by district 2022. SERVICES KEY FEATURES • Shelter, food, clothing, medical treatment and care. • Robust Convergence Action • Legal aid and guidance • Under-nutrition being a multifaceted challenge includes food, medicines, sanitation etc. • Rehabilitation • Synergy BENEFICIARIES • Synergy among various schemes including National food • Homeless women above 18 years of age with no social and security act, mid-day meals, ICDS, Swachh Bharat, National economic support of the following categories: rural drinking water programme, Mission Indradhanush, • Deserted women Deworming initiative, MAA National breastfeeding • survivors of natural disasters pogramme, Beti Bachao Beti Padao etc. • Prisoners released from jail • Continuous Real-time Monitoring through the use of • Victims of domestic violence, family tension or discord, ICT. • Trafficked women/girls rescued or runaway from brothels • Complimentary Feeding practices to stop breast feeding after 6 months from birth. • Women affected by HIV/AIDS 5 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Note: Such women/ girls should first seek assistance under ►HUNAR HAATS UJJAWALA Scheme in areas where it is in operation. • Scheme to promote traditional arts of master artisans and

craftsmen of minority community ►SEXUAL HARASSMENT ELECTRONIC • Organised under USTTAD scheme. – BOX (SHE-BOX) • Aims to provide market exposure and employment • An online complaint management system related to sexual opportunities to artisans, craftsmen and traditional harassment at workplace by women. culinary experts.

• It includes both government and private employees. ►MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL ►BEIJING + 25 FELLOWSHIP (MANF) • Beijing Platform for Action: To promote gender Equality FINANCING • 1995 4th World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, Centre Sponsored Scheme • UN meeting on gender equality and the empowerment of THEME AND KEY FEATURES women adopted Beijing Declaration and Platform for • The objective of the Fellowship is to provide integrated five Action (1995 year fellowships in the form of financial assistance to • 12 focus areas of concern for women globally: students from minority communities, as notified by the Central Government to pursue higher studies such as M. 1. Women and poverty Phil and Ph.D. 2. Education and training of women • The Fellowship will cover all Universities/Institutions 3. Women and health recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) 4. Violence against women and will be implemented by the Ministry of Minority Affairs 5. Women and armed conflict through UGC for students belonging to the minority 6. Women and the economy communities. 7. Women in power and decision-making • The fellowship under Fellowships awarded to research students pursuing regular and full time M. Phil and Ph.D 8. Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of courses. The fellowship holders under this Fellowship will women be known as Ministry of Minority Affairs scholars. 9. Human rights of women IMPLEMENTING AGENCY 10. Women and the media UGC will be the nodal agency for implementing the 11. Women and the environment Fellowship. UGC will notify the Fellowship by releasing 12. The girl-child suitable advertisement in the newspapers, internet, webpage and other media.

MINISTRY OF MINORITY ►PADHO PARDES AFFAIRS FINANCING Centre Sponsored Scheme ►GHARIB NAWAZ EMPLOYMENT THEME AND KEY FEATURES SCHEME • Eligible are those students who belong to minority • Scheme for short term job oriented skill development communities viz. Muslims Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, courses for youth in minority communities Jains, and Parsis and want to pursue higher studies i.e. • Empanelled Program Implementation Agencies will train Masters, M.Phil & Ph. D level abroad. the beneficiaries. • Interest subsidy will be granted for the period of moratorium (i.e. course period, plus one year or six ►TAHRIK-E-TALEEM months after getting job, whichever is earlier) as prescribed under the Education Loan Scheme of the Indian • Mega education campaign under Ministry of Minority Banks Association (IBA). Affairs 6 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Ministry does not give educational loan under this Scheme. • The Government is encouraging the youth from the The Scheme provides reimbursement of Interest accrued minority communities to take up employment-based skills on the Education Loan taken by a student from Bank, training and the Ministry has extended the scheme across which is a member of IBA for moratorium period the country. • So far, the Ministry has sanctioned Rs. 460.10 crore to ►NAYA SAVERA YOJANA cover 2,17,454 number of minority youth under the scheme. FINANCING

Centre Sponsored Scheme ►USTAAD THEME AND KEY FEATURES FINANCING • The aim of the scheme is to make coaching services accessible for students belonging to minority communities. Centre Sponsored Scheme • The students will avail the benefit of free coaching and get THEME AND KEY FEATURES prepared for the competitive exams. • USTAAD scheme aims at upgrading Skills & Training of • The free coaching will be provided by the professionals minority communities by preservation of traditional selected by the government. ancestral Arts and Crafts. • The grant for coaching has been increased to Rs. 1 lakh • It envisages boosting the skill of craftsmen, weavers & from the earlier value of Rs. 25,000 to 50,000. artisans who are already engaged in the traditional ancestral work. • In case a female candidate is selected coaching at a remote location then the department will make • Under this scheme assistance will be provided to arrangement for stay as well. traditional artisans to sell their products in or-der to make

them more compatible with modern markets. ►NAI UDAAN SCHEME • It is fully funded by Union Government.

FINANCING ►PM JAN VIKAS KARYAKRAM Centre Sponsored Scheme THEME AND KEY FEATURES (PMJVK) FINANCING • Under the scheme free coaching is given to the minority students through empanelled coaching institutions/ Centre Sponsored Scheme (60:40 for non-gap filling organisations for preparation of various entrance components, and 90:10 for North-East States and Hilly states) examinations including prelims examinations for and for gap filling projects under PMVJK to fill up the gaps in recruitment to Group ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ services and other the existing CSS of line Ministries/Department.s. equivalent posts under the Central and State THEME AND KEY FEATURES Governments including public sector undertakings, • This scheme has been formed by renaming and banks, insurance companies etc. restructuring of Multi-sectoral Development Program • Under the said scheme stipend of Rs. 1500 per month and (MsDP) Rs. 3000/- per month is provided to the local and • PMJVK seeks to provide better socio-economic outstation students respectively. infrastructure facilities to the minority communities particularly in the field of education, health & skill ►SEEKHO AUR KAMAO (LEARN AND development which would further lead to lessening of the EARN) gap between the national average and the minority communities with regard to backwardness parameters. FINANCING • Criteria for identification of Minority Concentration Towns Centre Sponsored Scheme and Clusters of Villages have been rationalized by lowering THEME AND KEY FEATURES the population percentage criteria of Minority • The scheme “Seekho aur Kamao (Learn and Earn)” is a Communities and fulfilment of backwardness parameters placement linked skill development scheme through in the following manner:

selected Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) all over the ο Earlier only those Towns which were found backward in country. terms of both in Basic Amenities and Socio-economic 7 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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parameters were taken up as MCTs. Now, the towns • As per the existing guidelines, the scheme is implemented which were found backward in either or both the with the involvement of the Gram Panchayat at village level criteria have been taken up as MCT. and Local Urban bodies at the District level.

ο Cluster of Villages which have: 25% of the population of Minority Community (brought down from 50%) ►HUMARI DHAROHAR SCHEME • Thus, the area to be covered under PMVJK would be 57% FINANCING more as compared to the existing MsDP. Centre Sponsored Scheme • MsDP covered 196 district of the country whereas PMVJK THEME AND KEY FEATURES will cover 308 districts of the country. • Following the spirit of the Constitution, the Government of • It will implemented in Minority Concentration District India has a firm belief that there is a dire need to Hqrs(MCD Hrs), Minority Concentration Block(MCBs), cooperate with the rich heritage and culture of minorities, Minority Concentration Towns(MCTs) falling in 308 districts and provide assistance to calligraphy and related artifacts. of 32 States/UTs. implemented in Minority Concentration PURPOSE OF THE SCHEME District Hqrs(MCD Hrs), Minority Concentration Block(MCBs), Minority Concentration Towns(MCTs) falling • Protecting the rich heritage of minorities under the overall in 308 districts of 32 States/UTs. concept of Indian culture. • PMJVK would now cover five more States/UTs namely • Curate iconic exhibitions. , , , and • Protection of literature/documents. Pondicherry. • Support Kailigrafi etc. and promotion. • Minority Concentration Areas of 61 districts out of 115 • R & D Aspirational districts have been covered under PMJVK.

• Special Focus: ►SHADI SHAGUN YOJANA ο 80% of the resources would be earmarked for projects THEME AND KEY FEATURES related to education, health and skill development. • Government has started the scheme of “Shadi Shagun” for ο 33-40% of resources would be specifically allocated for the encouragement of the minority (Muslim) girls of the women centric projects. country for education. ο The restructured scheme is to be implemented during • Through this scheme, the girl who wants to receive higher the remaining period of the 14th Finance Commission education will get Rs 51000 as per government education. ie. March 31, 2020. • The Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAF), the under- ο The communities notified as minority communities going institute of the Union Minority Affairs Ministry has under Section 2 (c) of the National Commission for decided to take this step. Minorities Act, 1992 would be taken as Minority Communities. At present 6 (six) communities namely PRIME MINISTER MODI SHAGUN YOJNA ELIGIBILITY Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Zoroastrians • Maulana Azad Educational Foundation (MAEF) will take (Parsis) and Jains have been notified as Minority care of the marriage Shadi Shagun. Communities under Section 2 (c) of the National • One can visit the official website for registration of the Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Shadi Shagun scheme.

• This scheme will be for the girls of the Muslim community, ►NAYI ROSHINI SCHEME who have completed their graduation and have completed FINANCING their studies. Centre Sponsored Scheme • Only those Muslim girls who have completed their graduation and have received the MAEF scholarship for THEME AND KEY FEATURES this scheme will be eligible. • The scheme aims to empower and instill confidence • This scheme will be implemented in all the states of the among minority women by providing knowledge, tools and country. techniques for interacting with Government systems, Banks and other institutions at all levels. • Rs 51000 will not be given to girls who have left before graduation level. • The scheme is implemented through Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). 8 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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(iii) Employment through Skill Training and Placement MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND (EST&P) URBAN AFFAIRS (MOHUA) (iv) Self Employment Programmes (SEP) (v) Support to Urban Street Venders (SUSV) ►PRADHAN MANTRI AWAS YOJANA - (vi) Shelter for Urban Homeless (SUH) HOUSING FOR ALL (URBAN) (vii) Innovative and Special Projects (I&SP) OBJECTIVE AND KEY FEATURES • Launched on mission mode, it envisions provision of ►SWACHH BHARAT MISSION URBAN Housing for All by 2022, when the Nation completes 75 FINANCING years of its Independence. Centrally sponsored scheme • The Mission seeks to address the housing requirement of urban poor including slum dwellers through following THEME AND KEY FEATURES programme verticals: The Swachh Bharat Mission - Urban (SBM-U), launched on

ο Slum rehabilitation of Slum Dwellers with participation 2nd October 2014 aims at making urban India free from of private developers using land as a resource open defecation and achieving 100% scientific management of municipal solid waste in 4,041 statutory ο Promotion of Affordable Housing for weaker section towns in the country. through credit linked subsidy OBJECTIVES ο Affordable Housing in Partnership with Public & Private sectors • Elimination of open defecation

ο Subsidy for beneficiary-led individual house • Eradication of Manual Scavenging construction /enhancement. • Modern and Scientific Municipal Solid Waste Management • PMAY (U) has made a mandatory provision for the female • To effect behavioral change regarding healthy sanitation head of the family to be the owner or co-owner of the practices house under this Mission. • Generate awareness about sanitation and its linkage with public health ► DEENDAYAL ANTYODAYA YOJANA - • Capacity Augmentation for ULB’s NATIONAL URBAN LIVELIHOOD • To create an enabling environment for private sector participation in Capex (capital expenditure) and Opex MISSION (DAY-NULM) (operation and maintenance) • NULM was launched by the Government in 2013 by COMPONENTS restructuring the Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana • Household toilets, including conversion of insanitary (SJSRY). latrines into pour-flush latrines; • Coverage: All districts headquarter towns(irrespective of • Community toilets population) and all other towns with population of 1 lakh or more as per Census 2011. • Public toilets • Target Population: The primary target of NULM is the • Solid waste management urban poor, including the urban homeless. • IEC & Public Awareness • Sharing of funding: Funding will be shared between the • Capacity building and Administrative & Office Expenses Centre and the States in the ratio of 75:25. For North (A&OE) Eastern and Special Category States, this ratio will be Various initiatives to make SBM-U a success: 90:10. • ODF, ODF+ and ODF++ Protocol: • Aim: Reducing the poverty and vulnerability of urban poor ο ODF: No visible faeces shall found in the environment households. and every household, as well as public/community COMPONENTS OF NULM institutions, should be using safe technology option for (i) Social Mobilisation and Industrial Development disposal of faeces. (SM&ID) (ii) Capacity Building and Training (CBT) 9 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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ο ODF+: Not a single person should be defecating and/or • City extension (Greenfield development) plus a Pan-city urinating in open. All community and public toilets initiative in which Smart Solutions are applied covering should be properly maintained and cleaned. larger parts of the city.

ο ODF++: Proper treatment and management of faecal • The implementation of the is done by sludge/septage and sewage is safely managed and a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to be set up at city level treated. There should be no discharge or dumping of in the form of a limited company under the Companies untreated faecal sludge/septage and sewage in drains, Act, 2013 and will be promoted by the State/UT and the water bodies or open areas. Urban Local Body (ULB) jointly both having 50:50 equity • Water + Protocol: It is designed to ensure that no shareholding. untreated wastewater is discharged into the open • After selection, each selected Smart Cities have to set up environment or water bodies. SPVs and start implementation of their Smart City • Star rating protocol for Garbage free cities: It is based Proposal, preparation of Detailed Project Reports (DPRs), on 12 parameters which follow a SMART framework – tenders etc. Single metric, Measurable, Achievable, Rigorous verification mechanism and Targeted towards outcomes. ►ATAL MISSION FOR REJUVENATION • Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs): MoHUA has also AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION partnered with National Highways Authority of India(NHAI) to use the plastic waste for road construction. (AMRUT) • Swachh Sarvekshan, carried out by Quality Council of FINANCING India, is an extensive sanitation survey. • Centrally sponsored scheme • Total outlay for AMRUT is Rs. 50,000 crores for five years ►SMART CITIES from FY 2015-16 to FY 2019-20. FINANCING • The project fund is divided among States/UTs using an equitable) formula in which 50:50 weightage is being given Centrally sponsored scheme to the urban population of each State/UT and number of THEME AND KEY FEATURES statutory towns. • The objective is to promote sustainable and inclusive • Coverage : 500 have been selected under AMRUT cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent PURPOSE quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of ‘Smart’ Solutions. • To ensure that every household has access to a tap with assured supply of water and a sewerage connection. • The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create a • To increase the amenity value of cities by developing replicable model which will act like a lighthouse to other greenery and well-maintained open spaces. aspiring cities. • To reduce pollution by switching to public transport or • Three core ideas of Smart Cities, i.e., liveability, economic constructing facilities for non-motorized transport e.g. ability and sustainability. walking and cycling. • Some of the core infrastructure elements in a Smart City THRUST AREAS would include adequate water supply, assured • Water Supply electricity supply, sanitation, including solid waste • Sewerage and septage management management, efficient urban mobility and public • Storm Water Drainage to reduce flooding transport, affordable housing, especially for the poor, • Non-motorized Urban Transport robust IT connectivity and digitalization, good governance, especially e-Governance and citizen participation, • Green space/parks sustainable environment, safety and security of citizens, KEY FEATURES particularly women, children and the elderly and health • The focus of the Mission is on infrastructure creation that and education. has a direct link to provision of better services to the The strategic components of the Smart Cities Mission citizens. • City improvement (retrofitting), • The universal coverage of water supply and sewerage • City renewal (redevelopment) and services have first charge in the Mission. There is 10 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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maximum allocation of 2.5% of project cost for are further divided into 14 categories across 50 development of parks with children and elderly friendly indicators which are strongly linked to Sustainable features. Development Goals (SDGs). • The Mission covers covering 500 cities that includes all iii) Municipal Performance Index - aims to examine the cities and towns with a population of over one lakh with sectoral performance of Municipalities across a set of 5 notified Municipalities. verticals namely Service, Finance, Planning, Technology and Governance. ►NATIONAL HERITAGE CITY DEVELOPMENT AND AUGMENTATION YOJANA (HRIDAY) MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND THEME AND KEY FEATURES FAMILY WELFARE (MOHFW) • The scheme aims to preserve and revitalise soul of the heritage city to reflect the city’s unique character by ►AYUSHMAN BHARAT YOJANA (PM encouraging aesthetically appealing, accessible, JAN AROGYA YOJANA) informative & secured environment. • World’s largest health care scheme including both • The Scheme is being implemented in 12 identified Cities preventive and protective care namely, Ajmer, Amaravati, Amritsar, Badami, Dwarka, COMPONENTS Gaya, Kanchipuram, Mathura, Puri, Varanasi, Velankanni • Preventive care and Warangal. The scheme is implemented in a mission • mode. Protective care • The Scheme supports development of core heritage PREVENTIVE CARE infrastructure projects which shall include revitalization of • Wellness and Health centres urban infrastructure for areas around heritage assets ο Establishment of 1.5 lakh health and wellness centres identified / approved by the Ministry of Culture, by 2022 in accordance with the vision of National Health Government of India and State Governments. Policy, 2017.

ο Transform sub-centres and primary health care centres ►NEW INITIATIVES into health and wellness centres a) Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest subvention • Services Access (PAiSA) – for processing interest subvention on ο Preventive care for non communicable diseases bank loans to beneficiaries’ accounts on monthly basis including various life style diseases such as blood b) Shehri Samriddhi Utsav - Comprising of activities viz. pressure, diabetes, cancer and old-age illness. safety net for SHGs, exhibition of SHG products, job-mela, ο Maternal and child health services. rally/march of SHGs to spread awareness, loan camps by ο Free essential drugs and diagnostic services banks and Swachhata Excellence Awards etc. • Note c) Swasth SHG Parivar – Links all eligible SHG members to ο Private sector contribution through CSR activities Ayushmaan Bharat and POSHAN scheme and health check-up for all SHG members and their family members. ο India's first wellness centre under Ayushman Bharat is set up at Bijapur, Chattisgarh d) The Smart Cities Mission has put in place frameworks/ initiatives for measuring performance leading to better PROTECTIVE CARE quality of life for the citizens as given below • National Health Protection Scheme (Pradhan Mantri Jan i) Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework- the Arogya Yojana) for secondary and tertiary care. objective is to provide a clear road-map for the cities PRADHAN MANTRI JAN AAROGYA YOJANA and in effect, urban India as a whole, towards • Description combating Climate Change while planning their actions ο A completely cashless health insurance scheme for poor and investments within the city. and vulnerable population. ii) Ease of Living Assessment Framework- aims to ο Will subsume Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) assess the ease of living of citizens across three pillars; and the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS). Quality of Life, Economic Ability and Sustainability which 11 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Insurance cover ►NATIONAL HEALTH MISSION (NHM) ο Rs. 5 lakh per family per year • An umbrella scheme to achieve universal access to ο Includes pre and post-hospitalisation expenses. equitable, affordable and quality health care services by • Beneficiary strengthening of health systems, institutions and capabilities. ο It is an entitlement based scheme covering more than 10 crore poor families based on based on Socio • NRHM & NUHM are two sub-missions under overarching Economic and Caste Census 2011 (SECC) database. NHM.

ο No cap on family size and age in the scheme. APPROACH • Nodal Agency • Inter-sectoral convergent action to address the wider social determinants of health ο National Health Authority was established as an attached office under the Ministry of Health & Family MAIN COMPONENTS Welfare for implementation of AB-PM-JAY. • Strengthening health systems. • Implementation • Reproductive-Maternal-Neonatal-Child & Adolescent ο States are free to decide among 3 modes of Health (RMNCH+A). implementation. • Interventions & control of communicable & non- ο 1. Insurance Mode: Premiums are paid to the insurance communicable diseases. company, which administers and pays the claim. TARGET ο 2. Trust Mode: Each state forms its own trust to • Reduce MMR to 1/1000 live births. manage the scheme and claims will be disbursed from a • Reduce IMR to 25/1000 live births. corpus created from Central and State government • Reduce TFR to 2.1 contributors. • Prevention & reduction of Anaemia in women aged 15-49 ο 3. Mixed Mode: A part of the claims comes under the years. insurance model while the balance gets processed under the trust. • Reduce annual incidence & mortality from TB by half.

ο Includes both public/private empanelled hospitals • Reduce prevalence of Leprosy to < 1/10000 population & incidence to ZERO in all districts. • Impact • Annual Malaria incidence to be < 1/10000. ο Reduction of Out of pocket expenditure. • Less than 1 % Microfilaria. ο Increase insurance penetration in India. • Kala Azar elimination by 2015, < 1/10000 in all blocks ο Improve access to quality healthcare STRATEGY • Services included National level a. Pregnancy care and maternal health services • Guidance and monitoring by Mission Steering Group (MSG) b. Neonatal and infant health services headed by Union Minister for H&FW c. Child health • Implemented by Empowered Programme Committee (EPC) d. Family planning, contraceptive services and other headed by Union Secretary for H&FW. reproductive Health care services. State level e. Chronic communicable diseases • Overall guidance of the State health Mission headed by f. Non-communicable diseases Chief Minister. g. Care for common ophthalmic and ENT problems • Implementation by State health & Family Welfare Society. h. Basic Oral health care • Decentralised health planning through District/City Health i. Management of mental illness Action Plan. j. Geriatric care Emergency medicine • Partnerships with the NGOs, Civil Society, and Private k. Emergency medical Services Sector l. Medicines at HWC: Diagnostic services as per the INITIATIVES Guidelines for National Free Diagnostic Initiative need • ASHAs serve as facilitators, mobilizers and providers of to be available at HWC. community level care. 12 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Rogi Kalyan Samiti for hospital management including INITIATIVES District Hospitals (DHs), Sub-District Hospitals (SDHs), • ASHAs serve as facilitators, mobilizers and providers of Community Health Centres (CHCs) and Primary Health community level care. Centres (PHCs). • Rogi Kalyan Samiti for hospital management including • Mobile Medical Units are set up under NHM. District Hospitals (DHs), Sub-District Hospitals (SDHs), • National Ambulance Services Launch of National Quality Community Health Centres (CHCs) and Primary Health Assurance Framework for Health facilities Centres (PHCs).

• Launch of Kayakalp (Award to Public Health facilities) to • Mobile Medical Units are set up under NHM. promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection control • National Ambulance Services Launch of National Quality practices in public health facilities. Assurance Framework for Health facilities

• Free Drug Service Initiative • Launch of Kayakalp (Award to Public Health facilities) to • Free Diagnostics Service Initiative promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection control • Kilkari, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) based mobile practices in public health facilities. service. • Free Drug Service Initiative • Launch of Nationwide Anti-TB drug resistance survey • Free Diagnostics Service Initiative • Kala Azar Elimination Plan • Kilkari, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) based mobile

service. ►NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH MISSION • Launch of Nationwide Anti-TB drug resistance survey • • Launched in 2005. Kala Azar Elimination Plan

• It is scheme for equitable, affordable and quality health care to the rural population, especially the vulnerable ►KAYAKALP groups. Launched to promote cleanliness, hygiene, &infection control APPROACH practices in public healthcare facilities.

• Establishment of decentralized health delivery system with inter-sectoral convergence at all levels to ensure ►KILKARI simultaneous action on a wide range of determinants of • Interactive Voice Response (IVR) based mobile service to health such as water, sanitation, education, nutrition, pregnant women, mothers of young children & their social and gender equality. families during 4th month of pregnancy until the child is 1 • Institutional integration within the fragmented health year old. sector was expected to provide a focus on outcomes, AIM measured against Indian Public Health Standards for all • To create awareness about the importance of Ante-Natal health facilities. Care (ANC), Post-Natal care (PNC), Institutional Delivery TARGET Immunization • Rural Population • Cities and towns with population below 50,000. (NUHM covers cities and town above 50000 population ►NATIONAL URBAN HEALTH MISSION COMPONENTS • • Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY). Launched as a sub-mission of National Health Mission in 2013. • Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK). • Scheme for equitable and quality primary health care • Launch Of kayakalp. services to the urban population with special focus to • Kilkari. vulnerable/slum population. • Mainstreaming of AYUSH. APPROACH 13 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Convergent approach integrating interventions for both • Requirements

communicable and non-communicable diseases at city • BPL cards level/ward level. • SC/ST are exempted for producing BPL cards • Convergence with interventions to improve social Components: determinants of health including sanitation, drinking water, livelihood etc. • Cash Assistance for mothers CONVERGENCE WITH OTHER SCHEMES • Incentives to ASHAs

• Swacch Bharat Mission (Community based toilet • For mothers construction) ο Cash assistance to all eligible mothers who choose • DAY-NULM (Establishment of shelter houses ) delivery at government hospital or private accredited hospital. COMPONENTS ο • Need based city specific urban health care system (local Cash assistance includes components for care during level planning for setting up health facilities) pregnancy, delivery and post-delivery period.

• Improving governance ο Cash assistance is given to pregnant women in the form of Direct Benefits Transfer. • Partnership with community and local bodies. ο Cash assistance is also given to pregnant women • Formation of Swachhagrahis and capacity building of ASHA, Mahila Arogya Samiti, Area level federations, City undergoing home delivery. level federations and other self help groups. • For ASHAs

• Partnerships with NGOs. ο Incentives to ASHAs to promote institutional deliveries, TARGET GROUP including a component for ante-natal care.

• State capitals, district headquarters and cities/towns with a ο ASHAs are incentivized only in case of deliveries in population of more than 50000. government hospitals.

• Primary focus on slum dwellers and other marginalized • Graded Cash Assistance groups like rickshaw pullers, street vendors, railway and Category Rural Urban bus station coolies, homeless people, street children, and construction site workers. Mother ASHAs Mother ASHAs

KEY FACTS LPS 1400 600 1000 400 • Urban Health Programme is being implemented through HPS 700 600 600 400 Urban Local Bodies (ULB) in 7 Metropolitan Cities, Mumbai,

New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and • Note Ahmedabad. ο Low performing states – States with less than 25% • Partially funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) institutional deliveries

ο High performing states – States more than 25% ►JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA (JSY) institutional deliveries

A 100% centrally sponsored scheme for safe motherhood ROLE OF ASHAS intervention under erstwhile National Rural Health Mission • Main link between government hospitals and beneficiary (now National Health Mission) • Activities • Objective: Reducing maternal and neo-natal infant ο Identification of beneficiary mortality (0-28days) by promoting institutional delivery. ο Provide at least three Ante natal care checkups • Eligibility: Poor pregnant women (BPL) irrespective of age including TT injection, Iron and Folic Acid tablets. and number of children ο Referral services • Mandatory registration for obtaining JSY cards ο Counseling for promoting institutional deliveries 14 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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ο Arrange free transport facility to pregnant women. ο Out of every 100 babies born annually, 6-7 are

ο Immunisation of new born up till 14 weeks estimated to have birth defect. ο Birth defects accounts for ~7% of all newborn deaths. ο Counseling for breastfeeding and family planning to mothers • Diseases ο Prevalence of Dental caries is ~50-60% among Indian ►LAQSHYA school children ο Rheumatic heart disease is 1.5per 1000(among 5-9 • Labor Room Quality Improvement Initiative: A scheme to years) &0.13 to 1.1 per 1000 (among 10-14 years). improve the quality of care to the pregnant mother in labour room and maternity operation theatres. • Deficiencies • Objective: To reduce preventable maternal and new-born ο Nutritional Deficiencies among pre-school children mortality, morbidity and stillbirths range from 4-70%. • Strategy ο Anemia prevalence 70%

ο Quality certification of labour room facilities ο 48% are chronically malnourished.

ο Infrastructure up-gradation • Development Delays

ο Upscaling availability of essential equipment and ο Afflict 10% of children leading to permanent disabilities. human resource. IMPLEMENTATION ο Incentivize facilities for achieving the targets • New born (0 – 6 weeks)

• Components ο Facility-based screening at public health facilities

1. Quality certification ο Community based screening at home through ASHAs Quality of facilities will be assessed through National for newborn till 6 weeks of age during home visitation. Quality Assurance Standards. • Children (6 weeks - 6 years)

• A LaQshya certificate is awarded to a facility achieving 70% ο Screening at Anganwadi Centers score on NQAS. ο Twice a year • Platinum badge for 90% score • Children (6 - 18 years) • Gold badge for 80% score ο Screening at Government and Government aided school • Silver badge for 70% score ο Convergence with AYUSH 2. Infrastructure Upgradation • District Early Intervention Centre • Dedicated Obstetric ICUs at Medical College Hospitals ο Established in District hospitals • Obstetric High Dependency Units at District Hospitals ο To provide referral support to children detected with health conditions during health screening. ►RASHTRIYA BAL SWASTHYA KARYAKRAM (RBSK) ►JANANI SHISHU SURAKSHA YOJANA A scheme under NRHM to reduce child mortality through • A centrally sponsored scheme launched in 2011 to early detection and intervention for 20 health conditions in eliminate high out-of-pocket expenditure for pregnant children upto 18years of age. women and neonates. 4 D APPROACH • OBJECTIVE: Entitlement-based approach to reduce MMR • Early detection & Intervention services through 4 D and IMR approach • APPROACH: A rights-based approach providing free 1. Defects at birth. cashless entitlements to pregnant women and sick new- borns. 2. Diseases ENTITLEMENTS 3. Deficiency • The following services are free and cashless 4. Development delays and disabilities. • Applicable both in case of normal deliveries and caesarean • Defects at birth operations

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ο C-Section • 6 AIIMS-like institutions in Bihar (Patna), Chattisgarh

ο Drugs, diagnostics and other consumables (Raipur), MP (Bhopal), Orissa (Bhubaneswar), (Jodhpur)and Uttaranchal (Rishikesh) ο Free diet during stay • 15 more AIIMS are announced, 14 out of which got ο Blood approved. ο Transport services • Upgradation of 13 existing government medical • BENEFICIARY: All pregnant women opting for institutional Institutions delivery in government institutions WAY FORWARD

• In Jan 2019 cabinet approved setting up of 3 New AIIMS in ►RASHTRIYA KISHORE SWASTHYA ο Jammu region KARYAKRAM ο Kashmir region • A scheme that aims at holistic health promotion for ο Rajkot (). adolescent population in India (10-19 years)

• It is aimed at realising the full potential of demographic dividend of India by holistic development of adolescents in ►MISSION INDRADHANUSH to healthy adults. • A scheme launched in 2014 to accelerate the Components implementation of Universal immunisation Programme to achieve full immunisation coverage by 2020. • Improve nutrition. • Supported by WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International& other • Improve sexual & reproductive health. donor partners. • Enhance mental health. Objective • Prevent injuries & violence. • Aims to cover all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated • Prevents substance abuse. children by 2020 against the following diseases

• Address Non-Communicable Diseases. ο Tuberculosis,

Target Group ο Diphtheria,

• The New Adolescent Health strategy focuses on age group ο Pertussis, 10-14 years&15-19years. ο Tetanus, • Universal coverage including males and females; urban ο Polio, and rural; in school or out of school; married and unmarried; vulnerable and underserved. ο Hepatitis B, ο Strategy Pneumonia and Meningitis due to Haemophilus ο Community based Interventions Influenzae type b (Hib), ο Measles, • Peer Education. ο Rubella, • Quarterly Adolescent Health Day ο Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and • Weekly Iron and Folic Acid supplementation Programme ο Rotavirus diarrhea. (Rubella, JE and Rotavirus vaccine in • Menstrual Hygiene Scheme select states and districts). Facility Based Interventions - Strengthening of Adolescents • friendly Health Clinics (AFHC). A “catch-up” campaign to cover 5% and more children every year

• ►PRADHAN MANTRI SWASTHYA Implementation • Phase 1 targets 201 high focus districts which have nearly SURAKSHA YOJANA (PMSSY) 50% of all unvaccinated or partially vaccinated children. A scheme to address regional imbalances in affordable and • 4 Pillars Strategy reliable tertiary healthcare services and stepping up medical 1. Campaigns education in the country. ο Focus on the 4 Lakh high risk settlements identified by Components polio eradication programme. • Setting of AIIMS like Institutions 16 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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ο 400,000 high risk settlements include Urban slums, • Adopted in 1997 after WHO declared TB as the global construction sites, brick Kilns, nomadic sites & hard to epidemic in 1993. reach areas. • Objectives 2. Social Mobilization Efforts ο To achieve and maintain a TB treatment success rate of 3. Accountability Framework at least 85% among new sputum positive patients.

ο Strengthening the district task forces for immunization ο To achieve and maintain detection of atleast 70% of the in all districts. new sputum positive patients. ο Under RNTCP about 4 lakh DOTS centres have been ο Monitoring of implementation on real time basis. established so far. 4. Capacity Building of healthcare workers

INTENSIFIED MISSION INDRADHANUSH ►NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN FOR TB • To further intensify the immunization Programme PM launched the Intensified Mission Indradhanush in 2017. ELIMINATION 2017-2025 • India adopted the National Strategic Plan for TB • The Goal is to ensure full immunization with all available Elimination based on TB Elimination Strategy of WHO and vaccines for children upto 2 years of age and pregnant SDG of UN. women. • The National Strategic Plan is built over 4 strategic pillars • Monitoring and review at highest level by Cabinet of Detect – Treat – Prevent – Build Secretary under PRAGATI, ‘Proactive Governance and • It aims to eliminate TB in India by 2025 Timely Implementation

• Specific targets compared to 2015 include ►RASHTRIYA AROGAYA NIDHI (RAN) ο 80% reduction in TB incidence ο 90% reduction in TB mortality • A National Illness Assistance Fund to provide financial assistance to poor suffering from major life-threatening ο 0% patient having catastrophic expenditure due to TB. diseases to receive treatment at super specialty hospitals. • Target: Persons living under below poverty line suffering ►NIKSHAY POSHAN YOJANA from life threatening diseases • Financial incentive of Rs 500 per month for each notified • Implementation TB patient for duration for which the patient in on anti-TB treatment. • The financial assistance is in the form of ‘one-time grant’. • Incentive is provided by Direct Benefit Transfer. • The fund has been set up as society under the Societies • The scheme is a centrally sponsored scheme under Registration Act, 1860. National Health Mission (NHM). • Revolving Funds upto Rs. 50 lakh have been set up at the • Financial norms of NHM would be applicable. disposal of select super speciality hospitals to be

responsive to immediate patient needs. • The fund is available for following ►NATIONAL DEWORMING DAY • An initiative to deworm all preschool and school-age ο Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery children between the ages of 1-19 years. ο Cancer treatments • Observed on 10th of February every year since 2015. ο Urology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Gl Surgery • Strategy ο Orthopaedic surgery • Deworm preschool and school-age children between 1-19 ο Neurosurgery years of age. ο Endocrinology • Provision of administering albendazole tablets (deworming ο Mental illness tablets) in schools and Anganwadi Centers.

ο Treatment for rare diseases including Hematopoietic • Twice a year in case of states with STH infection is more Stem CeIl Transplantation than 20%. • Once a year in case of states with STH infection less than ►REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS 20%. (Only Rajasthan and MP) • Besides awareness campaign for improved practices of PROGRAMME hygiene and sanitation. 17 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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ο Pentavalent Vaccine to protect children from Diptheria, ►PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHIT Tetanus, Pertusis, Haemophilis influenza type b infection and Hepatitis B. MATRITVA ABHIYAN (PMSMA) ο Rotavirus Vaccine against rotavirus diarrhoea. It is given • A fixed day scheme to provide Ante-Natal Care free of cost in select states. to all pregnant women on the 9th of every month ο Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine against disease Objectives caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. • Provide healthy life to the pregnant women. ο Measles/ MR vaccine • Lowering the Maternal Mortality Rate. (MMR) ο In 2014 Rubella was introduced • Making sure, safe delivery & healthy life of baby. ο Japanese encephalitis vaccine.

Beneficiary • All pregnant women who are in the 2nd & 3rd trimesters ►MOTHER’S ABSOLUTE AFFECTION of pregnancy. (MAA) PROGRAM Colour Coding • National programme for promotion of breastfeeding 1. RED Stickers- Serious patients. Goals 2. BLUE Stickers- High BP patients • Initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth. 3. YELLOW Stickers- Other diseases. • Exclusive Breastfeeding for the first 6 months 4. GREEN Stickers – Who don’t have any danger. • Continued breastfeeding for 2 years. Components • Safe & nutritious food on completion of Six months. • Routine Ante-natal check up Components • Diagnostic services • Awareness generation using mass media, mid media and • Identification and management of high-risk pregnant community. woman. • Community level interventions • Counselling on • Capacity building of ANMs & ASHAs. ο Nutrition • Community dialogue by ASHAs ο Safe Sex • Health facility strengthening ο Family Planning • Dedicated Funds under NHM. ο Birth preparedness • Monitoring by UNICEF& RMNCH+A lead development ο Post-natal care partners. • Referral transport

• Health system strengthening ►MISSION PARIVAR VIKAS

A family planning scheme to stabilise population growth ►UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION Aim PROGRAM (UIP) • To reach the replacement level fertility goals of 2.1 by 2025 • Immunization Programme in India was introduced in 1978 in 7 states with high fertility rates (TFR of 3 or above). as ‘Expanded Programme for Immunization’. (EPI) • States include UP, MP, Bihar, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, • In 1985, this was modified as ‘Universal Immunization Jharkhand, . Programme’ to cover all districts in the country by 1989-90 Strategy • Vaccines Covered • Access to contraceptives ο BCG to infants to protect them from tubercular • Promotional schemes (NAYI PAHELI – family planning kits meningitis and TB. to newlyweds) ο Oral Polio Vaccine is given at birth called zero dose and • Ensuring commodity security three doses are given at 6, 10 and 14 weeks. • Creating an enabling environment ο Hepatitis B vaccine • Monitoring 18 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• FAMILY PLANNING LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT It is an indigenously developed technology system that INFORMATION SYSTEM to provide information on to digitizes vaccine stocks and monitors the temperature of strengthen supply chain of contraceptives. the cold chain through a smartphone app. OBJECTIVE • eVIN aims to support the GoI’s Universal Immunisation ►PROJECT SUNRISE Programme by providing real-time information on vaccine stocks and flows, and storage temperatures across all cold • A scheme under Nation AIDS Control Programme to chain points in these states. improve HIV interventions targeting people who inject • The technological innovation is implemented by the drugs in 8 North-eastern states. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). • Focus Area

ο 20 high priority districts of 8 North-eastern states ►REPURPOSE USED COOKING OIL including , Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, , . (RUCO) INITIATIVE • Targets by 2020 • Launched by FSSAI, under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. ο Cover 20% people who inject drugs under Medication Assisted Treatment • The initiative will lead to creation of an ecosystem that will enable collection and conversion of used cooking oil in to ο 80% of these to be retained for 6 months bio-diesel. ο 90% coverage among Needle Syringe Exchange • Program India has the potential to recover 220 crore liter of Used Cooking oil for the production of biodiesel by the year ο 50% decrease in HIV incidence among PWID 2022 through coordinated action. ο 50% decrease in HIV related deaths among PWID • It is an initiative of FSSAI

• FSSAI is implementing Education, Enforecement and ►MISSION SAMPARK Ecosystem (EEE) strategy to divert Used cooking oil from • Launched to primarily implement 90-90-90 strategy of the food value chain and curb current illegal practices.

National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS • 90% - Detection ►COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS IN • 90% - Retention of treatment INDIA • 90% - Adherence to treatment (Anti-Retroviral Therapy) • India has 3 cadres of Community Health Workers working • Goal: Ending AIDS by 2030. at various level including

1. Auxiliary Nurse-Midwife (ANM) ►EVIN (ELECTRONIC VACCINE 2. Anganwadi Worker (AWW) INTELLIGENCE NETWORK) 3. Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) WHAT?

HEALTH AUXILIARY NURSE-MIDWIFE ANGANWADI WORKER (AWW) ACCREDITED SOCIAL HEALTH PERSONNEL (ANM) ACTIVIST (ASHAS)

• In 1960s, ANM cadre was • Later AWW cadre was Historical created to fill the requirements designed to implement the Latest addition under NRHM. background of sub-centres working below ICDS for child development. the primary health centers.

TRAINING 18 months 3–4 weeks 3–4 weeks DURATION

• Mostly at Sub-centre level WORK LEVEL Solely village level Solely village level • Visits at village level

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RESPONSIBILITIES center level care under • Main functionary at government and pregnant National Rural Health Mission, Anganwadi centers serving as women under Janani Mission Indradhanush. preschools for young children. Suraksha Yojana, • Initially focused on mother and • Nutritional supplementation • Facilitating institutional child health. for children below 6 years of deliveries, immunization, • Expanded role to become age, adolescent girls, and basic medicines, oral Multipurpose workers including lactating women under contraceptives POSHAN Abhiyan. • Preventive and curative work at • Referral services to sub- the village level. • Promotion of healthy center. behaviors • Family Planning and • Assist the ANM in immunization • Awareness activities for immunization activities under Mission Indradhanush. • Support of AWWs and ASHA ο safe water workers ο sanitation • Role has been expanded to include • Manage birth complications ο immunization ο home-based newborn • Referral service in cases of birth care complications. ο DOTs treatment for TB

ο Promote toilet construction under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

CADRE STRENGTH Around 2 Lakh 1.2 Million Around 8.5 Lakh

• Performance-based incentive • Recently the government announced free insurance Work as volunteers and are paid REMUNERATION Paid a government salary. cover under Pradhan Mantri an “honorarium”. Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana and Prime Minister Suraksha Bima Yojana.

