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Economic & Social Issues Schemes FOR Rbi Grade B - Sebi Grade A - Ibps Afo 2019
Economic & Social Issues Schemes FOR Rbi Grade B - Sebi Grade A - Ibps Afo 2019
SCHEMES
FOR
RBI GRADE B|SEBI GRADE A|IBPS AFO
2019
PART 1
The schemes pertaining to the Agriculture and Rural Sectors have been covered in a separate
document. Some of the schemes maybe common, like they may be coming under a ministry
concerned with the topic mentioned in the ESI syllabus and also catering to the Rural sector. So,
they have been included in both the documents to avoid confusion.
Part 3- Women, Child Development and Social Justice (SC, ST, Senior Citizens, Divyang
and Minority)
Part 1
1.1 Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana
Launch Year: 2019
Type of Scheme: Central Sector Scheme
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment
Aim: PM-SYM scheme is meant for old-age protection and social security of unorganised workers.
Budget Allocation: Rs 500 crore (in Budget 2019-20)
Eligibility Criteria:
• Should be an unorganized worker.
• Entry age should be between 18 and 40 years.
• Monthly income should be Rs 15,000 or below.
• Should not be covered under New Pension Scheme (NPS), Employees’ State Insurance
Corporation (ESIC) scheme or Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO).
• Should not be an income taxpayer.
Salient Features:
• Each subscriber shall receive minimum assured pension of Rs 3000/- per month after attaining
the age of 60 years.
Enrollment Procedure:
• The Unorganized Worker (UW) will be required to visit the nearest Common Services Centre
(CSC) and get enrolled for PM-SYM using Aadhaar Card and Savings bank/ Jan Dhan account
number on self-certification basis. First subscription to be paid in cash and auto debit from next
month onwards.
• Later, facility will be provided where the UW can also visit the PM-SYM web portal or can
download the mobile app and self-register using Aadhar number/ savings bank account/ Jan
Dhan account number on self-certification basis.
Enrollment agencies:
• The enrolment will be carried out by all the Common Services Centers in the country.
Fund Management:
• PM-SYM will be a Central Sector Scheme administered by the Ministry of Labour and
Employment and implemented through Life Insurance Corporation of India and CSC e-
Governance Services India Limited (CSC SPV).
• LIC will be the Pension Fund Manager and responsible for Pension pay out.
Eligibility:
• The scheme is open to Laghu Vyaparis, who are self-employed and working as shop owners,
retail traders, rice mill owners, oil mill owners, workshop owners, commission agents, brokers of
real estate, owners of small hotels, restaurants and other Laghu Vyaparis.
• Age group of 18-40 years
• Laghu Vyapari whose annual turnover does not exceed Rs 1.5 crore, based on self-declaration.
GSTIN is required only for those with turnover above Rs. 40 lakhs.
• Who has a savings bank account in his/her name and Aadhar number.
• The following are not eligible to join the Scheme:
Pension Fund:
• The Central Government will establish a Pension Fund to be administered by Life Insurance
Corporation of India in consultation with the Government.
• The eligible subscriber, who joins the Scheme, shall subscribe to the Pension Fund.
• The Central Government shall also contribute to the Pension Fund the equal amount as
contributed by an eligible subscriber.
• The contribution from subscriber and government varies from Rs 55 to Rs 200 per month.
1.3 SHREYAS (Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills)
Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource and Development
Implementing Agencies: Sector Skill Councils
Aim: To enhance the employability of Indian youth by providing ‘on the job work exposure’ and
earning of stipend.
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Target: It is proposed to cover 50 lakh students by 2022.
Objective:
• To improve employability of students by introducing employment relevance into the learning
process of the higher education system.
• To forge a close functional link between education and industry/service sectors on a sustainable
basis.
• To provide skills which are in demand, to the students in a dynamic manner.
• To establish an ‘earn while you learn’ system into higher education.
• To help business/industry in securing good quality manpower.
• To link student community with employment facilitating efforts of the Government.
Target Beneficiary:
• Students in degree courses, primarily non-technical, with a view to introduce employable skills
into their learning and promote apprenticeship as integral to education.
Key Features
• It is a central government scheme for providing industry apprenticeship opportunities to the
general graduates exiting in April 2019 through the National Apprenticeship Promotional
Scheme (NAPS).
• SHREYAS is a programme basket comprising the initiatives of three Central Ministries, namely
the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship and the Ministry of Labour & Employment viz the National Apprenticeship
Promotion Scheme (NAPS), the National Career Service (NCS) and introduction of BA/BSc/BCom
(Professional) courses in the higher educational institutions.
SHREYAS Portal: It will enable educational institutions and industry to log in and provide their
respective demand and supply of apprenticeship.
Key Stakeholders:
• Institutions: The higher education institutions would explain the scheme along with various
options to the students who are in the final year.
• Sector Skill Councils: Identify industries for apprenticeship and also conduct assessment leading
to certification.
• National Skill Development Corporation: Monitor the programme, progress of the apprentices
and would finance the programme by disbursing the claims from the business enterprises.
Key Features:
• This initiative is to implement various components including governance mechanism to ensure
proliferation of Cloud in the government.
• The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing
ICT spending of the Government.
• It will ensure optimum utilization of the infrastructure and speed up the development and
deployment of eGov applications.
Advantages:
• Optimum utilization of existing infrastructure
• Efficient service delivery
• A security framework for the entire GI Cloud will lead to less environmental complexity and less
potential vulnerability.
• Increased user mobility
• Reduced effort in managing technology
• Ease of first time IT solution deployment
• Cost reduction
Objectives:
• To promote inclusiveness by catapulting various categories of sellers and service providers.
• Take proactive steps to facilitate the training and registrations of such specific category of
manufacturers and sellers.
• Develop women entrepreneurship and encourage participation of the MSME sector and Start-
ups in public procurement.
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• Ultimately spur hyper-local job-creation and wealth generation to achieve inclusive growth by
way of helping startups.
Key Features:
• It is a unique concept initiated by GeM to promote entrepreneurship through innovation.
• This program is an opportunity for agile and lean Startups to reach out to the universe of
Government Buyers by offering products and services that are unique in concept, design,
process and functionality through StartUp Runway corner.