• Medicinal Plants MINISTRY OF AYUSH o Cultivation of medicinal plants to provide sustained ►NATIONAL AYUSH MISSION supply of quality raw-materials. • Quality control • A centrally sponsored scheme launched in 2014 for promoting and mainstreaming the culture of AYUSH o Quality control of AYUSH drugs. medicine system in India. NOTE • A 360 degree focus covering AYUSH services, AYUSH • National Medicinal Plant Board set up under Ministry of education and AYUSH drugs at affordable prices. AYUSH COMPONENTS • Functions • Infrastructure o Cultivation Upgrading AYUSH Hospitals and Dispensaries o o Establishment of Nurseries o Co-location of AYUSH facilities at Primary Health • Post-harvest management including primary processing Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs) and and marketing etc

District Hospitals (DHs). • Education ►MISSION MADHUMEH o Upgrading AYUSH educational institutions, ASU&H • A scheme to tackle lifestyle diseases like diabetes through Pharmacies. Ayurveda. 20 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Launched on 1st National Ayurveda Day in 2016. • Individuals, NGOs, Charitable Institutions/Hospitals, STRATEGY Private Hospitals, Societies, SHGs, and Government Agencies of State Governments are eligible to apply for • National Treatment Protocol for effective management of diabetes through Ayurveda. new PM Bharatiya Janausadhi Kendras. • Madhumeha Assessment Tool (MAT) for the self • For opening PMBJP Kendras in Government assessment to possibilities of diabetes. Hospital/Medical College/ any Government owned building • The Anti-diabetic ayurvedic drug for type-2 diabetes premises, one-time financial assistance upto Rs 2.50 lakh is mellitus is developed by CSIR under the trade name provided. BGR34. • For PMBJP Kendras run by Pharmacists/NGOs/Charitable Societies/Institutions/SHGs will get incentive upto Rs 2.50 ►NATIONAL AYUSH GRID lakh @15% of monthly sales subject to a ceiling of Rs • National network of alternative medicine 10,000 per month. • To connect Ayush hospitals, drug providers, laboratories • SC/ST/Differently abled are provided medicines worth Rs countrywide 50,000 in advance within the incentive of Rs 2.5 lakh • Aims to improve efficacy of the traditional systems of • For north eastern states, naxal affected areas and tribal medicine areas, the rate of incentive will be 15% subject to a • Pilot projects under Ayush Grid include AYUSH Hospital monthly ceiling of Rs. 15,000/- upto a total limit of Rs. 2.5 Management Information System (A-HMIS), Yoga locator lakhs application, Telemedicine, Yoga Portal, A-HMIS trainings, IT • Applicants will have to employ one Bpharma/Dpharma course for AYUSH Professionals, etc. which shall be degree holder as Pharmacist in their proposed store. merged into AYUSH Grid Project after completion of pilot period. • Jan Ausadhi Kendras can be located within Government as

well as Private hospital premises. ►NAMASTE PORTAL INITIATIVES UNDER THE SCHEME ARE • National AYUSH Morbidity and Standardized • Four big warehouses have been opened at Delhi, Terminologies Electronic Portal Guwahati, Bengaluru, Chennai to ensure adequate • It aims to provide standardized terminologies & morbidity availability of Janausadhi medicines at all PMBJP Kendras. codes for Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani systems of • Jan Ausadhi Suvidha Oxo-Biodegradable Sanitary Napkin at medicines to classify diseases described in the traditional Rs 2.50 per piece. medicines system • Jan Ausadhi Swabhiman at Rs 140 for a pack of 5 Adult Diapers MINISTRY OF CHEMICAL • Jan Ausadhi Bachpan at Rs 20 only for a pack of 5 baby diapers AND FERTILISERS • Jan Ausadhi Ankur pregnancy test kits at Rs 20. ►PRADHAN MANTRI BHARATIYA JAN • Jan Ausadhi Urja Energy Drink at Rs 35 for a 300 gm pack. AUSHADHI PARIYOOJANA (PMBJP) • 7th March to be celebrated as Jan Aushadhi Diwas TARGET OBJECTIVE All blocks of the country to have at least 1 PMBJP Kendra by To bring down the health care budget of every citizen by 2020. providing quality generic medicnes at affordable prices through exclusive outlets called Jan Aushadhi Kendra. IMPACT NODAL AGENCY • Resulted in 50-90% savings to patients in the area of healthcare by selling generic medicines Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI) under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers. • Market share of generic medicines has grown three fold from 2% to 7% in last three years. SALIENT FEATURES • Average sales per store has grown to Rs 1.5 lakh 21 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE FINANCING Funding pattern is to be shared between the centre and the AND FARMERS’ WELFARE states in the ratio of 60:40 ( 90:10 for North Eastern States and Himalayan States) ►NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY MISSION THEME AND KEY FEATURES (NFSM) • Launched to incentivize states to draw comprehensive FINANCING agriculture development plans, taking into account agro- climatic conditions, natural resources and technology for 60:40 sharing basis between GOI and state in general states ensuring more inclusive and integrated development and and 90:10 sharing basis for North Eastern and 3 Himalayan allied sectors states. • States have been provided flexibility and autonomy for THEME AND KEY FEATURES selection, planning approval and execution of  Objectives: projects/programs under the scheme asper their • Increasing production of rice, wheat, pulses, coarse cereals need, priorities and agro-climate requirements. (Maize and Barley) and Nutri Cereals through area • Major focus is on pre & post-harvest infrastructure, expansion and productivity enhancement in a sustainable besides promoting agri-entrepreneurship and innovations. manner in the identified districts of the country.  PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP FOR INTEGRATED • Restoring soil fertility and productivity at the individual AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT (PPPIAD) farm level A scheme for facilitating large scale integrated projects by • Enhancing farm level economy (ie farm profits) to restore private sector with a view to aggregating farmers, and confidence amongst farmers. integrating the agricultural supply chain, with financial  Restructured NFSM has Eight Components assistance through RKVY, under the direct supervision of 1. NFSM-Rice State Goverments, supported by National Level Agencies. 2. NFSM-Wheat MAIN FEATURES 3. NFSM-Pulses • Corporates to propose integrated agricultural 4. NFSM-Coarse Cereals (Maize, Barley) development projects across the spectrum of agriculture and allied sectors. Each project to target at least 5000 5. NFSM-Sub Mission on Nutri Cereals (Jowar, Bajra, Ragi, farmers, spread over a project life of 3 to 5 years. Other Millets (Kodo, Foxtail Millet, Little Millet, Barnyard • Millet, Small millet etc) Complete flexibility in design • 6. NFSM-Commercial Crops Government support to be restricted to 50% of the overall per farmer investment proposed with a ceiling of Rs 50,000 7. NFSM-Oilseeds and Oilpalm per farmer. 8. NFSM-Seed Village Program • Key interventions:  Targets ο Mobilizing farmers into producer groups The targets to achieve are 13 million tonnes of additional ο Technology infusion foodgrains production comprising of Rice – 5 million tonnes, Wheat- 3 million tonnes, Pulses- 3 million tonnes and Coarse ο Value addition Cereals- 2 million tonnes ο Marketing solutions NFSM-SEED VILLAGE PROGRAM ο Project management 1. Distribution of Seeds: • Projects can be proposed to either State Governments or Small farmers’ Agri-business Consortium (SFAC). SFAC has ο Cereal crops: 50% assistance will be provided for distribution of certified seeds required for 1 acre area been designated as a National Level Agency by per farmer Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. SFAC will act as a facilitator to link the project promoter to the ο Pulses, Oilseeds, Fodders and Green Manure Crops: concerned State Government. 60% cost of certified seeds required for 1 acre per farmer will be provided. SUB-SCHEMES • Bringing Green Revolution of Eastern India (BGREI): ►RASHITRIYA KRISHI VIKAS YOJNA- Initiated in 2010- 11, BGREI has targeted productivity improvement in the rice based cropping system of RAFTAAR (RKVY RAFTAAR)

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Assam, West Bengal, , Bihar, Jharkhand, Eastern • National Agroforestry & Bamboo Mission (NABM): and Chhattisgarh. National Bamboo Mission renamed as National Agro- Forestry & Bamboo Mission (NABM) envisages promoting • Saffron Mission: The Scheme was initiated in 010-11 holistic growth of bamboo sector by adopting area-based, for revival of saffron cultivation in Jammu & Kashmir. regionally differentiated strategy and to increase the area • Crop Diversification Programme(CDP): The scheme under bamboo cultivation and marketing. has been launched to promote technological innovation • National Horticulture Board (NHB): NHB is registered as to encourage farmers to choose crop alternatives. a Society under the Societies Registration Act 1860, the • Reclamation of problem Soil (RPS): For enhancing soil main objectives of the NHB are to improve integrated fertility & productivity for meeting the demand for food development of Horticulture industry and to help in grains in the country. coordinating, sustaining the production and processing of • Foot and Mouth Disease Control Programme (FMD- fruits and vegetables. CP): For supplementing the efforts of the State • Coconut Development Board (CDB): is a statutory body Governments for prevention, control and containment established under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers of this animal disease Welfare, Government of India for the integrated development of coconut cultivation and industry in the • Additional Fodder Development Programme (AFDP): country with focus on productivity increase and product Launched in order to mitigate the impact of drought on diversification. livestock. • Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH): Set up under the • Swacch Bharat: For solid and liquid waste Central Sector Scheme the institute provides technical management in agriculture. support on different aspects of horticulture for the holistic • Scheme for Drought Affected Area: For pilot development in the North East Region. implementation of interventions to address the issue of the most vulnerable drought prone districts in the ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR SUSTAINABLE country AGRICULTURE (NMSA) • Peri-Urban Horticulture: It has objectives of greening THEME AND KEY FEATURES cities, utilizing waste, meeting the needs of food and • NMSA is one of the eight Missions outlined under National nutrition and serving the environment by promoting Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) aims at promoting cultivation of fruits, flowers, vegetables medicinal and sustainable agriculture through 17 deliverables focusing aromatic plants in selected cities. on 10 key dimensions of Indian agriculture.

• Major Components of NMSA are: ►MISSION FOR INTEGRATED ο Rainfed Area Development((RAD): Which focusses on DEVELOPMENT OF HORTICULTURE Integrating Farming System (IFS) for enhancing (MIDH) productivity and minimizing risks associated with FINANCING climatic variabilities. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme which aims at holistic ο Soil Health Management (SHM): Aimed at promoting development of horticulture culture by ensuring forward and location as well as crop specific sustainable soil health backward linkages. management including residue management

SUB-SCHEMES ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR AGRICULTURE • It has been launched by subsuming schemes on horticulture viz. EXTENSION & TECHNOLOGY (NMAET) • National Horticulture Mission (NHM) : Centrally THEME AND KEY FEATURES Sponsored Scheme was launched in the year 2005-06 aims • NMAET consists of 4 Sub Missions: at the holistic development of horticulture sector by ο Sub Mission on Agricultural Extension (SMAE) ensuring forward and backward linkage through a cluster approach with the active participation of all stakeholders. ο Sub-Mission on Seed and Planting Material (SMSP) • Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan ο Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM) States (HMNEH): It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for ο Sub Mission on Plant Protection and Plant Quarantine Integrated development of Horticulture in North-Eastern (SMPP) States. 23 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• The aim of the Mission is to restructure and strengthen • This programme is being implemented in mission mode by agricultural extension to enable delivery of appropriate three ministries with Ministry of Water Resources, RD&GR technology and improved agronomic practices to farmers. leading the mission. • The erstwhile scheme ‘Support to State Extension • District Irrigation Plans are cornerstone of planning and Programmes for Extension Reforms (ATMA) implemented implementation of the scheme. since 2005 has now been included as a component of the • An Android based mobile application- ‘BHUVAN PDMC’ Sub-Mission on Agricultural Extension (SMAE) under was developed in collaboration with NRSC, Hyderabad for NMAET. geo-tagging of intervention/ assets created under PMKSY- • This is envisaged to be achieved by a judicious mix of Per Drop More Crop and work started. extensive physical outreach and interactive methods of information dissemination, use of ICT, popularisation of ►KISAN CALL CENTRE (KCC) modern and appropriate technologies and encourage THEME AND KEY FEATURES aggregation of Farmers into Interest Groups (FIGs) to form Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs). • The KCC Scheme was launched on 21st January 2004 to provide answer to farmers’ queries on agriculture and • The ongoing Extension Schemes include the Central Sector allied sectors through toll free telephone lines. and Centrally Sponsored Schemes being implemented by the Extension Division/Directorate of Extension. • Kisan Knowledge Management system (KKMS) has been

created at the backend to capture details of the farmers calling KCCs. ►PRADHAN MANTRI KRISHI SINCHAYEE

YOJNA ►e-NAM THEME AND KEY FEATURES FINANCING • Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) is being • Funded by Agri-Tech Infrastructure Fund (ATIF) which is set implemented with the objective of developing a long-term up through the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium solution for mitigating the effect of drought and increasing (SFAC). area under irrigation with Motto of Har Khet Ko Pani. • SFAC will be the lead agency for the development of the • The scheme has been conceived amalgamating ongoing National e-Market by the Ministry of Agriculture, and they schemes viz. will select a service provider through open bidding. ο Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) of the THEME AND KEY FEATURES Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR,RD&GR) • e-NAM is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC mandis (physical market) to ο Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) create a unified national market for agricultural of Department of Land Resources (DoLR), and commodities. ο On Farm Water Management (OFWM) of Department of • It is a virtual market but it is connected to a mandis at the Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare. back end and promotes genuine price discovery. • The major objective of PMKSY is: • Promotes prices commensurate with quality of produce, ο To achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at • Single window services for all APMC related information the field level, and services. This includes commodity arrivals, quality, Expand cultivable area under assured irrigation, o prices, buy & sell offers & e-payment settlement directly o Improve on farm water use efficiency to reduce wastage into farmer’s account. of water, • Farmers can access the information on eNAM easily o Enhance the adoption of precision irrigation and other through their mobile phones everywhere. water saving technologies (More Crop Per Drop), CONDITIONS FOR JOINING ENAM promote sustainable water conservation practices etc. • The scheme being linked to agricultural marketing • The aim of PMKSY is not only the creation of assured reforms, the States/UTs need to take mandatory reforms irrigation but to create protected irrigation by using in their APMC Acts:- rainwater by ‘Jal Sanchay’ and ‘Jal Sinchan’. o Single trading license for the entire State MONITORING BODY o Single point levy of market fee across the State 24 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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o Provision of e-auction/e-trading as a mode of price For example, if the total insurance cover for Kharif Crop is Rs discovery 1 lakh and the premium is 40% (Rs 40,000). Then the farmer INTER-STATE TRADE ON eNAM PLATFORM would contribute 2% (Rs 2000). The remaining premium of 38% (Rs 38,000) would be shared by centre and state equally • First Inter State trade on eNAM platform took between wherein both of them would contribute Rs 19,000 each. trader of Bareilly eNAM APMC and farmer of Haldwani eNAM APMC in tomatoes. COVERAGE • Rajasthan is the first State to have entered into Inter State The scheme covers loanee farmers (those who have availed trade with more than one State, establishing trade links of institutional loans), non-loanee farmers (those who avail of with Gujarat, & MP on eNAM. insurance cover on a voluntary basis), sharecroppers and tenant farmers (those who farm on rented land). Presently, ePayments have to be made on the eNAM Portal. PMFBY is compulsory for loanee farmers. • ‘Logistics Providers’ information is provided in the eNAM CHANGES INTRODUCED BY THE UNION CABINET portal to traders from outside the State, which will facilitate transportation of commodities after trading. • Limit on the Centre's Premium: The Union Cabinet has decided to put a limit on the premium to be paid by the • An Inter State dashboard on eNAM platform has been centre. As per the revised guidelines, the Centre would developed to promote inter State trade among eNAM contribute the premium amount provided the premium is up States. to 30% for unirrigated areas/crops and 25% for irrigated SFAC areas/crops. If the premium is above the threshold, then the • SFAC was established as a society in 1994 to facilitate agri- centre would not provide the additional premium amount. So, business ventures by catalyzing private investment. in that case, the additional premium amount would be borne • SFAC is one of the Central Procurement Agencies for by the respective state government. Note: Districts having 50% pulses and oilseeds under Price Stabilisation Fund of or more irrigated area will be considered as irrigated Department of Consumer Affairs. area/district • The scheme aims to support new ventures in agro-based • Voluntary enrolment of farmers: Earlier, the scheme was industries and to promote the farmer producer mandatory for the loanee farmers i.e. who avail organisations (FPOs) and their integration in agriculture institutional loans from the Banks, while non-loanee value chain. farmers had the option to either enrol or opt out of the scheme. The recent changes have made the enrolment • SFAC gives Venture Capital Assistance and Project Development Facility to supports the new ventures in agro under the scheme voluntary even for the loanee farmers. based industries. • Higher share of centre's contribution in North-Eastern States: Presently, the centre and state make equal • Beneficiaries - Individuals, farmers, producer groups, partnership, propriety firms, Self Help Groups and contribution(50:50) in all the states (including NE States) under the scheme. As per revised guidelines, in case of NE companies etc. states, the centre would enhance its contribution to 90%

and remaining 10% contribution would have to be made

►PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJNA by NE State. WHAT IT DOES? • Separate scheme for the water stressed districts: As It provides insurance coverage and financial support to the per the revised guidelines, the Government has stated that farmers in the event of failure of any of the notified crop as a it would work out a new insurance scheme for the benefit result of natural calamities, pests & diseases. of farmers in 151 water stressed districts of India. PREMIUM • Alternative Risk Mitigation Programme: The revised The Premium to be paid by Farmers: Kharif Crops : 2%, Rabi guidelines state that the Government would prepare state Crops : 1.5%, Commercial and Horticultural Crops: 5%. The specific, alternative risk mitigation programme in the areas balance premium will be paid by the Government to provide which have higher insurance premium rates. full insured amount to the farmers against crop loss on • Timely payment of Insurance premium by States: account of natural calamities. The subsidy is divided equally Presently, there is considerable delay in the payment of between the State and Central government. Please note that insurance claims by the insurance companies to the presently there is no limit on the premium to be paid by Centre farmers. This is primarily on account of delay in the and states. payment of premium by the state government to Insurance companies. 25 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Hence, in order to address this problem, the revised cereals/Coarse Grains, whenever market prices fall below guidelines seek to ensure timely payment of premium by notified MSP. the concerned state governments. As per the new • The new Umbrella Scheme includes the mechanism of changes, States would not to be allowed to implement the ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers and is Scheme in subsequent Seasons in case of considerable comprised of delay in payment of premium in previous season. ο Price Support Scheme (PSS), MONITORING BODY ο Price Deficiency Payment Scheme (PDPS) The existing State Level Co-ordination Committee on Crop ο Pilot of Private Procurement & Stockist Scheme (PPPS). Insurance (SLCCCI), Sub-Committee to SLCCCI, District Level • Monitoring Committee (DLMC) shall be responsible for In Price Support Scheme (PSS), physical procurement of proper management of the Scheme. pulses, oilseeds and Copra will be done by Central Nodal Agencies with proactive role of State governments. NATIONAL CROP INSURANCE PORTAL • In PDPS, the farmers would be compensated for the loss in • In an endeavour to integrate Technology in the form of DBT if they sell the crops at a rate which is implementation and execution of the PMFBY, the Govt. of below the MSP. India has designed and developed a National Crop • Insurance Portal (NCIP) Under PPPS, the states have an option to rope in private sector for the physical procurement of notified oilseeds. • This will bring in better administration and coordination • amongst stakeholders viz. Farmers, States, Insurers and It is also decided that in addition to NAFED, Food Banks as well as real time dissemination of information Cooperation of India (FCI) will take up PSS operations in states /districts. The procurement expenditure and losses and transparency. due to procurement will be borne by Central Government • Since the National Crop Insurance Portal has been as per norms. conceptualised for auto administration and seamless flow of data/information/reports on real time basis, State Govt. FCI would not be allowed to create/use separate The Food Corporation of India was set up under the Food Portal/website for Crop Insurance purposes. Corporation's Act 1964 with multiple objectives involving effective price support operations, distribution of food grains RELATED SCHEMES etc. Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) NAFED • The structure of farmer’s premium under WBCIS will be at • National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of par with the PMFBY. India (NAFED) was established in 1958. • The Criteria of selection of Implementing Agency and area • allocation will be same as PMFBY. Its objective is to promote co-operative marketing of agricultural produce to benefit the farmers. Unified Package Insurance Scheme (UPIS)

• Unified Package Insurance Scheme will be to provide ►GREEN REVOLUTION - KRISHONNATI financial protection & comprehensive risk coverage of crops, assets, life, and student safety to farmers. YOJANA • Implemented in selected 45 districts on pilot basis. It THEME AND KEY FEATURES includes 11 sections such as Crop Insurance (PMFBY), Loss • It is an umbrella scheme comprises of 11 of life (PMJJBY), Accidental death and disability (PMSBY) etc. Schemes/Missions which looks to develop the agriculture • Among the 11 components, Crop Insurance will be and allied sector in a holistic manner to increase the compulsory. However, farmers can choose atleast two income of farmers. components from remaining. I. Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) which aims to promote holistic growth of ►PRADHAN MANTRI ANNADATA AAY horticulture sector. SANRAKSHAN ABHIYAN II. National Food Security Mission (NFSM), including National Mission on Oil Seeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP) THEME AND KEY FEATURES which aims to increase production of rice, wheat, • The objective of the scheme is to ensure that the farmers pulses, coarse cereals and commercial crops. get MSP for pulses, oil seeds, copra and also nutri- 26 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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III. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture • The card will be issued once in every 3 years to a farm so (NMSA) which aims at promoting sustainable that nutrients deficiency can be regularly detected and agriculture practices. improved. IV. Submission on Agriculture Extension (SMAE) which • SHC is a printed report that a farmer will be handed over aims to strengthen the ongoing extension mechanism for each of his holdings. It will contain the status of his soil of State Governments, local bodies etc., achieving food with respect to 12 parameters, namely N,P,K (Macro- and nutritional security and socio-economic nutrients) ; S (Secondary- nutrient) ; Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn, Bo empowerment of farmers. (Micro - nutrients) ; and pH, EC, OC (Physical parameters). V. Sub-Mission on Seeds and Planting Material (SMSP) which aims to increase production of certified / quality ►MISSION ORGANIC VALUE CHAIN seed, to increase SRR, to upgrade the quality of farm DEVELOPMENT FOR NORTH EAST REGION saved seeds. THEME AND KEY FEATURES VI. Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM) • MOVCDNER (2015-16 to 2017-18) is a Central Sector which aims to increase the reach of farm Scheme that seeks to capitalize on the organic farming mechanization to small and marginal farmers and to potential of all 8 North-Eastern States. the regions where availability of farm power is low. • The scheme aims at development of certified organic VII. Sub Mission on Plant Protection and Plan Quarantine production in a value chain mode to link growers with (SMPPQ) which aims to minimize loss to quality and consumers. yield of agricultural crops.

VIII. Integrated Scheme on Agriculture Census, Economics and Statistics (ISACES) which aims to ►PARAMPARAGAT KRISHI VIKAS YOJNA undertake the agriculture census. THEME AND KEY FEATURES IX. Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Cooperation (ISAC) • It is to promote organic farming and the products will be which aims to provide financial assistance for linked with the market. improving the economic conditions of cooperatives. • It will be implemented in a cluster-based approach and X. Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) farmers will be funded to meet the expenditure from farm which aims to develop agricultural marketing to market. infrastructure. • There is no liability for farmers for expenditure on XI. National e-Governance Plan (NeGP-A) which aims to certification. bring farmer centricity & service orientation to the programmes. ►PRADHAN MANTRI KRISHI SINCHAYEE • All these schemes/missions were appraised and approved YOJNA independently as separate scheme/mission. In 2017-18, it has been decided to club all these schemes / missions FINANCING under one umbrella scheme 'Green Revolution - NABARD will extend the loan to State Governments to Krishonnati Yojana'. mobilise resources to achieve their annual target. THEME AND KEY FEATURES ►SOIL HEALTH CARD SCHEME • Main objectives are - FINANCING ο Extending the coverage of irrigation The fund sharing pattern would be 90:10 for North Eastern ο Improving water use efficiency and Himalayan States and 60:40 for other states and 100% ο End to end solution on source creation, distribution, borne by central government in UTs. management, field application and extension activities. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It is formulated by amalgamating ongoing schemes

• SHC is meant to give each farmer soil nutrient status of his ο Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) - land and advise him on the dosage of fertilizers and also Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & the needed soil amendments, that he should apply to Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR,RD&GR). maintain soil health in the long run.

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ο Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) • It includes scientist functioning at the various centers and - Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of institutes of the Indian Council of Agriculture Research Rural Developement. (ICAR) and working with state agricultural universities.

ο On Farm Water Management (OFWM) - Department of MONITORING BODY Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC). Implementation - They may function with the help of KVKs and Agriculture Decentralised manner through State Irrigation Plan and Technology Management Agency (ATMA).

District Irrigation Plan. • Micro Irrigation Fund - The fund was set up under the ►PT. DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAY UNNAT scheme with NABARD which would supplement the efforts KRISHI SHIKSHA SCHEME of Per Drop More Crop Component (PDMC) of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It was launched to promote agricultural education. ►NATIONAL INITIATIVE ON CLIMATE • Under the scheme 100 centres are opened with an RESILIENT AGRICULTURE objective of providing complete knowledge and skill on processing, value addition and marketing of coconut and THEME AND KEY FEATURES banana products through capacity building programmes • NICRA is a mega project that has three major objectives of involving research and development organizations. Strategic research, Technology demonstrations and • Attracting and retaining youth in Agriculture (ARYA) is Capacity building. another project sanctioned by the Indian Council of • It was launched by Indian Council of Agriculture Research Agriculture (ICAR) and is being implemented at Krishi (ICAR) and aims to make farmers self-reliant by use of Vigyan Kendra (KVKs).

climate resilient agricultural technologies. • It has four components ►e-RaKAM ο Strategic research on adaptation and mitigation, THEME AND KEY FEATURES ο Technology demonstration to cope with current climate • e-Rashtriya Kisan Agri Mandi (E-RaKAM) is a digital variability in 100 vulnerable districts, platform portal enables farmers to sell their agricultural ο Capacity Building products through auction across the country. ο Sponsored competitive research to fill critical gaps. • The farmers would get the payment for their products directly into their bank accounts without any ►KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRAS intermediaries. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • CWRC, a subsidiary of the Central Warehousing Corporation Ltd, will provide logistics support for sellers • KVKs are agricultural extension centers created by ICAR to and buyers in case they need it. provide various types of farm support.

• It is created to serve as a single window mechanism for addressing the technology needs of farmers and acts as a ►NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON USE OF link among researchers, extension functionaries like NGOs SPACE TECHNOLOGY and farmers. THEME AND KEY FEATURES MONITORING BODY • NPSTA is a proposed programme which envisages KVK operates under the administrative control of State integrated use of Space and Geospatial Tools for Mapping, Agricultural University (SAU) or central institute. Monitoring and Management of Agriculture. • The current running programmes will be subsumed under ►MERA GAON MERA GAURAV this. They are THEME AND KEY FEATURES ο Project FASAL (for crop forecasting), • The scheme envisages scientists to select villages and ο Project NADAMS (for drought assessment), provide information to the farmers on technical and other ο Project CHAMAN (for horticultural assessment and related aspects. development),

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ο Project KISAN (for crop insurance) and Crop • Features -

Intensification planning. ο Promotes location specific integrated/Composite • The programme will have four sub-programmes such as Farming Systems;

Crop Assessment & Monitoring, Agricultural Resources ο Conserve natural resources through appropriate soil Management, Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation, Satellite and moisture conservation measures; Communication and Navigation Applications ο Adopt comprehensive soil health management

practices; ►PROJECT CHAMAN ο Optimize utilization of water resources through efficient THEME AND KEY FEATURES water management to expand coverage for achieving • It is a pioneer project to provide strategic development to more crop per drop; the horticulture sector, so as to increase farmers‘ income. ο Develop capacity of farmers & stakeholders. • This project is being implemented by National Crop There are three major components of the scheme: Forecast Centre (MNCFC) using remote sensing technology ο Rainfed Area Development (RAD) and is likely to be completed in March 2018 in all the ο Soil Health Management (SHM) states. ο Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture: • The Geo-Spatial Studies like crop intensification, orchard Monitoring, Modeling and Networking (CCSAMMN). rejuvenation and aqua-horticulture are deployed for preparing reliable estimates of crop production. • Various dimensions of the mission have been embedded

in to schemes of Ministry of Agriculture through a process of restructuring of various schemes/missions implemented ►MISSION FINGERLING and convergence with other related programmes of THEME AND KEY FEATURES Central/State Governments. • A juvenile fish that are typically about the size of fingers with developed scales and working fins is called a ►INTEREST SUBVENTION SCHEME FOR fingerling. FARMERS • Fish Fingerling production is the single most important NODAL AGENCY critical input to achieve fish production targets under the Blue Revolution. Department of Agriculture & Cooperation • Under this mission, potential states will be identified to THEME AND KEY FEATURES strengthen the fish seed infrastructure and facilitate the • The interest subvention scheme for farmers aims at establishment of hatcheries and Fingerling rearing pond. providing short term credit to farmers at subsidised • The mission aims to meet the targets under the Blue interest rate. revolution by 2020-21. • The interest subvention will be given to Public Sector Banks (PSBs), Private Sector Banks, Cooperative Banks and ►HAR MEDH PAR PED Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) on use of own funds and to NABARD for refinance to RRBs and Cooperative Banks. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Interest Subvention would be available only on credit Under ―Har Medh Par Ped‖, agro forestry is being promoted requirement for cultivation of crops and post-harvest loan for supplementing farm income, increase risk management components under limit of KCC. Limit towards household / and climate resilient agriculture as an important component consumption requirement / maintenance expenses of of Integrated Farming Systems. farm assets, term loan etc. will be outside the purview of

the Interest Subvention Scheme. ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR SUSTAINABLE • Currently, besides 2% interest subvention, the farmers, on AGRICULTURE prompt repayment of crop loans on or before the due THEME AND KEY FEATURES date, are also provided 3% additional interest subvention. Thus, in case of prompt payee farmers the • NMSA seeks to transform Indian agriculture into a climate short-term crop loans are provided at an effective interest resilient production system through suitable adaptation rate of 4% per annum up Rs. 3 lakh payable within one and mitigation measures in domains of both crops and year. animal husbandry. 29 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• The benefit of interest subvention is extended for a period envisages vaccination of all eligible cattle and buffalo of up to six months (post-harvest) to small and marginal population at six-monthly intervals. farmers having KCC on loan against negotiable warehouse ο Peste des petit ruminants (PPR) or goat plague in receipts with the purpose of preventing distress sale of sheep: The programme involves vaccination of all produce. susceptible goats and sheep and their three subsequent IMPLEMENTING BODY generations with an objective to declare the country The Interest Subvention Scheme is being implemented by free from PPR by 2025. NABARD and RBI. • To reduce economic losses as well as increase farmers’ income by way of earning income through export of animals and animal products, DADF has proposed creation MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, of Disease-Free Zones (- Telangana and Maharashtra) to OIE (World Organization for Animal ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND Health) for its approval. DAIRYING ►BLUE REVOLUTION ►RASHTRIYA GOKUL MISSION THEME AND KEY FEATURES OBJECTIVE • The restructured Central Sector Scheme on Blue • Rashtriya Gokul Mission was launched under the National Revolution: Integrated Development and Management of Programme for Bovine Breeding and Dairy Fisheries provides for a focused development and Development (NPBBDD) for conservation and management of the fisheries sector to increase both fish development of indigenous breeds in a focused and production and fish productivity from aquaculture and scientific manner. fisheries resources of the inland and marine fisheries sector including deep sea fishing. • Under this mission, government plans to establish integrated cattle development centres “Gokul Grams” to • The scheme has the following components: develop indigenous breeds including up to 40% i. National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) and its nondescript breeds. activities. KEY FEATURES ii. Development of Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture. • To undertake breed improvement programme for iii. Development of Marine Fisheries, Infrastructure and indigenous cattle breeds so as to improve the genetic Post-Harvest Operations. makeup and increase the stock. iv. Strengthening of Database & Geographical Information • To enhance milk production and productivity of System of the Fisheries Sector. indigenous bovines. v. Institutional Arrangement for Fisheries Sector. • To upgrade nondescript cattle using elite indigenous vi. Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) and other breeds like Gir, Sahiwal, Rathi, Deoni, Tharparkar, Red need-based Interventions. Sindhi. vii. National Scheme on Welfare of Fishermen. • To distribute disease free high genetic merit bulls of indigenous breeds for natural service. • The Department has prepared a detailed National

Fisheries Action Plan-2020(NFAP) for the next 5 years with an aim of enhancing fish production and productivity and ►LIVESTOCK HEALTH & DISEASE to achieve the concept of Blue Revolution.

CONTROL (LH&DC) THEME AND KEY FEATURES ►NATIONAL LIVESTOCK MISSION (NLM) • Under LH&DC, for the control and containment of animal THEME AND KEY FEATURES diseases, two major control programme are being • NLM commenced from 2014-15. The Mission is designed implemented: to cover all the activities required to ensure quantitative ο Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) in bovine animals: and qualitative improvement in livestock production aimed at eradication of the disease by 2030, has been systems and capacity building of all stakeholders. extended to the entire country from March 2017. It 30 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• This Mission is formulated with the objective of sustainable technical inputs supported by appropriate policy and development of livestock sector, focusing on improving regulatory measures availability of quality feed and fodder. NLM is implemented in all States including Sikkim. ►PASHUDHAN SANJIVANI • NLM has 4 submissions as follows: OBJECTIVE ο Sub-Mission on Fodder and Feed Development It is an animal wellness programme; encompassing ο Sub-Mission on Livestock Development setting up of Emergency Help Lines, provision of ο Sub-Mission on Pig Development in North-Eastern Animal Health cards (‘Nakul Swasthya Patra’) along Region with UID identification and a National Data Base. ο Sub-Mission on Skill Development, Technology Transfer THEME AND KEY FEATURES and Extension • An animal wellness programme encompassing provision of

Animal Health Cards - "Nakul Swasthya Patra". ►DAIRY ENTREPRENEURSHIP • It also issues UID identification of animals in milk and DEVELOPMENT SCHEME establishes a National Database for controlling the spread SALIENT FEATURES: of animal disease and keep tracking of trade in livestock and its products. • Objective of providing self-employment opportunities and promoting entrepreneurship in dairy sector,especially in E-PASHUDHAN HAAT PORTAL rural areas. • It is launched under the National Mission on Bovine • Under the programme, back ended capital subsidy is Productivity for connecting breeders and farmers of provided to eligible end borrowers under bankable indigenous breeds. projects as per norms of the scheme. • This portal helps farmers to be aware about breed wise • Subsidy to the tune of 25% of the project cost is provided information on indigenous breeds. Farmers/breeders can to general category beneficiaries & 33.33% to SC/ST sale animals of indigenous breeds through this portal. category beneficiaries. • Implemented by NABARD ►QUALITY MARK AWARD SCHEME NODAL AGENCY ►NATIONAL DAIRY PLAN PHASE-I Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying FINANCING THEME AND KEY FEATURES National Dairy Plan Phase I (NDP I) is a Central Sector • The National Dairy Development Board with the support of Scheme. Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries THEME AND KEY FEATURES has initiated ―Quality Mark award scheme for dairy cooperatives. • Funding will be through a line of credit from the International Development Association (IDA), which along • It is to promote and encourage enhancement of safety, with the share of the Government of India will flow from quality and hygiene of milk and milk products DADF to NDDB and in turn to eligible EIAs. manufactured by dairy cooperatives.

• NDP-I is a scientifically planned multi-state initiative with • It is aimed at bringing about process improvement in the the following Project Development Objectives: entire value chain from producer to the consumer to ensure availability of safe and quality of milk and products • To help increase productivity of milch animals and thereby both for the domestic and foreign market. increase milk production to meet the rapidly growing demand for milk • To help provide rural milk producers with greater access to ►DIGITAL INITIATIVES UNDER MINISTRY the organised milk-processing sector OF AGRICULTURE • These objectives would be pursued through adoption of 1. mKisan: Department of Agriculture has developed a portal focused scientific and systematic processes in provision of – mKisan, where around 2.5 crore farmers are registers as experts of different departments like IMD, ICAR, State 31 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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Government, State Agriculture Universities to send • Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development information to farmers in local languages. Fund:

2. KisanSuvidha: It is an omnibus mobile app to help ο The approval entails an estimated fund size which is to farmers by providing relevant decent internet connectivity. be raised by the Nodal Loaning Entities (NLEs). National It has a simple interface and provides information on five Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), critical parameters – weather, input dealers, market price, National Cooperatives Development Corporation plant protection and expert advisories. (NCDC) and all scheduled Banks (shall be the nodal Loaning Entities. 3. PUSA Krishi: It has been developed to realize the dream of ‘LAB’ to ‘LAND’. This app will help farmers to get • Agri-Marktet Infrastructure Fund: information about technologies developed by IARI, which ο An Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of will eventually help in increasing returns to farmers. `2000 crore is proposed in the budget 2018-19 for 4. Agrimarket: Agri-Market mobile App can be used to get developing and upgrading agricultural marketing the market price of crops in market within 50 km of the infrastructure in the 22000 Grameen Agricultural device’s location. Markets (GrAMs) and 585 APMCs. OTHER INITIATIVES UNDER MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE ►NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CONTROL • Zero Hunger Programme PROGRAMME (NADCP) ο On the occasion of world food day, three districts in • This programme seeks to control and eradicate the Foot & India have initiated India's 'Zero Hunger' programme Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis amongst the through interventions in farm sector. livestock in the country. ο It will be initiated by the Indian Council of Agricultural • The programme aims to vaccinate over 500 million Research (ICAR) in association with the Indian Council of livestock against FMD, and some 36 million female bovine Medical Research (ICMR), the M S Swaminathan calves annually against brucellosis. Research Foundation and the Biotechnology Industry • The NADCP aims to control these two diseases by 2025, Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). and to eradicate them by 2030. • Yuva Sahakar scheme:

ο To cater to the needs and aspirations of the youth, the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) MINISTRY OF FOOD has come up with a youth-friendly scheme ‘Yuva Sahakar-Cooperative Enterprise Support and Innovation PROCESSING Scheme” for attracting them to cooperative business ventures. ►PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA

• Sahakar-22: YOJNA

ο National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) FINANCING has started the Mission Sahakar-22 under which new • The pattern of assistance will comprise of grants-in-aid at employment opportunities are to be generated through the rate of 50% of the eligible project cost in all areas cooperatives, strengthen the farmers economic subject to maximum Rs. 50 crores per project. condition by augmenting their income and fast track the • However, in case where PIA is/are FPO(s), the grant-in-aid pace of development in the State. will be at the rate of 70% of the eligible project cost in all • Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Fund: areas subject to maximum Rs. 50 crores per project. ο The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a • Eligible Organization would include State Agriculture and Dairy Processing & Infrastructure Development Fund other Marketing Federations, Farmer Producer (DIDF) with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Organizations (FPO) etc Development (NABARD). THEME AND KEY FEATURES ο The project will focus on building an efficient milk • It is a Central Sector Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing procurement system by setting up of chilling and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters and will infrastructure & installation of electronic milk result in creation of modern infrastructure with efficient adulteration testing equipment. supply chain management from farm gate to retail outlet. 32 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• The following schemes will be implemented under PM • Hub and spoke model are adopted, as per which there Kisan SAMPADA Yojana : will be a strong Central Processing Unit, which will cater needs of surrounding areas. o Mega Food Parks o Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure o Creation/ Expansion of Food Processing/ Preservation Capacities (Unit Scheme)

o Infrastructure for Agro-processing Clusters o Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages o Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure o Human Resources and Institutions o Operation Greens

►MEGA FOOD PARKS

• Objectives: o To provide modern infrastructure for food processing ►OPERATION GREENS units in the country. FINANCING o To ensure value addition of agricultural produce • The pattern of assistance will comprise of grants-in-aid at including dairy, fisheries etc. the rate of 50% of the eligible project cost in all areas To establish a sustainable raw material supply chain for o subject to maximum Rs. 50 crores per project. each cluster. • However, in case where PIA is/are FPO(s), the grant-in-aid To facilitate induction of the latest technology. o will be at the rate of 70% of the eligible project cost in all o To address the need of small and micro food processing areas subject to maximum Rs. 50 crores per project. enterprises by providing plug and play facilities. • Eligible Organization would include State Agriculture and o To provide an institutional mechanism or producers, other Marketing Federations, Farmer Producer processors, and retailers to work together to build the Organizations (FPO) etc. supply chain. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Financing: • Operation Greens was announced on the line of o Grants in aid @ 50% of eligible project cost in general “”, to promote Farmer Producers areas and @ 75%of eligible project in NE region and Organizations (FPO), agri-logistics, processing facilities and difficult areas subject to maximum of Rs. 50 crore per professional management. project. • Accordingly, the Ministry has formulated a scheme for • Implementing Agency: integrated development of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) value chain. o The execution, ownership and management of the Mega Food Park are vested with a Special Purpose • Objectives of the Scheme include: Vehicle (SPV). SPV shall be a body corporate (company) i. Enhancing value realisation of TOP farmers by registered under companies act. targeted interventions to strengthen TOP production o Special Purpose Vehicle is term commonly used in clusters and their FPOs, and linking/connecting them corporate world. It mobilizes funds, expertise and with the market. experience of more than one organization toward a ii. Price stabilisation for producers and consumers by common goal. For example a company will be formed proper production planning in the TOP clusters and by pooling funds of interested parties and this company introduction of dual use varieties. will be called SPV. iii. Reduction in post-harvest losses by creation of farm • 42 Mega Food Parks are being funded under the scheme gate infrastructure, development of suitable agro- in different states across India. 33 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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logistics, creation of appropriate storage capacity linking ►GRAM SAMRIDDHI YOJANA consumption centres. • It is a World Bank Assisted program with focus on micro iv. Increase in food processing capacities and value enterprises with capitalisation of less than 10 lakh rupees. addition in TOP value chain with firm linkages with It aims to create 60 to 70 thousand micro enterprises with production clusters. a short time. v. Setting up of a market intelligence network to collect • Pilot project of the program will be launched in four states and collate real time data on demand and supply and and will be expanded subsequently. price of TOP crops.

• The scheme will have two-pronged strategy of Price Stabilization measures (for short term) and Integrated MINISTRY OF CONSUMER value chain development projects (for long term).

ο Short term Price Stabilisation Measures : NAFED will be AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC the Nodal Agency DISTRIBUTION ο Long Term Integrated value chain development projects: Capacity Building of FPOs & their consortium ►TARGETED PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION etc. SCHEME • The applicant fulfilling the eligibility criteria under the WHAT? scheme is required to submit the online application on SAMPADA portal of the ministry. • NFSA, 2013 (also Right to Food Act) is an Act of the Parliament of India which aims to provide subsidized food

grains to approximately two thirds of India's 1.2 billion ►MARKET INTELLIGENCE AND EARLY people. WARNING SYSTEM (MIEWS) PORTAL • It converts into legal entitlements for existing food security It is a first of kind platform for real time monitoring of prices programmes of the GoI. of tomato, onion and potato (TOP) and for simultaneously • It includes the Midday Meal Scheme, Integrated Child generating alerts for intervention under the terms of Development Services scheme and the Public Distribution Operations Green scheme. System. SALIENT FEATURES KEY FEATURES 1. Low price and high price alerts as well as price forecasts • Under the provisions of the bill, beneficiaries of the Public for 3 months forward will be generated. Distribution System (PDS) are entitled to 5 kilograms per person per month of cereals. 2. Prices and arrivals of TOP crops across the country • Pregnant women, lactating mothers, and certain including interactive charts and comparisons with previous categories of children are eligible for daily free cereals. seasons.

3. Area, yield and production of TOP crops ►ANTYODAYA ANNA YOJANA (AAY) 4. Crop Agronomy and Trade profile of each of TOP crops OBJECTIVE & KEY FEATURES • As per terms of Operations Green Scheme, during a glut situation, evacuation of surplus production from • AAY aims to provide highly subsidised food to millions of producing areas to consumption centres will be the poorest families. undertaken when: • The government provides up to 35 kilograms of rice and wheat at a highly subsidised cost of three rupees per 1. When prices fall below preceding 3 years average market kilogram of rice and two rupees per kilogram of wheat. price at the time of harvest

2. When prices fall more than 50% compared to last year's market price at the time of harvest ►PILOT SCHEME ON FORTIFICATION 3. When prices fall less than benchmark, if any, fixed by the OF RICE State/Central Government for a specified period. It is a centrally sponsored pilot scheme for 'fortification of rice

and its distribution under Public Distribution System'. It has been approved for three years.

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AIM OBJECTIVE Start pilot projects in States and UT with rice consumption (in 1. Introduce nationwide portability of ration card holders Districts with prevalence of micronutrient deficiency). Based under NFSA, 2013 enabling them to lift their entitlement on the learning of pilot scheme, the distribution of fortified foodgrains from any Fair Price Shop of their choice in the rice will be scaled up. country without need of obtaining a new ration card. OBJECTIVES 2. National level de-duplication of all ration • Distribution of fortified rice through Public Distribution cards/beneficiaries data System, to cater to 15 Districts in the country – preferably 3. Integration of States/UT PDS systems/applications with one District per State in the initial phase of Central PDS systems/applications. implementation 4. Use of data analytics techniques to bring improvements in • Coverage of all NFSA beneficiaries under the PDS with PDS operations. fortified rice in the selected Districts. • Intergrated Management of Public Distribution System • Evaluate the provision, coverage, and utilization of fortified • Under the scheme, National Portability Platform - Public rice by the target population as well as the Distribution System Network will be developed to provide efficacy/effectiveness of the consumption of fortified rice inter-state portability to the ration card holder under in reducing the targeted micronutrient deficiencies in NFSA. Keeping in view the physical progress under the different age and gender groups. End-to-End Computerization scheme and readiness for FORTIFICATION implementation of Inter-State/National Portability, the • It involves addition of minute quantities of missing same shall be started on pilot basis in few States/UTs each vitamins and minerals in our diet to commonly consumed shortly. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were first States to staples such as rice, wheat flour, salt and milk. introduce inter-State portability.

• Core elements for production of fortified rice are the Fortified Rice Kernels and its blending with regular rice in a ►PRICE STABILISATION FUND ratio of 1:100. • The fund is administered by Department of Consumer FORTIFIED RICE KERNEL Affairs, under the ministry of consumer affairs, food and • FRK is a reconstituted rice grain made from rice flour, public distribution. vitamins, and minerals. Rice flour, vitamins and minerals • To promote direct purchase from farmers/farmers' that form raw material for producing FRK along with association at farm gate/Mandi. specified additives are blended/ mixed together in • Maintain a strategic buffer stock that would discourage appropriate proportions and the mixture is hydrated hoarding and unscrupulous speculation (using water treated by Reverse Osmosis process) for • Protect consumers by supplying such commodities at getting prescribed moisture content. This uniformly reasonable prices through calibrated release of stock. hydrated mixture of raw material with agreed moisture • Creation of corpus fund and its management by Price content is passed through a twin-screw extruder where it Stabilisation Fund Management Committee. takes the shape of tiny pellets resembling regular rice • grains. The corpus of the fund is Rs 500 crore which is used for providing interest free advance towards working capital to • Composition of vitamin premix has to meet the eligible proposals from State Governments/Central recommended specifications as per Food Safety Standards agencies/CPSUs/Cooperative organisations. (Fortification of Food) Regulations, 20181 . It can be of • mandatory vitamins and minerals, namely, Iron, Folic Acid, The fund will be used for Onion, Potato, and Pulses. and Vitamin B12, or the optional ones which comprise Zinc Oxide, Vitamin A, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin - Nicotinamide, and Vitamin B6 . The level of premix is MINISTRY OF COMMERCE determined in order to fulfil more than 30-50% of Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or as AND INDUSTRY recommended by FSSAI. ►MAKE IN INDIA 2.0 ►ONE NATION ONE RATION CARD FINANCING Department of Food and Public Distribution, under Ministry • DPIIT would spearhead the Champion Sector Initiative for of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has manufacturing launched 'Integrated Management of Public Distribution • Department of Commerce would spearhead the Champion System (IM-PDS)' for implementation in all States/UT. Sectors Initiative for Services 35 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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THEME AND KEY FEATURES • In case of projects located in North Eastern States and • 12 Champion Sector Scheme for Service Sector: Himalayan States including J&K, this grant can be upto 80% of the total equity. • The sectors included are: 1. IT & ITES THEME AND KEY FEATURES • 2. Tourism and Hospitality Services The TIES scheme is being implemented for a period of 3 years w.e.f. F.Y. 2017-18. 3. Medical Value Travel • The objective of this scheme is to enhance export 4. Transport and Logistics Services competitiveness by bridging gaps in export infrastructure, 5. Accounting and Finance Services creating focused export infrastructure, first mile and last 6. Audio Visual Services mile connectivity for export-oriented projects and 7. Legal Services addressing quality and certification measures. 8. Communication Services • The main focus is to create appropriate infrastructure for 9. Construction and Related Engineering Services development and growth of exports through engagement 10. Environmental Services of Central/State Agencies by extending assistance to them. 11. Financial Services • The Central and State Agencies, including Export Promotion Councils, Commodities Boards, SEZ Authorities 12. Education Services and Apex Trade Bodies recognised under the EXIM policy • A dedicated fund of Rs 500 crores has been proposed to of Government of India; are eligible for financial support be established to support the Action Plans of the under this scheme. champion sectors.

• Sectoral Action plans and implementation of Champion Services Sectors for these identified sectors. ►MARKET ACCESS INITIATIVE SCHEME • 15 Champion Sectors identified under manufacturing (MAIS) category are: THEME AND KEY FEATURES 1. Aerospace and Defence • MAI Scheme is a Plan scheme formulated to act as a 2. Automotive and Auto components catalyst to promote India’s exports on a sustained basis. 3. Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices • Under the scheme, assistance is provided to Export 4. Bio-technology Promotion Councils, Commodity Boards and Apex Trade 5. Capital Goods Bodies. 6. Textile and Apparels • Assistance under MAI Scheme is granted through designated Trade Organization for various activities 7. Chemicals and Petro Chemicals covered under the Scheme. The approval process of 8. Electronics System Design and Manufacturing proposals involve scrutiny through Committee empowered 9. Leather and Footwear under the Scheme. 10. Food Processing 11. Gems and Jewellery ►INTEGRATE TO INNOVATE SCHEME 12. Shipping THEME AND KEY FEATURES 13. Railways • Invest India has joined hands with energy sector 14. Construction companies to offer a unique lab-to-market opportunity for 15. New and Renewable Energy Indian startups through the Integrate to Innovate Programme. ►TRADE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EXPORT • Integrate to Innovate is a 3-month corporate acceleration SCHEME (TIES) programme for energy startups housed at the corporate premises. FINANCING • The application for the programme is hosted on Startup • The Central Government funding will be in the form of India Hub – an online platform bringing together all grant-in-aid, normally not more than the equity being put stakeholders of the Indian startup ecosystem. in by the implementing agency or 50% of the total equity in the project. 36 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• The selected startups will receive a cash prize grant of upto ο Industry, including MSMEs and Startups. ₹ 5 Lakh per startup along with an opportunity to pilot • Conduct IP training and sensitization programmes for their product with corporates. enforcement agencies. • Entries are invited from innovators across various stages of the energy life-cycle—generation, transmission and ►STARTUP INDIA distribution, storage and consumption—in multiple sectors THEME AND KEY FEATURES such as households, farm, industry, infrastructure, building, utility and transport. • Definition of Startup (only for the purpose of Government schemes) Startup means an entity, incorporated or

registered in India not prior to five years, with annual ►e-Biz turnover not exceeding INR 25 crore in any preceding THEME AND KEY FEATURES financial year, working towards innovation, development, deployment or commercialization of new products, • The eBiz initiative, being piloted by the DIPIIT seeks to provide comprehensive Government-to-Business (G2B) processes or services driven by technology or intellectual services to business entities with transparency, speed, and property. certainty. • The 19-Point Startup India Action Plan envisages several incubation centres, easier patent filing, tax exemptions, • It aims at reducing the points of contact between business entities and Government agencies, standardizing ease of setting-up of business, a INR 10,000 Crore corpus fund, and a faster exit mechanism, among others. "requirement information", establishing single-window services, and reducing the burden of compliance, thereby • The Action Plan is divided across three areas namely: benefitting stakeholders such as entrepreneurs, industries Simplification and Handholding; Funding Support and and businesses, industry associations, regulatory agencies, Incentives; Industry-Academia Partnership and Incubation. industrial promotional agencies, banks and financial institutions, and taxation authorities. ►REVENUE INSURANCE SCHEME FOR

PLANTATION CROPS ►IPR THEME AND KEY FEATURES IMPLEMENTING AGENCY • It is an improved and modified form of Price Stabilization The Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM), Fund (PSF) scheme implemented by the Department of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce from 2003 to 2013 for the growers of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. plantation crops viz., Tea, Coffee, Rubber, cardamom and FINANCING Tobacco in all States. • Funds to implement this scheme will be made available • Protects growers of these crops from the twin risks of from the head ‘Intellectual Property’ under the head weather and price arising from yield loss due to adverse ‘Awareness Campaign’ which has already been approved in weather parameters, pest attacks etc. and from income CIPAM’s. loss caused by fall in international/domestic prices through THEME AND KEY FEATURES crop insurance mechanism. • • The scheme targets to conduct IP awareness The scheme was implemented with interest earnings on workshops/seminars in collaboration with industry the Corpus Fund organizations, academic institutions and other stakeholders across the country. ►NIRYAT BANDHU SCHEME • It is also proposed to undertake training programmes to NODAL AGENCY create a resource pool of trainers who would conduct the Directorate General of Foreign Trade IP Awareness workshops/seminars for the public, OBJECTIVE enforcement agencies and judiciary. Is to reach out to the new and potential exporters and • These awareness programmes will be tailored for 4 mentor (hand holding) them through orientation programs, categories: counseling sessions and individual facilitation so that they ο Primary School (up to Grade 8), may get into international trade and boost exports from India ο Secondary School (Grade 9 to Grade 12), through timely and appropriate guidance of DGFT officers. ο University/ College, and 37 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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►FOREIGN TRADE POLICY (FTP) given under the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) is provided to ensure a level playing field to domestic manufacturers. The THEME AND KEY FEATURES benefits under the Scheme are duty exemption, refund of • Five-year FTP (2015-20) provides a framework for terminal excise duty, refund of duties suffered by the increasing exports of goods and services. inputs utilized in manufacture and supply of the goods to • The FTP introduces two new schemes, namely the specified categories of deemed exports. “Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS)” for • Schemes for Gems & Jewellery Sector: Gems & Jewellery export of specified goods to specified markets and “Service exports constitute a major portion of our total Exports from India Scheme (SEIS)” for increasing exports of merchandise exports. The Schemes for Gems and notified services. Jewellery Sector are as follows: • Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS): ο Advance Procurement/replenishment of Precious Introduced in 2015 to benefit the exporters. The scheme Metals from Nominated Agencies incentivizes exporters in terms of Duty Credit Scrips at the ο Replenishment Authorization for Gems rate 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 per cent of value of exports. These scrips ο Replenishment Authorization for Consumables are transferable and can also be used to pay certain ο Advance Authorization for Precious Metals Central Duties/ taxes including customs duties. The scheme covers exports of more than 8000 tariff lines. ►EXPORT PROMOTION OF CAPITAL • Services Exports from India Scheme (SEIS): The scheme GOODS (EPCG) SCHEME incentivizes exporters in terms of Duty Credit Scrips just like in the case of MEIS. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • AIM is to facilitate import of capital goods for producing ►DUTY REMISSION SCHEMES quality goods and services to enhance India’s export competitiveness. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It allows import of capital goods at Zero customs duty Duty neutralization / remission schemes are based on the subject to an export obligation equivalent to 6 times of principle and the commitment of the Government that duties, taxes and cess saved on capital goods, to be “Goods and Services are to be exported and not the Taxes fulfilled in 6 years reckoned from date of issue of and Levies”. Authorisation. SCHEMES • Advance Authorization Scheme: It allows duty free ►INTEREST EQUALIZATION SCHEME import of in- puts, along with fuel, oil, and catalyst etc., THEME AND KEY FEATURES required for manufacturing the export product. • CCEA approved the Interest Equalization Scheme of which • Duty Free Import Authorization (DFIA): Under this, Operational guidelines of the scheme were issued by RBI. Duty Free Import Authorization shall be issued on post Main features of the scheme are as follows: export basis for products for which Standard Input Output • Norms (SION) have been notified, once export is The rate of interest equalization will be available on Pre- completed. Shipment Rupee Export Credit and Post Shipment Rupee Export Credit. • Export Oriented Units (EOU)/Electronic Hardware • Technology Park(EHTP)/Software Technology Parks The scheme will be available to all exports under 416 (STP)/Bio-Technology Parks (BTP) Scheme: The units specified tariff lines [at ITC (HS) code of 4 digits] and to all undertaking to export their entire production of goods and exports made by Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises services (except permissible sales in Domestic Tariff (MSMEs) across all ITC (HS) codes. area(DTA)) may be set up under the schemes. Under this • Scheme would not be available to merchant exporters. scheme, the EOUs etc. are permitted to import from DTA without payment of customs duty. ►KIMBERLEY PROCESS CERTIFICATION • Deemed Exports Scheme: Deemed Exports refers to SCHEME those transactions in which the goods supplied do not leave the country and the payment for such supplies is THEME AND KEY FEATURES received either in Indian rupees or in free foreign • The Kimberley Process (KP is a joint government, industry exchange. Under the scheme of deemed exports, and civil society initiative to stem the flow of conflict exemption/ refund of duties on the goods manufactured diamonds (rough diamonds used by rebel movements to and supplied to specified categories of deemed exports as finance wars against legitimate government). 38 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is an UN • The RoDTEP has been introduced for reimbursement of mandated international certification scheme. taxes/ duties/ levies, at the central, state and local level, • It requires each participant to impose internal control over which are currently not being refunded under any other production and trade of rough diamonds. Trading in rough mechanism. diamonds with a non-participant is not allowed. All exports • This scheme is going to give a boost to the domestic of rough diamonds have to be accompanied by a valid KP industry and Indian exports providing a level playing field Certificate stating that diamonds are conflict free. for Indian producers in the International market so that • India is one of the founding members of KPCS. domestic taxes/duties are not exported.

►NIRVIK SCHEME: NEW EXPORT CREDIT ►“ORIGIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM” INSURANCE SCHEME SALIENT FEATURES SALIENT FEATURES • It gives single access point for all exporters, for all Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) Preferential Trade Agreements • It seeks to provide insurance cover to the banks which give (PTAs) and for all agencies. loans to the exporter of the Goods and Services. • India has 15 FTAs/PTAs and 7 lakh ‘Certificates of Origin’ • This becomes important because the exporters of the are issued annually. Goods and Services face significant risk such as failure of the buyer to make payment, delays in the payment, failure • The platform will be made live for FTAs as per the of the buyer to purchase goods etc. Hence, due to higher concurrence of the concerned partner countries. inherent risks, the exporters may find it difficult to avail • This process is electronic, paperless and transparent with loans from the Banks. real time tracking of FTA utilisation at product level and • Implemented by Export Credit Guarantee Corporation country level. It will also lead to reduced transaction cost (ECGC). and time.

• The NIRVIK scheme seeks to provide higher insurance cover of up to 90% of the principal and interest to the ►STATUTORY BODIES banks so as to incentivise them to provide more loans to AGRICULTURAL AND PROCESSED FOOD PRODUCTS the exporters to meet their capital requirements. EXPORT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (APEDA) • The new scheme would lead to reduction in the rates of • The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export interest on the export credit due to reduction in the risk on Development Authority (APEDA) was established by the account of insurance availed by the banks. It would also Government of India under the Agricultural and Processed promote credit creation in the export and labour intensive Food Products Export Development Authority Act passed sectors such as MSMEs. by the Parliament in December, 1985. NOTE: The Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India • APEDA has been entrusted with the responsibility of (ECGC) is a fully government-owned company that was export promotion and development of 14 agricultural and established in 1957 to promote exports by providing credit processed food products groups listed in the First insurance services. The ECGC provides Export Credit Schedule of the APEDA Act. Insurance to Banks (ECIB) to protect the banks from losses THE MARINE PRODUCTS EXPORT DEVELOPMENT on account of export credit at the Pre and Post-Shipment AUTHORITY (MPEDA) stage. • The Marine Products Export Development Authority was

set up as a Statutory Body in 1972 under an Act of ►RODTEP SCHEME- REMISSION OF Parliament. DUTIES OR TAXES ON EXPORT PRODUCT • The Authority is responsible for development of the • At present, GST taxes and import/customs duties for marine industry with special focus on marine exports. inputs required to manufacture exported products are EXPORT INSPECTION COUNCIL OF INDIA (EIC) either exempted or refunded. However, certain • The Export Inspection Council (EIC) was established as a taxes/duties/levies are outside GST, and are not refunded Statutory Body on 1st January, 1964 under Section 3 of the for exports, such as, VAT on fuel used in transportation, Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 to ensure Mandi tax, Duty on electricity used during manufacturing sound development of export trade of India through etc. 39 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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quality control and inspection and for matters connected • The project was initiated in July 2017 and aims to there with. demonstrate a novel holistic (waste) water management • The EIC is an advisory body to the Central Government and approach that will produce clean water which can be is headed by a Chairman appointed by the Central reused for various purposes. Government. • The innovative pilot scale modular plant upon commissioning will treat 10,000 L sewage water per day and will showcase a self-sustaining model for the end user. MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND • The LOTUS-HR project is jointly supported by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, TECHNOLOGY Government of India and Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research /STW, Government of Netherlands.

►UMMID (UNIQUE METHODS OF MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT OF ►ZERO WASTE POTASH TECHNOLOGY INHERITED DISORDERS) INITIATIVE • Developed by CSIR-CSMCRI • to tackle inherited genetic diseases of new born babies. • A technology for recovery valuable potash from spent • It aims: wash and saves foreign exchanges and prevents (i) to establish NIDAN Kendras to provide counselling, hazardous spent wash being discarded. prenatal testing and diagnosis, management, and multidisciplinary care in Government Hospitals wherein ►BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CAREER the influx of patients is more, PROGRAM (ii) to produce skilled clinicians in Human Genetics, and THEME AND KEY FEATURES (iii) to undertake screening of pregnant women and new • Biomedical Research Career Programme (BRCP), and born babies for inherited genetic diseases in hospitals Wellcome Trust (WT) /DBT India Alliance will continue at aspirational districts. beyond their initial 10-year term (2008-09 to 2018-19) to a new five-year phase (2019-20 to 2023-24). • It has made it attractive for high quality Indian scientists working abroad to return to India, and has increased the number of locations geographically within India where world-class biomedical research is undertaken. • In the extending phase, the Programme would continue to build this capacity as also strengthen clinical research and work towards addressing important health challenges for India. 9 LEAD MISSIONS OF PRIME MINISTER’S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL (PM-STIAC)

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NODAL AGENCY ►INDIA AND NETHERLANDS • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology LAUNCHED THE SECOND PHASE OF • Ministry of Human Resource Development THE LOTUS-HR (LOCAL TREATMENT • Department of Science and Technology OF URBAN SEWAGE STREAMS FOR THEME AND KEY FEATURES HEALTHY REUSEPLANT) • To make opportunities and progress science and technology accessible to all, this mission aims to remove 40 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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the barrier that the requirement of high-level of facility in • Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change English poses today. • Department of Biotechnology • Using a combination of machine and human translation, THEME AND KEY FEATURES the mission will eventually enable access to teaching and • This mission will include a comprehensive documentation research material bilingually i.e. in English and one’s native of India’s biodiversity with the potential for cataloguing Indian language and mapping all lifeforms in India including associated

cultural and traditional practices. ►QUANTUM FRONTIER • It will focus on development of a cadre of professional’s NODAL AGENCY adept at handling large sets of environmental data for • Department of Science and Technology management and monitoring of biodiversity; expansion of knowledge in ecosystem functioning that • Department of Space will inform restoration efforts; establishment of a • Department of Atomic Energy vibrant biodiversity-based economy on a solid • Defence Research and Development organisation foundation of reliable information; engagement with • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology the public; enhanced options for agricultural production and livelihood security and the general well-being of THEME AND KEY FEATURES society. • This mission aims to initiate work in control of the

quantum mechanical systems, with a large number of degrees of freedom, as one of the great contemporary ►ELECTRIC VEHICLES challenges in fundamental science and technology. NODAL AGENCY • Building excellence in the quantum frontier through this • Department of Science and Technology mission will also be essential for national security and in • Department of Heavy Industries the development of quantum computers, quantum • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy chemistry, quantum communication, new materials, quantum sensors and quantum cryptography. • Ministry of Power, • NITI Aayog ►ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THEME AND KEY FEATURES NODAL AGENCY • This mission is critical for India to reduce fossil fuel consumption and mitigate emissions. Electric Vehicles • NITI Aayog (EVs) are a major component of India’s mobility plans. • Department of Science and Technology • For EV’s to become economically viable and scalable, • Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology focused research, development and innovation are • Department of Biotechnology needed to build indigenous capability. Vehicles need to be THEME AND KEY FEATURES energy efficient, use light and efficient batteries that function well in our conditions with materials that are • The mission will focus on efforts that will benefit India in recyclable. Developing vehicle subs-systems and addressing societal needs in areas such as healthcare, components for Indian requirements including rare earth education, agriculture, smart cities and infrastructure, based 4 electric motors, Li-ion batteries, power electronics including smart mobility and transportation. etc. will be addressed using academia industry • This mission will work with extensive academia- industry collaboration. interactions on developing core research capability at

national level which will include international collaborations. ►BIOSCIENCE FOR HUMAN HEALTH • It will push technology frontiers through the creation of NODAL AGENCY new knowledge and in developing and deploying • Department of Biotechnology applications • Department of Health Research

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THEME AND KEY FEATURES THEME AND KEY FEATURES • The mission will make use of healthy- and disease- • The purposes of this mission are to scientifically samples to understand the impact of nature and nurture explore the deep oceans towards improving our on health. understanding of the blue frontier. • The primary goal of the mission is to construct • The information from this mission will address issues comprehensive reference maps of genomes and to arising from long term changes in the ocean due to climate understand the dynamics of how exposure to different change. environments have impact on our bodies. • The focus areas cover the development of technologies • The mission will focus on the genomic study of for deep sea exploration and exploitation of living populations of humans to identify and unravel the genetic (biodiversity) and non-living (minerals) resources; basis and prevalence of rare and inherited diseases. The development of underwater vehicles and underwater outcome will help stimulate better diagnosis and robotics; development of ocean climate change advisory treatment that can feed into the health care system of the services; technological innovations and conservational country. methods for sustainable utilization of marine bio- resources; offshore based desalination techniques; and ►WASTE TO WEALTH renewable energy generation.

NODAL AGENCY ►AGNII • Department of Biotechnology NODAL AGENCY • Department of Science and Technology Invest India • Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Ministry of Urban Development • This mission aims to support the national efforts to • Swachh Bharat Abhiyan boost the innovation ecosystem in the country by THEME AND KEY FEATURES connecting innovators across industry, individuals and the • The goal of the Waste to Wealth mission is to identify, grassroots to the market and helping commercialize develop and deploy technologies to treat waste to innovative solutions. generate energy, recycle materials and extract worth. • It will provide a platform for innovators to bring their • The mission will also work to identify and support technology ready products and solutions to industry 6 development of new technologies that hold promise in and the market thereby helping propel techno- creating a clean and green environment. entrepreneurship which can usher a new era of inclusive • It will assist and augment the Swachh Bharat and Smart socio-economic growth. Cities project by leveraging science, technology and • The mission includes services across the techno- innovation to create circular economic models that are commercialization chain required to support and upscale financially viable for waste management to streamline market-ready indigenous innovations. waste handling in India. • It includes working with government R&D laboratories and academia to help commercialize their innovations; ►DEEP OCEAN EXPLORATION collaborate and value add to existing innovation programs; training and capacity building of scientists, innovators, NODAL AGENCY technology transfer offices and technology license offices. • Ministry of Earth Sciences

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THEME AND KEY FEATURES • The VAJRA faculty will engage in collaborative research in • Focus is on nurturing ideas and innovations (knowledge- public funded institutions. based and technology-driven) into successful startups. • The residency period of the VAJRA Faculty in India would • The purpose of the program is to provide technological be for a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 3 solutions to the pressing needs of the society. months a year.

• To create new avenues for wealth and job creation. • The programme will focus on helping startups to meet ►SURYA JYOTI their funding, infrastructure and other mentorship needs. • A low cost and energy efficient Micro Solar Dome (Surya • There are 8 components of NIDHI that support each stage Jyoti) which captures day light and concentrates the of a budding startup from idea to market. same inside a dark room, particularly in urban slum or rural areas. • The first component PRAYAS (Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators & Startups), launched in • The light passes through a sun-tube having a thin layer of 2016, aims to support innovators to build prototypes of highly reflective coating on the inner wall of the passage. their ideas by providing a grant up to Rs.10 lakhs and an • It also contains a lower dome having a shutter at the access to Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab). bottom that can be closed if light is not required in the • The final component is the Seed Support System which daytime. provides up to One Crore rupees per start-up and is • It is leak proof and works for almost 16 hours daily i.e. implemented through Technology Business Incubators. throughout the day and 4 hours after sunset. • Entrepreneurs-in- Residence (EIR) Programme is one of • Surya Jyothi project aims to provide solar energy the programs introduced under NIDHI to inspire the best mechanism to ensure a better life for the urban poor talents to be entrepreneurs, to minimise the risk involved lacking access to grid connected electricity in pursuing start- ups, and to partially set off their opportunity costs of high paying jobs. ►ATAL JAIANUSANDHAN BIOTECH

MISSION - UNDERTAKING ►VISITING ADVANCED JOINT NATIONALLY RELEVANT RESEARCH (VAJRA) FACULTY TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION (UNATI) SCHEME NODAL AGENCY NODAL AGENCY • Department of Biotechnology in the Ministry of Science The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a and Technology Statutory body of the Department will implement the Scheme. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It is expected to transform Health, Agriculture and Energy FINANCING sectors during the next 5 years. • Sufficient fund is earmarked for the VAJRA Scheme from the overall budgetary allocation of SERB. This mission includes - • GARBH-ini : A Mission to promote Maternal and Child • It is not a centrally sponsored scheme but a Central Plan Health and develop prediction tools for pre-term berth. Scheme and hence no State/UT-wise allocation is made. • IndCEPI : A Mission to develop affordable vaccines for THEME AND KEY FEATURES endemic diseases, Development of Biofortified and Protein • It aims to connect the Indian academic and research and Rich wheat - contributing to POSHAN Abhiyan, Mission on development (R&D) systems to the best of global science Anti-Microbial Resistance for Affordable Diagnostics and and scientists for a sustained international collaborative Therapeutics and Clean Energy Mission - Innovative research. Technology interventions for Swachh Bharat. • It enables NRIs and overseas scientific community to • Mission on Anti Microbial Resistance: For Affordable participate and contribute to research and development Diagnostics and Therapeutics, vision to develop indigenous in India. and cost-effective therapies against AMR; categorization of • VAJRA faculty will undertake research in S&T priority areas AMR-specific pathogen priority list of India; establishment of nation wherein the capability and capacity are needed of Bio-repository for AMR-specific pathogens; and to be developed. 43 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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development of rapid and cost-effective diagnostic kits to will drive that national objective, both through DTH as well identify AMR-specific pathogens. as the internet. • Clean Energy Mission: Innovative Technology interventions for Swachh Bharat. ►BIRAC-BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY RESEARCH ASSISTANCE COUNCIL ►NATIONAL MISSION ON NODAL AGENCY INTERDISCIPLINARY CYBER- Department of Biotechnology (DBT) PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (NM-ICPS) THEME AND KEY FEATURES It is a not-for-profit Section 8, Schedule B, Public Sector NODAL AGENCY Enterprise, set up by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Department of Science &Technology Government of India as an Interface Agency to strengthen THEME AND KEY FEATURES and empower the emerging Biotech enterprise to undertake • The Mission addresses the ever-increasing technological strategic research and innovation, addressing nationally requirements of the society and takes into account the relevant product development needs. international trends and road maps of leading countries KEY STRATEGIES for the next generation technologies. • Foster innovation and entrepreneurship • The Mission aims at establishment of 15 numbers of • Promote affordable innovation in key social sectors Technology Innovation Hubs (TIH), six numbers of • Empowerment of start-ups & small and medium Application Innovation Hubs (AIH) and four numbers of enterprises Technology Translation Research Parks (TTRP). • Contribute through partners for capability enhancement • The mission implementation would develop and bring: and diffusion of innovation ο Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and associated • Enable commercialization of discovery technologies within reach in the country, • Ensure global competitiveness of Indian enterprises ο adoption of CPS technologies to address India specific National / Regional issues, ►BIOTECHNOLOGY IGNITION GRANT ο produce Next Generation skilled manpower in CPS, SCHEME (BIG) ο catalyze Translational Research, NODAL AGENCY ο accelerate entrepreneurship and start-up ecosystem Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council development in CPS, THEME AND KEY FEATURES ο give impetus to advanced research in CPS, Technology • It is flagship programme of Biotechnology Industry development and higher education in Science, Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), which provides the Technology and Engineering disciplines, and right admixture of fuel and support to young startups and ο place India at par with other advanced countries and entrepreneurial individuals. derive several direct and indirect benefits. • The main aim of BIG scheme is to provide funding and

mentoring support to establish and validate proof of ►DD SCIENCE AND INDIA SCIENCE concept. Funding will be in the form of Grant in Aid limited up to Rs 50 Lakh. NODAL AGENCY ‐ ‐ PURPOSE The Department of Science and Technology and public ‐ broadcaster Doordarshan. • Foster generation of ideas with commercialization potential THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Upscale and validate of proof of concept • DD Science is a one-hour slot on Doordarshan national channel, India Science is an Internet-based channel. • Encourage researchers to take technology closer to market through a start up • The two science channels are the first step in creating a national science channel for India. • Stimulate enterprise formation • Developing a scientific temperament is a critical necessity • As part of this scheme, successful BIG Innovators receive in a country of 1.3 billion and these two science channels up to INR 50 lakh (USD 70,000 approx.) for research

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projects with commercialization potential with duration of • The programme encouraged the school children of the age up to 18 months. group of 14-17 to make innovative prototypes using the kits given to them. ►KIRAN (KNOWLEDGE INVOLVEMENT IN RESEARCH ADVANCEMENT ►TEACHER ASSOCIATESHIP FOR THROUGH NURTURING) AND RESEARCH EXCELLENCE (TARE) “CONSOLIDATION OF UNIVERSITY SCHEME RESEARCH FOR INNOVATION AND NODAL AGENCY Science and Engineering Research Board, DST EXCELLENCE IN WOMEN THEME AND KEY FEATURES UNIVERSITIES (CURIE)” • It aims to tap the latent potential of faculty working in NODAL AGENCY state universities, colleges and private academic Department of Science and Technology (DST) institutions who are well trained but have difficulty in THEME AND KEY FEATURES pursuing their research due to varied reasons including lack of facilities, funding and guidance. • In the year 2014, DST restructured the women specific programmes under one umbrella called “KIRAN • This scheme facilitates mobility of such faculty members to (Knowledge Involvement in Research Advancement carryout research in well-established public funded through Nurturing)”. institution such as IITs, IISc, IISERS and other National Institutions (NITs, CSIR, ICAR, ICMR labs, etc.). • DST is not only addressing various issues related to women scientists (unemployment, break-in career, • Up to 500 TAs will be supported under this scheme. relocation, etc.) but is also aimed at providing opportunities in research, entrepreneurship, science ►SERB DISTINGUISHED communication, technology development/demonstration and self-employment. INVESTIGATOR AWARD (DIA) • CURIE is another component of KIRAN that has a focus to NODAL AGENCY develop state-of-the-art infrastructure to help large Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST number of women to enhance their S&T skills and THEME AND KEY FEATURES knowledge in order to make a fulfilling career in this • It has been initiated to recognize and reward Principal domain besides promoting research culture in such Investigators (PIs) of SERB/DST projects who have institutions. performed remarkably well. • KIRAN is providing budgetary support for creating • The scheme aims not only to reward the best PIs of Women Technology Park (WTP) where appropriate S&T completed projects but also to motivate the ongoing PIs to packages for women are developed to improve livelihood perform exceedingly well. and health & nutrition besides reducing drudgery in order to enhance their quality-of-life. • DIA is a one-time career award devised to specifically cater to the younger scientists who have not received any other • A unique programme “Consolidation of University prestigious awards or fellowships. Research for Innovation and Excellence in Women Universities (CURIE)” in 2009 to provide state-of-the-art • The award carries a fellowship of Rs. 15,000/- p.m. and an infrastructural support to Women Universities in order to optional research grant for three years, based on peer strengthen as well as improve academic and research review of the project proposal submitted. activities. ►AWSAR (AUGMENTING WRITING ►THE MAKE TOMORROW FOR SKILLS FOR ARTICULATING INNOVATION GENERATION RESEARCH) THEME AND KEY FEATURES NODAL AGENCY • It is a PPP Initiative between Department of Science & National Council of Science and Technology Communication Technology, Intel Technologies and Indo -US S&T (NCSTC), DST Forum. THEME AND KEY FEATURES 45 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• It has been initiated to encourage, empower and endow i. Development of products from leads that are at popular science writing through newspapers, magazines, advanced stages in the product development lifecycle blogs, social media, etc. and relevant to the public health. • The scheme aims to tap this tremendous potential to ii. Strengthening and establishing shared popularize & communicate science and also to inculcate infrastructure facilities for both product discovery scientific temperament in the masses. validation and manufacturing. • AWSAR carries monetary incentive of Rs.10,000/- each iii. Developing human capital by providing specific for 100 best entries from PhD scholars in a year along training to address the critical skills gaps in with a Certificate of Appreciation besides getting the story researchers, nascent biotech companies across the published/projected in mass media. product development value chain, including in business plan development and market penetration. ►MANAK SCHEME iv. Creating and enhancing technology transfer and intellectual property management capacities and NODAL AGENCY capabilities in public and private sector.

Flagship scheme of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF). ►PT DEEN DAYAL UPADHYAY VIGYAN THEME AND KEY FEATURES GRAM SANKUL PARIYOJANA • MANAK has been initiated to foster culture of scientific • Launched in 2017. innovation among school children of class VI to class X • The scheme aims to experiment and endeavour to • This will significantly broaden the base our innovation formulate and implement appropriate S&T Interventions pyramid to produce future entrepreneurs in large for Sustainable Development through cluster approach in numbers. Uttarakhand. • The programme has been targeted to encourage children • Under the scheme DST has conceived to adopt a few to visualise/analyse needs of the society inspire them to clusters of villages in Uttarakhand and transform them devise innovative ideas to address them. to become self-sustainable in a time bound manner • The INSPIRE Awards – MANAK scheme is designed as a through the tools of Science and Technology (S&T). complete incubation programme where top ideas and • Aim is to utilise local resources and locally available skill innovations from the national level competition will be sets and convert them in a manner using science and taken up for enterprise creation. technology, that substantial value addition takes place in their local produce and services which can sustain the ►NATIONAL BIOPHARMA MISSION rural population locally. • These clusters would act as model production cum NODAL AGENCY training and demonstration centres. There is a It will be implemented by Biotechnology Industry Research possibility of replicating this pilot phase initiative in other Assistance Council (BIRAC) a Public Sector Undertaking of hill states of the country once it is established and the Department. stabilized. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It is an Industry-Academia Collaborative for ►BIOTECH KISAN Accelerating Discovery Research to Early Development • Launched in 2016. for Biopharmaceuticals. • It is a programme that empowers farmers, especially • This Mission is for Accelerating Discovery Research to women farmers. Early Development for Biopharmaceuticals – “Innovate in India (i3)” Empowering biotech entrepreneurs & ABOUT BIOTECH-KISAN: accelerating inclusive innovation will be implemented at a • For Farmers: The Biotech-KISAN is a Farmer centric total cost of Rs. 1500 crore for a period of five years and scheme launched by of the Department of Biotechnology, 50% of the grant will be arranged through the World Bank where scientists will work in sync with farmers to loan. understand problems and find solutions. • The following are the objectives of the Mission: 46 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• By Farmers: Developed in consultation with the farmers. It more than ₹10 lakh. This would also reduce the amount of aims to link farmers, scientists and science institutions time such expensive instruments remain idle. across the country. • Core objective is reduction in the burden of research • Empower women: Help her meet her concerns for better infrastructure costs. seed, storage of seed and protection of the crops from • The new system, according to the policy, envisages disease and pest institutions declaring on a website how often their • The scheme includes the Mahila Biotech- KISAN instruments would be available for use by those outside fellowships, for training and education in farm practices, the department or university. for women farmers. • SRIMAN entails the following components • The Scheme also aims to support the women farmers/ ο Procurement and maintenance of equipment and entrepreneur in their small enterprises, making her a infrastructure for research grass root innovator. ο Providing access and sharing of scientific equipment and infrastructure • It will connect farmers to best global practices; training workshops will be held in India and other countries. ο Disposal of scientific equipment and infrastructure Farmers and Scientists will partner across the globe. ο Capacity Building of operators and technicians for • The scheme is targeted towards the least educated efficient operations marginalised farmer; Scientists will spend time on farms ο Monitoring of usage of expensive scientific research and link communication tools to soil, water seed and infrastructure market. The aim is to understand individual problems of ο Infrastructure Management for efficient operations the smallholding farmers and provide ready solutions. • Will connect farmers with science in the 15 agro-climatic ►INSPIRE (INNOVATION IN SCIENCE zones of the country in a manner, which constantly links PURSUIT FOR INSPIRED RESEARCH) problems with available solutions. AIM • Hubs and Spoke. In each of these 15 regions, a Farmer organisation will be the hub connected to different science To attract talent to the excitement and study of science at an early age, and to help the country build the required critical labs, Krishi Vigyan Kendra and State Agriculture resource pool for strengthening and expanding S&T system Universities co-located in the region. The hub will reach and R&D base with a long-term thought. out to the farmers in the region and connect them to scientists and institutions. COMPONENTS • FARMERS AS INNOVATORS Scheme for Early attraction of talent ο INSPIRE Award of Rs 5000 to one million young • The hub will have tinkering lab, communication cell and learners of the age group 10-15 years, ranging from will run year-long training, awareness, workshops and Class VI to Class X standards, which will act as education demonstration units to encourage grass root innovation in the young as well as ο arranging summer camps for about 50,000 science women farmers. students of Class XI with global leaders in science to experience the joy of innovations on an annual basis • There will be a communication set-up to make radio and through INSPIRE Internship. TV programmes for local stations, as well as daily • Scholarship for higher education connectivity through social media. ο 10000 scholarships every year at Rs 80,000 per year for the talented in age group of 17-22 years for undertaking ►SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH bachelors and masters level education in natural INFRASTRUCTURE FOR sciences. Mentorship support is provided to every scholar. MAINTENANCE AND NETWORKS • Assured opportunity for Research careers (SRIMAN) ο INSPIRE Fellowship: To be provided to doctoral • It aims to address various issues for effective utilization of students in both basic and applied sciences including its research infrastructure. engineering and medicine. • Aim-transform scientific instruments in government labs ο INSPIRE Faculty scheme for young researchers in the into lucrative assets generating a steady rental income. It age group of 27-32 years. The scheme offers contractual plans to hire out to researchers all lab equipment that cost 47 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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research positions. It provides career opportunities, but 3. Selected Public Sector Mutual Funds, namely UTI Asset it is not a guarantee for tenure positions after 5 years. Management Company Ltd., SBI Funds Management Private Ltd. and LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Company Ltd. are entrusted with the management of the MINISTRY OF SPACE NIF corpus. ►YOUNG SCIENTIST PROGRAM - YUVA 4. 75% of the annual income of the NIF was to be used for VIGYANI KARYAKRAM (YUVIKA) financing selected social sector schemes which promote education, health and employment. The residual 25% of • Aims to impart basic knowledge on Space Technology, the annual income of NIF was to be used to meet the Space Science and Space Applications to students with interest in emerging areas of Space activities. capital investment requirements of profitable and revivable PSUs. • Students who have finished 8th standard and currently studying in 9th standard will be eligible for the program. 5. Proceeds from NIF can also be utilised in: • It will be a residential training program of around two • Recapitalization of public sector banks and public sector weeks duration during summer holidays. 3 students will be insurance companies selected from each State/UT to participate in this program • Investment by Government in RRBs/IIFCL/NABARD/Exim every year covering CBSE, ICSE, and State syllabus. Bank • ISRO has approached Chief Secretaries of the respective • Equity infusion in various Metro projects. States to arrange for the selection of three students for • Investment in Bhartiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited each of their State. and Uranium Corporation of India Ltd • Selection is based on academic performance and extra- • Investment in Indian Railways towards capital curricular activities. Students belonging to rural area have been given special weightage in the selection criteria. expenditure.