Key Features:
• The portal has been launched on a pilot basis for workers belonging to 5 states – Chhattisgarh,
Delhi, Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Odisha.
• The portal will only aid industries belonging in the central sphere, essentially public sector
companies, banks, insurance, major ports, mines, Food Corporation of India, among others.
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2019 > Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions.
Target Beneficiary: Its beneficiaries will be insured persons covered under Employees’ State
Insurance Act, 1948 for period of 2 years continuously.
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• The Insured Person should have contributed not less than 78 days during each of the preceding
four contribution periods.
• The contribution in respect of him should have been paid or payable by the employer.
• The contingency of the unemployment should not have been as a result of any punishment for
misconduct or superannuation or voluntary retirement.
• Aadhar and Bank Account of the Insured Person should be linked with insured person database.
• In case the IP is working for more than one employers and is covered under the ESI scheme he
will be considered unemployed only in case he is rendered unemployed with all employers.
Key Features
• The scheme provides relief to the extent of 25% of the average per day earning during the
previous four contribution periods to be paid up to maximum 90 days of unemployment once in
lifetime of the Insured Person.
• The claim for relief under the Atal Beemit Kalyaan Yojana will be payable after the 3 months of
his/her clear unemployment.
• Workers will be able to draw 47% of their total contributions towards ESIC after remaining
unemployed for at least 3 months from date of leaving their previous jobs. They can choose to
receive the cash at one go or in instalments. It will be applicable to all factories and
establishments employing at least 10 workers.
Target Beneficiaries:
Students/candidates, school & college dropouts, young adults from the community, college
students, polytechnic students, ITI students, diploma students, graduates, post-graduates, NEET
category (Not in Employment education or Training) and the youth of India at large, preferably in
the age group of 15 – 35 years.
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Key Features
• Facilitate Awareness and Guidance among the Candidates about the available courses as per
their aptitude and Psychometric Test results and availability of skill training prospects.
• Counselling will be conducted on a standardized module/content as defined by NSDC/MSDE.
• Capacity Building of Counsellors to fulfil the objective of the scheme.
• Skills on Wheels – Skills on Wheels will be a part of the Skill Saathi in order to create awareness
about skill development among youth at their doorsteps. Specially branded vehicles shall tour
the villages/towns for propagating the skill India mission and counsel the students.
• The scheme will have outcome based payouts.
• Mind mapping/ Psychometric test/ interest mapping would also be encouraged through
appropriate incentive structure.
Aim/Purpose:
To provide vocational training to non-literate, neo-literate, as well as school drop-outs by identifying
skills as would have a market in the region of their establishment.
Funding:
• It is set up under the aegis of either a voluntary organization or a University or as an
independent agency under Societies Registration Act, 1860.
• It is funded through 100% annual grant from the Government of India.
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New Guidelines released by Central Government in January 2019
• Alignment of JSS course and curriculum with National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) to
standardize training.
• Decentralization of powers for JSSs by providing accountability and independence to district
administration.
• To identify and promote traditional skills in the district through skilling / upskilling.
• Evidence-based assessment system.
• Easy Online certification.
• Linking JSS to Public Finance Management system to maintain transparency and accountability
of the ecosystem.
• Creating livelihood linkages.
• Training of Trainers to develop the capacity through National Skills Training Institutes.
Objectives:
• Mapping of skill profile of the district.
• Appraisal of district skill ecosystem.
• Identifying district specific challenges and potential areas of support required in the district.
• Development of District Skill Development Plan through consultation process.
• Implementation support for the work plan to the districts.
Key Features
• Aspirational Skilling Abhiyan has been conceived to aid and complement the program.
• The campaign shall support the skilling initiatives/component of the aspirational districts by
addressing district level challenges.
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• Dedicated team of over 150 officers from MSDE, Directorate General of Training (DGT), National
Skill Development Agency (NSDA), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) are being
deputed to work with these districts in three phases.
Aim/Objective:
• To inspire rural youth in aspirational districts to be entrepreneurs by assisting them to set up
their own enterprise.
• To impart trainings through digital medium across the country.
• To create business opportunities for CSC Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs).
• To focus on women aspirants in these aspirational districts to encourage women
entrepreneurship.
• To assist participants to become bankable and avail credit facility from banks to set up their own
enterprise.
Target:
• 13,800 youths from aspirational districts would be trained on entrepreneurship
• At least 20% of the youth would be able to start their own enterprise
• Around 10 % participants would be given new logins on udyamimitra for availing MUDRA loan.
• At least 20 % women to be empowered to start own business/ enterprise.
Key Features:
• It operates on the three principles of awareness, education and enablement.
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• It is the first public-private partnership of its kind and will leverage the expertise of the IT
industry in cybersecurity.
• The founding partners of the consortium include some of the leading IT companies such as
Microsoft, Intel, WIPRO, Redhat and Dimension Data.
• Its knowledge partners include Cert-In, NIC, NASSCOM and the FIDO Alliance and premier
consultancy firms Deloitte and EY.
Objective: Its objective is reporting, monitoring and taking suitable action on unauthorized coal
mining activities.
Key Features:
• The CMSMS is web based GIS application through which location of sites for unauthorized
mining can be detected.
• The basic platform used in the system is of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology’s
(MeiTY) map which provides village level information.
Key Features:
• It is tool used for reporting any activity taking place related to illegal coal mining like rat hole
mining, pilferage etc.
• Using it, one can upload geo-tagged photographs of incident along with textual information
directly to system.
• It uses both satellite data and human information to capture information on unauthorized
mining activities.
• Once incident is reported through this app, information will be automatically directed to nodal
officers to take suitable action on those activities.
• The complainant can also track his complaint through it without identity being revealed.
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Aim: It aims to foster collaboration between startups and large corporations of the energy sector.
Key Features:
• It is a 3-month programme which will provide opportunity for startups for collaboration and
conversation around valuable energy transitions by bringing their ideas to life with guidance
and support from corporates.
• The selected startups will receive cash prize grant of up to Rs 5 lakh along with opportunity to
pilot their product with corporates.
• The corporates will offer selected startups access to technology, technical and commercial
mentorship and access to potential customers through corporate network of partners.
• Startups from innovators across various stages of energy life-cycle i.e. generation, transmission
and distribution, storage and consumption in multiple sectors such as households, industry,
farm, infrastructure, utility, building and transport are invited under this programme.