CRITERIA ►CENTRAL ROAD AND INFRASTRUCTURE ο Performance in the 8th Std Examination (50% Weightage), FUND (CRIF) ο Membership of Science Club/Space Club (5% • The fund was initially part of Ministry of Road Transport Weightage), and Highway which has now been moved to Finance Ministry under Department of Economic Affairs. ο Prize in any school based individual extracurricular activity at District/State/National/International level; • The Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (will be) for development and maintenance of National Highways, ο Winners of District/State/National/International level sports activities; railway projects, improvement of safety in railways, State and rural roads and other infrastructure ο Scout and Guides/NCC/NSS Member; • This shift has been brought under Budget 2018 by ο Studying in Village school (20% weightage) amending Central Road Fund Act, 2000. • ISRO will bear the expenses of the entire course. • The amendment prescribes that road cess is first credited

to the Consolidated Fund of India and later, after adjusting ►RESPOND PROGRAM for the cost of tax collection, should go to the CRIF. Aims to establish strong links with premier academic • Most of the road projects under the NHDP as well as the institutions in the country to carry out R&D projects which are PMGSDY are coming to the final stage. The remaining of relevance to Space and derive useful outputs of such R&D portion of the National Highway Development Programme to support ISRO program. (NHDP) has been merged into the new road-development programme (83,000 km including - Phase-I) and a significant portion of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak MINISTRY OF FINANCE Yojana (PMGSY) set to be concluded by 2019. In this context, the use of road cess to wider infrastructure areas ►NATIONAL INVESTMENT FUND is desirable. 1. Government created National Investment Fund in 2005 for the proceeds from Central Public Sector Enterprise. ►PRADHAN MANTRI JAN DHAN YOJNA 2. It is a ‘Public account’ under government accounts. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It is a flagship financial inclusion scheme. 48 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• It offers opening of zero balance bank accounts however if • Additionally government is providing scholarship of Rs100 the account holder wishes to get a cheque book, he/she per month per child is paid on a half yearly basis to a will have to fulfill minimum balance criteria. maximum of 2 children per member studying in 9th to 12th • Interest paid on deposit is 4% with an accidental insurance standards of 2 lakh and life cover of 30,000 payable on death of OTHER beneficiary subject to fulfillment of eligibility conditions. • There is no state wise allocation of fund • Account can be opened in any branch or Business • Government has set up Aam Admi Bima Yojana Correspondent outlet. Scholarship Fund and Centralized Social Security Fund • Any person who holds Indian nationality or a “low risk” non-national can open Jan Dhan account. ►PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHA BIMA UPDATES TO THE SCHEME YOJNA • Overdraft facility up to 10,000 is available in only 1 account per household to preferably female of the NODAL AGENCY household. Public Sector General Insurance or any other General • Age limit for availing OD facility to be revised from 18-60 Insurance company who have agreed on given terms. years to 18-65 years. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Under the expanded coverage from "every household to • Scheme provide insurance cover of 2 lakh for full disability every adult", accidental insurance cover for new RuPay or accident and 1 lakh for partial disability with a meagre card holders to be raised from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh to annual premium of Rs12/- new PMJDY accounts opened after 28.8.18. • The premium will be auto debited from the bank account. • There will not be any conditions attached for OD upto Rs • Beneficiary includes person in the age group of 18 to 70. 2,000.

►PRADHAN MANTRI JEEVAN JYOTI BIMA ►AAM AADMI BIMA YOJNA YOJNA NODAL AGENCY NODAL AGENCY Life Insurance Corporation of India Life Insurance Corporation and all other life insurers who are THEME AND KEY FEATURES willing to join the scheme and tie-up with banks for this • Scheme provide insurance cover of 30,000 on natural purpose. death, 75,000 due to accident and 37,500 for partial THEME AND KEY FEATURES permanent disability and 75,000 for total permanent • Scheme provide insurance cover of 2 lakh for death due t disability. any reason with a meagre annual premium of Rs330/- • Beneficiary includes person in the age group of 18 to 59. • The premium will be auto debited from the bank account. • Annual premium for insurance is a meagre amount of • Beneficiary includes person in the age group of 18 to 50. 200/- out of which 100/- is to be paid by Central However if a person join before the age of 50, he can Government from Social Security Fund and rest 100/- by continue to have life cover upto 55 years of age. state government or individual.

►ATAL PENSION YOJNA AND PRADHAN MANTRI SHRAM YOGI MANDHAN YOJANA

 PM SHRAM YOGI MANDHAN YOJNA

Ministry Ministry of Finance Ministry of Labour and Employment

Nodal Agency (administered by) Pension Fund Regulatory and (implementing agency) LIC and Community Development Authority Service Center

Funding Centrally sponsored scheme Central Sector scheme

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any statutory social security schemes in the age is less than 15000 per month and belong to the group of 18-40 years. age group of 18-40 years who are not covered under NPS, EPFO or ESIC schemes

Themes and • Pension would vary from 1000 to 5000 per month • Minimum pension to be received is 3000 per Key features depending on the basis of contribution made by the month after attaining the age of 60 years. subscriber. • Government would provide 50% of the subscriber’s contribution or 1000 per annum whichever is lower.

Others Minimum period of contribution is 20 years • During the pension period if the subscriber dies, the spouse of the beneficiary shall be entitled to receive 50% of the pension received by the beneficiary as family pension. • The scheme is exempted from Service Tax/ GST. ►NATIONAL PENSION SCHEME FINANCING NODAL AGENCY • The differential return, i.e. the difference between return generated by LIC and the assured return of 8% per annum Implemented and Regulated by Pension Fund Regulatory and would be borne by Government of India as subsidy on an Development Authority annual basis. THEME AND KEY FEATURES

• Any Indian citizen(resident or non resident) in the age group of 18-60 can join New Pension Scheme. ►VIDYA LAKSHMI PORTAL • Recent government amendment has made the entire MINISTRY OF FINANCE scheme as EEE(exemption at entry, investment and • To ensure that students can avail loans easily through maturity). single window system of banks for education loans. Banks • Contribution of Central government for its employees has follow Indian Banks' Association guidelines which been increased from existing 10% to 14%. stipulates that education loan applications have to be disposed off, in the normal course, within a period of 15 to • The final corpus is dependent on contribution made by 30 days. subscriber and investment returns. • The Portal has been developed and is maintained by NSDL

e-Governance under the guidance of Department of ►PRADHAN MANTRI VAYA VANDANA Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Department of YOJNA Higher Education, MHRD and Indian Banks' Association. NODAL AGENCY Being implemented through Life Insurance Corporation of ►PRADHAN MANTRI MUDRA YOJNA India (PMMY) THEME AND KEY FEATURES THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Scheme provides an assured return of 8% p.a. payable • PMMY is a flagship scheme of Government of India to monthly for 10 years. “fund the unfunded” by bringing such enterprises to the • On death of the pensioner during the policy term of 10 formal financial system and extending affordable credit to years, the Purchase Price shall be paid to the beneficiary. them. • Loan facility is available after completion of 3 policy years. • It enables a small borrower to borrow from all Public The maximum loan that can be granted shall be 75% of the Sector Banks such as PSU Banks, Regional Rural Banks and Purchase Price. Cooperative Banks, Private Sector Banks, Foreign Banks, • Minimum entry age at 60 years. Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) and Non Banking Finance Companies (NBFC) for loans upto Rs 10 lakhs for non-farm OTHERS income generating activities • Varishta Pension Bima Yojna has been subsumed in the scheme. 50 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Under the aegis of Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana, is 30 grams with 995 fineness. There is no maximum limit MUDRA has already created the following products / for the deposit. schemes. • Banks are free to fix the interest rates and it will be ο Shishu : covering loans upto 50,000/- denominated in gold.

ο Kishor : covering loans above 50,000/- and upto 5 lakh • There are 3 term deposit plans available under the Gold

ο Tarun : covering loans above 5 lakh and upto 10 lakh Monetisation Scheme: • MUDRA scheme is aimed at “funding the unfunded” ο Short term: 1 to 3 years OTHERS ο Medium term: 5 to 7 years • For all PMMY loans, the following are to be noted. ο Long term: 12 to 15 years

ο No processing fee OTHERS

ο No collateral Recently RBI has amended Gold Monetisation Scheme(GMS) to allow charitable institutions, central government entities ο Repayment period of loan is extended up to 5 years and state government entities to deposit gold under it. ο Applicant should not be defaulter of any Bank /

Financial Institution ►SOVEREIGN GOLD BOND SCHEME ►STAND UP INDIA THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Sovereign Gold Bonds will be issued on payment of rupees THEME AND KEY FEATURES and denominated in grams of gold. • To promote entrepreneurship among Scheduled • Bonds will be issued on behalf of the Government of India Caste/Schedule Tribe and Women. by the RBI. Thus, the Bonds will have a sovereign • Refinance window through Small Industries Development guarantee. Bank of India (SIDBI) with an initial amount of Rs. 10,000 • The bonds will be available both in demat and paper form. crore would be available under the scheme. • The Government will issue bonds with a rate of interest to • The loan under the scheme would be appropriately be decided by the Government. secured and backed by a credit guarantee through a credit guarantee scheme for which Department of Financial • Banks/NBFCs/Post Offices/ National Saving Certificate Services would be the settler and National Credit (NSC) agents and others, as specified, may collect money / Guarantee Trustee Company Ltd. (NCGTC) would be the redeem bonds on behalf of the government. operating agency. • Bonds to be easily sold and traded on exchanges to allow • The Scheme is intended to facilitate at least two such early exits for investors who may so desire. projects per bank branch, on an average one for • The tenor of the bond could be for a minimum of 5 to 7 eachcategory of entrepreneur. years, so that it would protect investors from medium OTHERS term volatility in gold prices. Since the bond, will be a part of the sovereign borrowing, these would need to be within • Creation of a credit guarantee mechanism through the the fiscal deficit target for 2015-16 and onwards. National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company (NCGTC).

• Handholding support for borrowers both at the pre loan stage and during operations. This would include increasing ►PROJECT SAKSHAM their familiarity with factoring services, registration with THEME AND KEY FEATURES online platforms and e-market places as well as sessions • To bolster the information technology network for the new on best practices and problem solving. GST regime and is the name given to CBEC’s IT Infrastructure Project. ►GOLD MONETISATION SCHEME • This IT Infrastructure project will enable not just the implementation of Goods and Services tax (GST) but also THEME AND KEY FEATURES support all existing services in Customs, Central Excise and • All residents can invest in this scheme but are subjected to Service Tax. Know Your Customer (KYC) Scheme. • The information filed by taxpayers (for eg., Registration, • Minimum deposit at any one time of raw gold in the forms Returns etc) on the GSTN portal will be transferred to CBEC of bars, coins, jewellery excluding stones and other metals 51 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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systems via a link established by GSTN from their data • It will also provide employment for rural youth in the centres to CBEC data centres. supply chain of cooking gas. • This information will be subsequently processed by CBEC’s officers and the action taken will be transferred back to ►PAHAL (PRATYAKSHA GSTN portal over this network. Thus, Project Saksham will HASTAANTARIT LAABH) enable setting up of an information exchange mechanism with GSTN. COMPONENTS OF THE SCHEME • It is a Direct Benefit Transfer scheme. • Under it subsidized liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM are sold at market rates and consumers are entitled to AND NATURAL GAS receive LPG subsidy for it directly into their bank accounts. • It is done either through bank account or linkage. ►PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA • It was extended nationwide in 2015. YOJANA (PMUY) BENEFITS OF THE SCHEME OBJECTIVE • The scheme aims at eliminating duplication or bogus LPG connections and its diversion. • To provide clean cooking fuel LPG to Below Poverty Line households in the country • It also seeks to meet substantive savings in LPG subsidy. • • Ensuring universal coverage of cooking gas in the It has been acknowledged as the world’s largest cash country. transfer program (households) by the Guinness Book of World Records. COMPONENTS

• Deposit free LPG connections to be provided to Women belong to BPL Households. ►SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE • Beneficiaries identified through SECC. TOWARDS AFFORDABLE • Those not covered under SECC, will be identified from TRANSPORTATION (SATAT categories like SC/STs households, beneficiaries of INITIATIVE) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY (Gramin), Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY), Forest dwellers, etc. OBJECTIVE To provide a Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable • The number of households have been increased from the initial 5 cr to 8 crores. Transportation (SATAT) as a developmental effort that would benefit both vehicle-users as well as farmers and • Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayats are peer learning entrepreneurs. platforms, providing support, catalyzing behaviour changes in Ujjawala beneficiaries and also encouraging COMPONENTS safe and sustainable use of LPG. • Potential entrepreneurs will set up Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) production plants and make available CBG in the • Ujjawala Didi: A CSR handholding initiative, aims at creating a force of 10000 grassroot educators who can market for use in automotive fuels take the messages: • Municipal solid waste, agricultural residue, cattle dung etc will converted into CBG, to be used as fuel. ο Cleaning cooking fuel is to be universally available BENEFITS OF THE SCHEME ο Clean Cooking fuel is affordable • It will boost the availability of more affordable transport ο LPG is safe to use and insured. fuels • Ujjawala Didis will facilitate refill, address any fear around • LPG safety, help in resolving any grievances and facilitate Better use of agricultural residue, cattle dung and any new connections. municipal solid waste • BENEFITS OF THE SCHEME Will help tackle the problem of polluted urban air due to farm stubble-burning and carbon emissions. • It will empower women and protect their health saving • them rom indoor air pollution. Boost to entrepreneurship, rural economy and employment. • It will reduce drudgery and the time spent on cooking. • Reduction in import of natural gas and crude oil 52 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Support to national commitments in achieving climate ecosystem for setting up commercial projects and change goals increasing Research & Development in this area. • Apart from supplementing the targets envisaged by the ►PRADHAN MANTRI URJA GANGA Government under EBP programme, the scheme will also have the following benefits: (JHBDPL) a) Meeting Government of India vision of reducing import NODAL AGENCY dependence by way of substituting fossil fuels with Gas Authority of India Limited Biofuels. FINANCING b) Achieving the GHG emissions reduction targets through Public Private Partnership progressive blending/ substitution of fossil fuels. THEME AND KEY FEATURES c) Addressing environment concerns caused due to burning of biomass/ crop residues & improve health of • The Government has envisaged to develop the National Gas Grid , to increase the availability of natural gas across citizens. the country. d) Improving farmer income by providing them remunerative income for their otherwise waste • These pipelines have been authorized by Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) and are at various agriculture residues. stages of execution viz. Pre-Project activities/ laying/ e) Creating rural & urban employment opportunities in 2G testing/commissioning etc Ethanol projects and Biomass supply chain. • PNGRB has authorized GAIL to develop Jagadishpur – f) Contributing to Swacch Bharat Mission by supporting Haldia –Bokaro- Dhamra Pipeline (JHBDPL) project the aggregation of nonfood biofuel feedstocks such as and approximately 750 km long Barauni - Guwahati waste biomass and urban waste. pipeline as its integral part which will connect North East g) Indigenizing of Second Generation Biomass to Ethanol region with the National Gas Grid. technologies. • Further, PNGRB has also authorized Indradhanush Gas The ethanol produced by the scheme beneficiaries will be Grid Limited (IGGL), a joint venture company of five Central mandatorily supplied to Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) i.e. IOCL, ONGC, GAIL, OIL further enhance the blending percentage under EBP and NRL for the development of North East Gas Grid to Programme. connect eight states of North Eastern India.

►PRADHAN MANTRI JI-VAN YOJANA MINISTRY OF (JAIV INDHAN- VATAVARAN ANUKOOL COMMUNICATION FASAL AWASHESH NIVARAN) ►NATIONAL BROADBAND MISSION (NBM) Aims to provide financial support to integrated Bioethanol Projects using lignocellulosic biomass and other renewable The mission will facilitate universal and equitable access to feedstock. broadband services across the country, especially in rural and remote areas. It is structured on the three principles of SALIENT FEATURES universality, affordability and quality. • 12 Commercial Scale and 10 demonstration scale Second SOME OF THE OBJECTIVES OF THE MISSION WHICH ARE: Generation (2G) ethanol Projects will be provided a • Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support in two phases: Broadband access to all villages by 2022 • a) Phase-I (2018-19 to 2022- The mission also envisages increasing fabrication of 23): wherein six commercial projects and five towers to 70% from 30% at present. demonstration projects will be supported. • Facilitate universal and equitable access to broadband b) Phase-II (2020-21 to 2023-24): wherein remaining six services for across the country and especially in rural and commercial projects and five demonstration projects remote areas will be supported. • Laying of incremental 30 lakhs route km of Optical Fiber Cable and increase in tower density from 0.42 to 1.0 tower • The scheme focuses to incentivise 2G Ethanol sector and support this nascent industry by creating a suitable per thousand of population by 2024. 53 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Significantly improve quality of services for mobile and ο Second Phase – providing broadband connectivity to 2 internet. lakh gram panchayats by 2019

• Develop innovative implementation models for Right of ο Third Phase – providing state-of-art network using fibers Way (RoW) and to work with States/UTs for having between districts and block with reduced redundancy consistent policies pertaining to expansion of digital by 2023. infrastructure including for RoW approvals required for • Implementation will be done by the states, state agencies, laying of OFC private sector companies and central PSUs. • Develop a Broadband Readiness Index (BRI) to measure • Non-discriminatory access to all the Service Providers. the availability of digital communications infrastructure • It is funded from Universal Service Obligation Fund, which and conducive policy ecosystem within a State/UT. will be its nodal agency. • Creation of a digital fiber map of the Digital • Bharat Broadband Network, a SPV created under Communications network and infrastructure, including companies Act, mandated to create NOFN in India. Optical Fiber Cables and Towers, across the country.

• Investment from stakeholders of USD 100 billion (Rs 7 ►MyGov Lakh Crore) including Rs 70,000 crore from Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF). • This is a citizen-centric digital collaboration platform that empowers people to connect with the Government & • Address policy and regulatory changes required to accelerate the expansion and creation of digital contribute towards good governance. infrastructure and services. • The website is hosted and managed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION FUND

• Established in 2002 to be utilized for providing telegraph services across the country especially the rural and remote ►SAMPOORNA BIMA GRAM YOJANA areas. Objective is to provide an insurance cover to households in • It receives funds from the Universal Service Levy (USL) of rural areas, through the Post Offices. 5% charged from all the telecom operators on their gross TARGET BENEFICIARIES revenue. • In each Revenue District, atleast one village (with minimum • Funds are given to an enterprise, through bidding process, 100 households), will be selected. which works on providing tele service to areas where ICT • All villages under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will be services are not available due to commercial non-viability covered under it. combinations of reasons such as: • In each of these selected villages, it will be tried to cover all i. Remoteness of areas the Households. ii. Absence of supporting infrastructure (power, road etc.) • Each household will be given at least one Rural Postal Life iii. Low income of inhabitants Insurance policy (RPLI). iv. Insurgency v. Difficult terrain ►PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN (PMGDISHA) ►BHARAT NET • Implemented by Common Services Center (CSC). It was previously called as National Optical Fibre Network. It is • It aims to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate. an ambitious programme of department of • To ensure equitable geographical reach, each of the telecommunication to provide network infrastructure with 250,000 Gram Panchayats would be expected to register affordable broadband connectivity on a non-discriminatory an average of 200-300 candidates. basis to all households in the country. • Digitally literate persons would be able to operate • It aimed to realize the vision of Digital India, in partnership computers/digital access devices (like tablets, smart with States and the Private Sector. phones, etc.), send and receive emails, browse internet, • To be implemented in three phases – access Government Services, search for information, ο First phase - providing broadband connectivity to one undertaking cashless transactions, etc. and hence use IT to lakh gram panchayats by 2017 actively participate in the process of nation building. 54 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• The scheme also focuses on enabling digital financial 6. Information for All transactions among the citizens. 7. Electronics Manufacturing – Target NET ZERO Imports • By seeding Aadhaar number to bank account of the 8. IT for Jobs beneficiary and enabling him to access various online 9. Early Harvest Programmes Government services like booking of railway tickets, • It is an umbrella programme which includes the hitherto passport application, etc. would enable the citizen to leverage technology and participate actively in governance. National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) to connect 2, 50,000 gram Panchayats by providing internet connectivity

to all citizens. ►DARPAN • Digital India includes development of an electronic • Digital Advancement of Rural Post Office for A New India development fund and envisages Net-Zero Electronics (DARPAN) is aimed at realizing financial inclusion of un- Import Target by 2020.

banked rural population. • The Project shall increase the rural reach of the ►DIGILOCKER Department of Posts and enable Branch Post Offices to • Digital Locker System launched in July 2016, under the increase traffic of all financial remittances, savings Digital India Program. accounts, Rural Postal Life Insurance, and Cash Certificates etc. • It serves as a platform to enable citizens to securely store and share their documents with service providers • It intends to provide a low power technology solution to electronically after giving due permission. each branch postmaster to improve service delivery. • CBSE 10th Class results and NEET Results were also sent • The application will also be used for the reimbursement of digitally into Digital Locker. social security benefits such as MNREGS, old age pension

and DBT. ►STREE SWABHIMAN • It is an initiative for promoting women‘s menstrual health MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS and hygiene. • Common Service Centres (CSC) will provide access to & IT affordable, reliable and modern (eco-friendly) sanitary ►DIGITAL INDIA PROGRAM napkins to adolescent girls and women in rural areas. • The initiative is driven by awareness and personalized • It is a programme to transform India into digital outreach by women entrepreneurs who produce and empowered society and knowledge economy. market sanitary napkins by village level entrepreneurs • The scheme is coordinated by the department of (VLE) and self-help groups. Electronics and IT and implemented by all government • VLE will distribute the pads to girls in the primary and departments. secondary schools in their village, encompassing girls from • The scheme is to be monitored by a Digital India 7th to 12th grade. committee comprised of several ministers. • Semi-automatic and manual sanitary napkin • Digital India has three core components – manufacturing units will be set up at CSC 1. The creation of digital infrastructure, for producing sanitary napkins. 2. Delivering services digitally, • The manufacturing unit will be operated by women 3. Digital literacy entrepreneurs and generate employment for women. • 9 Key points of Digital India Programme are • The scheme is conceptualized to create avenues for the 1. Universal Access to Phones rural and semi-urban women to become self-reliant and also progress towards a healthy eco-friendly lifestyle. 2. Broadband Highways

3. Public Internet Access Programme ►COMMON SERVICE CENTRES (CSC) 4. e-Governance – Reforming government through • Technology Common Services Centers (CSC) scheme is one of the mission mode projects under the Digital India 5. e-Kranti – Electronic delivery of services Programme, Ministry of Electronics and IT. 55 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• CSCs are the access points for delivery of Government to • Project Cyber Shiksha focus on skilling women Citizen essential public utility services, social welfare engineering graduates in the niche field of Cyber schemes, healthcare, financial, education and agriculture Security. services, apart from host of B2C services to citizens in • It is launched by Microsoft & Data Security Council of India rural and remote areas of the country. (DSCI) in association with Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY). ►NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION • The primary objective is to connect with underserved • The mission aims to connect national academic and R&D women from Tier 2 / Tier 3 cities and to align a career path institutions with a supercomputing grid of over 70 high- for them in Cyber Security. performance computing facilities. • Centre of Advance Computing (CDAC) will impart training • Supercomputers will be installed across the country and to the selected women candidates from all over will be networked on the National Supercomputing over India. the National Knowledge Network (NKN). • Initially, the project will be rolled out in the following cities • It will be implemented by the Department of Science and - Noida, Patna, Hyderabad and Mohali, followed by other Technology and Department of Electronics and cities in the next phase. Information Technology (DeitY) through Centre for • The program will be a 4-months interactive training course Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and IISc, with combination of theory, case studies practical hands- Bangalore. on and projects. • The Mission also includes development of highly professional High-Performance Computing (HPC) aware ►PM GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA human resource for meeting challenges of development of ABHIYAN these applications. • PMGDISHA is to make 6 Crore persons in rural areas, • The NKN is another programme of the government which across States/UTs, digitally literate, reaching to around connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high 40% of rural households by covering one member from speed network. every eligible household by 31st March, 2020. • India has recently granted contract to French technology • It would empower the citizens in rural areas by training firm to build 70 supercomputers under the National them to operate computer or digital access devices etc. Supercomputing Mission. • Eligibility - Nominated digitally illiterate person from every eligible rural household aged 14 to 60 years. ►MODIFIED SPECIAL INCENTIVE • This scheme is initiated under Digital India Programme PACKAGE SCHEME and expected to be one of the largest digital literacy • M-SIPS scheme aims to provide a special incentive package programs in the world. to boost domestic electronic product manufacturing sector and move towards Union ►INDIA BPO PROMOTION SCHEME Government‘s goal of ‘Net Zero imports’ in electronics by • IBPS aims at setting up business process outsourcing 2020. (BPO) units in rural areas to secure balanced regional • It promotes large scale manufacturing in the Electronics growth of the industry. System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector by • It is under the Digital India Programme to create 1. Providing subsidy for capital expenditure upto 20% for employment opportunities for the youth living in rural investment in SEZ and 25% in non-SEZs. areas so that they do not need to migrate to urban 2. Providing reimbursement of duties and central taxes for clusters. projects with high capital investments. • It provides capital support along with special incentives up • The incentives will be available for investments made to Rs 1 lakh in the form of viability gap funding (VGF) to within 5 years from the date of approval of the project. companies to create BPO units. • Unit receiving incentive will provide undertaking to remain • Disbursement of financial support under the schemes is in commercial production for at least 3 years. directly linked with employment generation. • It provides special incentives for employment to women ►CYBER SHIKSHA INITIATIVE and Divyang, setting up operations in towns other than 56 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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capital towns, generating employment beyond target and 1. 25% more fellowship amount than most of the other promoting local entrepreneurship. PhD Schemes. • There are also special provisions for the Himalayan states 2. Part-time PhD candidates get onetime incentive on of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and completion of the PhD. Uttarakhand 3. Supports 200 Young Faculty Research Fellowships in the • Metro cities such as Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, areas of ESDM and IT/ITES with the objective to retain Kolkata, Mumbai, National Capital Region (NCR), and Pune, and attract bright young faculty members in these along with their urban agglomeration were excluded. sectors.

►NORTH EAST BPO PROMOTION SCHEME • Envisaged under Digital India Programme. MINISTRY OF SKILL • Seeks to incentivize establishment of 5,000 seats in respect DEVELOPMENT AND of BPOs and IT Enabled Service operations in North East Region (NER). ENTREPRENEURSHIP • NEBPS provides the financial supports and special India faces severe shortage of well-trained skilled workers. incentives in the form of Viability Gap Funding (VGF) to Only 2.3% of the workforce in India has undergone formal eligible Companies based on generation of new skill training. employment and economic activity in ITES sector.

• Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is the implementing agency of the India BPO promotion Scheme ►NATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT and North East BPO promotion Scheme. MISSION • STPI is a society established in 1991 by the MeitY with the KEY FEATURES objective of encouraging, promoting and boosting the • Addressing the long term and short term skilling needs export of software from India. through revamp of existing Institutional Training

framework and establishing new institutions ►JEEVAN PRAMAAN • Undertake sector specific skill training initiatives • One of the main requisites for the pensioners to avail • Ensure convergence of existing skill development pension is to provide Life Certificates (LCs). programs • Jeevan Pramman aims to streamline the process of getting ο Common norms for rationalisation of skill development LCs by making it hassle free and easier to get. schemes at Central and State level • It is an AADHAR Biometric Authentication based digital life ο Promoting States to open Kaushal Vardhan Kendras certificates for Pensioners and facilitates (KVKs) online submission. • Leverage existing public infrastructure for skilling • It will do away with the requirement of a pensioner having • to submit a physical LC every year, in order to Focus on training of trainers ensure continuity of pension being credited into their ο National Certification system for trainers facilitated account. through National Skills University • Digital Submission also ensures authenticity of pension • Facilitate overseas employment payments. ο Establishment of equivalence between NSQF and International Qualifications Frameworks.

►VISVESVARAYA PHD SCHEME ο Partnership with leading vocational training institutions • It is launched with the intent to enhance India‘s in other countries competitiveness in knowledge intensive sectors. ο Identifying global workforce requirements in • Its objective is to enhance the number of PhDs in destination countries Electronics System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) and ο Pre-departure training for workers and up-skilling of IT/IT Enabled Services (IT/ITES) sectors in the country. return migrants • The salient features of the scheme are • Promote sustainable livelihoods 57 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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ο Standard communication packages for specific skill • Provide face to face counselling interventions to guide development programs aspirants

ο Counselling services to facilitate process of career guidance ►SKILL LOAN SCHEME ο Mentorship • Support youth by providing a loan facility to individuals • Each sub-mission will be a headed by a Joint Secretary who intend to take up skill development courses or Director level officer designated as CEO, sourced • Loans are available in the range of Rs 5,000 to Rs 1,50,000

from public or private sector.

►UDAAN ►PM KAUSHAL VIKAS YOJANA • Udaan is a Special Industry Initiative for Jammu & Kashmir (PMKVY) in the nature of partnership between the corporates of • Aims to train 1 crore youth by the year 2020. India and Ministry of Home Affairs and implemented by National Skill Development Corporation. • Short Term Training • The programme aims to provide skills training and • Recognition of Prior Learning Special Project enhance the employability of unemployed youth of J&K. It • Establishment of model and aspirational skill centers has two objectives: known as PM Kaushal Kendra (PMKK) in every district for (i) To provide an exposure to the unemployed graduates to imparting skill training through PMKVY. the best of Corporate India; • Mandatory provision for Placement Tracking. Placement (ii) To provide Corporate India, an exposure to the rich talent data is reported within 90 days of certification of pool available in the State. trained candidates on the Skill Development Management System. • Life Skill Course Module which promotes Entrepreneurship ►DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF • Training under PMKVY is being imparted in NSQF aligned TRAINING job roles • It functions under MSDE • Training Centers (TCs)/ Training Providers (TPs) are • It has the responsibility of long term vocational training in mandated to organize placement/rozgar melas every six the country. month with the support of Sector Skill Councils

CLOSING THE SKILLS GAP PROJECT ►LAUNCH OF NEW GUIDELINES FOR This scheme has two components known as JAN SHIKSHAN SANSTHAN 1) Centrally Sponsored Centrally Managed (CSCM) being implemented by NSDC It functions under MSDE. Previously, it functioned under MHRD. 2) Centrally Sponsored State Managed (CSSM) being implemented by State Skill Development Missions of the SALIENT FEATURE OF NEW GUIDELINES: States/UTs known as State-Engagement Component of • Alignment of JSS course and curriculum to NSQF to PMKVY standardise training • Decentralisation of powers for JSSs - giving more ►PM-YUVA (PM YUVA UDYAMITA accountability and independence to district administration VIKAS ABHIYAAN) • Identify and promote traditional skills in the district through skilling/upskilling Entrepreneurship education is provided to encourage • Evidence based assessment system entrepreneurship and help people become self-employed within the country. • Easy online certification • Linking JSS to Public Finance Management System ►SKILL SAATHI INITIATIVE maintaining transparency and accountability of the ecosystem • Provides information on vocational training programs • Creating livelihood linkages under Mission • Conduct psychometric test 58 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Training of Trainers to develop the capacity through • Global Skill Gap Study National Skills Training Institutes ►STRIVE (SKILLS STRENGTHENING ►INDIAN INSTITUTES OF SKILLS FOR INDUSTRIAL VALUE • These state of art centres of excellence are being set up ENHANCEMENT) across four regions of India on the lines of premier global institutes such as Institute of Technical Education (ITE), • A World Bank assisted GOI project. It is a central sector Singapore. scheme with a budget outlay of Rs 2200 crore. • MSDE has approved creation of three IIS -- Kanpur, • Aims at strong shift to an outcome-based skill ecosystem. Mumbai and Ahmedabad. • Creating awareness through industry clusters/ • They will be established on Not-for-profit Public Private geographical chambers that would address the challenge Partnership (N-PPP) basis. of involvement of MSME. • Conceptualised with an objective to provide advanced • Improving relevance and efficiency of skills training highly specialised skills - for example defence, aerospace, provided through it is and apprenticeships. oil and gas and other emerging business domains to name • Focus on 4 result areas

a few ο Improved performance of ITI

ο Increased capacities of State Governments to support it ►SANKALP (SKILLS ACQUISITION is and Apprenticeship Training AND KNOWLEDGE AWARENESS FOR ο Improved Teaching and Learning LIVELIHOOD) ο Improved and Broadened Apprenticeship Training

• It is a centrally sponsored scheme with a project of total size USD 675 million, with World Bank assistance of USD ►NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP 500 million. PROMOTION SCHEME • Objectives of the project are:- OBJECTIVE ο Creating convergence among all skill training activities, • Promote apprenticeship training and to increase the both State led and Centre funded, at the state level engagement of apprentices from 2.3 lakh during August ο Improving quality of skill development programs 2016 to 50 lakh cumulatively by year 2020. ο Establishing robust monitoring and evaluation system • Scheme will cover all categories of apprentices except for skill training programs apprentices which are covered by the scheme ο Providing access to skill training opportunities to the administered by MHRD ie National Apprenticeship Training disadvantaged sections Scheme.

ο Creating industry led and demand driven skill training TARGET capacity 5 lakh apprentices in 2016-17, 10 lakh apprentices in 2017-18, • Aspirational Skilling Abhiyaan has been launched by MSDE. 15 lakh apprentices in 2018-19, 20 lakh apprentices in 2019- It aims to provide support to aspirational districts in skill 20. development. Financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh is provided FEATURES to each aspirational district through the Sankalp fund. • Wider option for the apprentices – integration with other • Skill India Portal: It is a skill development management schemes (courses under PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana), system that will provide end to end solution to bring all Modular Employable Skill (MES) courses under Skill stakeholders in the skill ecosystem on unified platform. Development Initiative or courses under State ο Aims to bring entire candidate and training partner Government/Central Government shall be linked with database on a single platform. apprenticeship training.

ο An Integrated platform for all skilling initiatives and • www.apprenticeshipindia.org portal shall be used for schemes run by various Union, State, NSDC and administering the entire implementation of Apprenticeship corporates. Training on line.

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Governments. District Skilling Committee will be mandated • The National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020 was to identify apprenticeship opportunities in their district unveiled in 2013 as part of the scheme FAME-India [Faster and ensure appropriate utilization. Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles • Promoter and Facilitators/Third Party Aggregators (TPAs) in India]. BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYING APPRENTICES UNDER THE • The scheme is being implemented over a period of 6 years SCHEME till 2020. • Sharing of 25% of prescribed stipend subject to maximum • It will support the hybrid and electric vehicles market of Rs 1500 per month per apprentice to all apprentices development and its manufacturing eco-system to achieve with the employers. self-sustenance at the end of this period. • Sharing of cost of basic training with Basic Training • This will also enable the scheme to align with Providers (BTP) up to a maximum of Rs 7500 per trainee Government’s Make in India initiative. The scheme focuses for a maximum of 500 hours calculated at the rate of 15 on four areas: per hour. ο Technology Development

ELIGIBILITY FOR APPRENTICE ο Demand Creation

• An apprentice is a person who has executed a contract on ο Pilot Projects

apprenticeship with the employer for apprenticeship ο Charging Infrastructure training under the Act. Minimum 14 years of age,

educational and physical qualification prescribed for the trade and other requirements of the Apprentices Act, MINISTRY OF EARTH 1961. Every apprentice has to register on the portal and must have an Aadhar number. SCIENCES • Apprentices can be engaged from the following categories: ►GAGAN ENABLED MARINER’S ο Trainees passed out from ITI courses, those under dual- learning mode from it is, who have completed any NSQF INSTRUMENT FOR NAVIGATION AND aligned Short Term Course including INFORMATION (GEMINI) DEVICE PMKVY/DDUGKY/MES, Graduates/candidates, pursuing graduation courses/Diplomas courses in any stream or • Low cost device for ocean states forecast and mapping 10+2 vocational certificate holders, Candidates who potential fishing zones. possess minimum educational qualification required for • Launched for seamless and effective dissemination of a trade and have not undergone any formal trade emergency information and communication on disaster training. warnings, Potential Fishing Zones (PFZ) and Ocean States

ο Basic Training Providers (BTP) is an entity who has the Forecasts (OSF) to fishermen. facilities for imparting basic training to apprentices. • Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services • Types of BTPs are: (INCOIS), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and Airports Authority of India (AAI) tend ο National Skill Training Institutes, National Skill Training to utilize the GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Institute for Women, Government/Private ITIs having Navigation) satellite system to transmit the PFZ, OSF and grade 1 affiliation. disaster warnings to fishermen.

• GEMINI device is electronically designed and MINISTRY OF HEAVY manufactured by a private industry M/S Acord, Bangalore under Make in India Program. INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC • It receives and transfers the data received from GAGAN satellite/s to a mobile through Bluetooth communication. ENTERPRISES A mobile application developed by INCOIS decodes and displays the information in nine regional languages. ►FAME (FASTER ADOPTION AND GAGAN SYSTEM MANUFACTURING OF (HYBRID) AND GAGAN system consisting of three geosynchronous satellites ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN INDIA (GSAT-8, GSAT-10 and GSAT-15). GAGAN foot-print covers the entire Indian Ocean round the clock. 60 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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►MOU ON ANTARCTIC COOPERATION • National Facility for Airborne Research (NFAR) to be established with a financial commitment of Rs 130 crore BETWEEN INDIA AND ARGENTINA during 2020-21. • India and Argentina have signed MoU on Antarctic cooperation. • The MoU will help scientific cooperation on projects in the fields of Earth sciences, as well as those related to the MINISTRY OF RURAL protection and conservation of the natural environment of DEVELOPMENT Antarctica and the Southern Oceans. ►MGNREGA ►O-SMART (OCEAN SERVICES, • It is a statutory scheme to provide for livelihood security in TECHNOLOGY, OBSERVATIONS, rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment every year to every household whose RESOURCES MODELLING AND adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.. SCIENCE) • It is a demand driven program. • It is an umbrella scheme & will be implemented from • Provision for Unemployment Allowance if an applicant is 2017-18 to 2019-20. not provided employment within 15 days of receipt of his • Strengthening of Ocean Observations and Modelling application. • Strengthening of Ocean services for Fishermen • Wage rates for workers are notified and revised annually based on CPI-Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL). CPI-AL is • Setting up Marine Coastal Observatories for monitoring published by Labour Bureau, Shimla. marine pollution in 2018 • Compensation for delay of more than 15 days from the • Setting up Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant in date of closure of the Muster Roll, in payments of wages is Kavaratti paid to the workers. • Acquisition of 2 Coastal Research Vessels for Coastal • Statutory requirement of Social Audit. research • Central Govt pays for the entire cost incurred for wage • Continuation of Ocean survey and exploration of minerals payments of MGNREGA workers and 75% of cost of the and living resources equipment and machinery involved. • Technology development for deep ocean mining - deep MONITORING AND GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL mining system and manned submersibles State Government have to identify or establish independent • Setting up Six Desalination Plants in Lakshadweep Social Audit Units to facilitate Gram Sabha in conducting

social audits of works taken up under MGNREGA. ►ACROSS (ATMOSPHERE & CLIMATE REFORMS IN MGNREGA RELATED MODELLING OBSERVING • 100% of Geo-Tagging of Assets (Geo MGNREGA) SYSTEMS AND SERVICES) • Aadhar linking of bank accounts Ministry of Earth Sciences though India Metereological • GIS based planning of works Department (IMD), IITM, National Centre for Medium Range MISSION WATER CONSERVATION Weather Forecasting, INCOIS from 2017-2020. • Mission Water Conservation (Convergence framework AIMS for scientific planning and execution of water • To provide improved weather, climate and ocean forecast management works with the use of latest and services, thereby ensuring transfer of commensurate techonology). It has been made in consultation with benefits to the various services like Public Weather service, Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Agriculture disaster management, Agro-meteorological services, and Farmers’ Welfare. Aviation services, Environmental monitoring services, • Watershed Management, Command Area Development Hydro-meteorological services, climate services, tourism, and Water Management, Construction of Wells pilgrimage, power generation, water management, Sport • Guidelines to focus on the dark and grey blocks where the and adventure etc. ground water level was falling rapidly. Farm ponds, Vermi/NADEP composting, (reexcavation/renovation of 61 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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farm ponds cannot be undertaken on private lands is not a • Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP): MKSP permissible activity), Construction of Anganwadi Centres, intervention strategy involves building a structure on the Construction of Individual Household Latrines (IHHL), foundation of sustainability. This involves incorporating Construction of School toilets and Anganwadi toilets, climate change resilient and ecologically sound practices Construction of Houses under PM Awas Yojana (Grameen), into the overall structure. Community Resource Persons PM Adarsh Gram Yojana. (CRPs) play a proactive role in scaling up these initiatives. SKILL DEVELOPMENT UNDER MGNREGA Major interventions promoted under DAY-NRLM which contribute to climate change resilience & risk mitigation Barefoot Technicians (BFT): Program for training and skill among the poor are: development of MGNREGA workers. HE is an educated person identified from the local MGNREGA worker • Community managed sustainable agriculture (agro- households or from mates/supervisors and specially trained ecology approaches) in civil engineering concepts training module such that he • Usage of locally available natural inputs – for pest acquires required skills for identification and estimation of management and soil fertility management works, giving mark out for works in the field and record • System of root intensification – SRI, SCI measurement of the work done. • Promotion of millets and cereal crops ELIGIBILITY • Promotion of multiple crops Shall be from an active household, minimum 10th standard • Tree based farming practices education. Preference shall be given to BFTs from the local • area. Adequate representation shall be given to SC/ST and Regeneration of forest species Women candidates. • Usage of locally available natural inputs • PROJECT LIFE (Livelihoods in Full Employment): The • Integrated farming practice with small ruminants project aims at promoting self-reliance and improving skill • Convergence with MGNREGA to create agriculture assets base of the MGNREGA workers, thereby improving for the community livelihoods of MGNREGA workers so that they can move • Non Pesticide Management from the current partial employment to full employment • Natural soil fertility Management status and thereby reduce their dependence of MGNREGA. It focuses on skill development and formation of • Integrating livestock with agriculture production groups with target households. • Integration of livestock – promotion of Pashu sakhi model • 60:40 expenditure between wage and material at the • Ensuring the scalability of climate change resilient district level. Initially, it was at Gram Panchayat level. agriculture practices through Community Best • Electronic Fund Management System (e-FMS) is used to Practitioners (CBPs) make 100% expenditure under the scheme. • In-situ rain water harvesting • Women and SHGs: Statutory requirement of 1/3rd women • Promotion of Organic farming village clusters with women participation. SHG members across the country: 1646 of organic village • Central Employment Guarantee Council: It is a statutory clusters have been identified by 28 states/UTs. body created under the NREG Act, 2005. • Farm Livelihoods MIS INITIATIVES UNDER MGNREGA NON-FARM LIVELIHOODS Inter-State Exchange Program to promote exchange of ideas • Startup Village Entreprenuership Program (SVEP): and good practices between States. Scheme for supporting rural entrepreneurs by establishing the eco-system for enterprises development in rural areas. ►DEENDAYAL ANTYODAYA YOJANA: The eco-system has components for providing business support services, mentorship, seed capital, training & NATIONAL RURAL LIVELIHOODS capacity building on business and technical aspects and MISSION marketing support. SVEP saturates a block with these services for supporting small business. Programme is Seeks to reach out to 8-9 crore rural people households and being implemented in 131 blocks across the country. organise one woman member from each household into affinity based women SHGs and federations at village level • Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY): Provides and at higher levels. safe, affordable and community monitored rural transport services to remote villages. The vehicles are owned and FARM LIVELIHOODS 62 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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operated by members of SHG networks and operate in ο MGNREGA worker household if any person from the regions which are not served by regular transport services. household has completed 15 days of work

624 routes are currently served by AGEY across the ο RSBY household country. ο Antyodaya Anna Yojana card household • National Rural Economic Transformation Project ο BPL PDS card households ο Promote women-owned and women led farm and non- ο NRLM-SHG household farm enterprises across value chains, enable them to ο build businesses that help them access finance, markets Households covered under inclusion parameters of SECC 2011. and networks, generate employment. • Social inclusion of candidates through mandatory ο Create a platform to access finance including start up financing options to build individual or collectively coverage of socially disadvantaged groups ie for SC/ST - 50%, Minorities - 15% and Women 33%. owned and managed enterprises. • Regional inclusion of candidates in enabled through: ο Developing financial products using digital financial services to help small producer collectives scale-up and ο Special sub-scheme for the youth of J&K called Himayat. engage with the market. ο Special initiative for the rural youth of poor families in ο Support youth skill development, in coordination with 27 most affected LWE districts across nine states called Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana. ROSHNI.