Jatan:
• It is a software.
• The objective was to make a digital imprint of all the objects preserved in museums.
• It will help researchers, curators and also people interested in the field.
Darshak:
• It is a mobile based application.
• It allows real-time museum visitors gather all details about objects or artifacts simply by
scanning a QR code placed near the object.
Training: Centre of Advance Computing (CDAC) will impart training to the selected women
candidates from all over India
Objectives:
• The primary objective of Project Cyber Shikshaa is to connect with underserved women from
Tier 2 / Tier 3 cities and to align a career path for them in Cyber Security.
• There has been a steep rise in the demand for skilled workforce in this domain and
representation of women in the Cyber Security workforce has been low compared to that of the
overall IT industry average.
• Cyber Shikshaa intends to bridge the gap between the demand and supply of talented
professionals as well as enhance the number of women working in the field of Cyber Security.
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1.20 Ideate for India - Creative Solutions using Technology
Launch Year: 2018
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Launched by: National e-Governance Division (NeGD) in collaboration with Intel India, with support
from the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L)
Aim: The aim of this National Challenge is to give school students across the country a platform and
opportunity to become solution creators for the problems they see around them and their
communities.
Key Features:
• The National Challenge is open to students of classes 6 - 12 all across the country - all 29 States
and 7 Union Territories and aims to reach out to at least 1 million youth over the next 3 months.
• There are 11 core theme areas on which students can share their ideas- healthcare services,
education services, digital services, environment, women safety, traffic, infrastructure,
agriculture, social welfare, disability and tourism.
• The Challenge requires students to access online videos and understand how to identify
problems and share a 90 second video explaining the problem and their proposed solution.
Key Features:
• The programme endeavors to develop green skilled workers having technical knowledge and
commitment to sustainable development.
• It will help in the attainment of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs), National Biodiversity Targets (NBTs), as well as Waste Management
Rules (2016).
1.22 Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC) Portal
Launch Year: 2018
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs
Objective:
• To have an effective mechanism to handle cybercrimes against women and children in the
country.
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• To report complaints pertaining to Child Pornography/Child Sexual Abuse Material or sexually
explicit content.
Key Features:
• It will facilitate applicant to submit application online and also to view its status from time to
time.
• The online portal will make security clearance process standardized, faster, transparent and easy
to monitor.
• The objective of national security clearance is to evaluate potential security threats, including
economic threats, and provide risk assessment before clearing investment and project proposals
in key sectors.
1.24 PENCIL (Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour) Portal
Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Labour and Employment
Aim:
• PENCIL is an electronic platform that aims at involving Centre, State, District, Governments, civil
society and the general public in achieving the target of child labour free society.
• It ensures effective enforcement of the provisions of the Child Labour Act and smooth
implementation of the National Child Labour Project (NCLP) scheme.
Key Features
• It is a central sector project, with half of the project outlay as World Bank assistance.
• It is an outcome-based project, marking a shift in government’s implementation strategy in
vocational education and training from inputs to results.
• The scheme will incentivize ITIs to improve overall performance including apprenticeship by
involving SMEs (Small Scale Enterprises), business association and industry clusters.
• It will develop robust mechanism for delivering quality skill development training by
strengthening institutions- National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), State Skill
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Development Missions (SSDMs), Sector Skill Councils, ITIs and National Skill Development
Agency (NSDA) etc.
• It will support universalization of National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) including
National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) across skill development schemes.
• It will provide required push to National Skill Development Mission 2015 and its various sub
missions.
• It is also aligned to flagship Government programs such as Make in India and Swachhta
Abhiyan.
1.26 Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP)
Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Aim/Purpose:
• It aims to implement the mandate of the National Skill Development Mission.
• It will focus on the overall skilling ecosystem covering both Central (MSDE, NSDA and NSDC) and
State agencies.
Objectives:
• Convergence: Creating convergence among all skill training activities, both State-led and
Government of India funded, at the state level.
• Quality: Improving the quality of skill development programs through building a pool of quality
trainers, developing model curriculum and content, and standardizing assessment and
certification.
• Evaluation System: Establishing a robust monitoring and evaluation system for skill training
programs.
• Inclusiveness & Opportunity: Providing access to skill training opportunities to the
disadvantaged sections. Creating industry-led and demand-driven skill training capacity.
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• Skills Fund: A Skills Fund has been provisioned under SANKALP with an aim to set up industry
lead and job oriented skill training institutions.
• India International Skill Centers (IISC): IISCs are being set up to train candidates for overseas
placements. India by tapping into its demography can leverage global skill manpower shortage
to its advantage.
Key Features:
• It is an outcome-oriented project being implemented in mission mode with the support of the
World Bank.
• It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
• SANKALP will provide market relevant training to 3.5 crore youth.
Scheme Validity: As per the announcement made in the Budget 2018, the scheme will remain open
for subscription till 31st March 2020.
Benefits:
• Scheme provides an assured return of 8% p.a. payable monthly (equivalent to 8.30% p.a.
effective) for 10 years.
• Pension is payable at the end of each period, during the policy term of 10 years, as per the
frequency of monthly/ quarterly/ half-yearly/ yearly as chosen by the pensioner at the time of
purchase.
• The scheme is exempted from Service Tax/ GST.
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• On survival of the pensioner to the end of the policy term of 10 years, Purchase price along with
final pension installment shall be payable.
• Loan up to 75% of Purchase Price shall be allowed after 3 policy years (to meet the liquidity
needs). Loan interest shall be recovered from the pension installments and loan to be recovered
from claim proceeds.
• The scheme also allows for premature exit for the treatment of any critical/ terminal illness of
self or spouse. On such premature exit, 98% of the Purchase Price shall be refunded.
• On death of the pensioner during the policy term of 10 years, the Purchase Price shall be paid to
the beneficiary.
1.29 SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala Transparently in India)
Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Coal
Objective: To make coal available to all the Thermal Power Plants of the country in a transparent
and objective manner and at the same time ensure that the benefits of linkage coal are transferred
to the end consumers.
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UTTAM (UNLOCKING TRANSPARENCY BY THIRD PARTY ASSESSMENT OF MINED COAL) App
Launch Year: 2018
Developed by: Ministry of Coal and Coal India Limited (CIL)
Aim: It aims to provide an App for all citizens and coal consumers to monitor the process of Third
Party Sampling of coal across CIL subsidiaries.