ο Peer to peer learning across States and across • Minimum salary of Rs 6000 per month or minimum wages communities of the State, whichever is higher (after a three month training course) ο Technical assistance • Post-placement support to candidates. ο It is a World Bank assisted project under the NRLM. • Incentives to training partners and candidates for ROSHNI CENTRE achievement of outcomes in job retention (12 months), • DAY-NRLM and Lady Irwin College have signed a MoU to career progression (salary of Rs 15000 in the first year). establish ROSHNI - Centre of Women Collectives led Social • Action. Primacy given to Training Partners who can train and support overseas placement and captive placements. • It will be technically and financially supported by UNICEF • India Promotes Industry Internships supported through joint partnerships between industry and DDU-GKY. • It will serve as a technical support unit at national level for DAY-NRLM Assessment criteria for Project Implementation Agencies:

• Overseas Placement of Poor Rural Youth ►DEEN DAYAL UPADHAYAYA • Projects for Captive Employment GRAMEEN KAUSHALYA YOJANA (DDU- • Projects by 'Champion Employers' • Educational Institution of High Repute GKY) FUNDING • Aims at building placement linked skills of rural youth and • 60:40 between Centre and States in all states, except in place them in relatively higher wage employment sectors North-East states, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh of the economy. where it is 90:10. In J&K, it is 100% funded. • The skilling courses are undertaken by Project • It is a free of cost placement linked skill training scheme Implementing agency in a PPP Mode. for rural poor youth. • Every PIA needs to assure placements to 70% of the • CIPET and Indo German Tool rooms trained candidates. • Kaushal Panjee Portal and mobile app for registration of • Market led, placement linked training program for rural prospective training candidate was also launched. youth undertaken in PPP mode.

• Mandatory assured placement to 70% of the trained candidates. ►KAUSHAL PANJEE • Focus on rural youth from poor families in the age • It is a mobile app for registration of prospective training group of 15 to 35 years belonging to: candidates for skill development. 63 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• It aims to be citizen centric end-to-end solution to aid . Occupational diseases like silicosis, asbestos, people mobilization of candidates for Deen Dayal Upadhyaya affected by overuse of pesticides.

Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) and Rural Self ο Settlement of surrendered militants and their families. Employment Training. Institutes (RSETI). ο New technology demonstration - especially with focus • Kaushal Panjee is connected to the Social Economic Caste on affordable and green technologies and using locally Census 2011 which will help the States plan andtarget their available materials.

mobilizations based on the socio-economic profile of households in their State.

►MISSION ANTYODAYA ►PMAY-GRAMEEN OBJECTIVE • To bring 50000 Gram Panchayats in 5000 clusters poverty • Use of SECC 2011 house deprivation data for identification free by 2022. of beneficiaries • The GPs have been selected by the respective State • Focus on improvement of quality of house construction Governments and UTs. and timely completion ENVISAGED OUTCOMES FEATURES • Strong infrastructural base for selected GPs/clusters • AwaasSoft portal has been made for monitoring of the through prioritised implementation of schemes in line with scheme. Gram Panchayat Development Plan/Cluster Development • Providing assistance for construction of 1 crore houses in Plans. rural areas over the period of 3 years from 2016-17 to • Effective social capital promoting participatory planning 2018-19 and implementation of schemes engaging wide range of • Minimum area of house enhanced from 20 sq m (Under stakeholders at GP/Cluster IAY) to 25 sq m including a dedicated area for hygienic • Enhanced economic opportunities through diversified cooking livelihoods, including non-farm sector, skilling of rural • Unit assistance of Rs 1.20 lakh in plains and 1.30 lakhs in youth and women, development of value chains and hilly states, difficult areas and IAP districts. promotion of enterprise • Funding : 60:40 • Strengthened democratic processes through capacity • Use of new housing designs after studying local region building of PRIs, public disclosures, GP level formal and specific typologies social accountability such as social audit. • Training of rural masons for improving workmanship and • It is an accountability and convergence framework for quality of construction of houses transforming lives and livelihoods on measurable • Selection of beneficiaries through a three stage validation outcomes. (SECC, Gram Sabha and Geo-Tagging) has ensued selection • Evidence based identification and ensuring eligibility and of the poorest of the poor under PMAY-G. accountability • Provision for homes to landless. • Measuring performance of GPs and wellbeing of • National Technical Support Agency to provide technical households support for Rural Housing. KEY PROCESSES UNDER MISSION ANTYODAYA • 5%of annual central allocation would be retained at • Carry out baseline survey of households and monitor the Central Government level as a reserve fund. This fund will progress periodically be used financing the proposals under Special Projects • Ensure convergence of programs/schemes targeted received from States. towards development of rural areas. ο Rehabilitation/relocation of families whose houses have • Institutionalise partnerships at GPs/Clusters between PRIs, been completely/substantially damaged due to community organisations, NGOs, SHGs, institutions and . Natural hazards field level functionaries (eg ASHA workers, Anganwadi . Law and order problems Workers, ANMs etc) ο Settlement of families affected due to/benefitted by • Promote enterprise through partnership with institutions and professionals . International border issues . Forest Rights Act 64 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Funding: It does not have a separate budget head. • Maintenance of Roads constructed under PMGSY is the However, funding for the program will come from pooling responsibility of the State Government. All road works are of funds from various schemes for rural development. covered by initial five year maintenance contracts to be entered into along with the construction contract, with the ►PM GRAM SADAK YOJANA same contractor.

Rural roads is a State subject. PMGSY is a one-time special intervention to provide road connectivity by way of single all ►SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJI weather road to the eligible unconnected habitations in the RURBAN MISSION (SPMRM) OR Core Network. NATIONAL RURBAN MISSION (NRUM) PHASE-I BACKGROUND • Connecting all unconnected habitations with a population • Large parts of rural areas in the country are not stand- of 500 persons (as per Census 2001) and above in plain alone settlements but part of a cluster of settlements, areas which are relatively proximate to each other. These • Unconnected habitations with 250 persons and above in clusters illustrate potential for growth. These clusters once Special Category States' namely North-East, Sikkim, developed can then be classified as 'Rurban'. Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Uttarakhand, Desert Areas (as • Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM), identified in Desert Development Program) and 88 aimed at developing such rural areas by provisioning of selected Tribal and Backward districts as identified by economic, social and physical infrastructure facilities. was MHA/Planning commission. launched on 21st February, 2016. • Sunset date of achievement of PMGSY-I has been OBJECTIVE preponed to March, 2019 with enhanced fund allocation. • Stimulate local economic development, enhance basic • Funding Pattern: 60:40 between Centre and States, 90:10 services, and create well planned Rurban clusters. for North-Eastern and Himalayan states (HP, J&K and Uttarakhand) • Development of 300 Rurban clusters, in 5 years. PHASE-II • Bridging the rural-urban divide - i.e.: economic, technological and those related to facilities and services. • Need: There is a need to consolidate the entire rural roads network by upgradation of selected Routes and some • Stimulatinglocal economic development with emphasis on Major Rural Links (MRLs). reduction of poverty and unemployment in rural areas. • M • Spreading development in the region. • Consolidation of the existing Rural Road Network to • Attracting investment in rural areas. improve its overall efficiency as a provider of FEATURES transportation services These clusters would be strengthened with the required • Upgradation of existing selected rural roads based on their amenities, for which it is proposed that resources be economic potential and their role in facilitating the growth mobilized through convergence of various schemes of the of rural market centres and rural hubs. Government, over and above which a Critical Gap Funding (CGF) would be provided under this Mission, for focused o Target length of 50,000 km for upgradation development of these clusters. • State Governments are required to propose minimum 15%

of total length of annual proposals under New Technologies such as ο Cement Stabilisation ►SANSAD ADARSH GRAM YOJANA ο Lime Stabilisation (SAGY) ο Cold Mix OBJECTIVE ο Waste Plastics • SAGY is a village development project launched in ο Cell filled concrete October 2014, ο Paneled cement concrete pavement • The goal is that each Member of Parliament will take the ο Fly ash responsibility to develop 3 Adarsh Grams by March 2019 – • Meri Sadak App for monitoring and complaints by developing physical and institutional infrastructure. 65 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Of the three, 1 would be achieved by 2016. • The Chairperson of the committee will be the senior most • Thereafter, 5 such Adarsh Grams (one per year) will be Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) elected from the selected and developed by 2024. district, nominated by the Union Ministry of Rural Development VALUE ADDITION • It will ensure the participation of people’s representative at SAGY aims at instilling certain values in the villages and their all levels and successful implementation of flagship people so that they get transformed into models for others. programme of central government. These values include: • Ensure that all Central Government programmes are • Adopting people’s participation as an end in itself – implemented in accordance with the guidelines ensuring the involvement of all sections of society in all aspects related to the life of village, especially in decision- • Look into complaints and alleged irregularities received in making related to governance the implementation of the programmes. • Adhering to Antyodaya – enabling the “poorest and the REAL TIME MONITORING weakest person” in the village to achieve well being • DISHA dashboard, the application, which is now available • Affirming gender equality and ensuring respect for women to all members of Parliament and State Assemblies as well district officials, allows the user to track the progress of • Guaranteeing social justice multiple and diverse schemes in a certain district, block, or • Instilling dignity of labour and the spirit of community even a gram panchayat. service and voluntarism • The application automatically turns sets of statistics and • Promoting a culture of cleanliness data into interactive and visually accessible graphics and • Living in consonance with nature – ensuring a balance maps.

between development and ecology • Preserving and promoting local cultural heritage ►NATIONAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE • Inculcating mutual cooperation, self-help and self-reliance PROGRAM (NSAP) • Fostering peace and harmony in the village community OBJECTIVE • Bringing about transparency, accountability and probity in NSAP is a social security and welfare programme to public life provide support to aged persons, widows, disabled • Nurturing local self-governance persons and bereaved families on death of primary bread • Adhering to the values enshrined in the Fundamental winner, belonging to below poverty line households. Rights and Fundamental Du-ties of the Indian Constitution. SCHEMES UNDER NSAP Presently NSAP comprises of 5 schemes ►DISHA (DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT 1. Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme COORDINATION AND MONITORING (IGNOAPS) - The eligible age for IGNOAPS is 60 years. The pension is Rs.200 p.m. for persons between 60 years and COMMITTEE) 79 years. For persons who are 80 years and above the The Union Government has constituted the District pension is Rs.500/ - per month. Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee 2. Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (DDCMC) or DISHA for effective development and (IGNWPS) - The eligible age is 40 years and the pension is coordination of Central Government’s programme. Rs.300 per month. After attaining the age of 80 years, the It is an effort to improve development coordination and beneficiary will get Rs.500/ - per month. monitoring within the Constitutional framework of 3. Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme responsibilities assigned to Central, State and Local (IGNDPS) - The eligible age for the pensioner is 18 years Governments. and above and the disability level has to be 80%. The • The main purpose of the DISHA is to coordinate with amount is Rs.300 per month and after attaining the age of Central and State and local Panchayat Governments 80 years, the beneficiary will get Rs 500/ - per month. • It has been created for effective coordination and Dwarfs will also be an eligible category for this pension development of Central Government’s programme for 4. National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) - Rs. 20000/ will infrastructure development or Social and human resource be given as a lump-sum assistance to the bereaved development household in the event of death of the bread - winner. 66 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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5. Annapurna - 10 kgs of food grains (wheat or rice) is given . 'National Plan of Technical Assistance', per month per beneficiary. The scheme aims at providing . Collaboration with Academic Institutions/Institutions food security to meet the requirements of those eligible of Excellency NIRD&PR old aged persons who have remained uncovered under . 'Mission mode project on e-Panchayat', the IGNOAPS.

. Incentivisation of Panchayats: Awards including financial incentives will be given to best performing ►GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAN Panchayats (District, Intermediate, and Gram • The campaign, undertaken under the name of “Sabka Sath, Panchayats) and States/UT in recognition of their Sabka Gaon, Sabka Vikas”, is to promote social harmony, good work for improving delivery of services and spread awareness about pro-poor initiatives of public goods. government, reach out to poor households to enroll them ο State Component: Centre State funding pattern for as also to obtain their feedback on various welfare State Component will be 60:40 for all States, except programmes. North East and Hill States where 90:10 formula will be • As a special endeavour during the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, used. For UTs, the Central share will be 100%. saturation of eligible households/persons would be made . States are expected to prepare plans for central under seven flagship pro-poor programmes in identified funding to undertake activities as per their villages, namely, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, requirements/priorities, from the list of activities Saubhagya, Ujala scheme, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan permitted under the scheme. They are:- Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and Mission Indradhanush.  Capacity Building and Training • Extended Gram Swaraj Abhiyan: In continuation of  Support for Innovations “Gram Swaraj Abhiyan”, govt. of India has extended it in  Distance Learning 117 Aspirational Districts identified by the NITI Aayog.  Administrative and Financial data analysis and planning cell MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI  Panchayat Buildings and Community hall  Technical support to PRIs

RAJ  Strengthening Gram Sabha including in PESA ►RESTRUCTURED RASHTRIYA GRAM areas  SWARAJ ABHIYAN (RGSA) Training Infrastructure and HR  Innovative activities • It is a centrally sponsored scheme that will be  implemented during the period from 2018 to 2022. e-Enablement of Panchayats  • Funding: Central share 4500 crore State Share: 2755 crore Project based support for Economic Development/Income Enhancement DETAILS  Information, Education, Communication (2%) • Objective:  Program Management (5%) ο Developing governance capabilities of PRIs to deliver on the SDGs through inclusive local governance with focus ο The implementation and monitoring of the activities will on optimum utilisation of available resources. be on achieving SDGs

• The scheme will be extended to all states and UTs, will also ο Focus on convergence initiatives with other ministries. include institutions of rural local government in non-Part IX ο Sunset date for RGSA will be 31.03.2030. areas, where Panchayats do not exist. Main thrust will be on Panchayats identified under Mission Antyodaya and 115 Aspirational districts as identified by Niti Aayog. ►E-PANCHAYAT MISSION MODE PROJECT

• The scheme has two components: • One of Mission mode projects under Digital India program of GOI. ο Central Component: This component will be fully funded by Central Government. National level activities • Various Applications development under Panchayat including Enterprise Suite are: 67 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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Captures receipt and expenditure details ►GRAM PANCHAYAT DEVELOPMENT 1. PRIASoft through voucher entries and automatically PLAN generates cash book, registers etc • GPs have been mandated for the preparation of GPDP for economic development and social justice. Facilitates strengthening of participative • People's Plan Campaign for GPDP was organised from decentralised planning and enables 2nd October to 31st December 2018 2. Planplus preparation of participatory Gram • It's theme was 'Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas' Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) • It was organised by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Ministry of Rural Development 3. National Dynamic website for each Panchayat (ie • Objectives of People's Plan Campaign Panchayat ZPs, BPs, GPs) to share information in Portal public domain ο Strengthening role of 31 lakh elected Panchayat leaders and 5.25 crore SHG women under DAY-NRLM in effective Gram Sabha. Captures all details of local governments and assigns unique code. Also maps ο Evidence based assessment of progress made in 2018- 4. Local Panchayats with Assembly and 19 and proposals for 2019-20 in all 29 subjects of XI Government Schedule Parliamentary Constituencies. It assigns a Directory (LGD unique code to each administrative entity ο Full public disclosure on a village display board on Codes) and maintain up-to-date list of revenue schemes, finances etc. of all Programmes in Gram entities. Panchayat Office and Gram Samvaad app. ο Structured Gram Sabha meetings spread over 2nd Facilitates proper recording of Financial October - 31st December, 2018, with physical presence 5. ActionSoft and Physical progress of the works and presentation by frontline workers/Supervisors of all 29 sectors in XI schedule

6. National Captures details of assets created/ ο PlanPlus strengthened to provide for a pragmatic and holistic GPDP. Asset maintained, helps avoid duplication of Directory works and provides for maintenance. ►GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAAN (GSA) Captures geographic, demographic, • Theme: 'Sabka Sath Sabka Gaon Sabka Vikas'. infrastructural, socio-economic and natural resources profile of a village/panchayats • It was organised by Ministry of Panchayati Raj. 7. Area Profiler and details of Elected Representatives and • The GSA was organised from 14th April (Dr Ambedkar's Panchayat Functionaries, Election Details Birthday) to 5th May 2018. etc. • Aims to promote social harmony, spread awareness about pro-poor initiatives of government, reach out to poor A dynamic metadata based service delivery households to enroll them as also to obtain their feedback 8. Service Plus portal to help in providing electronic on various programs. delivery of services. • Saturation of eligible households/persons under 7 flagship pro-poor programs in 21,058 identified villages

9. Training Portal to address training needs of ο PM Ujjwala Yojana (Gas connection)

Management stakeholders including citizens, their ο Saubhagya Yojana (Electricity connection) Portal feedback, training materials etc. ο Ujala Scheme (LED buld)

ο PM Jan Dhan Yojana (Bank Account) To understand, measure and verify work under different schemes done by the ο PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (Life Insurance) 10. Social Audit Panchayat and further to improve social ο PM Suraksha Bima Yojana (Accidental Insurance) performance of respective Panchayats. ο Mission Indradhanush (Immunisation) • Events Organised under Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan 68 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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ο Ambedkar Jayanti (14th April) . Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan (KKA) launched between 1st June 2018 to 31st July 2018 in 117 aspirational ο Swachh Bharat Parv districts ο Ujjawala Panchayat . 25 villages with more than 1000 population in each ο Panchayati Raj Diwas (24th April 2018) Aspirational District ο Gram Shakti Abhiyaan (28 April 2018) . In districts, where number of villages (with more ο Aayushman Bharat Abhiyaan (30 April 2018) than 1000 population) is less than 25, all such

ο Kisan Kalyan Karyashala (2nd May 2018): A block level districts will be covered. awareness generation event will be organised about . Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) act as the nodal point to interventions for doubling of income of farmers by implement the action plan developed by DACFW, 2022. By Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. DAHDF, and DARE. ο Aajeevika and Kaushal Vikas Kendra (by Departnment of . Activities organised under KKA are Rural Development)  Distribution of Soil Health Cards

 Distribution of Mini Kits of Pulses and Oilseeds ►EXTENDED GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAAN  Distribution of Horticulture/Agroforestry/Bamboo • It was organised by MORD and MOPR. Plant (5 per family, location appropriate) • It was organised between 1st June and 15th August, 2018.  Making NADAP pits in each village • Aim was to promote social harmony, spread awareness  Foot and Mouth Disease vaccination in each village about pro-poor initiatives of the government, reach out to  Vaccination of sheep and goat for eradication of poor households to enroll them as also obtain their Peste des Petits ruminants (PPR) feedback on various welfare programs.  Artificial Insemination Saturation (100/Village) • Saturation of eligible household/persons would be made  Training program in each of the villages by ICAR/ under 7 flagship pro-poor programs in 117 Aspirational Districts.  Distribution of 10 to 20 agriculture implements per village ο PM Ujjwala Yojana (Gas connection)  Demonstration of integrated cropping practice and ο Saubhagya Yojana (Electricity connection) micro-irrigation ο Ujala Scheme (LED buld)  Development/Upgradation of Gramin Haats in ο PM Jan Dhan Yojana (Bank Account) Convergence with MGNREGA.

ο PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (Life Insurance) ο Skills ο PM Suraksha Bima Yojana (Accidental Insurance) . Spreading awareness about skill development ο Mission Indradhanush (Immunisation) programs and to encourage youth to enroll for training • 5 priority areas identified as per district plan. . Aptitude assessment and counselling ο Health and Family Welfare . Organisation of Rozgar Melas to facilitate ο School and Education: Mobilisation and is carried through Kaushal Melas, . Controlling dropout rates from class 5 to 6 and from camps/drives by TPs and walk-in sessions at training class 6 to 9 centres.

. Maximise number of functional toilets and functional ο Nutrition drinking water facilities for both girls and co-ed . Poshan schools . Mahila Shakti . Maximise the number of schools where new textbooks reached within one month of the start of the academic year and work towards creating new book banks MINISTRY OF LAW AND ο Agriculture JUSTICE ►eCourts MISSION MODE PROJECT 69 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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PHASE-II (2015-19)  CITIZENS ELIGIBLE FOR TELE LAW • It is a national egovernance project for ICT enablement of SERVICE district and subordinate courts of the country.

• Establishment of Wide Area Network (WAN) connecting all Categories of Marginalised Fees for Documents to District and Subordinate court complexes, spread across persons (Section 12 of Tele Law be brought to the country. Legal Services Authorities Service CSC for Act, 1987) Registration • Installation of video conferencing facility

• Recording of witness through Video conferencing Women Nil Nil • Connecting all courts in the country to the National Judicial Data Grid through WAN and additional redundant Children below 18 years of Nil Nil connectivity age

• Citizen centric facilities such as electronic filing, e-payment and use of mobile applications in all courts SC/ST Nil Caste certificate

• Touch screen based kiosks in each court complex Victims of Trafficking Nil Self- • Full computerisation of State and district level judicial and declaration/Copy service academies and centres of Police FIR/Affidavit • e-Committee of Supreme Court of India: Composition of eCommittee, Supreme Court of India o Mentally Ill and Differently Nil Disability . Chief Justice of India, as Patron-in-Chief of the abled certificate eCommittee . Honable Judge Incharge, eCommittee Victims of Natural Nil District Disaster/Ethnic Violence . Regular members: . Invitee members Workers in unorganised Nil Job o Functions: sector Card/MGNREGA Card . It will provide policy planning, strategic direction and guidance to the Project for effective implementation of all components of the Project. People with low income Nil BPL groups (income as specified Card/Income by the State) certificate ►INTEROPERABLE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Undertrials/In custody Nil Any relevant case document It is a project to integrate the Crime and Criminals Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) with the e-courts and e- Other persons: Fees for Telelaw Service Rs 30, documents to prisons database, as well as with other pillars of crimal justice be brought to CSC for Registration (Aadhar Card/Any ID systems such as Forensics, Prosecution, and Juvenile Homes Proof) in a phased manner. STATES COVERED Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, ►TELE LAW INITIATIVE Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, , Uttar Pradesh • It falls under Access to Justice Project for Marginalised Persons, being implemented by the Department of Justice NYAYA MITRA along with UNDP. • They are facilitation centres set up at CSCs across districts • It is a Joint Initiative by Department of Justice, Ministry of to reduce pendency of 10 year old cases. Nyaya Mitra will Law and Justice and MEITY. serve under MEITY and will be headed by a retired judicial/executive officer with legal background.

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• Will be set up across 227 districts, including 27 districts of • Pro bono legal services are free. However, based on north eastern states and J&K. mutual understanding between the applicant and ROLE OF NYAYA MITRA: advocate, the applicant may be required to incur incidental expenses like photocopying, posting and typing charges. • Identify cases pending for over 10 years • Mobile Application has been developed which will enable • Provide assistance to litigants in speedy disposal of their the Para Legal Volunteers to perform on field pre- cases registration of cases with a facility to seek appointment • Provide access to justice by connecting litigants with legal from Panel Lawyer on preferred date and time, in authorities, CSC Tele-law service, government agencies coordination with Village Level entrepreneur (VLE) at the and civil society organisations CSC.

• Refer applicants from marginalised communities to Lok • This application will benefit 73,000 PLVs of NALSA and Adalats for dispute resolution SLSA in the country who will be associated with Tele-Law • Facilitate legal aid to under trial prisoners service. PARA LEGAL VOLUNTEER NYAYA BANDHU APP FOR THE SCHEME • They are the first point of contact between rural citizens • Based on the premise of using technology to enhance and lawyers providing legal aid through CSC. access to justice for all, the Nyaya Bandhu app will allow marginalised individuals (referred to as 'Applicants'), • They are lawyers, but have basic understanding of legal seeking quality legal advice and aid, to connect, with ease, process. via a mobile application with 'Advocates' who have • They hear the grievances of citizens and offer appropriate volunteered their time and services on this platform. support/suggestion for legal aid. • The Nyaya Bandhu application has been developed in • Help citizens understand legal issues and advice given by collaboration with CSC eGovernance Private India Limited lawyers. and is available in Hindi and English. • A trained PLV is available in a CSC for minimum 10 days in a month under the scheme. MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND ►NYAYA BANDHU (PRO BONO LEGAL EMPLOYMENT SERVICES) ►NATIONAL CHILD LABOUR PROJECT AIM OBJECTIVES To enhance access to justice for marginalised sections of the society and fulfil State’s constitutional obligation to provide • Eliminate all forms of child labour by ‘free legal aid’ for all. ο Identification and withdrawal of all children in the FEATURES Project Area from Child Labour • The ‘Pro bono legal services’ initiative is a web based ο Preparing Children withdrawn from work for platform, through which interested lawyers can register mainstream education along with vocational training themselves to volunteer pro bono services for the ο Convergence with other schemes related to children underprivileged litigants, who are unable to afford it. and benefit of children Through this online portal, litigants from marginalised • Contribute to the withdrawal of all adolescent workers communities (including members of scheduled castes and from Hazardous Occupations/Processes and their Skilling scheduled tribes, women, children, senior citizens, persons and integration in appropriate occupations with low income and persons with disabilities) can also • Raising awareness amongst stakeholders and target apply for legal aid and advice from the pro bono lawyers. communities, • Pro bono advocate shall study the case and advise the • Creation of Child Labour Monitoring, Tracking and applicant on the best course of action. This may include Reporting system giving legal advice, drafting of pleadings, legal representation before courts. TARGET GROUP The scheme focuses on: 71 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• All child workers below the age of 14 years in the identified ►PM SHRAM YOGI MAAN DHAN target area SCHEME • Adolescent workers below 18 years of age in the target area engaged in hazardous occupations/processes • It is a pension scheme for Unorganised Workers. There are currently 42 crore workers engaged in the unorganised • Families of Child Workers in the identified target area sector of the country. STRATEGY OF THE SCHEME • It is a central sector scheme administered by Ministry of Under the Scheme, a survey is conducted to identify target Labour and Employment and implemented through LIC group (child worker and adolescent working in hazardous and CSCs. occupations and processes in a district or a specified area); • LIC will be the Pension Fund Manager and responsible for then children in the age group of 9-14 years are withdrawn Pension pay out. from work, and put into NCLP Special Training Centres where they are provided bridge education, vocational training, mid- • Unorganised workers whose monthly income is Rs 15000 day meal, stipend, health care and recreation etc. with the per month or less and belong ultimate objective of preparing them to be mainstreamed • CSCs spread across the country are enrolling PM-SYM into the formal system of education. Adolescents are beneficiaries withdrawn from hazardous occupations / processes to have BENEFITS UNDER THE SCHEME benefited from skills training wherever required and are • Each subscriber will receive of linked to legally permissible occupations. Minimum assured pension Rs 3000 per month after attaining the age of 60 years. FUNDING • Family Pension: During the receipt of pension, if the Central Sector Scheme (100% Centre funded) subscriber dies, the spouse of the beneficiary shall be PENCIL PORTAL entitled to receive 50% of the pension received by the • Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour beneficiary as family pension. • This portal has been created by Ministry of Labour and • If a beneficiary has given regular contribution and died due Employment for tracking child labour to any cause (before age of 60 years), his/her spouse will be entitled to join and continue the scheme subsequently

by payment of regular contribution or exit the scheme as ►ATAL BIMIT VYAKTI KALYAN per provisions of exit and withdrawal. YOJANA FUNDING NODAL AGENCY • Centrally sponsored scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded ESIC Labour BENEFICIARIES CONTEXT Around 3.2 crore Insured Persons covered under the ESI Act, Article 23 of the Constitution of India prohibits 'begar' and 1948. other similar forms of forced labour SALIENT POINTS • Provision of financial assistance for rehabilitation of a rescued bonded labourer at the rate of • Provide relief in the form of cash compensation to the insured person who has been rendered unemployed upto ο Rs 1 lakh for adult male beneficiary, 90 days, once in a lifetime, to be claimed after three ο Rs 2 Lakh for special category beneficiaries such as months in one or more spells for being rendered children including orphans or those rescued from unemployed, provided the employee should have organised and forced begging rings or other forms of completed two years of insurable employment and has forced child labour, and women contributed not less than 78 days in each of the four ο Rs 3 lakh in case of bonded or forced labour involving consecutive contribution periods immediately preceding to extreme cases of deprivation or marginalisation such as the claim of the relief. trans-genders or women or children rescued from • The relief shall not exceed 25% of average earning per day. ostensible sexual exploitation such as brothels,

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• Financial assistance for rehabilitation is 100% funded by UMBRELLA SCHEME Central Government. This is an umbrella scheme with five schemes under it as • Provision for financial assistance of Rs 4.50 lakh per district follows: to the States for conducting survey of bonded labourers, • A dedicated Shram Suvidha Portal: That would allot Rs 1 lakh for evaluatory studies and Rs 10 Lakh per State Labour Identification Number (LIN) to nearly 6 lakhs units per annum for awareness generation. and allow them to file online compliance for 16 out of 44 • Central Government will give 50% of the amount required labour laws for conducting Survey, Awareness Generation and • An all-new Random Inspection Scheme: Utilising Evaluatory Studies in advance. technology to eliminate human dis-cretion in selection of units for Inspection, and uploading of Inspection Reports ►NATIONAL CAREER SERVICE within 72 hours of inspection mandatory PROJECT • Universal Account Number: Enables 4.17 crore employees to have their Provident Fund account portable, • Ministry of Labour and employment is the nodal agency to hassle-free and universally accessible implement the project. • Apprentice Protsahan Yojana: Will support • It provides a variety of employment related services like manufacturing units mainly and other es-tablishments by Job matching, career counselling, vocational guidance, reimbursing 50% of the stipend paid to apprentices during information on skill development courses etc. first two years of their training • Establishment of Model Career Centres by the State • Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana: Introducing Government/Institutions of repute to provide variety of a Smart Card for the work-ers in the unorganised sector employment related services using technology. seeded with details of two more social security schemes

• The Ministry has signed MOUs with private partners like job portals, placement organisations and reputed institutions for maximising the reach of the National ►PRADHAN MANTRI ROJGAR Career Service PROTSAHAN YOJANA (PMRPY)

OBJECTIVES ►PM ROJGAR PROTSAHAN YOJANA • To incentivise employers for employment generation • EPFO is the nodal agency for the scheme by the Government paying the employers' EPS contribution of 8.33%, for the new employees, for the first • Objective: For incentivising employers for employment 3 years of their employment and is proposed to be made generation. applicable for unemployed persons that are semi-skilled • Under this scheme, Government is paying the entire and unskilled. employer's contribution (12% or as admissible) towards • This Scheme has a dual benefit, where, on the one hand, the EPS and EPF for all sectors to all eligible new the employer is incentivised for increasing the employees for the next 3 years from the date of employment base of workers in the establishment, and on registration of the new employee. The salary of the the other hand, a large number of workers will find jobs in employee should be less than Rs 15000. such establishments. • The scheme has crossed 1 crore beneficiary milestone on • A direct benefit is that these workers will have access to January 14, 2019. social security benefits of the organised sector.

►DEENDAYAL UPADHYAY SHRAMEV JAYATE KARYAKRAM MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI OBJECTIVE The new 'Jal Shakti' Ministry is formed by merging erstwhile two ministries, namely, The objective of this scheme is to create conducive environment for industrial development and doing • Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and business with ease and also expanding government support Ganga Rejuvenation to impart skill training for workers. • Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation 73 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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►DAM REHABILITATION AND ►GROUND WATER EXTRACTION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT RULES It is a world bank assisted state sector scheme. It was • India is the largest user of ground water in the world which started in 2010. The project is scheduled to be is about 25% of the global ground water extraction. completed in 2020. • 90% of the annual ground water extraction is primarily for OBJECTIVES agricultural activities • Rehabilitation of Dam and its Appurtenant Structures • 10% of the extraction is for drinking and domestic as well • Institutional Strengthening as industrial uses. • Project Management. • Industrial use is estimated to account for only 5% of the • Capacity building in dam safety area: annual ground water extraction in the country. ο (Dam Health and Rehabilitation Monitoring Application) • Central Ground Water Authority is constituted under the DHARMA: Web-based asset management software to Environment Protection Act, 1986 in 1997. support the effective collection and management of REVISED GUIDELINES FOR GROUND WATER EXTRACTION asset and health data for all large dams in India.

• Introduction of the Concept of Water Conservation Fee ο SHAISYS (Seismic Hazard Assessment Information (WCF) System): Interactive program to estimate Seismic • Encouraging use of recycled and treated sewage water by Hazard at a point in South Indian region. industries ο Comprehensive rehabilitation of 223 existing dam • Provision of action against polluting industries projects located in seven states of India namely: , MP, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, , Jharkhand • Mandatory requirement of digital flow meters, (Damodar Valley Corporation) and Uttarakhand piezometers and digital water level recorders (Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited) • Mandatory water audit by industries extracting ground • It is a World Bank assisted project. water 500 cubic metres or more in safe and semi-critical and 200 cubic metres or more in critical and over-exploited • Nodal Agency: Central Water Commission. assessment units • Mandatory roof top rain water harvesting except for ►NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON DAM specified industries SAFETY (NCDS) • Measures to be adopted to ensure prevention of ground • It is headed by Chairman, Central Water Commission. It water contamination in premises of polluting has representation from State Governments and PSUs. industries/projects. • Objectives of NCDS are: • Exemption from requirements of NOC has been given to ο Oversee dam safety activities in States and suggest agricultural users, users employing non-energised means improvements to extract water, individual households and Armed Forces Establishments during operational deployment or during ο Act as a forum of exchange of views on techniques mobilisation in forward locations. adopted for remedial measures to relieve distress ο Monitor the follow up action on the report on dam ►FLOOD MANAGEMENT AND BORDER safety procedures AREAS PROGRAMME ο Recommend any other measures connected with dam safety.

• Will be implemented throughout the country for effective flood management, erosion control and anti-sea erosion. ►PROPOSED DRIP PHASE-II AND • Funding Pattern: For general category states: 50% (Centre) and 50% (States) PHASE-III

ο For North Eastern, Himalayan States: 70% (Centre): 30 • Provision of rehabilitation of 773 dams amounting to Rs (States) 11,487 crore.

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• It has two phases i. e Phase II and Phase III, each of 6 years . Hybrid Annuity Model duration with 2 years overlapping. This project will be . One-City-One Operator concept operational from 2020. ο River Front Development • It will be a State sector scheme with Central Component. ο River Surface Cleaning • Participation from 18 States, and 2 Central Agencies. ο Biodiversity Conservation • The two central implementing agencies will be Central ο Afforestation Water Commission and Bhakra Beas Management Board. ο Public Awareness • It has four components: . Rag Rag Mei Ganga and Meri Ganga Quiz is being ο Rehabilitation of Dams and its appurtenances organised by Doordarshan and is funded by NMCG. ο Institutional Strengthening ο Industrial Effluent Monitoring ο Project Management ο Ganga Gram: So far, 1674 Gram Panchayats have been ο Secondary Revenue Generation through incidental identified which are situated on the bank of River Ganga benefits ie Tourism and other means in 5 States (Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal). ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR CLEAN Clean Ganga Fund GANGA (NMCG) • It will attract private contributions globally for increasing people's participation in this massive task. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE • It will be operated through a bank account by a trust • National Council for Rejuvenation, Protection and Management of River Ganga (Also called National • Domestic donors to the fund shall be eligible for tax Ganga Council) benefits as in the case of 'Swachh Bharat Kosh'. • It will be headed by PM, with the Union Minister for Jal • The following activities will be financed from Clean Ganga Shakti acting as its vice-Chairman. Chief Ministers of Bihar, Fund Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal are ο Activities outlined under 'Namami Ganga' Program for members of this body. cleaning of river Ganga

FUNCTIONS ο Control of non-point pollution from agricultural runoff, • Will be responsible for the superintendence, direction, human defecation, cattle wallowing etc development and control of River Ganga and the entire ο Setting up of waste treatment and disposal plants along River basin (including financial and administrative matters) the river around cities

for the protection, prevention, control and abatement of ο Conservation of biodiversity of the river

• Empowered Task Force on River Ranga ο Community based activities to reduce polluting human • It will be headed by Union MOWR & RD & GR interface with the river

• It shall co-ordinate and advise on matters relating to ο Contributions to CGF also fall within the purview of CSR rejuvenation, protection and management of River Ganga activity as defined in Scheduled VII to the Companies and its tributaries. Act 2013. NATIONAL MISSION FOR CLEAN GANGA cGanga • It is responsible for Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies is a

ο Comply with the decisions and directions of National think-tank and Centre of Excellence to the National Mission Ganga Council and implement the Ganga Basin for Clean Ganga. Management Plan approved by it. Notification of minimum environmental flow for River

ο Establish 'River Ganga Monitoring Centre' for Ganga monitoring continuous flow of water and pollution • Environmental flows are acceptable flow regimes that are levels required to maintain a river in the desired environmental • Namami Gange Program, is an integrated conservation state or predetermined state. mission. ο For Upper Ganga River Basin Stretch starting from • Main Pillars of the Namami Ganga Program are: originating glaciers upto Haridwar

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ο Stretch of main stem of River Ganga from Haridwar, • Activities proposed under the campaign include rain water Uttarakhand to Unnao, Uttar Pradesh harvesting, recycling of waste water, micro irrigation for • The compliance of minimum environmental flow is using water efficiently and mass awareness program. applicable to all existing, under-construction and future Along with it, a cadre of local water professional Jal Mitra projects. The existing projects which currently do not meet will be created and they will be given training to create the norms will have to ensure that the desired mass awareness. environmental flows are complied with within a period of 3 years. ►JAL MARG VIKAS PROJECT

The Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) on NW-1 (River Ganga) is ►ATAL BHUJAL YOJANA being implemented with the financial and technical support • Aims to promote sustainable ground water management of the World Bank. with community participation in select over-exploited and OBJECTIVE water stressed areas. The Project entails development of fairway with 3-meters • It is a World Bank assisted project with 50:50 contribution depth between Varanasi and Haldia (Phase-I) covering a between Government of India and World Bank. It is a distance of 1380 km with target for completion in six years. central sector scheme. • The identified over-exploited (OE) and water stressed ►SWACHH BHARAT - GRAMEEN areas for the implementation of the scheme fall in the • Mission on track to deliver on Open Defecation Free (ODF) States of Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, , India well before the set deadline of October 2019 and is Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Nine blocks of focusing increasingly on sustaining ODF outcomes and Bundelkhand region in Madhya Pradesh viz. Chhatarpur ODF plus activities under Solid and Liquid Waste (Chhatarpur district), Naugaon (Chhatarpur district), Management. Rajnagar (Chhatarpur district), Sagar (Sagar district), Niwari (Tikamgarh district), Baldeogarh (Tikamgarh district), • 5.47 Villages, 600 districts and 27 States and UTs have Palera (Tikamgarh district), Patheria (Damoh district) and already been declared ODF. Ajeygarh (Panna district) have been identified in the • Darwaza Band Campaign scheme. • Findings of National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey • Community Participation mechanisms under the scheme (NARSS) 2018-19 are as follows: are: ο 93.1% of households were found to have access to ο Formation of 'Water User Associations' toilets during the survey period (corresponding figure as • Monitoring and disseminating ground water data per SBMG MIS in November 2018 was 96%) ο • Preparation and implementation of Gram Panchayat wise 96.5% of the people who had access to toilets used water security plans them. ο • IEC activities related to sustainable ground water 90.7% of villages which were previously declared to be management. ODF were confirmed to ODF. Remaining villages also

had sanitation coverage of 93%. ►JAL KRANTI ABHIYAN ο 95.4% of the villages surveyed found to have minimal litter and minimal stagnant water. OBJECTIVE • Swachhagrahis: Faecal Sludge Management • It aims at turning one water scarce village in each district of the country into water surplus village water through a holistic and integrated approach by adopting conservation ►GOBAR-DHAN (GALVANIZING and management techniques. ORGANIC BIO-AGRO RESOURCE– • Under the nationwide campaign a village with acute water DHAN) scarcity on a pilot project will be selected as Jal Gram. In • Aim: Cleaner villages through solid waste management, this identified village a comprehensive integrated increased rural income, and reduced environmental development plan will be framed and several water impactby converting cattledung and solid agricultural conservation activities will be launched. waste into compost and biogas. 76 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Villages become self-reliant in clean energy by harnessing about 28000 Arsenic and Flouride affected habitations biowaste, empowerment of women by reduced drudgery, (already identified).

employment, production of organic fertiliser, and ο Rs 12,500 crore as Central share will be required over 4 sanitation in the village is promoted. years ie March 2021.

• GOBAR DHAN Scheme, with its focus on keeping villages ο Aims to cover all rural population in Arsenic/Flouride clean, is an important element of ODF Plus Strategy of affected habitations with clean drinking water on a Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) sustainable basis by March 2021. • Implementation of 700 biogas units in different states in • Coverage of Open Defecation Free declared villages, 2018-19 Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana Gram Panchayats, and • States to develop at least one project per district. Integrated Action Plan districts with piped water supply • Only those Gram Panchayats which have not availed Solid • State have been given flexibility in utilisation of NRDWP Liquid Waste Management funds under Swachh Bharat funds by reducing number of components under the Mission (Gramin) are eligible to receive the financial program. assistance under GOBAR-DHAN scheme. • As per the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, about 77% of rural ►SWACHH SUNDAR SAUCHALAYA habitations in India have achieved a fully covered (FC) status (40 litres per capita per day) and 56% of the rural • Month long campaign which comprises of a contest population have access to tap water through public stand wherein households are being mobilised to paint and posts within which 16.7% have household connections. decorate their toilets.

• Will be spearheaded by Gram Panchayats and coordinated by District Panchayats. ►SWACHH ICONIC PLACES INITIATIVE • Aims to achieve a distinctly higher level of sanitation at ►SWAJAL PILOT PROJECT these places, especially in the peripheries and approach areas. • It will cover 115 aspirational districts of the country. • It involves local administrations in concerned states, PSUs • It is a community demand driven, decentralised, single and private companies are also sponsoring partners. village, preferably solar powered, mini • Companies can participate in it as per their CSR activities.

►RESTRUCTURED NATIOANAL RURAL ►GANGA GRAM DRINKING WATER PROGRAMME OBJECTIVE It is a centrally sponsored scheme under Ministry of Jal Shakti • To develop a model village that will exhibit itself as OBJECTIVE comprehensive and harmonious package of economic, Ensuring sustainability (source) of water availability in historic, cultural and sanitised unit, on banks of Ganga, terms of potability, adequacy, convenience, which is self-sustaining. affordability and equity. • Promoting brand “Ganga” in its handicraft, organic farm FUNDING produce and tourism will be other spin offs. 50:50 fund sharing between Centre and States. COMPONENTS OF GANGA GRAMS COMPONENTS 1. Making village Open Defecation Free • Improving coverage of piped drinking water in rural areas 2. Proper management of village waste draining into river Ganga • Increase level of service delivery 3. Proper disposal of solid waste • Thrust on coverage of water quality affected habitations: 4. Water conservation activities including rain water ο 2% earmarking of funds for Japanese harvesting/ground water recharge/maintain of well and Encephalitis/Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) affected areas ponds, promotion of sprinkler irrigation 5. Encourage plantation of medicinal plants and promotion ο National Water Quality Sub-Mission aims to address the urgent need for providing clean drinking water in of organic farming 6. Construction of crematorium 77 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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7. Promotion of tourism ►JAL SHAKTI ABHIYAN 8. Coordination between various Central and State • Inspired by Jal Sanchay, the JSA is a time-bound, mission- Governments sponsored schemes and their mode water conservation campaign in two phases: implementation on priority in Ganga Grams o Phase 1 from 1st July to 15th September 2019 for all States and Union Territories; ►JAL JEEVAN MISSION o Phase 2 from 1st October to 30th November 2019 for Government of India has restructured and subsumed the States and UTs receiving the retreating monsoon ongoing National Rural Drinking Water Programme(NRDWP) (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Puducherry and Tamil into Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) to provide Functional Household Nadu). Tap Connection (FHTC) to every rural household i.e., Har Ghar • During the campaign, officers, groundwater experts and Nal Se Jal (HGNSJ) by 2024. scientists from the Government of India will work together The following kinds of works/ schemes are proposed to be with state and district officials in India’s most water- taken up under JJM: stressed districts* for water conservation and water resource management by focusing on accelerated i) In-village water supply (PWS) infrastructure for tap water implementation of five target intervention. connection to every household; • The JSA aims at making water conservation a Jan Andolan ii) Reliable drinking water source development/ through asset creation and extensive communication. augmentation of existing sources; Note: Water-stressed districts are districts with critical or iii) Transfer of water (multi-village scheme; where quantity & over-exploited groundwater levels as per the Central Ground quality issues are there in the local water sources); Water Board (CGWB) 2017. iv) Technological intervention for treatment to make water potable (where water quality is an issue, but quantity is sufficient); MINISTRY OF MICRO SMALL v) Retrofitting of completed and ongoing piped water supply schemes to provide FHTC and raise the service AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE level; vi) Grey water management; (MSME) vii) Capacity building of various stakeholders and support activities to facilitate the implementation. ►PRIME MINISTER EMPLOYMENT viii) Service level delivery under JJM: The goal of JJM is to GENERATION PROGRAMME provide functional household tap connection to every FINANCE household with service level at the rate of 55 litres per Central Sector Scheme (Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme capita per day (lpcd). wherein interest is subsidized) ix) Financial Implication and Funding Pattern under JJM: NODAL AGENCY Total estimated cost of JJM is Rs. 3.60 Lakh Crore. The fund sharing pattern between Centre and State is 90:10 Khadi and Village Industries Commission for Himalayan (Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh) and THEME AND KEY FEATURES North-Eastern States, 100:0 for UTs and 50:50 for rest of • Aimed at generating self-employment opportunities the States. through establishment of micro-enterprises in the non- The institutional mechanism under JJM: farm sector by helping traditional artisans and i. National level National Jal Jeevan Mission unemployed youth. • Prime Minister's Rojgar Yojana and Rural Employment ii. State level State Water and Sanitation Mission Generation Programme have been merged under the (SWSM) scheme. iii. District level District Water and Sanitation • No income ceiling for setting up of projects. Mission (DWSM) • Assistance under the Scheme is available only to new units iv. Gram Paani Samiti/ Village Water & to be established. Panchayat level Sanitation Committee (VWSC)/ User ELIGIBLE BENEFICIARY group • Individuals above 18 years of age

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• VIII Std. pass required for project above Rs.10.00 lakhs in • Maximum limit of eligible loan for calculation of subsidy manufacturing and above Rs. 5.00 lakhs for Service Sector under the Scheme is investment in approved plant & • Self Help Groups and Charitable Trusts machinery uptoRs. 1.00 crore for induction of well- established and improved technologies. • Institutions Registered under Societies Registration Act-

1860 • Production based Co-operative Societies ►NATIONAL MANUFACTURING COMPETITIVENESS PROGRAMME (NMCP) ►CREDIT GUARANTEE TRUST FUND FOR It aims to support the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MICRO & SMALL ENTERPRISES (MSMEs) in their endeavor to become competitive. The objective of NMCP is to develop global competitiveness NODAL AGENCY among Indian MSMEs. This programme targets at enhancing MSME and Small Industries Development Bank of India the entire value chain of the MSME sector through the (SIDBI) following components: THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Lean Manufacturing Competitiveness Scheme for MSMEs; • The Ministry of MSME, and SIDBI, together have • Promotion of Information & Communication Tools (ICT) in established a Trust named Credit Guarantee Fund Trust MSME sector; • Collateral free loan up to a limit of ₹ 100 lakh is available • Technology and Quality Up gradation Support to MSMEs; for individual MSE on payment of guarantee fee to bank by • Design Clinics scheme for MSMEs; the MSE. • Enabling Manufacturing Sector to be Competitive through • Both existing and new enterprises are eligible under the Quality Management Standards (QMS) and Quality scheme. Technology Tools (QTT);

• Marketing Assistance and Technology Up gradation ►REVAMPED SCHEME OF FUND FOR Scheme for MSMEs; REGENERATION OF TRADITIONAL • National campaign for building awareness on Intellectual INDUSTRIES (SFURTI) Property Rights (IPR); THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Support for Entrepreneurial and Managerial Development of SMEs through Incubators. • To organize the traditional industries and artisans into clusters. • Bar Code under Market Development Assistance (MDA) scheme. • To provide sustained employment for traditional industry

artisans and rural entrepreneurs; • To enhance marketability of products of such clusters by ►A SCHEME FOR PROMOTION OF providing support for new products, design intervention INNOVATION, RURAL INDUSTRY & and improved packaging and also the improvement of ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ASPIRE) marketing Infrastructure; • Launched with an objective to set up a network of • To equip traditional artisans through training and technology centers, incubation centres to accelerate exposure visits; entrepreneurship and also to promote start-ups for • To make provision for common facilities and improved innovation and entrepreneurship in rural and agriculture tools and equipments for artisans; based industry with a fund of Rs.210 crores. • To strengthen the cluster governance systems with the • The planned outcomes of ASPIRE are setting up active participation of the stakeholders Technology Business Incubators (TBI), Livelihood Business Incubators (LBI) and creation of a Fund of Funds for such ►CREDIT LINKED CAPITAL SUBSIDY initiatives with SIDBI.

SCHEME(CLCSS) ►COIR VIKAS YOJNA • Facilitate technology upgradation in Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) by providing capital subsidy of 15% SKILL UPGRADATION AND MAHILA COIR YOJANA (MCY) (limited to maximum of Rs.15.00 lakhs) on institutional • Coir Board imparts training in processing of coir and value finance availed by them for induction of well-established addition to potential workers, coir artisans/entreprenuers and improved technology. through its training centres.

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• The stipend per trainee for the skill development the Country with an objective to scale up production by programmes will be limited to Rs.3,000/- per month and in improving the quality and productivity. the case of training programmes of less than one month THEME AND KEY FEATURES duration, stipend will be disbursed on prorata basis. • Research & Development (R&D), training, transfer of EXPORT MARKET PROMOTION (EMP) technology and IT initiatives To improve the export performance of Indian Coir Sector • Seed organizations and farmers’ extension centres through various export market promotion activities • Coordination and market development for seed, yarn and COIR INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION SCHEME silk products and (CITUS) • Quality Certification System (QCS) by creating amongst • The project aims for giving away assistance to the entrepreneurs for procurement of eligible Plant & others a chain of silk testing facilities, farm based & post- Machinery for modernization, upgradation and/or cocoon technology up-gradation, and export brand establishing a new unit on making application for the promotion. purpose to go for larger investment in the coir sector. • The R&D projects pertaining to disease resistant silkworm, • All coir production/processing units newly established will host plant improvements, productivity enhancing tools be eligible to apply for assistance. and implements for reeling and waving will be done in • The financial assistance shall be 25% of the cost of cooperation with Ministries of Science and Technology, admissible items of Plant and Machinery procured by the Agriculture and Human Resource Development (HRD). Coir units upto Rs.2.50 crores per coir unit/ project. UPDATES TO THE SCHEME • It is proposed to increase 4A grade silk from the current ►TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION AND level of 15% to 25 % of mulberry production by 2020. QUALITY CERTIFICATION • The implementation strategy is clearly based on FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO MSMES IN ZERO EFFECT ZERO convergence at the State level with the schemes of other DEFECT CERTIFICATION SCHEME Ministers like MGNREGS of Rural Development, RKVY & PMKSY of Ministry of Agriculture, for maximizing benefits • The objectives of the scheme include inculcating Zero Defect & Zero Effect practices in manufacturing processes, to the Seri culturists. ensure continuous improvement and supporting the Make in India initiative. ► ‘SAMARTH’- SCHEME FOR CAPACITY • The subsidy provided by the Government of India for BUILDING IN TEXTILE SECTOR Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises will be 80%, 60% and 50% respectively. There shall be an additional subsidy of THEME AND KEY FEATURES 5% for MSMEs owned SC/ST/women and MSMEs located in • It is intended to provide demand driven, placement NER and J&K oriented National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) • All manufacturing Micro, Small and Medium enterprises compliant skilling programmes to incentivize and (MSME) having Udyog Adhar Memorandum can apply. supplement the efforts of the industry in creating jobs in • ZED Certification is given by Quality Council of India. the textiles sectors. • The scheme targets to train 10 lakh persons (9 lakh in organised and 1 lakh in traditional sector) over a period of MINISTRY OF TEXTILE 3 years (2017-20). OTHERS ►SILK SAMAGRA - INTEGRATED The scheme does not include training in spinning and SCHEME FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SILK weaving sector.

INDUSTRY ►HANDLOOM SECTOR FINANCE WEAVER MUDRA SCHEME • Central Sector Scheme Credit at concessional interest rate of 6% is being provided to • Implemented by Government of India through Central Silk the handloom weavers. Margin money assistance to a Board (CSB) for the overall development of silk industry in maximum of Rs. 10,000 per weaver and credit guarantee for a period of 3 years is also provided. 80 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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HANDLOOM WEAVER MUDRA PORTAL ο Group A - Water treatment & effluent treatment plant It is a portal built in association with Punjab National Bank to and technology (including marine, Riverine and ZLD). cut down delays in disbursement of funds for financial ο Group B – Common infrastructure such as captive assistance. power generation plants on technology preferably renewable/green technology, ►POWERTEX ο Group C – Common facilities such as Testing THEME AND KEY FEATURES Laboratories and R&D centers. • The comprehensive scheme has the following • Government of India grant will be mandatory for Group A components: only. ο In-situ Upgradation of Plain Powerlooms • The Special Purpose Vehicle shall fund the project through ο Group Workshed Scheme (GWS) a mix of equity from members of industry, grant support ο Yarn Bank Scheme from Ministry of Textile / State Government, and the loan

ο Common Facility Centre (CFC) from Banks and Financial Institutions. • • Pradhan Mantri Credit Scheme for Powerloom Weavers The project cost shall be borne by the Center, State, Beneficiary, Bank loan in the ratio of 50:25:15:10 • Solar Energy Scheme for Powerlooms respectively. • Facilitation, IT, Awareness, Market Development and Publicity for Powerloom Schemes ►AMENDED TECHNOLOGY • Tex Venture Capital Fund UPGRADATION FUND SCHEME • Grant-in-Aid and Modernisation & Upgradation of Powerloom Service Centres (PSCs) Employment generation and export by encouraging apparel OTHERS and garment industry • To avoid fluctuation in yarn price, government has PROMOTION OF TECHNICAL TEXTILES launched a Yarn Bank Scheme as one of the component Promoting conversion of existing looms to better technology of PowerTex India. looms • The Scheme provides interest free corpus fund up to Rs.2.00 crore to the Special Purpose Vehicle ►NORTH EAST REGION TEXTILE (SPV)/Consortium formed by powerloom weavers to PROMOTION SCHEME enable them to purchase yarn at wholesale rate and give the yarn at reasonable price to the small weavers to avoid • This scheme promotes textiles industry in the North middleman and local supplier's brokerage charge on sales Eastern Region by providing infrastructure, capacity of yarn. building and marketing support to all segments of textile

industry. ►SCHEME FOR INTEGRATED TEXTILE • The projects aim at holistic development of sericulture in all its spheres from plantation development to production PARK of fabrics with value addition at every stage of production Aims to encourage private investments and employment chain. generation in textile sector by facilitating world class infrastructure for common facilities, such as roads, water ►BUNIYAAD supply treatment and distribution network, power generation • Tasar silk is produced in India mainly by tribal women and distribution network, effluent collection treatment and through the age old thigh reeling practice which is disposal system, design centre, warehouse, first aid centre, unhygienic, labour intensive, involves drudgery and is etc. unproductive. Invariably, this practice leads to skin

blemishes, allergies and infections besides, causing more ►INTEGRATED PROCESSING inconvenience to women Tasar reelers. DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IPDS) • In order to eradicate this thigh reeling practice, the • Aims to address the environmental issues faced by the Government has decided to completely eradicate the thigh textile processing units. reeling with improved Buniyaad Reeling Machines by supplying 10,000 machines by 2020. • The projects under the scheme would cover the following: 81 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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►NATIONAL HANDLOOM ►HANDLOOM WEAVERS’ DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (NHDP) COMPREHENSIVE WELFARE SCHEME COMPONENTS Aims towards providing life, accidental and disability • Block Level Cluster (BLC): Introduced in 2015-16 to provide insurance coverage under the components Pradhan Mantri financial assistance to BLC for various interventions such Jivan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), Pradhan Mantri Suraksha as skill upgradation etc. The proposals are recommended Bima Yojana (PMSBY) and Converged Mahatma Gandhi by the State Government. Bunkar Bima Yojana (MGBBY).

• Handloom Marketing Assistance: To provide marketing platform to the handloom agencies/weavers to sell their ►YARN SUPPLY SCHEME products directly to the consumers, financial assistance is The scheme is being implemented throughout the country to provided to the States/eligible handloom agencies for make available all types of yarn at Mill Gate Price. The organising marketing events in domestic as well as scheme is being implemented through National Handloom overseas markets. Development Corporation. • Weavers’ MUDRA Scheme: For credit at concessional interest rate of 6%. ►CRAFTS CLUSTER OF INDIA • Hathkargha Samvardhan Sahayata (HSS): To provide To showcase different products made by Cluster Artisans looms/accessories to the weavers to enhance their across India. Artisans are provided with technical / marketing earnings through improved productivity and quality of the know-how for making these products by implementing handloom products. Under the scheme, 90% of the cost of agencies which are partnered by the Textile Ministry. loom/accessory is borne by the Government of India while

remaining 10% is borne by the beneficiary. • EDUCATION OF HANDLOOM WEAVERS AND THEIR ►NATIONAL HANDICRAFT CHILDREN: Ministry of Textiles has signed Memorandums DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME of Understanding with Indira Gandhi National Open COMPONENTS University (IGNOU) and National Institute of Open • Base Line Survey & Mobilization of Artisans under Schooling (NIOS) to secure educational facilities for the Ambedkar Hastshilp Vikas Yojana, weavers and their families • Design & Technology Upgradation • “India Handloom” Brand: It was launched on 7th August 2015 (National Handloom Day) for branding of high-quality • Human Resource Development handloom products. • Direct Benefit to Artisans • URBAN HAATS: These are set up in the big • Infrastructure and Technology Support towns/metropolitan cities to provide adequate direct • Marketing Support & Services marketing facilities to the craft persons/weavers and • Research & Development eliminate middle agencies.

►COMPREHENSIVE HANDICRAFTS ►COMPREHENSIVE HANDLOOM CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT SCHEME CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT SCHEME • Mega Cluster • The scheme is being implemented for development of Mega Handloom Clusters covering at least 15000 to 25,000 • Integrated Development and Promotion of Handicrafts handlooms. Projects (Special Projects)

• 8 mega handloom clusters taken up as announced in the Budgets i.e. Varanasi, Sivasagar (2008-09), Virudhunagar, ►NORTH-EAST REGION TEXTILE Murshidabad (2009-10), Prakasam & Guntur districts and PROMOTION SCHEME (NERTPS) Godda & neighbouring districts (2012-13), Bhagalpur OBJECTIVES &Trichy (2014-15).

It is an umbrella scheme implemented in project mode to promote textiles industry in the North-East Region (NER) by

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IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SCHEMES providing infrastructure, capacity-building and marketing ►OPERATION DIGITAL BOARD support to the industry. ABOUT The Scheme will cover the entire value chain in Textiles, • Digital Boards will be introduced all over the country in Apparel & Garmenting, Technical Textiles, Handlooms, government and government aided schools from class 9th Handicrafts, Sericulture, Powerloom, Jute and allied fibres. onwards as well as in higher education institutions. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY • Aims at converting a class room into a digital class room, The Scheme will be implemented in a project mode with • Availability of e-resources at any time and at any place to region-specific flexibility in project design and students implementation. Existing schemes can be customized according to the specific requirements of the North-Eastern • Provisioning of personalised adaptive learning as well as States. Intelligent Tutoring by exploiting emerging technologies like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data IMPLEMENTING AGENCY Analytics. Agencies of the State Government / Agencies of Central IMPLEMENTATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION Government /SPVs registered under Companies Act 2013/ Co- operative Societies/ Self Help Group (SHG) Federation would • UGC will be implementing agency for ODB in Higher be the Implementing Agencies for the projects. Project Educational Institutions. proposals of agencies other than Government Departments/ IMPLEMENTATION IN SCHOOLS Agencies should have the recommendation of the respective • Digital / SMART board will be provided in all Government State Governments. and Government – aided schools having Secondary and Sr. Secondary classes. • Nearly 1.5 lakh Secondary / Sr. Secondary schools will be MINISTRY OF HUMAN covered under the scheme in collaboration with the State and UTs.

RESOURCE AND DEVELOPMENT (MHRD) ►REVAM MID-DAY MEAL SCHEME ►SHREYAS (SCHEME FOR HIGHER ABOUT • Centrally Sponsored scheme which covers all school EDUCATION YOUTH IN children studyingin Classes I-VIII of Government and APPRENTICESHIP AND SKILLS) Government aided schools, Special Training centres (STC) and Madarasas and Maktabs supported under the Sarva ABOUT Shiksha Abhiyan. • Aims to provide industry apprenticeship to the general The scheme guidelines envisage to provide cooked mid-day graduates exiting in April 2019 through the National meal with 450 calories and 12 g of protein to every child at Apprenticeship Promotional Scheme (NAPS) primary level and 700 calories and 20 g of protein at upper • Conceived for students in degree courses, primarily non- primary level. technical with a view to introduce employable skills into

their learning, promote apprenticeship as integral to REVISED GUIDELINES FOR THE SCHEME: education. • Annual increase in cooking cost lined to inflation index • SHREYAS Portal will enable educational institutions and • Rs 50 crore have been allocated for fortification of industry to log in and provide their respective demand and food items in a systematic manner. This will address the supply of apprenticeship. problems of anaemia and other micro nutrient deficiencies. Kitchen gardens in schools will also be FUNDING encouraged. Under the NAPS scheme, Central Government shares 25% of • Concept of community participation in the form the stipend per month subject to a maximum of Rs 1500, of will be encouraged under which people during the period of apprenticeship. Apart from this amount Tithi Bhojan from the community celebrate important days such as upto Rs 7500 will be towards basic training cost, where child birth, marriage, birthdays etc. by contributing to needed. the Mid Day Meal Scheme. Tithi Bhojan is not a substitute

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to Mid Day Meal but it supplements or compliments Mid INDICATORS WEIGHTAGE DayMeal. • Use of Pulses from buffer stock -The States and UTs may Budget expenses and revenue generated 20 procure pulses as per their local taste for the Mid-Day through Innovation and entreprenuership Meal from the Central buffer stock created by the development Government of India.

Facilitating access to advance centres and 10 ►MHRD INNOVATION CELL (MIC) entreprenuerial support system • Established in the premises of AICTE with a purpose to systematically foster the culture of Innovation in all Higher Awareness Activities for Promoting Idea 20 Education Institutions across the country. Generation and Innovation • Encourage, inspire and nurture young scientists by Promotion and Supporting 20 exposing them to new ideas and processes resulting in Entrepreneurship Development innovative activities in their formative years fostered through Network of Innovation clubs in Higher Educational Insitutions. Intellectural Property Generation, 14 Technology Transfer and MAJOR PROGRAMS Commercialisation • Network of Innovation Clubs

• Smart India Hackathon Development of Innovation Ecosystems 10 • Institution Innovation Councils Supported through Teaching and Learning • Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) Best Innovative solutions developed in- 6 house for improving Governance of • National Innovation and Start up Policy for Students and Institution Faculties

ο Benefits of joining innovations clubs (IC) Total 100 . No major capital investment required, IC will make use of existing local ecosystem . Opportunity to participate in various Innovation ►NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY related initiatives organised by MHRD • It a premier, specialist, autonomous and self-sustained . Win prizes/certificates every month testing organisation to conduct entrance examinations for admission/fellowship in higher educational institutions. ►ATAL RANKING OF INSTITUTIONS • It is headed by Secretary, Department of Higher Education ON INNOVATION ACHIEVEMENTS • Exams conducted by NTA ο Joint Entrance Examination (Engineering) (ARIIA) ο Common Management Admission Test (Management) • It aims to systematically rank education institutions and ο UGC NET universities primarily on innovation related indicators. It uses indicators which are commonly used globally to rank ο Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test most innovative educational institutions/universities in the ο Hotel Management Joint Entrance Examination

world. ο NEET (for Medical) • More than quantity, ARIIA will focus on quality of • It also provides practices tests to students. innovations and will try to measure the real impact created FUNCTIONS by these innovations nationally and internationally. • Identify partner institutions with adequate infrastructure • The Ranking will be done by MHRD's Innovation Cell placed from the existing schools and higher education institutions inside AICTE. which would facilitate conduct of online examinations INDICATORS USED without adversely impacting their academic routine.

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• Create a question bank for all subjects using the modern diversity that is India, thus fostering a sense of common techniques identity • Establish a strong R&D culture as well as a pool of experts PROGRAM in different aspects of testing • Cultural and Literal Exchange, Food Festivals, National • To help individual colleges and universities in the field of Unity Day, Run for Unity, Hornbill Festival, Deepotsav testing and to provide training and advisory services to the Festival, Geeta Utsav, Bharat Parv, Art Yatra, Sadkal institutions in India. To provide quality testing services to Gujarat, Kabir Festival, Gir Monsoon Festival, Bastar the academic institutions in India. Mahotsav, Tawang Festival, Cherry Blosson Festival, etc. • To develop a state of the art culture of testing in India by • Rashtriya Ekta Shivir was organised by using domestic and international expertise. To collaborate Sangathan in 2018 with international organizations like ETS to achieve the same. ►BHASHA SANGAM INITIATIVE (A • To undertake any other examination that is entrusted to it CELEBRATION OF LINGUISTIC by the Ministries/Departments of Government of India/State Governments. DIVERSITY) • To undertake the reforms and training of school boards as NODAL AGENCY well as other bodies where the testing standards should be Department of School Education and Literacy, MHRD comparable with the entrance examinations. ABOUT

It is an initiative under the Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat that ►CONSORTIUM FOR ACADEMIC AND aims to make the students aware about the unique cultural, RESEARCH ETHICS (CARE) ethnic and linguistic diversity of our country. NODAL AGENCY AIM UGC • Provides an opportunity to schools and educational institution to provide multilingual exposure to students in ABOUT Indian Lanuages. • Good quality research journals in disciplines under Social • Familiarise every child with simple dialogues in all the 22 Sciences, Humanities, Languages, Arts, Culture, Indian languages under Schedule VIII of the Constitution, taking Knowledge Systems etc will be maintained by CARE and up one language one each working day, to enhance referred to as 'CARE Reference List of Quality Journals' linguistic tolerance and promote national integration. (CARE List)

• CARE List will be regularly updated and published by the UGC and the Members of the consortium at their ►PRIME MINISTER RESEARCH respective websites. FELLOWS • CARE members include Statutory Councils, Academies, ABOUT Government bodies in Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts It will run for a period of 7 years beginning 2018-19. and Fine Arts, Science, Medical, Agriculture, Engineering and the Association of Indian Universities. AIM • Tap the talent pool of the country for carrying out research ►EK BHARAT SHRESTHA BHARAT indigenously in cutting edge science and technology • B.Tech and M.Tech students from any recognised Indian OBJECTIVES institution will be offered direct admission in PhD program • Celebrate Unity in Diversity of our Nation and to maintain in the IITs/IISc. and strengthen the fabric of traditionally existing • A fellowship of Rs 70,000 per month for the first two years, emotional bonds between the people of our country. Rs 75,000 per month for third year, and Rs 80,000 per • Promote spirit of national integration through a deep and month in 4th and 5th year will be provided. structured engagement between all States and Uts • A research grant of Rs 2 lakh will be provided to each of through a year-long planned engagement between States the Fellows for a period of 5 years to cover their foreign • Showcase rich heritage and culture of either State for travel expenses for presenting research papers in enabling people to understand and appreciate the international conferences and seminar. 85 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Maximum of 3000 Fellows would be selected in a three • Aims to provide strategic central funding to State Higher year period. Education Departments and Institutions OBJECTIVE ►SCHEME FOR PROMOTION OF • Target of Gross Enrolment Ratio of 30% by 2019-20 with RESEARCH COLLABORATION (SPARC) equity and inclusion. RUSA 2.0 TARGETS AIM • Increase spending of States on higher education to 2% or To facilitate research and academic collaboration with top above of GSDP. academic institutions in the world, the MHRD will fund such collaboration between Indian Institutions which are in top • Ensure all State Institutions are NAAC Accredited by the 100 of either specific NIRF ranking or aggregate NIRF ranking end of March 2020 as a part of mandatory quality on one hand and with foreign institutions figuring in top 500 assurance framework. QS world ranking. • Reduce student-teacher ratio to 15:1 by March 2020. CREDIT GUARANTEE FUND FOR EDUCATION LOANS AND Increasing National Gross Enrolment Ratio to 32%. REVISED CENTRAL SECTOR INTEREST SUBSIDY SCHEME • More inclusion of disadvantaged groups (SC/ST/Women). • In order to allow more students to access the benefit, the Ensure all States participate in AISHE. ceiling on the loan amount has been raised to Rs 7.5 Lakhs • Number of colleges affiliated to State Universities to be • Moratorium period will be course period +1 year. reduced to 200.

• Scheme would cover loans for pursuing professional/technical courses from NAAC/NBA accredited ►UNNAT BHARAT ABHIYAAN (UBA) institutions or Institutions of National Importance or • It aims to involve higher education institutes of the country Central Funded Technical Institutions. for indigenous development of self-sufficient and sustainable village clusters. ►NATIONAL ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY • 750 reputed institutions have been selected. These • It is a 24×7 online store house of academic awards digitally institutions are expected to customise the available lodged by various academic institutions/schools technologies and development of new technologies, as per boards/eligibility assessment bodies. the local needs of villages. • UGC is the nodal agency to operationalise NAD. • IIT-Delhi is the coordinating Institute of the UBA. • Academic Awards to be lodged on NAD cover degrees, • Each higher educational institution has to mentor 5 diplomas, certificates, mark-sheets including awards villages. issued for skill development. FUNDING 1. For Field Visits: Rs 10,000 per village ►PARINAM MANJUSHA 2. For Customisation of an available technology: Rs 50,000 • It has been introduced by CBSE. 3. For Development of new technology: Rs 1,00,000 • It acts as: THEMES

ο Academic Repository • Organic Farming

ο Facilitates online verification • Water Management

ο Students can get digital documents such as marksheets, • Energy Sources Pass certificates and Migration Certificates of CBSE • Artisans, Industries and Livelihood examination through Digi Locker. • Basic Amenities

• Convergence ►RASHTRIYA UCHCHATAR SHIKSHA ABHIYAAN (RUSA) ►KALA UTSAV • A Centrally sponsored scheme under Department of It is an initiative of Department of School Education and Higher Education, MHRD. Literacy. AIM 86 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• To promote arts in education by nurturing and showcasing the hub to guide and disperse knowledge to 10 technical the artistic talent of school students of government and institutions to encouraging best practices. The secondary government aided schools at the secondary stage (Class IX- branches, the spokes, are additional services provided to XII). faculty for self-improvement. Eventually, the Hub n Spoke • It focuses on both performing and visual arts and crafts at will allow for inter-hamlet information sharing, such as school, district and State level, to enhance awareness of technical education, research and sharing of resources to India's cultural heritage and its vibrant diversity amongst the entire system. students, teachers, teacher educators, administrators and ELIGIBILITY FOR MENTORING INSTITUTES: other stakeholders and aims to promote networking of Mentor Institute should have been in 15 years of existence. It artists and artisans with school education. can be Institution/University Departments must be Government or Government Aided or Self Financed Institute. ►PANDIT MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA Mentor Institute should be conducting graduate courses of which at least 50% percent of the courses should be NBA NATIONAL MISSION ON TEACHERS accredited. AND TEACHING (PMMMNMTT) Central Sector Scheme will All India coverage ►SAKSHAM AIMS • It is a scheme being implemented by MHRD. It is being • One lakh qualified teachers for schools, general and implemented by All India Council for Technical Education technical education colleges and universities (AICTE). • Adequate representation of SC, ST, OBC, Minorities and • Aims at providing encouragement and support to specially Women abled children to pursue technical education. • Sufficient base of teacher educators and promote excellence in faculty for academic leadership positions ►SAMAGRA SHIKSHA • Create around 87 new institutional structures (30 schools • Integrated scheme for school education from 2018-19. It in education, 50 Centres of Excellence for Curriculum and envisages school as a continuum from pre-school, primary, Pedagogy, 5 Institutes of Academic Leadership and upper primary, secondary and senior secondary schools. Education Management, 2 Inter University Centres for • Preference is given to educationally backward blocks, Teachers Education Special Focus districts, Border areas and Aspirational • Create subject based networks in different disciplines. districts identified by NITI Aayog. STRATEGIES • Special focus on urban deprived children, children affected • Programmatic and scheme based interventions: pre- by periodic migration and children living in remote and service and in-service training through existing and new scattered habitations. institutional structures, new academic programs & • Preference to Special Focus Districts, Educationally courses, strengthening post-graduate and doctoral Backward Blocks, LWE affected districts, and aspirational programs, pre-scheduling year-long training calenders, district while planning interventions like setting up of online training. primary schools, upper primary schools, construction of • Project based activities: ICT based training, training of additional classrooms, toilets, Kasturba Gandhi Vidyalayas Mathematics, Science, Language, teacher for schools, Core (KGBVs) science and engineering courses in technical education, • Provides support to States for strengthening of school general courses in social sciences, humanities and education including in rural areas. vocational courses. • Annual maintenance and repair of existing school

buildings, toilets and other facilities to upkeep the ►MARGDARSHAN infrastructure in good condition. NODAL AGENCY • In-service training of teacher and school heads, conduct of • All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) achievement surveys at state and national level. • Mentoring to institutes by a well performing institute. • Composite school grant to every school for providing a conducive learning environment. • A Hub and Spoke model is to be established by a Institute of repute as a Mentor within an existing facility to serve as 87 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Grants for library, sports and physical activities, support • Teaching and Learning Content: It involves creation of for Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyaan, ICT and digital initiatives, 'Energised Textbooks' • School leadership development program, remedial • Teacher Professional Development teaching for academically weaker students, support for • School Leadership Development Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat etc. • Innovation and Innovating Pedagogy • It subsumes three erstwhile centrally sponsored scheme ie • Content Creation Platform Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, Rashtriya Madhyamik • Assessments Shiksha Abhiyaan, Teacher Education.

ο Allocation for uniforms has been enhanced to Rs 600 from Rs 400 and allocation for textbooks to Rs 250/400 ►STARS (SCHEME FOR from Rs 150/250 per child per annum. TRANSFORMATIONAL AND ADVANCED ο Launch of 'Energised textbooks': All textbooks are RESEARCH IN SCIENCES embedded with QR codes. The QR codes can be linked • to engaging content or assessments of specific topics Coordinated by IISc, Bangalore that are being taught. Promote digital learning. Provide • Aims to accelerate inter-disciplinary and transformative teachers with more material to substantiate and expand research in the field of science by allowing educational upon the contents in textbooks. The Energised institutions in the hinterland to collaborate with textbooks have been created under DIKSHA program. established research centres in science.

ο Sports and Physical Education component to each • Aims at making available high end research funding in the school under which sports grant is being provided for field of science to researchers in small educational sports equipment for indoor and outdoor games. Every institutions. school will receive sports equipments at the cost of Rs 5000 for primary schools, Rs 10,000 for upper primary schools and upto Rs 25,000 for Secondary and Senior ►UNNAT BHARAT ABHIYAN 2.0 (UBA) Secondary Schools to inculcate and emphasise AIM relevance of sports. To bring about transformational change in rural development ο Children with special needs(CWSN): Stipend of Rs 200 processes by leveraging knowledge institutions to help build per month for CWSN girls to be provided from Class I to the architecture of an Inclusive India. Class XII. Allocation for CWSN has been increased from GOALS Rs 3000 to Rs 3500 per child per annum. • Build an understanding of development agenda within

institutes of Higher Education ►DIKSHA (DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE • Re-emphasise need for field work, stake holder interaction FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING) and design for societal objectives • National Teachers Platform for India • Rigorous reporting and useful outputs as central to developing new professions • It is a customisable National Digital Infrastructure for teacher centric initiatives for use by States, Teacher • Provide rural India and regional agencies with access to Education Institutes and private entities. the professional resources of the institutes of higher education especially those that have acquired academic • States and TEIs have the autonomy and choice to excellence in the field of science, engineering and repurpose and extend DIKSHA to suit their own needs and technology and management purposes. • Improve development outcomes as a consequence of this • It is for the benefit of Teachers in Schools, Teacher research Educators and Student Teachers in Teacher Education Institutes. • 688 higher educational institutions have been selected under Challenge Mode (424 technical and 262 non • Nodal Agency: National Council for Teacher Education, technical) which are reputed Higher Educational under MHRD Insitutitons (Both Private as well as public) have adopted VERTICALS 3555 villages for their development through UBA. • Teacher Profile and Registry ο Every institution adopts 5 villages

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ο Technical institutions design technical solutions for local • IMPRINT 2.0 will jointly funded by MHRD and Department issue of Science and Technology. A fund of Rs 1000 crore has

ο IIT Delhi has been designated as the National been established for this. Coordinating Institute for this program. • Prof Indranil Manna of IIT Kharagpur will be the National • Areas of Intervention: Two Major Domains Coordinator. 1. Human Development • Science and Engineering Research Board in the Department of Science and Technology is the nodal agency ο Health; Education and Culture; Values and perception working along with the national coordinator. development; Skills and Entrepreneurship • The Uchhatar Avishkar Yojana (UAY) scheme will be 2. Material (economic) development subsumed with IMPRINT-2 and no further call for proposal ο Organic agriculture and cow based economy; Water submission under UAY will be issued. management and conservation; Renewable energy FEATURES sources; Artisans and rural industries; Development and harnessing of local natural resources; E-Support • Principal objective is to translate knowledge into visible

technology ►STUDY IN INDIA PROGRAM • Normally average cost of the approved projects will be around Rs 2 crore • Students from 30 countries across South Asia, CIA and • MHRD and DST are equal partners to steer the scheme Middle East can apply for different courses from 160 select Institutions (both public and private) which are high on • Projects partially supported by (at least 25%) by the NAAC and NIRF rankings industry will be supported (Mandatory industry support is must) • It will improve the global ranking of Indian institutions ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY ►IMPRESS (IMPACTFUL POLICY Must hold a regular academic/research position of Centrally funded technical institution, MHRD funded Central university RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES) or MHRD funded Higher education Institution and NODAL AGENCY technology. Applicants must have 4 years of regular left before superannuation. Indian Council for Social Science Research DOMAINS BUDGET

₹ 414 crore LIVING WORLD MATERIALS WORLD AIMS • Aims to encourage social science research in policy • Energy Security • Advanced Materials relevant areas so as to provide vital inputs in policy • Environment and Climate • ICT formulation, implementation and evaluation. • Healthcare Technology • Manufacturing Technology • Addres the issue of bridging the gap between policy • Sustainable Habitat • Nano Technology making, implementing and society by generating or • Water Resources • Security and Defence encouraging vital inputs from researchers in social science disciplines. Inspire researchers in these domains to take up the task of assessment of policies and also that of ►GIAN (GLOBAL INITIATIVE OF coordination between policy makers, academics and society. ACADEMIC NETWORKS) • Aims at tapping the talent pool of scientists and ►IMPRINT-2 (IMPACTING RESEARCH entrepreneurs internationally to encourage their engagement with institutes of Higher so INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY) as to augment India's academic resources. Visiting faculty • First of its kind Pan IIT and IISc joint initiative to address from foreign institutions will conduct short term courses in major science and engineering challenges relevant to India India. through an inclusive and sustainable mode of translational • IIT Kharagpur is the National coordinator for GIAN. research. • Group coordinators have been created to deal with various category of institutions. 89 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Eligible Insitutions: IITs, NITs, IIEST, SPA, IISc, IISER, chosen are University of Michigan, NTU Singapore, Management Schools, Central Universities and Law Harvard University, Purdue University, University of Schools, AICTE approved engineering colleges, Universities Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Monash University, under UGC London School of Economics/Oxford University, University • Funding: A honorarium is paid to the foreign experts of Cambridge and University of Virginia, USA. covering their travel and other expenses. ►ARPIT (ANNUAL REFRESHER ►TEQIP (TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM IN TEACHING) QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM) OBJECTIVE • Aims at improving the quality of Engineering education in • Online professional development of 15 lakh higher existing institutions with a special consideration for Low education faculty using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM. Income States and Special Category States • 75 discipline specific institutions have been identified and • Only Government and Government aided AICTE approved notified as National Resource Centres which are tasked to Engineering Institutions and new centrally funded prepare online training material with focus on latest institutions in SCS will be part of the project. An estimated developments in the discipline, new and emerging trends, 200 Government and Government funded Engineering pedagogical improvements and methodologies for institutions including Affiliating Technical Universities transacting revised curriculum. (ATUs) will be selected. FUNDING ►ALL SCHOOL MONITORING 100% by Centre given as grants to States INDIVIDUAL TRACING ANALYSIS

(ASMITA) ►LEAP (LEADERSHIP FOR OBJECTIVE ACADEMICIANS PROGRAM) It is a unique scheme that will track a child’s educational OBJECTIVE journey and progress. It will also help identify dropouts. Prepare second tier academic heads who are potentially likely KEY FEATURES to assume leadership roles in future. • The scheme aims to track more than 25 crore school KEY FEATURES children across 15 lakh private and public schools, making • It is a three week leadership development training it the possibly the world’s largest student online tracking program (2 weeks domestic and 1 week foreign training) system. for second level academic functionaries in public funded • Using the Aadhaar number of children, the scheme will higher education institutions. track attendance and enrolment, infra-structural facilities, • The program would provide senior faculty, with high academic progress as well as mid-day meal service. For academic credentials, the required leadership and children who do not have an Aadhaar number, a special managerial skills including skills of problem solving, number will be generated. handling stress, team building work, conflict management, developing communication skills, understanding and ►TITHI BHOJAN coping with the complexity and challenges of governance of Higher Educational Institutions, financial and general WHAT? administration. Tithi Bhojan was first implemented in Gujarat, and was later incorporated by MoHRD in mid-day meal program. • It will be implemented through 15 NIRF top ranked Indian Insitutions: OBJECTIVE & KEY FEATURES

ο IIT Roorkee, IIT Kanpur, NIT Trichy, IISER Kolkata, JNU, • It seeks to involve the members of the community in the IIT(BHU), University of Delhi, IIT Bombay, TISS Mumbai, effort to provide nutritious and healthy food to the University of Hyderabad, NIEPA, IIT Kharagpur, Jamia children. Milia Islamia, BHU and AMU • The members of the community may contribute/sponsor • Foreign universities identified for training are also within either utensils or food on special occasions/festivals. This top 100 in the world global rankings. The institutions is completely voluntary, and the people in the community 90 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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may contribute food items supplementary to the midday ►ISHAN VIKAS already being provided like sweet, namkeen or sprouts. OBJECTIVE & KEY FEATURES Greater participation and involvement of religious and charitable institutions is also being promoted. • It is comprehensive programme to introduce school

children from the North-Eastern states to high quality academia. ►SWAYAM • A separate programme also provides summer internship OBJECTIVE for college students studying in educational institutions in • SWAYAM is designed to achieve the three cardinal the North-East. principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and • Currently the programme encourages schoolchildren in . quality class IX and XI and technical college students in their 6th • The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching semesters, to participate.

learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. ►PADHE BHARAT BADHE BHARAT • SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students • It is a sub-programme of who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital launched in 2014. revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy. OBJECTIVE HOW? • For: children in Classes I and II. This is done through an indigenous developed IT platform • Encourage interest/ lay special focus on Early reading and that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms writing with comprehension (ERWC) and Early from 9th class till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, mathematics (EM). anywhere at any time. ►DIGITAL GENDER ATLAS FOR GIRL’S ►SWAYAM PRABHA EDUCATION It is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of • Gender Atlas for the country has been developed to high-quality educational programmes on 24×7 basis using the highlight the issues, geographies and social background of GSAT-15 satellite. girls that are still a concern and require urgent attention.