Key Features:
• UTTAM App ensures accountability, transparency, effectiveness and efficiency in coal
ecosystem. It provides a platform for monitoring of sampling and coal dispatches.
• The App is designed with an aim to make the citizens a stakeholder in the coal ecosystem.
• It ensures transparency and efficiency in the coal quality monitoring process and brings coal
governance closer to people.
Key Features:
• Ministry will impart training to 10,000 people from 10 States/UTs in the first phase.
• Ministry also plans to established more than 1,000 Sanchar Kaushal Vikas Pratisthan in future.
Key Features:
• At least one village having a minimum of 100 household will be identified in each of the revenue
districts of the country and intends to cover all the households with a minimum of one Rural
Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) in that village.
• It covers all the villages under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
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1.32 Tarang Sanchar Portal
Launch Year: 2017
Developed by: It has been developed in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode by Department of
Telecommunications with Industry.
Function: It is web portal for information sharing on Mobile Towers and Electromagnetic frequency
(EMF) Emission Compliance.
Key Features
• It is a nationwide campaign and a part of a larger effort to better protect consumer interests
online.
• This is a year-long campaign will provide training and information on online safety tools.
• The education campaign will include multiple workshops across the country and will feature
write ups, posters, and more.
1.34 Cyber Swachhta Kendra (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre)
Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Aim: To create a secure cyber space by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable
cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections.
Key Features:
• The "Cyber Swachhta Kendra" (Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre) is being operated
by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) for analyzing BOTs/malware
characteristics and providing information and enabling citizens for removal of BOTs/malware.
• In addition, "Cyber Swachhta Kendra" will strive to create awareness among citizens to secure
their data, computers, mobile phones and devices such as home routers.
Key Features:
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• It intends to provide major services offered by Central and State Government departments,
Local bodies and other utility services from private organizations.
• It provides a unified approach where citizens can install one application to avail multiple
government services.
• The UMANG app integrates with the core government services of Aadhaar, DigiLocker, Rapid
Assessment System and Bharat Bill Payment System.
• The app is currently available in 13 languages including English, Hindi, Assamese, Gujarati,
Bengali, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telgu and Urdu.
Key Features:
• Indian youth will be trained and certified under the scheme.
• MEA’s role would be to support Pre-Departure Orientation Training (PDOT), which will include
language and soft skills training modules.
• Training offered will also be backed by an internationally recognized assessment and
certification system.
Key Features:
• It is a fund raising initiative of Ministry of Home Affairs on behalf of members of the Indian
paramilitary forces.
• It allows donations of up to Rs 15 lakhs to an individual's account and donations to the "Bharat
Ke Veer" corpus.
• Bharat Ke Veer corpus would be managed by a committee made up of eminent persons of
repute and senior government officials, in equal number, who would decide to disburse the
fund equitably to the Braveheart family on need basis.
• The amount so donated will be credited to the account of ‘Next of Kin’ of those of Central Armed
Police Force or National Disaster Response Force soldiers.
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Features:
• It is a web based portal and mobile app has been conceptualized to provide the status of mining
block auctioned/ to be auctioned in India to the public in a 'transparent' manner.
• TAMRA will be an interactive platform for all the stakeholders to compress the timelines for
statutory and other clearances as it would help minimize the gestation period for commencing
production.
• Further, TAMRA covers block-wise, state-wise and mineral-wise information of the blocks to be
auctioned, monitors various statutory clearances, and also highlights the additional resources
generated through e-Auction.
• In case of delay in obtaining any clearances, TAMRA will send triggers to the concerned authority
so that the remedial steps can be taken immediately by those responsible.
Key Features:
• 10 oil and gas PSUs have setup Rs 320 crore venture capital fund to encourage start-ups based
on innovative ideas in the energy sector.
• The corpus was created by contributions from India Oil Corporation (IOL), ONGC, Engineers
India, Oil India, Numaligarh Refinery, Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL), Hindustan
Petroleum Corporation (HP), GAIL, Balmer Lawrie and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals.
• The selected start-ups will work in various energy fields such as converting waste plastics to
petroleum fuels, solar stove, multipurpose fuel from agricultural waste biomass and leak
detectors for liquefied natural gas (LNG).
• Start-ups in technology field will get 30 months to submit proof of concept whereas start-ups
with business ideas will be given 18 months.
• These oil and gas PSUs will buy out these projects submitted by selected startups in given time
frame based on merit to do more innovations.
Objectives:
• To provide demand driven, placement oriented NSQF (National Skills Qualification Framework)
Compliant skilling programme to incentivize organized textile and related sectors excluding
Spinning and Weaving.
• To promote skilling and skill up-gradation in the traditional sectors of Handlooms, Handicrafts,
Sericulture and Jute.
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• To provide Sustainable livelihood to all sections of the society across the country via wage or
self-employment.
Target: To train 10 lakh persons (9 lakh in organised and 1 lakh in traditional sector) over a period of
3 years (2017-20).
Institutional Mechanism
• Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC)
✓ An IMC under the Chairpersonship of the Minister of Textiles will be constituted.
✓ The IMC will have an overall supervisory role to monitor the progress of the scheme on a
half-yearly basis.
• Empowered Committee
✓ There shall be an inter-ministerial Empowered committee to be chaired by the Secretary
(Textiles)
✓ The Committee shall have the following manadate:
❖ Effective monitoring and implementation of the scheme.
❖ Approval of the Detailed Project Reports submitted by the implementing agency.
❖ Approval of Standard Operating Procedures relating to various aspect of the
scheme.
❖ Provide interpretation to the operational guidelines.
Aim: It aims at raising IPR awareness amongst students, youth, authors, artists, budding inventors
and professionals to inspire them to create, innovate and protect their creations and inventions
across India including Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 cities as well as rural areas in the next 3 years.
Targets:
• 4000 IP awareness workshops/seminars in academic institutions and the industry across India.
• 40 training programmes (Training of Trainers) to create a resource pool of persons for
conducting IPR Awareness workshops/seminars.
• 5 workshops with eminent International speakers on IP in the global context.
• 270 IP training and sensitization programmes for enforcement agencies and judiciary
Key Features:
• The scheme targets to conduct IP awareness workshops/seminars in collaboration with industry
organizations, academic institutions and other stakeholders across the country.