• The Gender Atlas is based on existing data and highlights ►VITTIYA SAKSHARATA ABHIYAN problem areas to serve as pointers for intervention priori- (VISAKA) ties. • It is seen as a management tool that can focus on OBJECTIVE 'demand' and 'supply' side issues alike that impinge on The purpose is to actively engage the youth/ students of girls' education. Higher Education Institutions to encourage and motivate all payers and payees to use a digitally enabled cashless economic system for transfer of funds. ►UDAAN OBJECTIVE ►ISHAN UDAY • The project aims at addressing the lower enrolment of girls in engineering colleges. OBJECTIVE & KEY FEATURES • It provides free online resources to girl students for • It is a special scholarship scheme by UGC, with a preparation of engineering entrance examination. provision to grant 10,000 scholarships to students from the Northeast, whose parental income is below Rs 4.5 • Therefore, it is envisaged as the first step towards lakh per annum. achieving this larger goal of addressing the quality gap between school education and engineering entrance, by • The scholarship ranges from Rs 3,500 to 5,000 per month addressing the three dimensions of education - curriculum for studying at undergraduate level in colleges and design, transaction and assessment. universities in India

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►RASHTRIYA AVISHKAR ABHIYAAN students at Universities and Colleges. This Curriculum covers the courses on communication skills, professional It is a convergent framework across School Education and skills, leadership & management skills and universal Higher Education aiming to encourage children towards human values. learning Science and Mathematics and to develop their • The Jeevan Kaushal curriculum is suggestive. The UGC has interest through activities related to Science and requested Vice-Chancellors of all Universities to consider Mathematics. the curriculum for introduction in Universities and TARGET GROUP affiliated Colleges/institutions at under-graduate level.

Children from Classes I to XII (6 to 18 years of age) in Government and Government aided schools, KVs, Navodaya ►SHAGUN PORTAL Vidyalayas, Special Schools, Open Schools, Special Training Centres. • Dedicated web portal ‘ShaGun’ for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at New Delhi today. ‘ShaGun’ aims to capture and INTERVENTIONS UNDER THE SCHEME showcase innovations and progress in Elementary  Systematic Improvements in School System Education sector of India by continuous monitoring of the • Teacher preparation for science, mathematics and flagship scheme - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).

technology, pre-service and in-service • Assessment design for science and mathematics for ►EDUCATION QUALITY students UPGRADATION AND INCLUSION • Recruitment of science and mathematics teachers • Strengthening of school science & mathematics PROGRAMME (EQUIP) laboratories The Department of Higher Education of HRD Ministry has • Provision of teaching –learning equipments and finalized and released a five-year vision plan named supplementary books/materials Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP). • Use of technology in Science and Mathematics teaching The following goals have been set for higher education • Development of resource materials sector: • Strengthening teacher support institutions and in use of • Double the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher technology education and resolve the geographically and socially • Effective classroom transaction: teaching – learning skewed access to higher education institutions in India  Initiatives to encourage Science, Mathematics through • Upgrade the quality of education to global standards alternative strategies • Position at least 50 Indian institutions among the top-1000 • School mentoring for science & mathematics teaching by global universities Higher Education Institutions • Introduce governance reforms in higher education for • Teacher circles on Science, Mathematics and Technology well-administered campuses • Science/Mathematics Clubs for children • Accreditation of all institutions as an assurance of quality • Extend outreach of programs of Ministry of Science and • Promote Research & Innovation ecosystems for Technology to promote science learning positioning India in the Top-3 countries in the world in • Participation of students in Inter-school, State/National matters of knowledge creation Maths and Science Competitions/Olympiads etc. • Double the employability of the students passing out of • Organised visits to Science Museums and Science fairs and higher education Mathematics melas • Harness education technology for expanding the reach • Parents and community sensitisation. and improving pedagogy

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►PRADHAN MANTRI VIDYA LAKSHMI 1. Technical Institutions more than 10 years old: Repay the whole Principal Portion from the internally KARYAKRAM generated budgetary resources. • It is a first of its kind portal for students seeking Education 2. Technical Institutions started between 2008 and 2014: Loan. It provides single window electronic platform for Repay 25% of the principal portion from internal students to access information and prepares applications resources, and receive grant for the balance of the for Educational Loans and Government Scholarships. Principal portion. • This initiative aims to bring on board all Banks providing • Central Universities started Educational Loans. It is expected that students throughout 1. prior to 2014: Repay 10% of the principal portion from the country will be benefited by this initiative of the internal resources, and receive grant for the balance of Government, by making available a single window for the Principal portion. access to various Educational Loan Schemes of all Banks. 2. Newly.

established Institutions (started after 2014): for fu ►JIGYASA SCHEME nding construction of permanent campuses: Grant One of the major initiatives taken up by CSIR at national level would be provided for complete servicing of loan for further widening and deepening its Scientific Social including the Principal and interest. Responsibility (SSR). 3. Other educational institutions and grant-in-aid HIGHLIGHTS OF THE JIGYASA PROGRAMME institutions of Ministry of Health: All the newly set up • 'JIGYASA' would inculcate the culture of inquisitiveness on AIIMSs and other health institutions, the Kendriya one hand and scientific temper on the other, amongst the Vidyalayas / Navodaya Vidyalayas would be funded and school students and their teachers. the Department/Ministry concerned will give a commitment for complete servicing of the principal and • The program will also enable the students and teachers to interest by ensuring adequate grants to the institution. practically live the theoretical concepts taught in science by

visiting CSIR laboratories and by participating in projects. • The focus is on connecting school students and scientists ►NISHTHA : NATIONAL INITIATIVE to extend student's classroom learning with a well planned FOR SCHOOL HEADS' AND TEACHERS' research laboratory based learning. HOLISTIC ADVANCEMENT • Student Residential Programmes, scientists as teachers • It is a capacity building program for 'Improving Quality of and teachers as scientists, lab specific activities/Onsite School Education through Integrated Teacher Training'. Experiments, visits of scientists to Schools/Outreach Programmes, science and maths Clubs, projects of • It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and National Children's Science Congress and tinkering school principals at the elementary stage. The laboratories are some of the activities included under the functionaries (at the state, district, block, cluster level) shall programme. be trained in an integrated manner on learning outcomes,

school based assessment, learner – centred pedagogy, new initiatives in education, addressing diverse needs of ►HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING children through multiple pedagogies, etc. AUTHORITY • This will be organized by constituting National Resource • It is a joint venture of MHRD, Government of India and Groups (NRGs) and State Resource Groups (SRGs) at the Canara Bank for financing creation of capital assets in National and the State level who will be training 42 lakhs premier educational institutions in India. It is a non-profit teachers subsequently. company. • In 2018, the scope of HEFA was expanded by enhancing its ►DHRUV (PRADHAN MANTRI capital base to Rs 10,000 crore and tasking it to mobilise 1 INNOVATIVE LEARNING PROGRAM) lakh crore for Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education by 2022. (RISE by 2022) • Aims to identify and encourage talented children to enrich their skills and knowledge. In centres of excellence across • Funds will be available to: the country, gifted children will be mentored and nurtured by renowned experts in different areas, so that they can reach their full potential. 93 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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OBJECTIVE: • Freedom to enter into academic collaborations with 1. Cover two areas namely Science and Arts other Institutions within the country. 2. Students have been broadly chosen from classes 9 to 12, • Freedom to have own transparent merit based from all schools including government and private. system for admission of students. 3. The program is to be launched from ISRO. • Freedom to admit additionally foreign students on

merit subject to a maximum of 30% of the strength of admitted domestic students. ►INSTITUTE OF EMINENCE • Freedom to fix and charge fees from foreign • UGC (Institutions of Eminence Deemed to be Universities), students without restriction. 2017 regulations enable 10 public and 10 private • Freedom to determine the domestic student fees, subject institutions to emerge as World Class Teaching and to the condition that no student who gets selected Research Institutions. These institutions shall be called as admission is turned away for lack of finance. Every 'Institutions of Eminence'. Institute to encourage scholarships and extension of loans • It aims to bring higher educational institutions selected as facility. IoEs in top 500 of world ranking in the next 10 years and in • Freedom to offer courses within a program as well as to top 100 eventually overtime. offer degrees in newer areas, including inter- • Institutions will be selected by Empowered Expert disciplinary ones, after approval of its Governing Council Committee headed by N Gopalaswami. and conforming to the minimum prevailing standards. THREE CATEGORIES OF ELIGIBLE INSTITUTIONS:

1. Existing Government Educational institutions 2. Existing private higher educational institutions to upgrade MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS themselves to Institutions of Eminence ►AVATARAN 3. Greenfield Category OBJECTIVE In case of the private institutions proposed as Institutions of To transform the railways through the seven missions. Eminence, there will be no financial support, but they will be entitled for more autonomy as a special category Deemed MISSIONS University. 1. Mission 25 Tonnes The Greenfield Institutions would get 3 year period to • To increase revenue by augmenting carrying capacity. To establish and operationalise the institution, and thereafter, achieve this 10-20% freight loading will be done through EEC will consider giving IoE status to such institutions. 25-tonne axle-load wagons and target movement of 70% of freight traffic on high axle load wagons by FY19-20. BENEFITS OF INSTITUTIONS OF EMINENCE: 2. Mission Zero Accident: It comprises of two sub missions: • Government Institutions to get additional funding upto a) Elimination of unmanned level crossings: The goal is 1000 Cr. eliminate all unmanned level crossings on Broad Gauge in • The selected Institutions under IoE shall have complete the next 3-4 years through innovative financing academic and administrative autonomy. mechanisms. It will reduce deaths due to accidents and • The Institutions of Eminence will have complete financial improve throughput of the network autonomy to spend the resources raised and allocated, b) TCAS (Train Collision Avoidance System): An indigenous subject to general conditions & restrictions of the Statutes technology has been developed to equip 100% of the and GFR. High Density Network with TCAS in the next 3 years. This • Academic collaborations with foreign higher will prevent head on collisions and improve throughput educational institutions (in top 500) would by increasing average sectional speeds. be exemptfrom government approvals. 3. Mission PACE (Procurement and Consumption • Freedom to hire personnel from industry, etc, as faculty Efficiency): who are experts in their areasbut may not have the • To improve our procurement and consumption practices requisite higher academic qualifications. to improve the quality of goods and services. It will • Freedom to recruit faculty from outside India (limit introduce a culture of optimum usage by adopting of 25% of its faculty strength for public institution). practices such as Vendor Managed Inventory, direct

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procurement of High Speed Diesel (HSD), new procedures for identification and disposal of scrap. MINISTRY OF SHIPPING

4. Mission Raftaar ►SAGARMALA • It targets doubling of average speeds of freights trains and OBJECTIVES increasing the average speed of super-fast mail/express trains by 25 kmph in the next 5 years. Loco hauled • Reduce logistics cost for EXIM and domestic trade with passenger trains will be replaced by DEMU/MEMU over the minimal infrastructure investment. This includes: next five years. It will complement Mission 25 Tonne to ο Reducing cost of transporting domestic cargo through increase throughput of the railway system. optimizing modal mix

5. Mission Hundred ο Lowering logistics cost of bulk commodities by locating • This mission will commission at least a hundred sidings in future industrial capacities near the coast the next 2 years. The current siding/ PFT policy would be ο Improving export competitiveness by developing port revised to elicit greater private participation. An online proximate discrete manufacturing clusters portal will be operated for accepting and processing all new applications, along with decentralisation of powers. ο Optimizing time/cost of EXIM container movement 6. Mission beyond book-keeping COMPONENTS OF SAGARMALA PROJECT • It will establish an accounting system where outcomes can Port Modernisation and New Port Development be tracked to inputs. This will transform IR as right • Project Unati: accounting would determine right costing and hence right Under this project, global benchmarks were adopted to pricing and right outcomes. improve the efficiency and productivity of 12 major ports. 7. Mission Capacity Utilisation 100 MTPA capacity was unlocked just through efficiency • It proposes to prepare a blueprint for making full use of improvement. the huge new capacity that will be created through two • New Port Development Dedicated Freight Corridors between Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata scheduled to be commissioned by 2019. 6 new major ports are planned. They are ο Vadhavan (Maharashtra) ►VIKALP - ALTERNATE TRAIN ο Tajpur (West Bengal) ACCOMMODATION SERVICE (ATAS) ο Paradip Outer Harbour (Odhisha) WHAT? ο Cuddalore/Sirkazhi (Tamil Nadu) • Under the new reservation scheme called 'Vikalp', or ο Belikeri (Karnataka)

ATAS, passengers who have booked tickets in other mail or ο Enayam (Tamil Nadu) – Transshipment Port express trains, can avail the option of travelling in • Port Connectivity Enhancement premium trains to their booked destinations with no extra cost. ο Coastal Berths at various major and non-major ports • The aim to roll out such a scheme is to utilise vacant ο National waterways (Inland Waterways) berths in premier trains. ο Heavy haul rail corridor from Talcher to Paradip

ο Connectivity to Dedicated freight corridors

►PROJECT SAKSHAM ο Major rail connectivity projects OBJECTIVE ο Freight friendly Expressway projects connecting major • It is largest time-bound “upskilling” exercise for its ports employees to boost their efficiency. ο Development of Multi-modal logistics parks • Aim is to upgrade the skillsets of its 13 lakh-strong ο POL pipelines. workforce with a single drive spanning 9 months. • Employees from the rank of a peon to the Railway Board • Port Led Industrialisation: Members and everyone in between will undergo the ο Development of Coastal Economic Zones are spatial training. economic regions comprising of a group of coastal districts with a strong linkage to the ports in that region. 95 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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They will have synergies with planned Industrial Skill Development 5% corridor projects. Basic Infrastructure 10% ο 14 CEZs are planned under Sagarmala

ο The institutional framework for development of CEZs STRATEGY would be similar to the institutional framework adopted • States as main drivers by DMIDC for industrial corridors. • Work on the strength of each district ο Coastal Economic Units: They will be specific industrial • Make development a mass movement in these districts estate projects with a demarcated boundary similar to • Identify low hanging fruits for immediate improvement DMIC nodes. • Measure progress and rank districts to spur a sense of ο 35 potential port-linked industrial clusters across three competition sectors, namely – Energy, Materials, and discrete • For each district, a Central Prabhari Officer of the rank of manufacturing have been identified. Additional Secretary/Joint Secretary level has been COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT nominated. • Skill Development SELECTION OF DISTRICTS • Fisheries • Total 115 districts have been selected under the program, • Part funding of fishing harbour projects along with with at least one district from each state. Department of Fisheries. • NITI Aayog will steer the initiative in 30 districts. Ministry of Home Affairs will oversee it in 35 districts. Various Central • Promotion of Coastal Tourism Ministries will oversee in 50 districts. ο Development of Coastal Circuits under Swadesh • Champions of change Dashboard for real time data Darshan scheme of Ministry of Tourism collection and monitoring. The Dashboard will facilitate ο Development of Cruise Tourism District Collectors of all aspirational districts to input the ο Development of lighthouses latest available data of their respective districts.

ο National Maritime Heritage Museum complex at Lothal MONITORING

ο Underwater viewing gallery and restaurant at Dwarka • 49 key performance indicators have been chosen to measure progress of the districts.

• A baseline ranking of the districts was done in 2018. After that to measure incremental progress 'Delta Rankings' on NITI AAYOG a real time basis.

►ASPIRATIONAL DISTRICTS ►SAMAVESH PROGRAM • Aims to link together various lead knowledge and research • Aims to expeditiously improve the socio-economic status institutions to catalyse developmentprocesses, enhance of 17 districts from across 28 states. institutional capacity development and enable a field level • The three core principles of the program interface with the community for mutual enrichment. ο Convergence (Centre and State Schemes) • As part of this, NITI Aayog seeks to deepen and extend its ο Collaboration (among citizens and functionaries of institutional capacity through networking and partnerships Central and State Governments including district teams) with reputed

ο Competition among districts • A hub and spoke model is envisaged with lead knowledge • The program focuses of main themes: and research institutions, recognised as Centre of Excellence with respect to the respective themes/ thrust Health & Nutrition 30% areas. Education 30% ►ATAL INNOVATION MISSION (AIM) Agriculture and Water Resources 20% • AIM including Self-Employment and Talent Utilisation Financial Inclusion 5% (SETU) is GOI's endeavour to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. 96 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Its objective is to serve as a platform for promotion of mentoring the start ups, business planning support, access world-class Innovation Hubs, Grand Challenges, Start-up to seed capital, industry partners, trainings and other businesses and other self-employment activities, relevant components required for encouraging innovative particularly in technology driven areas. start-ups. FUNCTIONS • AICs would be established in subject specific areas such as • Entrepreneuship promotion through SETU, wherein manufacturing, transport, energy, health, education, innovators would be supported and mentored to become agriculture, water and sanitation etc. successful entrepreneurs. ELIGIBILITY • Innovation promotion: to provide a platform where Higher Educational institutions, R&D institutes corporate innovative ideas are generated: sector, alternative investment funds registered with SEBI,

ο Atal Tinkering Labs business accelerators, groups of individuals and individuals are eligible to apply. ο Atal Incubation Centres FINANCIAL SUPPORT ο Scale-up support to established incubators

Grant in aid upto Rs 10 crore for a maximum period of 5 years to cover the capital and operational expenditures to ►ATAL TINKERING LABS establish AIC.

Vision to cultivate one million children in India as Neoteric Innovators. AIM is establishing Atal Tinkering Labs in schools ►SCALE-UP SUPPORT TO across India. OBJECTIVE ESTABLISHED INCUBATORS Foster curiousity, creativity and imagination in young minds, • Aims to augment capacity of the Established Incubation and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational Centres in the country. thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc. • Financial scale-up support to enable Established KEY FEATURES Incubation Centres. • • It is a workplace where young minds can give shape to The scheme would radically transform the start up their ideas through hands on do it yourself mode and ecosystem in the country by upgrading the Established learn innovation skills. Students get a chance to work with Incubation Centres to world class standards. tools and equipment to understand the concept of STEM ELIGIBILITY (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) EIC must have been in operation for a minimum of three • ATL would contain educational and learning 'do it yourself' years as of 1 August 2017. EIC should be registered in India as kits and equipment on - science, electronics, robotics, open public, private and PPP. source microcontroller boards, sensors and 3D printers FINANCIAL SUPPORT and computers. Grant in aid of upto Rs 10 crore in two or more annual FINANCIAL SUPPORT instalments. Grant in aid that includes a one-time establishment cost of Rs 10 lakh and operational expenses of Rs 10 lakh for a ►ATAL COMMUNITY INNOVATION maximum period of 5 years to each ATL. CENTRE SCHEME ELIGIBILITY • ACIC is a new initiative of Atal Innovation Mission to Schools (minimum Grade VI-X) managed by Government, support community innovation drive in the country. local body or private trusts/society to be set up by ATL.

• The program is directed to encourage the spirit of innovation through solution driven design thinking to ►ATAL INCUBATION CENTRES serve the society. • Would nurture innovative start up businesses in their • It will focus on underserved/ unserved regions of the pursuit to become scalable and sustainable enterprises. country which at present lack a vibrant start-up and • AICs would create world class incubation facilities across innovation ecosystem. various parts of India with suitable physical infrastructure • ACIC will be established either in PPP mode or with in terms of capital equipment and operating facilities, support of PSUs and other agencies. coupled with the availability of sectoral experts for 97 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• The maximum grant-in-aid support form AIM will be up to • Villages having population more than 50% of SCs with a 2.5 crores subject following compliance to ACIC guidelines total population of more than 500 will be eligible for and contributing matching form the host institutions and selection in descending order of their SC population in the their funding partner(s). first instance of the Scheme. OBJECTIVES • MINISTRY OF SOCIAL Adequate Infrastructure • Improvement in Socio-Economic Indicators JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT 50 MONITORABLE INDICATORS • Drinking water and sanitation (MOSJE) • Education ►SUGAMYA BHARAT ABHIYAN • Health and Nutrition (ACCESSIBLE INDIA CAMPAIGN) • Social Security • Rural Roads and Housing NODAL AGENCY • Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Electricity and Clean fuel (DEPwD) • Financial Inclusion FINANCING • Digitisation Centrally sponsored • Livelihood and Skill Development THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It is a nation-wide campaign to provide universal ►DEENDAYAL DISABLED accessibility to persons with disabilities. REHABILITATION SCHEME (DDRS) • It aims to enable persons with disabilities to gain universal NODAL AGENCY access, equal opportunity for development, independent Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities living and participation in an inclusive society in all aspects (DEPwD) of life. FINANCING • It is in line with the Incheon Strategy and UN Convention Central sector on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) to THEME AND KEY FEATURES which India is a signatory. • To create an enabling environment to ensure equal • Pillars of AIC opportunities, equity, social justice and empowerment of 1. Built Environment: Increase accessibility of physical persons with disabilities environment particularly the public spaces. • Financial assistance to voluntary organizations to provide 2. Public Transport: Enhance accessibility and usability of services for rehabilitation of persons with disabilities public transport • Main thrust is on education and training programmes 3. ICT: Enhance usability of information and PROJECTS DEENDAYAL DISABLED REHABILITATION communication services SCHEME

• Pre-Schools, Early intervention and Training ►PRADHAN MANTRI ADARSH GRAM • Special Schools for Children with YOJANA (PMAGY) ο Intellectual Disabilities FINANCING ο Hearing and Speech disabilities Centrally sponsored scheme ο Visual Disabilities THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Project for Cerebral Palsied children • Area based development approach. • Rehabilitation of Leprosy cured persons • • Aims at integrated development in villages in which the Half way homes for psycho-Social Rehabilitation of treated and controlled Mentally ill persons population of SCs is above 50%. • Home Based Rehabilitation ELIGIBILITY: • Community Based Rehabilitation Program 98 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• Low Vision Centres FINANCING • Human Resource Development • Central Sector Scheme. • The expenditure for implementation of the scheme will be ►2nd EDITION OF INDIA SIGN met from the "Senior Citizens' Welfare Fund LANGUAGE DICTIONARY THEME AND KEY FEATURES • To provide Senior Citizens, belonging to BPL category and • Brought out by Indian Sign Language Research and suffering from age related disabilities/ infirmities, with Training Centre under DEPwD, MOSJE. such physical aids and assisted living devices which can • Includes 6000 words under the categories of academic, restore near normalcy in their bodily functions legal, medical, technical and everyday terms. • The scheme will address disabilities like low vision, hearing

impairment, loss of teeth and locomotor disability with ►SWACHHTA UDYAMI YOJANA such assisted living devices which can restore near NODAL AGENCY normalcy in their bodily functions. National Safari Karmacharis Finance & Development • The devices are distributed in the camp mode. Corporation (NSKFDC) FINANCING ►RASHTRIYA GARIMA ABHIYAN Public private partnership mode • It is a National Campaign for Dignity and Eradication of Aims to provide livelihood to SafaiKaramcharis and liberated Manual Scavenging. Manual Scavengers and also promote cleanliness. • The practice continues in the country in spite of efforts of • NSKFDC provides concessional loan to – several people, implementation of government schemes such as the National Scheme for Liberation and 1. Entrepreneurs among safaikarmacharis and identified Rehabilitation of Scavengers since 1992 and Self manual scavengers including women beneficiaries. Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual 2. For viable community toilet projects and sanitation Scavengers since 2007, and regardless of it being banned related vehicles to collect the garbage in 1993 through Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (prohibition) Act. ►ASSISTANCE TO DISABLED PERSONS FOR PURCHASE / FITTING ►CENTRAL SECTOR SCHEME OF OF AIDS AND APPLIANCES ASSISTANCE FOR PREVENTION OF NODAL AGENCY ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) (DRUGS) ABUSE FINANCING SALIENT FEATURES Central sector scheme • Financial Assistance is given to the voluntary organisations THEME AND KEY FEATURES and other eligible agencies for running and maintenance of Integration Rehabilitation Centres for Addicts • Provide latest and modern aids and assistive devices to the (IRCAs). Services provided by IRCAs are: Divyangjan to promote their physical, social and psychological rehabilitation and to enhance their economic ο Preventive Education and Awareness Generation potential. ο Identification of Addicts • Major aids and assistive devices to be distributed under ο Motivational Counselling ADIP Scheme are Motorized Tricycles, Tricycles ο Detoxification/De-addiction and Whole Person Recovery Conventional, Wheelchairs, Crutches, Walking Sticks, Brail ο After care and reintegration into social mechanism kits, Brail Slate, Hearing Aids etc.,

• Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh has taken an initiative ►NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR DRUG to become the first -Divyang Mitra‘ district of the country. DEMAND REDUCTION (2018-23) ►RASHTRIYA VAYOSHRI YOJANA OBJECTIVES OF NAPDDR ARE: NODAL AGENCY • Create awareness and educate people about the ill-effects of drugs abuse and reduce stigmatisation of and Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO) 99 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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discrimination against, groups and individuals dependent THEME AND KEY FEATURES on drugs in order to integrate them back into the society • It aims to create skilled manpower for employment in the • Develop human resources and build capacity growing Solar Energy Power project’s installation, • Facilitate research, training, documentation, innovation operation & maintenance in India and abroad and collection of relevant information to strengthen • It wants to crate 50,000 trained solar photovoltaic • Provide for a whole range of community based services for technicians by March 2020. the identification, motivation, counselling, de-addiction, • Special emphasis is given to skill youth from SC/ST/OBC after care and rehabilitation for Whole Person Recovery of categories.

addicts • Formulate and implement comprehensive guidelines, ►JAWAHARLAL NEHRU NATIONAL schemes, and programs using a multi-agency approach for SOLAR MISSION (JNNSM) drug demand reduction NODAL AGENCY • Undertake drug demand reduction efforts to address all forms of drug abuse Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) • Alleviate the consequences of drug dependence FINANCING COMPONENTS ADMISSIBLE FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: Central sector • Preventive education and awareness generation THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Capacity building • To establish India as a global leader in solar energy, by creating the policy conditions for its diffusion across the • Treatment and Rehabilitation country as quickly as possible. ο Availability of IRCAs in each district • To secure India’s energy requirement by enabling a policy ο Conversion of existing IRCAs into treatment clinics framework for the deployment of 100 GW of solar power ο Availability of drug addiction treatment facilities in by 2022. Government Hospitals and closed settings such as • To create favourable conditions for solar manufacturing prisons, juvenile homes etc. capability, particularly solar thermal for indigenous ο Provision of residential stabilisation programs as Model production and market leadership Rehabilitation Centres. • The mission is one of the several initiatives that are part of ο Development of treatment protocol to create uniformity the National Action Plan on Climate Change

in treatment protocol across the country. • Setting quality standards ►KISAN URJA SURAKSHA EVAM • Focussed intervention in vulnerable areas UTTHAAN MAHABHIYAN (KUSUM) • Skill Development, vocational training and livelihood support of ex-drug addicts NODAL AGENCY New and Renewable Energy • Survey, studies, evaluation, research and innovation on the subjects covered under the scheme. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Programs for Drug Demand Reduction by States/UTs • It is a farmer-oriented solar power scheme that will allow setting up grid-connected solar plants in rural areas and off-grid solar pumps. MINISTRY OF NEW AND • It involves decentralized solar power production of up to 28,250 Megawatt (Mw) over five years. RENEWABLE ENERGY • It aims at boosting farmers ‘income by allowing them to ►SURYA MITRA SCHEME sell additional power to the grid through solar plants. • It will also have provisions for solarization of tube wells NODAL AGENCY and lift irrigation projects. National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) COMPONENTS FINANCING • Component A: Installation of 10,000 MW of Decentralized Central sector Ground Mounted Grid Connected Renewable Energy 100 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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Power Plants by farmers of 500 kW to 2 MW capacity • Funding of green energy corridors in both intra and inter within 5 km distance from sub-station primarily on State transmission projects, under the framework of barren/uncultivable land. The DISCOMs will purchase cooperation between Govt. of India and Govt. of Germany.

power at pre-fixed tariff for which they will get PBI of Rs. 0.40 per unit up to Rs. 33 lakh per MW in a span of five ►ATAL JYOTI YOJANA (AJAY) PHASE- years. II • Component B: Installation of 17.50 lakh standalone Solar Powered Agriculture Pumps for which Government of Applications covered: Solar Street Lights. India will provide financial support up to 30% of the cost of Financial support: 75% of the cost by MNRE and balance solar pump and States to also provide at least 30% of the 25% through MPLAD. cost of solar pump, balance cost to be shared by the Targets: A total of 3,04,500 Solar Street Lights (SSLs) will be beneficiary farmer. (For NE and hilly States/UTs the Central installed in the following states/ regions: support would be up to 50% of the cost of solar pump) 1. States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and • : Solarisation of 10 Lakh existing Grid- Component C Assam, which were covered in Phase-I of the Scheme as connected Agriculture Pumps for which Government of there is additional demand in these States. India will provide financial support up to 30% of the cost of 2. Hilly States/UTs of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh solarisation and States to also provide at least 30% of the and Uttarakhand. cost of solarisation, balance cost to be shared by the beneficiary farmer. (For NE and hilly States/UTs the Central 3. North Eastern States including Sikkim. support would be up to 50% of the cost of solarisation) 4. Islands of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep. • Targets: Setting up of 25,750 MW additional solar capacity 5. Parliamentary constituencies covering 48 aspirational by 2022. districts of States other than those covered in (i) to (iii) • Implementing framework: Scheme will be implemented above. by agencies designated by States for the three Implementing framework: Project is proposed to be components in the respective states as per implemented by EESL. Hon’ble MPs of concerning implementation guidelines issued by MNRE. Centralised parliamentary constituencies will provide consent letter along tendering envisaged for Component-B. Centralised with location of lights. Respective DM will issue sanction for tendering for 1.75 lakh solar pumps Component-B allocation of funds from MPLAD funds. completed by EESL (Energy Efficiency Services Ltd.) and States started implementations of Component-B. For ►GRID-CONNECTED ROOFTOP SOLAR Component-A and C the States have to initiate process as per Guidelines. (RTS) PROGRAMME Phase II of the Grid connected rooftop solar programme was ►GREEN CORRIDOR PROJECT approved with a target for achieving cumulative capacity of 40,000 MW from Rooftop Solar (RTS) Projects by the year • It is a project for the evacuation of renewable energy from 2022. In the Phase-II Programme, Central Financial Assistance generation points to the load centres by creating intra- (CFA) for the residential sector has been restructured. state and inter-state transmission infrastructure. SALIENT FEATURES • It enables the flow of renewable energy into the National • Power Distributing companies (DISCOMs) will be the Grid Network. implementing agencies • Specifically, the green energy corridor is grid connected • Subsidy/CFA will be available for the residential sector only network for the transmission of renewable energy produced from various renewable energy projects. • CFA under residential category will be provided for 4000 MW capacity and the same will be provided on the basis of • The intra-state transmission component of the project is benchmark cost or tender cost, whichever is lower. being implemented by the respective states and the Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) is implementing inter- • For RTS systems up to 3 kW, CFA is 40%; for capacity above state transmission component PGCIL has taken loans from 3 kW and up to 10 kW, CFA is 40% for first 3 kW and 20% Asian Development Bank for the project implementation. for balance quantity; for capacity above 10 kW, CFA is 40% for first 3 kW and 20% for next 7 kW. No subsidy beyond 10 kW capacity. 101 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• For Group Housing Societies/Residential Welfare • It aims to ensure promotion of energy efficiency in the Associations (GHS/RWA), CFA will be limited to 20% for RTS country. plants for supply of power to common facilities; however, • It has two components - Domestic Efficient Lighting the capacity eligible for CFA for GHS/RWA will be limited to Programme (DELP) and Street Lighting National 10 kW per house with maximum total capacity up to 500 Programme (SLNP). kWp. • DELP - UJALA Scheme was launched to provide LED bulbs • Residential Consumers/Group Housing to domestic consumers. Societies/Residential Welfare Associations have to pay only • SLNP - It aims to replace conventional street light with balance amount after deducting the CFA to the smart and energy efficient LED street lights by March, empanelled vendor for installation of the RTS project 2019.

• For availing the benefit of CFA, indigenously manufactured PV Modules and Cells are to be used. ►UNNAT JYOTI BY AFFORDABLE • Performance based incentives will be provided to DISCOMs based on RTS capacity achieved in a financial LEDS AND APPLIANCES FOR ALL year (i.e. 1st April to 31st March every year till the duration (UJALA) SCHEME of the scheme) over and above the base capacity i.e. NODAL AGENCY cumulative capacity achieved at the end of previous financial year. Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL). FINANCING Centrally sponsored MINISTRY OF POWER THEME AND KEY FEATURES ►DEENDAYAL UPADHYAY GRAM • UJALA is an energy efficiency scheme to promote efficient lighting, enhance awareness on using efficient equipment JYOTI YOJANA (DDUGJY) which reduce electricity bills and help preserve NODAL AGENCY environment. Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) • LED bulbs at 40% of the market price will be distributed to FINANCING every grid connected consumer. Central sector THEME AND KEY FEATURES ►SAUBHAGYA SCHEME (PRADHAN • It is the flagship programme of Ministry of Power to MANTRI SAHAJ BIJLI HAR GHAR provide 24×7 power supply to rural areas. YOJANA) • It focuses on feeder separation (rural households & NODAL AGENCY agricultural) and strengthening of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure including metering at all levels Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) in rural areas. FINANCING • This will help in providing round the clock power to rural Centrally sponsored households and adequate power to agricultural THEME AND KEY FEATURES consumers. • Aims to the achieve the goal of universal household • Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) has electrification in the country by 31st March 2019. been subsumed in it. • The scheme envisages providing last mile connectivity and

electricity connections to all remaining households in rural ►NATIONAL LED PROGRAMME areas and remaining economically poor un-electrified NODAL AGENCY households in urban areas Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) • Non-poor urban households are excluded from this scheme. FINANCING • It also aims to provide Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) based Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL). standalone system for un-electrified households located in THEME AND KEY FEATURES 102 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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remote and inaccessible villages / habitations, where grid • India has set the target of avoiding additional generation extension is not feasible or cost effective. capacity of 19.6 GW under National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency target. ►UJWAL DISCOM ASSURANCE YOJANA (UDAY) ►MERIT PORTAL THEME AND KEY FEATUES THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Merit Order Despatch of Electricity for Rejuvenation of • It seeks to provide financial and operational turnaround of Income and Transparency is a portal that has been power distribution companies and aims at long term developed in association with POSOCO and Central affordable and accessible 24x7 power supply to all. Electricity Authority. • Under this programme, States shall take over 75% of • It displays extensive array of information regarding the DISCOM debt over two years i.e 50% of DISCOM debt shall merit order of Electricity procured by States such as daily be taken over in 2015-16 and 25% in 2016-17. source-wise power purchases of respective states/UTs. • The governments will then issue ‘UDAY bonds’ to banks • Information available in the Portal shall help State Discoms and other financial institutions to raise money to pay off to optimize their power procurement in more efficient way the banks. leading to lower cost of power to consumers. • The remaining 25% of the DISCOM debt will be dealt within • Information available in the Portal shall help State Discoms one of the two ways — conversion into lower interest rate to optimize their power procurement in more efficient way loans by the lending banks or be funded by money raised leading to lower cost of power to consumers. It will through dis-com bonds backed by State guarantee. facilitate mustrun status for hydro and renewables and will Backing from the State will help bring down the interest promote use of green and clean power more rate for the DISCOMS. transparently. • Government of India will not include the debt taken over

by the states as per the above scheme in the calculation of fiscal deficit of respective states in the financial years 2015- ►GUIDELINES FOR CHARGING 16 and 2016-17. INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ELECTRIC • Only applicable for state owned DISCOMS. VEHICLES

Released by Ministry of Power. ►INDIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCALE- OBJECTIVES: UP PROGRAMME 1. enable faster adoption of electric vehicles by ensuring safe, MINISTRY reliable, accessible and affordable Charging Infrastructure Power 2. Promote affordable tariff chargeable from EV owners and NODAL AGENCY Charging Station Operators' Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) SALIENT FEATURES FINANCING 1. Private charging at residences/offices shall be permitted. Government of India and the World Bank 2. Charging Station may also be installed by Housing societies, Malls etc with a provision to allow charging of THEME AND KEY FEATURES visitor's vehicles which are permitted to come in its • It will help scale up the deployment of energy-saving premises measures in residential and public sectors. 3. Setting up of Public Charging Stations to be de-licensed • Under the scheme, EESL will deploy LED bulbs, tubelights, activity and any individual/entity is free to set up public ceiling fans and street lights which will be supplied by the charging stations private sector. 4. Connectivity to be provided on priority to any person • It will help schemes such as UJALA and Street Lighting seeking to set up Public Charging Station. National Programme (SLNP). 5. Charging Station may also obtain electricity through open • This programme will help India meet its Nationally access Determined Contributions under the Paris accord.

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6. Minimum infrastructure requirements do not apply to 3. 100% metering of all consumers and providing electricity private charging points meant for self use of individual EV connection on demand. owners. 4. Emphasis on frontier technology initiatives with an 7. At least one Charging Station shall be available in a grid of objective of providing reliable quality power to consumers. 3km X 3km. Further, one Charging Station shall be set up 5. Envisages conversion of all Electricity consumer meters at every 25 km on both sides of highways. into smart meters in prepaid mode within the next three 8. In the first phase (i.e. 1-3 years) all Mega Cities with years. population of 4 million plus as per census 2011, all 6. Plan anticipates an increase in Distribution substation existing expressways connected to these Mega Cities & capacity by 38%, Distribution transformation capacity by important Highways connected with each of these Mega 32% and an increase in different type of feeder lengths by Cities may be taken up for coverage, while in the second 27-38% till 2022.

phase (3-5 years) big cities like State Capitals, UT headquarters may be covered for distributed and demonstrative effect. ►RENEWABLE ENERGY MANAGEMENT 9. Important Highways connected with each of these Mega CENTERS (REMCS) Cities may also be taken up for coverage. • The Government of India’s target of 175 GW RE Capacity by 10. Fast Charging Station for long range and/or heavy duty 2022 driving accelerated RE penetration poses challenges EVs like buses/trucks etc., shall be installed at every 100 to the grid management due to intermittent and variable Kms, shall be installed one on each side of the nature of RE generation. highways/road located preferably within/alongside the • The renewable energy management centers are equipped Public Charging Station (PCS). with Artificial Intelligence based RE forecasting and 11. Type of chargers of different standards (viz. CCS, scheduling tools and provide greater visualization and CHAdeMO, Type-2 AC, Bharat AC 001) thus ensuring that enhanced situational awareness to the grid operators. The the PCS owners have the freedom to install the chargers Renewable Energy Management Centers (REMCs) are co- as per the market requirement. located with the State Load DispatchCenters (SLDCs) in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, 12. Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), a statutory body Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat & Rajasthan and in RLDCs at under Ministry of Power has been nominated as the Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi and at the NLDC. Central Nodal Agency. • Presently, 55 GW of Renewable (Solar and Wind) is being 13. Domestic charging shall be akin to domestic consumption monitored through the eleven REMCs. of electricity and shall be charged as such. • Government of India had approved the implementation of 14. In case of Public Charging Station, it has been provided the REMCs as a Central Scheme and had mandated that tariff for the supply of electricity to PCS shall be POWERGRID, a Maharatna CPSE under Ministry of Power determined by the appropriate commission in accordance as Implementing Agency. These REMCs are being managed with the Tariff policy. Ceiling Prices for service chargers to by Power System Operation Corporation of India Ltd. be fixed by appropriate commission. (POSOCO) at Regional and National level and at State level

by State Load DespatchCentres (SLDCs).

►DRAFT PLAN FOR POWER DISTRIBUTION SECTOR ►SMART METERING It is the first ever plan at Distribution level which has been • In 2019, Ministry of Power has issued guidelines to all prepared by Central Electricity Authority, under the guidance States to convert all existing consumer meters into Smart of Ministry of Power. Till now, the Central Government has meters in prepaid mode. been preparing Perspectives Plans for Generation and • Operation of Smart meters in prepaid mode would allow Transmission Sectors under the aegis of the National consumers to pay as per their own financial convenience Electricity Plan (NEP). and electricity consumption requirements. SALIENT FEATURES • EESL, a JV between CPSUs in the power sector, has been 1. Needs of consumers are the centre of focus. providing Smart metering services to various Utilities as 2. Sustaining 24 × 7 uninterrupted power for all with per MOUs entered into with them. increasing demand of electricity by consumers 104 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• EESL has also established innovative financing • Each location will be provided technical/ manpower arrangements for the Smart metering projects that would support by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs for first enable them to provide smart metering services to the three years from the date of going live so that the project DISCOMs without requiring any outright CAPEX funding does not become a mere plan of installation of computer/ from the States/Utilities. laptops in State Assemblies/ Secretariats. • The recoveries against the funding towards smart • Thereafter, the entire project would be handed over to the metering installations would be taken as a monthly State Government and the role of the Ministry of annuity from the Utilities over a period of seven to eight Parliamentary Affairs, Government India would remain years. limited to coordination/ supervision/ monitoring and training of MLAs/ Officers & upgradation/ maintenance of MINISTRY OF NeVA suite at regular intervals or as and when required so that the NeVA project continue to run forever without PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS glitches. • Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly has become ►NATIONAL EVIDHAN APPLICATION India’s first Legislative Assembly to implement e-Vidhan NEVA: FOR DIGITAL LEGISLATURES with the financial & technical assistance from the Ministry • e-Vidhan is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) included in of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Digital India Programme and Ministry of Parliamentary Government of India in 2014. Affairs (MoPA) is the ‘Nodal Ministry’ for its implementation in all the 31 States/ UTs with Legislatures. ►YOUTH PARLIAMENT PROGRAMME • It enables automation of entire law making process, • tracking of decisions and documents, sharing of Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has been implementing information. NeVA aims to bring all the legislatures of the Youth Parliament programme since 1966 in Schools under country together, in one platform thereby creating a the Directorate of Education, Government of NCT of Delhi massive data depository without having the complexity of and NDMC, Kendriya Vidyalayas, Jawahar Navodaya multiple applications. Vidyalayas and Universities/ Colleges. • To increase the coverage of the programme to untouched • NeVA is an e-Governance solution for Legislative Assemblies to automate the process involved in working of sections and corners, the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Houses and managing constituencies by respective MLAs. has developed a web-portal on Youth Parliament. Through NeVA has two components (1) e-Assembly and (2) e- the web-portal, the aim is to bring all the educational Constituency. institutions of the country under the ambit of the Youth Parliament Programme. • e-Vidhan will facilitate paperless assembly or e-Assembly is • a concept involving of electronic means to facilitate the All recognised educational institutions of the country are work of Assembly which can be regarded as the early stage eligible to participate in this programme. • of development of e-democracy. The registration for participation is done by the education institutions through the web-portal of Youth Parliament. • It can help Assembly to become more transparent, • accessible, accountable and effective in promoting E-training modules, videos, photographs and scripts are democracy. e-Assembly enables automation of entire law available on the portal for online self-learning of the making process, tracking of decisions and documents, participants. • sharing of information which in turn contributes to After successful registration, the educational institutions enhancing the relationship between the governed and will be able to conduct youth parliament sittings in their those who govern them. respective institutions. • Each student taking part in the sitting will get a Digital • NeVA will completely eliminate the process of sending out a notice/request for collection of data. Through the cloud ‘Certificate of Participation’ and each Teacher-in-charge technology (Meghraj), data deployed can be accessed and Head of Institution will get a ‘Certificate of anywhere at any time. Appreciation’ through the web portal. • To monitor the progress of implementation of various MMPs, Government of India constituted an Apex Committee under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary.

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capital to add value to the products, which they collect MINISTRY OF TRIBAL from the Jungle. AFFAIRS • It also aims at build upon the traditional knowledge & skill sets of tribals by adding technology & IT for value addition. ►EKLAVYA SCHOOL • It also focussed on setting-up of tribal community owned FINANCING Van Dhan Vikas Kendras in predominantly forested tribal districts. Centrally sponsored

THEME AND KEY FEATURES ►ADI-MOHATSAV • Government will establish Ekalavya Residential Schools to provide education to tribals in their local environment. THEME AND KEY FEATURES • Target – Ekalavya schools in every block with more than It is a National Tribal Festival organized by the Ministry 50% ST population and at least 20,000 tribal persons by of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED to celebrate, cherishes and 2022. promote the spirit of tribal craft, culture, cuisine and commerce • It will have special facilities for preserving local art and culture, besides providing training in sports and skill THEME FOR 2018 development. • A Celebration of the Spirit of Tribal Culture, Craft, Cuisine • It will be established on line with the Navodya schools. and Commerce”. • The Mahotsav comprised of display and sale of items of ►VANBANDHU KALYAN YOJANA tribal art and craft, tribal medicine & healers, tribal cuisine and display of tribal folk performance. FINANCING • Tribal artisans, chefs, folk dancers/musicians from 23 Central sector States of the country also participate and provided glimpse THEME AND KEY FEATURES of their rich traditional culture. • It has been launched for the holistic development and • The festival featured exhibition-cum-sale of tribal welfare of tribal population in India by plugging the handicrafts, art, paintings, fabric, jeweler and much more infrastructure gaps and lags in human development through 100 stalls.

indices. • The scheme focuses on ►SUPPORT TO TRIBAL RESEARCH 1. Provision for a better standard of living and quality of INSTITUTES (TRI) SCHEME life • The basic objective of the scheme is to strengthen the 2. Improving access to and quality of education. Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs) in their infrastructural 3. Generating resources for long-term and sustainable needs, Research & documentation activities and Training & growth Capacity Building programmes etc. 4. Bridging infrastructural gaps • The Ministry of Tribal Affairs shall continue the scheme 5. Protection of tribal culture and heritage. "Support to TRIs" with revised financial norms and identified interventions. ►VAN DHAN SCHEME • The Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), shall be the nodal Ministry for operationalising the scheme. The scheme shall NODAL AGENCY be a Central Sector Scheme with 100% funding by the The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of Central Government to the TRIs directly or through state India (TRIFED) government. THEME AND KEY FEATURES ACTIVITIES TO BE UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE SCHEME • It is an initiative for targeting livelihood generation for • Building Infrastructure - State-of-the-Art building for tribals by harnessing non-timber forest produce. TRIs/ National TRIs, support for setting up of Tribal • Under the scheme, 10 Self Help Groups of 30 Tribal Museum / Memorials including virtual museums, Support gatherers are being trained and provided with working for setting up of libraries including Digital Repositories

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• Research & Documentation - Tribal welfare measure, by providing financial assistance at concessional rate of Tribal language, culture, traditions, customs, art & interest varying between 4% to 8% p.a. payable by the artefacts, traditional medicinal practices, tribal myth & beneficiaries. stories, tribal cuisines and other special characteristics, • The financial assistance of the Corporation is extended to Monitoring and evaluation of various government Scheduled Tribes having annual family income upto interventions, Development and printing of primers in double the poverty line (DPL) through State Channelising local tribal languages, Any other aspects relating to tribal Agencies (SCAs) nominated by respective State art, tradition and culture, Any other aspects relating to Governments in addition to certain Regional Rural Banks tribal art, tradition and culture. and PSU Banks. • Training & Capacity Building - Laws/constitutional • Financial assistance of the Corporation is provided for all provisions in respect of Scheduled areas / tribal rights. kinds of viable income generating activity such as – (including FRA, PESA, Prevention of Atrocity Act, L&RR, ο Dairy, Poultry, Pumpset/ Minor Irrigation, Goatery, Land Acquisition etc. Capacity building of functionaries and Piggery, Horticulture etc. in the Agricultural Sector. tribal representatives on socioeconomic programs etc. ο Bamboo Furniture Making unit, Flour/ Rice Mill Unit, • Monitoring - Each TRI shall have its own web portal. All Steel Fabrication, Gem Stone Cutting and Polishing Unit documentation to be put there as well as MoTA repository. etc under the Industrial Sector. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs will carry out concurrent ο monitoring through physical and financial reports and Automobile Workshop, Book Binding, Data Processing, visits by officers of the Ministry to review the scheme. The Tent Hose etc under the Service Sector. scheme will be evaluated by the Ministry before the end of ο Auto Rickshaw, Goods Carrier etc under the Transport 2019-20 period. An Apex Level Committee will approve the Sector. Annual plan submitted by TRIs through State Government and shall monitor implementation of the same. The APEX ►SPECIAL CENTRAL ASSISTANCE Committee shall be headed by the Secretary of Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs. (SCA) TO TRIBAL SUB-SCHEME • Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) now called as Scheduled Tribe ►SCHEME FOR RELEASE OF EQUITY Component (STC) at Central level and Tribal Sub-Scheme (TSS) at State level is dedicated source of fund for tribal SUPPORT TO THE NATIONAL/ STATE development across the country. SCHEDULED TRIBES FINANCE AND • The scheme ‘SCA to TSS’ is a centrally sponsored scheme DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS to support the efforts of the state government in bridging gap between Scheduled Tribe (ST) population and other (STFDCS) social groups through:

• It is a continuing centrally sponsored scheme under which ο Human resource development by enhancing access to Central Government provides equity support to National education and health services. Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation ο Enhanced quality of life by providing basic amenities in (NSTFDC) under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and State tribal areas/localities for communities by interventions Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporations in the area of safe drinking water and sanitation, (STFDCs) of various State Governments. electrification, last mile road connectivity, market • STFDCs catering to STs in various states are provided development, transportation etc. assistance towards their Share Capital under the centrally ο Enhanced capacity to avail opportunities for livelihood sponsored scheme. The ratio of Share Capital contribution through skill upgradation, financial inclusion and between the Central and States Governments is of 49: 51. entrepreneurship development. Access to entitlement, • The National Scheduled Tribes Finance and rights, service delivery. Development Corporation (NSTFDC) was incorporated in ο Alleviation of poverty and unemployment through April, 2001 as a Government of India company under measures like increasing farmers income, income Ministry of Tribal Affairs. This Corporation has been generating opportunities, value chain development granted license under Section 25 of the Companies Act, U including food processing and creation of (A company not for profit). infrastructure. • NSTFDC is an apex organisation for economic upliftment of Scheduled Tribes and the Corporation fulfils its objectives 107 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• States having notified STs are eligible to receive grants OBJECTIVES OF NYKS ARE TWO FOLD under this programme. • To involve the rural youth in nation building activities. • Inter-district allocation of SCA funds shall be the • To develop such skills and values in them with which they responsibility of state government based on gaps in become responsible and productive citizens of a modern, various sectors of development while focusing on priority secular and technological nation. districts identified by Ministry of Tribal Affairs and NATIONAL YOUTH CORPS (NYC) Aspirational Districts identified by NITI Aayog. • It is a scheme implemented by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan to tap the potential of the youth and channeling their energy towards nation building. MINISTRY OF YOUTH • The scheme is being implemented since 2010-11, amalgamating the existing two volunteer schemes namely AFFAIRS AND SPORTS National Service Volunteer (NSV) and Rashtriya The Schemes of the Department of Youth Affairs have been Sadbhawana Yojana (RSY). consolidated and restructured into 3 compact schemes – OBJECTIVES 1. Eight Schemes are merged into a new ‘umbrella’ Scheme • To set up a group of disciplined and dedicated youth who called “Rashtriya Yuva Sashaktikaran Karyakram (RYSK)” have the inclination and spirit to engage in the task of 2. National Service Scheme (NSS) nation building. 3. Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development • To facilitate the realization of inclusive growth (both social (RGNIYD) and economic). • To act as points for dissemination of information, basic ►RASHTRIYA YUVA SASHAKTIKARAN knowledge in the community. KARYAKRAM (RYSK) • To act as group modulators and peer group educators. • To act as role models for the younger people specially Following are eight sub-schemes under Rashtriya Yuva towards enhancement of public ethics, probity and dignity Sashaktikaran Karyakram: of labour. 1. Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS); NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR YOUTH AND ADOLESCENT 2. National Youth Corps (NYC); DEVELOPMENT (NPYAD) 3. National Programme for Youth & Adolescent Development Activities under NPYAD Scheme (NPYAD); Sl. Name of the Programme Activities 4. International Cooperation; Programmes 5. Youth Hostels (YH); (a) Youth i. Youth Leadership and 6. Assistance to Scouting & Guiding Organizations; Leadership personality 7. National Discipline Scheme (NDS); and and Development Training 8. National Young Leaders Programme (NYLP). Personality NEHRU YUVA KENDRA SANGATHAN (NYKS) Development

• Nehru Yuva Kendras were established in the year 1972 (b) Promotion of i. National Integration Camp with the objective of providing rural youth avenues to take National ii. Inter-State part in the process of nation building as well providing Integration Youth Exchange Programme opportunities for the development of their personality and skills. iii Multi-Cultural Activities • In the year 1987-88, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) iv. National Youth Festival was set up as an autonomous organization under the v. State Youth Festival Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, (c) Promotion of i. Promotion of adventure at to oversee working of these Kendras. NYKS is the largest Adventure basic and intermediate level in grassroots level youth organization; one of its kind in the India world. It channelizes the power of youth on the principles of voluntarism, self-help and community participation. ii. Promotion of adventure at advance level including 108 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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expeditions in India Revamped Khelo India programme at a cost of Rs.1,756 crore iii. Grants to Recognized for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20 approved. Institutions THEME AND KEY FEATURES • It has been introduced to revive the sports culture in (d) Development i. Life Skills Education India at the grass-root level by building a strong and ii. Counseling framework for all sports played in our country and Empowerment iii. Career Guidance establish India as a great sporting nation. of Adolescents iv. Residential Camps • Each athlete selected under the scheme shall receive an (e) Technical and i. Environment Building annual scholarship worth Rs. 5.00 lakh for 8 consecutive years. Resource ii. Research & Studies on youth • It aims to promote across the country as Development issues 20 universities hubs of sporting excellence. iii Documentation & Publication • This programme strives to promote “Sports for All” as iv. Seminars, Conferences, well as “Sports for Excellence.” Exhibitions and Workshops • The Programme would cover about on youth or adolescent 200 million children in the age group of 10-18 under a massive national issues, national integration and adventure physical fitness drive, which will not only measure the physical fitness of all children in the age group, but also support their fitness related activities. ►NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS) KHELO INDIA - NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENT • National Service scheme is a Central sector scheme OF SPORTS implemented by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of OBJECTIVES: the Government of India. • Encouraging mass participation • The scheme was launched in 1969. • Promotion of excellence in sports • The scheme aims to develop the personality and character VERTICALS UNDER KHELO INDIA SCHEME of the student youth through voluntary community • Play field development: service. National Inventory of Playfields and Sports • NSS volunteers play an important role in spreading o Infrastructure will be prepared on a GIS platform. awareness about government initiatives such as Swachh Bharat Mission activities and yoga program. o State and District Playfield Associations will be created in all States/UTs on the lines of National Playfield • The aim of NSS is to provide hands on experience to young Association of India. They will students in delivering community service and gain exposure and experience which develops character and . Register existing play areas personality. . Map them on GIS platform

o Development of playgrounds in all gram panchayats can ►RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL INSTITUTE be taken up in convergence with the MGNREGA scheme. OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT • Community coaching development Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan • State level Khelo India Centres • • The scheme aims to construct block level sports Annual Sports Competition: complexes and conduct annual rural sports competitions o (Khelo India School Games, organised at New Delhi) • Following sports competitions at block, district, state and o In the second edition, Khelo India School Games was national levels are conducted under the reorganised into - 2019 (Pune).

ο rural sports competitions For the first time students from colleges and universities are participating. Maharashtra won most ο sports competitions exclusively for women medals followed by Haryana and Delhi.

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level by High Powered Committee will be provided THEME AND KEY FEATURES annual financial assistance of Rs 5 Lakh per annum for 8 • The scheme focuses on identifying and supporting years. potential medal prospects for 2016 and 2020 Olympic • Utilisation and Creation/Upgradation of Sports Games. Infrastructure • The selected athletes will be provided financial o University Centre of Excellence Program assistance for their customized training at Institutes having world class facilities and other necessary support. o Creation of Appropriate Sports Infrastructure: Grants in aid will be provided to States/UTs, SAI to development • Focused disciplines will be Athletics, Archery, Badminton, critical sports infrastructure where there are gaps. Role Boxing, Wrestling and Shooting. of Private sector • Benchmark for selection of athletes under the scheme will • Support to National/Regional/State Sports Academics be in relation to international standards. • Physical fitness of school children • There will be annual/semi-annual review of performance of selected athletes. o Physical fitness component will be run in all schools (Government/Private/Aided/Unaided). • All the would result in improved performance and a higher position in medals tally for the country o National Physical Fitness Parameters will be evolved region wise. A toolkit will be provided to each school to evaluate physical fitness of all school going children. ►NATIONAL YOUTH PARLIAMENT

o Sports will be integrated with School Education by • Organised by Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of making it a compulsory subject for which marks will be Youth Affairs and Sports development. awarded. • The National Service Scheme and Nehru Yuva Kendra o Implemented by Lakshmibai National Institute of Sangthan organisations will be involved in its conduct and Physical Education management. • Sports for women OBJECTIVES o Holding of annual national competitions for women. • To hear the voice of youth between 18 and less than 25 • Promotion of sports amongst people with disabilities years of age, who are allowed to vote but cannot stand as • Sports for Peace and Development a candidate for election, through deliberations in Youth Parliaments at district level and above. • Promotion of rural and indigenous/tribal games • Encourage youth to engage with public issues, understand In order to showcase our rural and indigenous/tribal o the common man's point of view, form their opinion and games, annual competitions will be held in rural and express it in an articulate manner indigenous/tribal games alternately. • Develop and enhance decision making abilities, tolerance Dynamic and interactive website providing information o for view of others, respect for rules on such games will be put up. • Obtain and document their opinion on Vision of New India • Department of Sports under the Ministry of Youth Affairs in 2022. and Sports will set up an Empowered Committee to be headed by Secretary (Sports). It should meet minimum 4 • Make available the views of youth to policy makers and times in a year. implementers to take it forward. CRITERIA FOR PARTICIPATION o The Empowered Committee will prepare . Long term Perspective Plan and Annual Joint Action • More than 18 and less than 25 years of age Plan with respect to projects, programs and FORMAT expenditure • District Youth Parliament: Conducted at district level.

• State Youth Parliament: Youth selected by a jury from the ►TARGET OLYMPIC PODIUM SCHEME district youth parliament will participate at the State level FUNDING in SYP. India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), a • National Youth Parliament: Youth selected by a jury from PSU under the Ministry of Finance, has agreed to contribute the State Youth Parliament will participate at the National Rs. 30 crores to National Sports Development Fund (NSDF) by level in NYP. Two winners from each State will participate contribution of Rs. 10 crore per annum for next three years. as speakers in the NYP. Highest scorer from each district in 110 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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the DYP will participate in the NYP as a delegate. Three NODAL AGENCY best speakers at the NYP will be awarded Rs 2 lakhs, Rs A nodal officer has been identified for each district to work on 1.50 lakhs and Rs 1 lakh by the PM. making their district Open Defecation Free (ODF) in mission mode EVALUATION CRITERIA WILL BE BASED ON THEME AND KEY FEATURES Articulation, Clarity of thought, Content knowledge and • Swachh Yug campaign aims to make villages located along Demeanor Ganga Open Defecation Free. JURY • The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, in • The Youth Parliaments ie DYP, SYP, NYP will each be partnership with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and adjudged by a 5 member jury. Each jury will be Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and compromised of the following members: Ganga Rejuvenation, is intensifying support to the five States of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and ο Parliamentarian/MLA/Eminent political leader West Bengal, to make all villages along the banks of the ο Retired/serving officers including uniformed service Ganga Open Defecation Free officers • The campaign, being a collaborative effort between the ο Eminent artist/Social Personality Swachh Bharat Mission, local youth leaders and the ο Eminent journalist/writers Namami Gange project - is being called ‘Swachh’, which ο Educationist translates into ‘the age of Swachh’. • The youth agencies under the Union Ministry of Youth ►FIT INDIA MOVEMENT Affairs viz. Bharat Scouts and Guides, Nehru Yuva Kendras and National Service Scheme will be deployed for the • It was launched by the Department of Sports on the campaign. occasion of National Sports Day i.e. August 29, 2019.

• It has the objective to make fitness an integral part of daily life of Indians, by encouraging them to enrol and MINISTRY OF TOURISM participate in Fitness Events/Activities organized during the Campaign Period commencing from August 29, 2019 and ►SWADESH DARSHAN will end on August 29, 2023. FINANCING • Fit India Movement would involve all Indians, irrespective The scheme was launched in 2014 -15 and as on date the of their gender, age, profession, residence, social/financial Ministry has sanctioned 73 projects worth projects for Rs. status, etc. and whether living in India or abroad and 5873.26 Crore to 30 States and UTs. covers all aspects having a bearing on fitness and healthy living viz., physical fitness, mental fitness, healthy life style, THEME AND KEY FEATURES healthy eating habits, health and balance diet, preventive • To identify and develop theme-based tourist circuits health care, sustainable and environment friendly living, based on interest, sustainability and competitiveness, by etc. integrating resources and local participation of state and

local communities. ►MISSION XI MILLION • The various themes identified are - Pilgrimage and Spirituality, Heritage, Culture and Eco-tourism. OBJECTIVE • Under it, 13 thematic circuits have been identified for • It is the biggest school sport outreach programme. development, namely North-East India Circuit, Buddhist • A first of its kind, the programme will encourage children Circuit, Himalayan Circuit, Coastal Circuit, Krishna Circuit, to play the game of football, gain healthy habits and learn Desert Circuit, Tribal Circuit, Eco Circuit, Wildlife Circuit, important life lessons in teamwork and sportsman spirit. Rural Circuit, Spiritual Circuit, Ramayana Circuit and Heritage. ►SWACHH YUG CAMPAIGN • Under this scheme the Government is focusing on MINISTRY development of quality infrastructure in the country with objective of providing better experience and facilities to Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, in partnership with the visitors on one hand and on other hand fostering the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Ministry of Water economic growth. Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation 111 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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• The first ever Swadesh Darshan Project in the state of ►SEVA BHOJ YOJNA Nagaland- “Development of Tribal Circuit: Peren-Kohima- FINANCING Wokha Project”. Total outlay of Rs. 325.00 Crores for Financial Years 2018-19

and 2019-20. ►PILGRIMAGE REJUVENATION AND THEME AND KEY FEATURES SPIRITUAL AUGMENTATION DRIVE The scheme envisages to reimburse the Central Government (PRASAD) share of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) and Integrated Goods and Service Tax (IGST)so as to lessen the THEME AND KEY FEATURES financial burden of such as Religious / Charitable Institutions • To identify and develop pilgrimage tourist destinations on who provide Food/Prasad/Langar (Community the principles of high tourist visits, competitiveness and Kitchen)/Bhandara free of cost without any discrimination to sustainability to enrich the religious tourism experience. Public/Devotees. • The PRASAD Scheme was launched with 12 identified sites namely Ajmer (Rajasthan), Amritsar (Punjab), ►NATIONAL MISSION FOR Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh), Dwarka (Gujarat), Gaya (Bihar), Kedarnath (Uttarak-hand), Kamakhya (Assam), MANUSCRIPTS (NMM) Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu), Mathura (Uttar Pradesh), Puri THEME AND KEY FEATURES (Od-isha), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) and Vellankani (Tamil • The mission focuses on documentation, conservation, Nadu). preservation and digitization of manuscripts. • The Centre has included Gangotri and Yamunotri in • The ultimate object of the Mission is to establish a Uttrarakhand, Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and Digital Manuscripts Repository at IGNCA in which under a central scheme Parasnath in Jharkhand researchers and scholars can view and consult the manuscripts to understand our past in its totality. • The manuscripts documented and digitized by the NMM MINISTRY OF CULTURE will be made available to researcher and scholars through ►PROJECT MAUSAM a Trusted Digital Repository.

NODAL AGENCY ►ADOPT A HERITAGE SCHEME Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) as the nodal agency with research support of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the MINISTRY Arts (IGNCA) and National Museum as associate bodies. It is s a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Tourism, THEME AND KEY FEATURES Ministry of Culture and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and State/UTs Governments. • To explore the multi-faceted Indian Ocean ‘world’ – collating archaeological and historical research in order to THEME AND KEY FEATURES document the diversity of cultural, commercial and • It aims to involve public sector companies, private sector religious inter-actions in the Indian Ocean – extending companies and corporate citizens/individuals to take up from East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Sub- the responsibility for making our heritage and tourism continent and Sri Lanka to the Southeast Asian more sustainable through development, operation and archipelago. maintenance of world-class tourist infrastructure and • It also aims to promote research on themes related to the amenities at ASI/ State heritage sites and other important study of Maritime Routes through international scientific tourist sites in India. seminars and meetings and by adopting a multidisciplinary • The project primarily focusses on providing basic approach. amenities that includes cleanliness, public conveniences, • The main objective of the project is to inscribe places and drinking water, ease of access for differently abled and sites identified under Project Mausam as trans-national senior citizens. nomination for inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage • It is part of responsible tourism where the ‘Monument List. Mitra’ essentially spends his CSR funds for upkeep and maintenance.

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• ‘Monument Mitras’ would get limited visibility in the • For areas included in Schedule V and Schedule VI of the premises and the Incredible India website. Constitution, provisons of PESA Act, 1996 and Forest Rights Act, 2006 will be followed. • In respect of villages affected by mining situated in within the Scheduled areas MINISTRY OF MINES • Approval of the Gram Sabha shall be required ο For all plans, program and projects to be taken up ►PRADHAN MANTRI KHANIJ under PMKKKY

KSHETRA KALYAN YOJANA (PMKKKY) ο Identification of beneficiaries under the existing It will be implemented District Mineral Foundations (DMF)of guidelines of the Government. the respective districts using the funds accruing to the DMF. • Report on the works undertaken under PMKKKY in the OBJECTIVE respective village shall be furnished to the Gram Sabha • Implement various developmental and welfare after completion of every financial year. projects/programs in mining affected areas and these projects/programs will be complementing the existing ABOUT DISTRICT MINERAL ongoing scheme/projects of State FOUNDATION (DMF) • To minimise/mitigate the adverse impact, during and after mining, on the environment, health and socio-economics • State Governments can establish DMF any district affected of people in mining districts by mining related operations, which will be a non-profit • Ensure long term sustainable livelihoods for the affected trust. people in mining areas. • The DMF will work for the interest of persons and areas SCOPE OF PMKKY affected by mining related operations in such manner as may be prescribed by State Government. High Priority Areas: At least 60% of PMKKKY funds to be utilized under these heads • The composition and functions of DMF shall be such as may be prescribed by State Government. • Drinking Water Supply • The DMF is funded in the following manner: • Environment preservation and pollution control measures ο For Major minerals: • Primary and secondary health care in affected areas . 10% of royalty paid in terms of 2nd Schedule to • Education the MMDR Act, 1957 for mining leases granted on or • Welfare of Women and Children after 12th January, 2015. • Welfare of aged and disabled people . 30% of royalty paid in terms of the Second Schedule • Skill Development in respect of mining leases granted before 12th January, 2015. • Sanitation ο For minor minerals: OTHER PRIORITY AREAS: (up to 40% of the PMKKKY to be utilised under these heads) • State governments have the power to prescribe the payment by all holders of concessions related to minor • Physical infrastructure like road, bridges, railways and minerals of amounts to the DMF of the district in which the waterway projects mining operations are carried on. • Developing alternate sources of Irrigation • In terms of total Amount Collected: • Energy and Watershed Development Odisha>Chhattisgarh>Jharkhand. • Any other measures for enhancing environmental quality in mining district

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1. Consider the following statements about the National 1. This Scheme has been launched by the Small Savings Fund (NSSF): Telangana government, to accelerate agricultural 1. It was established within the Public Account of prosperity and reduce poverty in the state. India for pooling the money from different small 2. Under the Scheme, small and marginal farmers saving schemes. are eligible to get benefit financial assistance of 2. Transactions in the NSSF impact the fiscal deficit Rs. 25,000 per family, over 5 seasons under of the centre directly. support to cultivators for cultivation. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

2. Consider the following statements about the PM- 5. Consider the following statements about the Young Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme: Scientist Programme Scheme: 1. The States bear 40% of the expenses for the 1. The Scheme has been launched by the Indian general states, while the Union bears 60%. Space Research Organisation (ISRO). 2. All landholding families are eligible to get benefit 2. It is a residential training programme wherein under this Scheme. three students will be chosen from each 3. The Scheme is run by the Ministry of Finance. State/Union Territory. Which of the statements given above are incorrect? 3. Students who are in class 11 and class 12, will be chosen for the scheme. (a) 1 and 2 only Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (b) 2 and 3 only (a) 1 only (c) 1 and 3 only (b) 1 and 2 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) 2 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2 and 3 3. Consider the following statements about the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM- SYM) Scheme: 1. This Scheme has been made under the 6. Consider the following statements about the FAME provisions of the Unorganised Workers’ Social India Phase II scheme: Security Act, 2008. 1. Under the demand incentives component of the 2. All unorganised workers are eligible to get the Scheme all vehicles are given equal subsidy benefit of the Scheme. based on battery capacity. 3. The Scheme has provision for family pension. In 2. The scheme also has focus on development of case the pensioner dies, the spouse is eligible for charging stations. complete amount as family pension. 3. The scheme is being implemented by the Which of the statements given above are incorrect? Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. (a) 1 and 2 only Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (b) 1 and 3 only (a) 2 only (c) 2 and 3 only (b) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 4. Consider the following statements about the KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income 7. With respect to the ‘Nal se Jal Scheme’, which of the Augmentation) Scheme: following statements is/are correct? 115 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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1. Its aim is to provide piped drinking water to only 3. Accidental insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh for new rural households by 2024. Rupay card holders is available. 2. The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect? implement this Scheme. (a) 3 only Select the correct answer using the code given below: (b) 1 and 3 only (a) 1 only (c) 2 and 3 only (b) 2 only (d) 1 and 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 11. Consider the following statements about the Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan-dhan, Yojana 2019: 8. Consider the following statements of the Jal Shakti 1. The scheme has been introduced by the Ministry Scheme: of Commerce and Industry. 1. The primary task of the scheme is to solve water 2. Eligible subscriber under this Scheme shall scarcity through interlinking of rivers. receive Rs. 3,000 per month after attaining the 2. The scheme will be implemented through age of 60 years, through the Life Insurance MGNREGA and Integrated Watershed Corporation of India. Management Programme. 3. The Laghu Vyapari shall not be eligible to join the Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Scheme if he/she is covered under the National (a) 1 only Pension Scheme contributed by the Central Government. (b) 2 only 4. In case of the death of an eligible subscriber, (c) Both 1 and 2 his/her spouse shall not be entitled to continue (d) Neither 1 nor 2 with the scheme.

Which of the statements given above are correct? 9. Consider the following statements related to the (a) 2 and 3 only newly launched pension scheme (PM Kissan Maan (b) 1 and 4 only Dhan Yojana) for the benefit of the farmers: (c) 1, 3 and 4 only 1. The scheme provides for a minimum pension of Rs 3,000 on attaining the age of 60. (d) 2, 3 and 4 only 2. This scheme covers all the categories of farmers, including the tenant farmers and share-croppers. 12. Which among the following is/are the component(s) 3. A farmer can opt to allow the monthly of the "Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan contribution to the scheme made from benefits Mahabhiyan (KUSUM)" Scheme? drawn from the PM-KISAN scheme directly. 1. Replacing the existing grid-connected agriculture Which of the statements given above are correct? pumps with solar pump sets. (a) 1 and 2 only 2. Installation of grid-connected solar power plants. (b) 1 and 3 only 3. Installation of standalone off-grid solar water pumps. (c) 2 and 3 only Select the correct answer using the code given below: (d) 1, 2 and 3 (a) 1 only

(b) 1 and 2 only 10. Consider the following statements about the Pradhan Mantari Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY): (c) 1 and 3 only 1. The scheme is administered by Department of (d) 1, 2 and 3 Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. 2. No conditions are attached for active PMJDY 13. Consider the following statements related to the accounts availing overdraft upto Rs. 2,000. STRIDE Scheme: 116 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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1. This Scheme would provide support to inter- (d) Empowerment of the Panchayati Raj Institutions disciplinary research projects for developing (PRIs) India's economy. 2. This Scheme is implemented by the Ministry of 17. Which of the following pairs related to Schemes and Science & Technology and Earth Sciences. their objectives is/are correctly matched? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? S.No. Scheme’s Objective (a) 1 only Name (b) 2 only 1. Kiran Improve gender parity in (c) Both 1 and 2 the science and (d) Neither 1 nor 2 technology sector by inducting more women 14. Consider the following statements related to Zero talent in research and Defect, Zero Effect (ZED) Scheme: development. 1. The ZED Scheme seeks to adopt Zero Defect 2. Disha Scholarship scheme to manufacturing processes in the Micro, Small and help women scientists to Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) without impacting return to mainstream the environment. science and research.

2. The Quality Council of India is the nodal agency 3. Vigyan Encourage and inspire to issue final certification under the Scheme. Jyoti girl students to pursue Which of the statements given above is/are correct? higher education in (a) 1 only science, engineering and (b) 2 only technology (c) Both 1 and 2 Select the correct answer using the code given below: (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 only 15. Consider the following statements related to Sabka (c) 2 and 3 only Vishwas Legacy Dispute Resolution Scheme: (d) 1, 2 and 3 1. This Scheme has been introduced in order to reduce the large number of pending disputes 18. Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas, recently in the news, is related to GST (Goods and Services Tax). related to which of the following? 2. This Scheme would provide for both faster (a) Gram Panchayat Development Plan dispute resolution, as well as amnesty for the tax (b) Scheme to launch the Common Utility Card defaulters. (c) New initiative of social audit Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (d) Initiative to increase awareness and participation (a) 1 only of tribals in various schemes (b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2 19. Consider the following statements: (d) Neither 1 nor 2 1. The Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is the flagship scheme of the Ministry of 16. The SANKALP scheme of the Government of India Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE). deals with which of the following? 2. Under this Scheme, training and assessment fees (a) Promotion of skills are completely paid by the Government. (b) Promotion of SHGs for women empowerment Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (c) Administration of pledges under the Swachh (a) 1 only Bharat Mission for using toilets (b) 2 only 117 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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(c) Both 1 and 2 1. The funds under this scheme are collected in (d) Neither 1 nor 2 form of contributions from the mining companies, which are required to pay certain percentage of their royalties. 20. Consider the following statements related to the PM Ujjwala Yojana: 2. The approval of the Gram Sabha is not required for the utilization of funds in the Schedule V and 1. This scheme provides for deposit free LPG VI areas. connection along with free refilling of LPG cylinders for the benefit of identified BPL Which of the statements given above is/are correct? families. (a) 1 only 2. This scheme is implemented by the Ministry of (b) 2 only Women and Child Development. (c) Both 1 and 2 Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 24. Consider the following statements about the Samagra (c) Both 1 and 2 Shiksha Programme: (d) Neither 1 nor 2 1. It is an integrated scheme for school education from pre-school to senior secondary levels. 21. Consider the following statements with regard to the 2. It subsumes the three schemes of Sarva Shiksha Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (PM-AASHA): and Teacher Education. 1. It provides for the participation of the private Which of the statements given above is/are correct? sector in procurement operation. (a) 1 only 2. It comprises the Price Support Scheme and the (b) 2 only Price Deficiency Payment Scheme only. (c) Both 1 and 2 Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 25. Which of the following statements is/are correct (c) Both 1 and 2 regarding the “Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran (d) Neither 1 nor 2 Pariyojana”? 1. It is sub-component of the Deendayal Antodaya Yojana-NRLM (DAY-NRLM) 22. Consider the following statements about the Urban Green Mobility Scheme: 2. The Ministry of Rural Development is the implementing agency. 1. The Scheme has been launched by the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways. 3. This scheme is completely funded by the central government. 2. Programmes mandate overlaps with that of Smart Cities Mission and AMRUT scheme. Select the correct answer using the code given below: Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 and 2 only (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 3 only (b) 2 only (c) 3 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 26. With reference to the PM-KISAN Scheme, consider the following statements: 23. With reference to the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY), consider the following 1. It provides for cash transfer of Rs 6,000 every year statements: to all the categories of farmers, including the 118 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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sharecroppers and landless agricultural 3. Objective is to improve the nutritional and health households. status of the children in the age-group 0-12 2. It provides for life insurance support of Rs 2 lakhs years. to all the farmers in India. Select the correct answer using the code given below: Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 2 only (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 only (c) 1 and 3 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 30. Consider the following statements about the National 27. Consider the following statements related to the Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 2020: Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY): 1. It aims to achieve 6-7 million sales of hybrid and 1. This scheme seeks to provide for social security electric vehicles by the year 2020. in form of pension for the people who are aged 2. To achieve this target, FAME India [Faster 60 years and above. Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) 2. This scheme is operated by the Life Insurance Electric Vehicles] Scheme has been launched Corporation (LIC). under the mission. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

28. Which among the following energy efficiency 31. Which of the following statements is/are correct initiatives are implemented by the Energy Efficiency about the Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN)? Services Limited (EESL)? 1. It shall provide financial assistance for treatment 1. UJALA Scheme at government as well as private hospitals. 2. Atal Jyoti Yojana (AJAY) 2. Government servants and their families will not 3. Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment be eligible under the scheme. (GRIHA) 3. Maximum financial assistance admissible under 4. Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) the scheme will be Rs. 15 lakh. Select the correct answer using the code given below: Select the correct answer using the code given below: (a) 1 and 2 only (a) 1 only (b) 1, 2 and 3 only (b) 1 and 3 only (c) 1, 2 and 4 only (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3

29. Which of the following statements is/are correct? 32. Which of the following statements is/are correct about Samagra Shiksha? 1. The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a centrally sponsored scheme implemented by 1. Samagra Shiksha is an overarching programme the state governments and the union territories. for the school education sector extending from pre-school to class 12. 2. The scheme is universal, covering all the districts of the country. 2. The vision of the Scheme is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education from pre-school to senior secondary stage in accordance with the 119 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for 36. Consider the following statements related to Pension Education. Scheme for the Traders in India: 3. The main emphasis of the Scheme is on 1. It is applicable to small shopkeepers, self- improving quality of school education by employed persons and retail traders. focussing on the two Ts – Teacher and 2. It provides for monthly pension of Rs 3000 after Technology. attaining the age of 60. Select the correct answer using the code given below: 3. The entire contribution for the pension shall be (a) 1 only borne by the Government. (b) 2 only Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (c) 1 and 3 only (a) 1 and 2 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only 33. Consider the following statements: (d) 1, 2 and 3 1. UDAY scheme is under the Ministry of Power. 2. Under the scheme the central government will 37. Consider the following statements related to take 75% debt liabilities of the DISCOMS Employees State Insurance Scheme (ESIC) Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 1. The scheme is jointly financed by the (a) 1 only Government and the Employers. (b) 2 only 2. This scheme is applicable to all the factories employing more than 100 persons. (c) Both 1 and 2 Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) 1 only 34. Which of the following is the purview of the KUSUM (b) 2 only Scheme? (c) Both 1 and 2 (a) Solar powered agriculture (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (b) Protection of the Girl Child (c) Scholarship to undertake graduate programs for 38. Consider the following statements related to One Differently-abled students nation, One ration card scheme: (d) Installation of Waster to Energy plants in Rural 1. Aadhar card linkage is mandatory to avail benefit districts under the scheme. 2. It is a part of the integrated public distribution 35. Consider the following statements related to Pradhan system scheme. Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN): Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 1. This scheme provides for direct income support (a) 1 only only to those farmers having cultivable land up to (b) 2 only 2 hectare. (c) Both 1 and 2 2. Under this scheme, the government provides for (d) Neither 1 nor 2 income support of Rs 6000 per year. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 39. Which of the following is/are not covered under the (a) 1 only PM Fasal Bima Yojana? (b) 2 only 1. Pest attack (c) Both 1 and 2 2. Cloud Burst (d) Neither 1 nor 2 3. Losses due to war Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 and 2 only 120 RAU’S IAS FOCUS SPECIAL EDITIONS | PRELIMS COMPASS (C3 CURATION) for CSE 2020

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(b) 2 only 44. Consider the following statements related to Energy (c) 3 only Efficiency Services Limited (EESL): (d) 2 and 3 only 1. It is a statutory body created under the Energy Conservation Act, 2001 in order to promote energy efficiency measures. 40. Bharatmala is the flagship programme of which of the following ministry? 2. It implements the UJALA and Atal Jyoti Yojana Schemes. (a) The Ministry of Shipping Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (b) The Ministry of Railways (a) 1 only (c) The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (b) 2 only (d) The Ministry of Jal Shakti (c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2 41. Sagarmala is the flagship programme of which of the following ministry? Which of the following are correct about the PM (a) The Ministry of Shipping 45. Laghu Vyapari Yojana? (b) The Ministry of Railways 1. It has been introduced under the unorganised (c) The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways worker's social security Act. 2008 (d) The Ministry of Jal Shakti 2. Aadhaar Card is not mandatory for the scheme.

3. Central govt will make equal contributions under 42. Consider the following statements about Kisan Urja it. Surakshahevam Utthan Mhaabhiyan (KUSUM). Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 1. Its fall under the Ministry of Power. (a) 3 only 2. It aims to increase the solar capacity of India. (b) 1 and 2 only 3. Only farmer cooperatives are eligible to get (c) 1 and 3 only support for installation of solar power agriculture pumps. (d) 1, 2 and 3 Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Consider the following statements related to Market (a) 1 and 2 only 46. Intervention Price Scheme: (b) 2 only 1. Applicable only for horticulture products. (c) 2 and 3 only 2. Losses incurred are shared between centre and (d) 1, 2 and 3 state.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 43. Consider the following statements related to Sabka (a) 1 only Vishwas (Legacy Dispute Resolution) Scheme 2019: (b) 2 only 1. This scheme has been launched to address the pendency of tax related cases of Excise duty and (c) Both 1 and 2 Service Tax. (d) Neither 1 nor 2 2. This scheme provides for opportunity to the tax payers to pay the outstanding tax and be free 47. Consider the following Statements about PM Kisan from any consequence under the law. Man Dhan Yojana: Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 1. It will be implemented by Ministry of agriculture (a) 1 only and farmer's welfare. (b) 2 only 2. The farmers can opt to allow their monthly contribution to the Scheme to be made from the (c) Both 1 and 2 benefits drawn from the Pradhan Mantri Kisan (d) Neither 1 nor 2 Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme directly.

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PRACTICE MCQ’S & ANSWER KEYS

Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 2. It is a central sector scheme. (a) 1 only Select the correct answer using the code given below: (b) 2 only (a) 1 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (b) 2 only (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 48. Consider the following statements with respect to (d) Neither 1 nor 2 AMRUT Mission: 1. It is a core scheme of the government. 50. Consider the following statements related to Price 2. It replaced Jawaharlal Nehru Urban renewal Stabilization fund Scheme: Mission. 1. It is implemented to protect the consumers from 3. It aims to create infrastructure for providing large scale increase in the prices of all the universal water and sewerage services. horticultural commodities. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 2. This scheme is implemented by the Union (a) 1 and 2 only Ministry of Agriculture. (b) 2 only Which of the statements given above is/are correctly (c) 2 and 3 only matched? (d) 1, 2 and 3 (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 49. Which of the following statements about Smart Cities (c) Both 1 and 2 Mission is/are correct? (d) Neither 1 nor 2 1. It will be implemented through a special purpose vehicle set up at the city level.

ANSWER KEY

1. a 6. a 11. a 16. a 21. a 26. d 31. c 36. a 41. a 46. c 2. d 7. d 12. d 17. d 22. d 27. c 32. d 37. d 42. b 47. c 3. c 8. b 13. a 18. a 23. a 28. a 33. a 38. c 43. c 48. a 4. b 9. b 14. c 19. c 24. c 29. b 34. a 39. c 44. b 49. b 5. b 10. b 15. b 20. d 25. a 30. c 35. b 40. c 45. b 50. c

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