• It is also proposed to undertake training programmes to create a resource pool of trainers who
would conduct the IP Awareness workshops/seminars for the public, enforcement agencies and
judiciary.
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• These awareness programmes will be tailored for 4 categories:
(i) Primary School (up to Grade 8)
(ii) Secondary School (Grade 9 to Grade 12)
(iii) University/ College
(iv) Industry, including MSMEs and Startups.
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Component of the Scheme
• Share 25% of the prescribed stipend, subject to a maximum of INR 1,500 per month per
apprentice to the employer.
• Share of cost of basic training with Basic Training Providers (BTP); up to INR 7,500 for 3 months/
500 hours.
Implementing Agencies
• Regional Directorates of Apprenticeship Training (RDATs) under the control of Directorate
General of Training (DGT) will act as implementing agencies in their regions for Central Public
Sector Undertaking and establishments operating their business in 4 or more States.
• State Apprenticeship Advisers will act as implementing agencies for state public sector and
private establishments under their jurisdiction.
Objectives:
• Educate and equip potential and early stage entrepreneurs.
• Connect entrepreneurs in enabling networks of peers, mentors, incubators, funding and
business services.
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• Coordinate and support entrepreneurs through Entrepreneurship Hubs (E-Hubs).
• Catalyze a culture shift to support aspiring entrepreneurs.
Target Beneficiaries:
• Traditional students enrolled in degree programme across undergraduate/ postgraduate
courses/ PhD programme/ Diploma.
• School Students.
• Students in Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs).
• All citizens including unorganized sector, women, and existing entrepreneurs in rural as well as
urban areas, who would like to take up entrepreneurship education through coordination and
support programmes.
Implementation:
• The Yojana will be supported by a network of Entrepreneurship and Coordination Hubs (E-
hubs).
• The enrolled colleges, schools and ITIs under this program will be the implementation arm of the
Project.
Objectives:
• Take anytime, anywhere skilling opportunities to the skill aspirants.
• Leverage technology to further the objective behind the Skill India Mission.
• Expand the reach and effectiveness of the skilling initiative.
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• Contribute towards assuring quality of the output of the skilling initiatives across the country.
Eligibility:
• SC/ST and/or women entrepreneurs above 18 years of age.
• Loans under the scheme is available only for greenfield projects. Greenfield signifies first time
venture of the beneficiary in the manufacturing, services or trading sector.
• In case of non-individual enterprises, 51% of the shareholding and controlling stake should be
held by either SC/ST and/or Women Entrepreneur.
• Borrower should not be in default to any bank/financial institution.
Objectives: The objective of the scheme is to facilitate bank loans between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1
Crore to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one woman
borrower per bank branch for setting up a greenfield enterprise.
Salient Features:
• The scheme would be operated by all the branches of scheduled commercial banks of India.
• Refinance is provided through SIDBI.
• The borrower shall be required to bring in a minimum of 10% of the project cost as his own
contribution.
• Size of Loan: Composite loan of 75% of the project cost inclusive of term loan and working
capital. The stipulation of the loan being expected to cover 75% of the project cost would not
apply if the borrower’s contribution along with convergence support from any other schemes
exceeds 25% of the project cost.
• Interest Rate: The rate of interest would be lowest applicable rate of the bank for that category
(rating category) not to exceed (base rate (MCLR) + 3%+ tenor premium).
• Security: Besides primary security, the loan may be secured by collateral security or guarantee
of Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme for Stand-Up India Loans (CGFSIL) as decided by the banks.
• Repayment: The loan is repayable in 7 years with a maximum moratorium period of 18 months.
• Working Capital: For drawal of Working capital up to 10 lakh, the same may be sanctioned by
way of overdraft. Rupay debit card to be issued for convenience of the borrower. Working
capital limit above 10 lakh to be sanctioned by way of Cash Credit limit.
• Margin Money: The Scheme envisages 25% margin money which can be provided in
convergence with eligible Central / State schemes.
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Aim/Objective: To build a strong ecosystem that is conducive for the growth of startup businesses,
to drive sustainable economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities.
Rankings
• Best Performer: Gujarat
• Top Performers: Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, and Rajasthan.
• Leaders: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana.
• Aspiring Leaders: Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.
• Emerging States: Assam, Delhi, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and
Uttarakhand.
• Beginners: Chandigarh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim, and Tripura.
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Launched by: NITI Aayog
Aim: To promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.
Objective:
• To create and promote an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country at
school, university, research institutions, MSME and industry levels.
• It is envisaged as an umbrella innovation organization that would play an instrumental role in
alignment of innovation policies between central, state and sectoral innovation schemes.
Core Function:
• Entrepreneurship promotion through Self-Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU), wherein
innovators would be supported and mentored to become successful entrepreneurs.
• Innovation Promotion: to provide a platform where innovative ideas are generated
A) Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL)- Atal Innovation Mission has established Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) in
schools across India.
• Objective: The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in
young minds; and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive
learning, physical computing etc.
• Eligibility: Schools (minimum Grade VI - X) managed by Government, local body or private
trusts/society to set up ATL.
• Financial Support: AIM will provide grant-in-aid of Rs. 20 Lakh to each school that includes a
one-time establishment cost of Rs. 10 lakh and operational expenses of Rs. 10 lakh for a
maximum period of 5 years to each ATL.
C) Atal New India Challenges- Fostering product innovations and aligning them to the needs of
various sectors/ministries.
The vision of ANIC is two-fold:
• Help create products from existing technologies relevant for national and social causes
(productization);
• Help new deep-tech products find markets and early customers (commercialization) in the
context of India.
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D) Mentor India Campaign-
• A national Mentor network in collaboration with public sector, corporates and institutions, to
support all the initiatives of the mission.
Salient Features:
• The programme NIDHI would help the startups with initial / ignition funding and hence would be
called Startup-NIDHI.
• Startup-NIDHI aims to support 20 student startups in each year financially.
• Startup-NIDHI would financially support each of the selected startups with Rs 10 lakhs which will
be given as ignition grant/award.
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Nodal Ministry: It is a joint programme of Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD)
and Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Aim: The main aim of the scheme is to make students more accustomed with the outer world and
give them market-oriented mind set
Objectives:
• To promote innovation in IITs addressing issues of manufacturing industries
• To spur innovative mindset of the student
• To co-ordinate action between academia and industry
• To strengthen labs and research facilities
Objective:
• To identify areas of immediate relevance to society requiring innovation
• To direct scientific research into identified areas
• To ensure higher funding support for research into the identified areas
• To measure outcomes of the research effort with reference to impact on the standard of living in
the rural/urban areas.
Salient Features:
• It is the first of its kind MHRD supported Pan-IIT + IISc joint initiative.
• This novel initiative with twofold mandate is aimed at:
1. Developing new engineering education policy
2. Creating a road map to pursue engineering challenges
IMPRINT 2
• IMPRINT-2 has been approved by Government of India with a revised strategy under which,
this national initiative will be jointly funded and steered by MHRD and Department of
Science and Technology (DST).
• Proposals under IMPRINT II Projects should
(a) address any declared theme (thrust area) under one of the 10 domains of IMPRINT
(b) connect either with already identified or new research topics defined by the PI under the
same 10 domains.
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• Project with industry support will be preferred
Salient Features:
• It is a one stop portal to facilitate online procurement of common use Goods & Services
required by various Government Departments / Organizations / PSUs.
• It provides the tools of e-bidding, reverse e-auction and demand aggregation to facilitate the
government users achieve the best value for their money.
• Directorate General of Supplies and Goods (DGS&D) with technical support of National
eGovernance Division under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
has developed GeM portal for procurement of both products and services.
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National Mission on Government e-Marketplace:
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Commerce
What is it? It was launched on 5th September 2018 till 17th October 2018 to accelerate the
adoption and use of procurement by major Central Ministries, States and UTs and their agencies
(including CPSUs/PSUs, Local Bodies) on the GeM platform.
Objectives:
• Promote inclusiveness by catapulting various categories of sellers and service providers.
• Increase transparency and efficiency in public procurement, including corruption free
governance.
• Achieve cashless, contactless and paperless transaction, in line with Digital India objectives.
• Increase overall efficiency leading to significant cost saving on government expenditure in
procurement.
• Maximize ease in availability of all types of products and services bought by Government
buyers.
Womaniya Initiative:
Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Commerce
Aim: To develop women entrepreneurship on the margins of society to achieve gender-inclusive
economic growth.
Key Features:
• It is an initiative of GeM to enable women entrepreneurship on the margins of the society to
achieve gender-inclusive economic growth.
• The initiative would enable women entrepreneurs and women self-help groups to sell
handicrafts and handloom, jute and coir products, home décor and office furnishings,
directly to various government ministries, departments and institutions.
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• A single person will be entitled to buy 9 to 40 seats in a flight. However, only 50% of the seats
will be sold at Rs 2500 per seat per hour. The airlines can sell the rest of the tickets at market
rates.
Key Features:
• BHIM allow users to send or receive money to or from UPI payment addresses, or to non-UPI
based accounts by scanning a QR code with account number and IFSC code or MMID (Mobile
Money Identifier) Code.
• Users can create their own QR code for a fixed amount of money, which is helpful in merchant-
seller-buyer transactions.
• Currently there is no charge for transactions from Rs 1 to Rs 1 lakh.
1.53 Digishala
Launch Year: 2016
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Aim: It aims to promote cashless transactions post-demonetisation, especially in rural and semi-
urban areas.
Key Features:
• It is a free-to-air channel (Doordarshan DTH Channel) to educate and inform the people about
the various modes of digital payments.
• The channel will help people understand the use of Unified Payments Interface (UPI), USSD,
Aadhaar-Enabled Payments System, electronic wallets, debit and credit cards.
• The minister also launched a website (www.cashlessindia.gov.in) which will serve as a repository
of knowledge regarding digital payments.
• Both the channel and website were launched as a part of the ‘Digi Dhan Abhiyan’, a campaign
conceptualized by the Government of India to enable every citizen, small trader and merchant to
adopt digital payments in their everyday financial transactions.
Objectives:
• Develop an Ecosystem for Zero Defect Manufacturing in MSMEs
• Promote adaptation of Quality tools/systems and Energy Efficient manufacturing
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• Enable MSMEs for manufacturing of quality products
• Encourage MSMEs to constantly upgrade their quality standards in products and processes
• Drive manufacturing with adoption of Zero Defect production processes and without impacting
the environment
• Support ‘Make in India’ campaign
• Develop professionals in the area of ZED manufacturing and certification
Aim/Purpose:
• To bring the entire candidate and training partner database on a single platform.
• To act as an integrated platform for all skilling initiatives and schemes run by various central
ministries, state governments, NSDC and Corporates among others.
Key Features
• To provide an online collaborative platform to help disseminate reliable information on skill
options, opportunities, information on various providers and by providing an interface to
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enquire, explore, access and engage with various affiliated and accredited training partners and
infrastructure providers.
• Skill India Portal initiative is mainly targeted at citizens seeking to enhance their existing skills.
Target: The scheme will cover 1 crore youth during the period 2016-20 in Phase 2 (PMKVY 2.0).
Eligible Beneficiaries: The scheme is applicable to any candidate of Indian nationality who:
• An unemployed youth, college / school dropout
• Has a verifiable identity proof - Aadhaar / Voter id and a bank account
Implementation:
• The scheme would be implemented through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
• In addition, Central / State Government affiliated training providers would also be used for
training under the scheme.
• All training providers will have to register on the SMART (Skill Management & Accreditation of
Training Centres) portal before being eligible for participating under this scheme.
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• Training would include soft skills, personal grooming, behavioral change for cleanliness, good
work ethics.
• Sector Skill Councils and the State Governments would closely monitor skill training that will
happen under PMKVY.
Purpose/Objective:
• Create benchmark institutions that demonstrate aspirational value for competency-based skill
development training.
• Focus on elements of quality, sustainability and connection with stakeholders in skills delivery
process.
Target Beneficiary:
• Youth in the age of 17-25 years belonging to categories such as school dropouts, juvenile
offenders, victims of crimes and families in dire state due to incarceration of the bread earner of
the family.
Objectives:
• Create an end-to-end implementation framework for skill development which provides
opportunities for life-long learning.
• Align employer/industry demand and workforce productivity with trainees’ aspirations for
sustainable livelihoods.
• Establish and enforce cross-sectoral, nationally and internationally acceptable standards for
skill training in the country.
• Build capacity for skill development in critical un-organized sectors and enable such workers to
transition into formal sector employment.
• Offer a passage for overseas employment through specific programmes mapped to global job
requirements and benchmarked to international standards.
• Enable pathways for transitioning between the vocational training system and the formal
education system, through a credit transfer system.
• Promote convergence and co-ordination between skill development efforts of all Central
Ministries/Departments/States/implementing agencies.
Mission Statement:
To rapidly scale up skill development efforts in India, by creating an end-to-end, outcome-focused
implementation framework, which aligns demands of the employers for a well-trained skilled
workforce with aspirations of Indian citizens for sustainable livelihoods.
Mission Strategy:
National Skill Development Mission will initially consist of seven sub-missions under its purview.
Each sub-mission will act as a building block for achieving the overall objectives of the Mission. Key
focus areas of the sub-mission include:
• Addressing the long-term and short-term skilling needs through revamp of existing institutional
training framework and establishing new institutions
• Undertake sector specific skill training initiatives
• Ensure convergence of existing skill development programmes
• Leverage existing public infrastructure for skilling
• Focus on training of trainers
• Facilitate overseas employment, and
• Promote sustainable livelihoods.
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• Mission Directorate will be supported by three other institutions: National Skill Development
Agency (NSDA), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), and Directorate General of
Training (DGT).
• At the State level, States are being encouraged to create State Skill Development Missions
(SSDM) along the lines of National Skill Development Mission.
Major Functions:
• Operationalize and implement National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF).
• To establish and operationalize a Quality Assurance (QA) framework embedded in NSQF to
improve consistency of outcomes in the skills landscape, which will include laying down a
framework for training, assessment and certification processes and agencies in the country.
Major Functions:
• To promote skill development by catalyzing creation of large, quality and for-profit vocational
institutions.
• To provide funding to build scalable and profitable vocational training initiatives.
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1.59 Atal Pension Yojana
Launch Year: 2015 (It had replaced Swavalamban scheme)
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Finance.
Implementing Agency: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) through
National Pension System (NPS) architecture
Aim:
To address the longevity risks among the workers in unorganized sector and to encourage the
workers in unorganized sector to voluntarily save for their retirement.
Eligibility:
• It is applicable to all citizen of India aged between 18-40 years.
• The focus will be on unorganized sector workers.
• Should make contributions for a minimum of 20 years.
Benefit:
• Fixed pension for the subscribers ranging between Rs. 1000 to Rs. 5000 (subscribers would start
receiving the pension from the age of 60 years). The contribution levels would vary and would
be low if subscriber joins early and increase if he joins late.
• After death of subscriber, the same amount of pension is guaranteed to his/her spouse for life.
• There is no exit to the scheme before the age of 60.
Funding:
Government would provide:
• Fixed pension guarantee for the subscribers;
• Would co-contribute 50% of the subscriber contribution or Rs. 1000 per annum, whichever is
lower, to eligible subscribers (those who are not covered by any Statutory Social Security
Schemes and is not income taxpayer);
• Would also reimburse the promotional and development activities including incentive to the
contribution collection agencies to encourage people to join the APY.
Enrolment Agencies: All Points of Presence (Service Providers) and Aggregators under Swavalamban
Scheme would enrol subscribers through architecture of National Pension System.
Additional Fact: The existing subscribers of Swavalamban Scheme would be automatically migrated
to APY, unless they opt out.
Salient Features:
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• It intends to cover people in between 17 to 35 age group from all minority communities as well
as Madrasa students.
• The central scheme is designed to address educational and livelihood needs of minority
communities lagging behind in terms of educational attainments.
• It aims to provide educational intervention by giving the bridge courses to the trainees and
getting them Certificates for Class XII and X from distance medium educational system.
• It seeks to provide trade basis skill training in four courses at the same time of formal education,
in field of (i) Manufacturing (ii) Engineering (iii) Services (iv) Soft skills.
Eligibility: The Scheme will be available to people in the age group 18 to 70 years with bank
account.
Premium: It is aimed at covering the uncovered population at a highly affordable premium of just
Rs.12 per year.
Risk coverage:
• Rs. 2 lakh for accidental death and permanent total disability.
• Rs. 1 lakh for permanent partial disability.
Terms of Risk Coverage: A person has to opt for the scheme every year. He/She can also prefer to
give a long-term option of continuing in which case his/her account will be auto-debited every year
by the bank.
Implementation:
• The scheme will be offered by Public Sector General Insurance Companies or any other General
Insurance Company who are willing to offer the product on similar terms with necessary
approvals and tie up with banks for this purpose.
• Participating Bank will be the Master policy holder on behalf of the participating subscribers.
• It will be the responsibility of the participating bank to recover the appropriate annual premium
in one instalment, as per the option, from the account holders on or before the due date
through ‘auto-debit’ process and transfer the amount due to the insurance company.
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Eligibility: People in the age group of 18 to 50 years having a savings bank account who give their
consent to join / enable auto-debit.
Premium: Rs.330/- per annum per member and is renewable every year.
Implementation: The scheme will be offered by Life Insurance Corporation and all other life insurers
who are willing to join the scheme and tie-up with banks for this purpose.
Key Features
• The policy provides life coverage for 1 year and the insured can renew the policy every year.
• According to one’s own choice, the insured can walk out of the scheme at any time and rejoin it
in future.
Components: Under the MUDRA scheme, 3 types of loans allotted by Micro Units’ Development
and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank are:
✓ Shishu: covering loans upto Rs. 50,000
✓ Kishor: covering loans above Rs. 50,000 and upto 5 lakhs
✓ Tarun: covering loans above Rs. 5 lakh and up to 10 lakhs
Eligibility:
• Any Indian Citizen who has a business plan for a non-farm sector income generating activity such
as manufacturing, processing, trading or service sector, and
• Whose credit need is less than Rs 10 lakh can approach either a Bank, MFI, or NBFC for availing
of Micro Units Development & Refinance Agency Ltd. (MUDRA) loans under Pradhan Mantri
Mudra Yojana (PMMY).
Salient Features:
• No processing fee
• No collateral
• Repayment period of loan is extended up to 5 years
• Applicant should not be defaulter of any Bank / Financial Institution
• All banks viz. Public Sector banks, Private Sector Banks, Regional Rural Banks, State Co-operative
Banks, Urban Co-operative Banks, Foreign Banks and Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs)/
Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) are required to lend under the scheme.
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• MUDRA Bank is a public sector financial institutions in India which was set up under Pradhan
Mantri MUDRA Yojana.
• It provides loans at low rates to micro-finance institutions and non-banking financial institutions
which then provide credit to MSMEs.
Salient Features:
• The Bonds will be restricted for sale to resident Indian entities including individuals, Hindu
Undivided Families (HUFs), Trusts, Universities and Charitable Institutions.
• The Bonds will be denominated in multiples of gram(s) of gold with a basic unit of 1 gram.
• The investment limit per fiscal year is 4 kg for individuals, 4 Kg for Hindu Undivided Family (HUF)
and 20 Kg for Trusts and similar entities notified by the Government from time to time.
• The Government will issue bonds with a rate of interest which will be calculated on the value of
the gold at the time of investment.
• Bonds will be available both in demat and paper form.
• Bonds can be used as collateral for loans.
• Bonds to be easily sold and traded on exchanges to allow early exits for investors who may so
desire.
• On maturity, the redemption will be in rupee amount only which would not be a fixed sum but
linked to the price of gold.
Salient Features:
• This scheme will replace the existing Gold Deposit Scheme, 1999.
• All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including RRBs) banks will be eligible to implement the
scheme.
• The deposits can be made for a short-term period of 1-3 years; a medium-term period of 5-7
years and a long-term period of 12-15 years.
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• The principal and interest on Short Term Bank Deposit (STBD) shall be denominated in gold. In
the case of Medium and Long-Term Gold Deposit the principal will be denominated in gold.
• All deposits under the scheme shall be made at the Collection and Purity Testing Centres (CPTC).
• The minimum deposit at any one time shall be 30 grams of raw gold and there is no maximum
limit for deposit under the scheme.
1.66 USTTAD (Upgrading the Skills and Training in Traditional Arts/Crafts for
Development)
Launch Year: 2015
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Minority Affairs
Aim: It aims at preserving & promoting the rich heritage of the traditional arts & crafts of the
Minority communities.
Salient Features:
• It envisages boosting the skill of craftsmen, weavers and artisans who are already engaged in the
traditional ancestral work.
• Under the scheme, assistance will be provided to traditional artisans to sell their products in
order to make them more compatible with modern markets.
• It is fully funded by Union Government
• Applicable for all areas in India.
Vision: The Digital India programme centered on three key vision areas:
1. Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
2. Governance & Services on Demand
3. Digital Empowerment of Citizens
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e-Sampark
• e-Sampark is a mechanism used by the Government of India to contact citizens electronically
and is a part of the Digital India Campaign.
• The multi-faceted platform facilitates not only seamless communication between the
government and citizens, but also maintains a database of contacts of the nodal officers,
representatives and citizens. In addition, users can also view the previous campaigns
conducted.
1.68 DigiLocker
Launch Year: 2015
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Key Features:
• DigiLocker provides an account in cloud to every Indian citizen to access authentic
documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark list in digital
format from the original issuers of these certificates.
• The storage space provided was 100 MB initially which was later increased to 1 GB. The
individual file size for upload cannot exceed 10 MB.
Key Features:
• Under the scheme, LPG cylinders are sold at market rates and entitled consumers get the
subsidy directly into their bank accounts.
• It is done either through bank account or Aadhaar linkage.
Key Features:
• The scheme would give a boost to “Make in India” in the textiles sector.
• It is expected to attract investment to the tune of one lakh crore rupees, and create over 30 lakh
jobs.
• There is a provision of one-time capital subsidy for eligible benchmarked machinery at the rate
of 15% for garmenting and technical textiles segments with a cap of Rs. 30 crore and at the rate
of 10% for weaving, processing, jute, silk and handloom segments with a cap of Rs. 20 crore.
Key Features:
• It is a three-tier system (PMO, Union Government Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries of the
States)
• Prime Minister will hold a monthly programme where he will interact with the Government of
India Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries through Video-conferencing enabled by data and geo-
informatics visuals.
(Note: Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana would be
covered while discussing schemes under the Health Sector (Part 2 document).
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1.72.1 Shram Suvidha Portal
Aim/Objective: The objective of Portal is to consolidate information of Labour Inspection and its
enforcement.
Key Features:
• The portal facilitates businessmen to get all kinds of registrations and submit returns that are
required under labour laws at a single online window.
• It would allot Unique Labour Identification Number (LIN) to Units to facilitate online registration.
• Bring transparency and accountability in enforcement of labour laws.
• File self-certified and simplified single online annual return for multiple labour laws to ease the
complexity of compliance.
• Unified ECR (Electronic Challan cum return) under EPFO/ESIC to encourage compliance by
reducing transaction costs and promoting ease of business.
• It would allow mandatory uploading of inspection Reports within 72 hours by the Labour
inspectors.
Salient Features:
• Provision of zero balance bank accounts.
• Interest on deposit.
• Life insurance cover of Rs. 30,000 payable on death of the beneficiary, subject to fulfillment of
the eligibility condition.
• Easy transfer of money across India.
• Beneficiaries of Government Schemes will get Direct Benefit Transfer in these accounts.
• After satisfactory operation of the account for 6 months, overdraft facility to be permitted.
• In August 2019, RTI reveals that over Rs 1 lakh crore deposited in PMJDY accounts.
Aim: It aims to target youth, in the age group of 15–35 years. DDU-GKY is a part of the National
Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), tasked with the dual objectives of adding diversity to the incomes
of rural poor families and cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.
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Beneficiary Eligibility:
• Rural Youth:15 - 35 Years
• SC/ST/Women/PVTG/PWD: up to 45 Years
Implementation Model:
DDU-GKY follows a 3-tier implementation model.
• The DDU-GKY National Unit at MoRD functions as the policy-making, technical support and
facilitation agency.
• The DDU-GKY State Missions provide implementation support; and
• The Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) implement the programme through skilling and
placement projects.
Features:
• Enable Poor and Marginalized to Access Benefits: Demand led skill training at no cost to the
rural poor
• Inclusive Program Design: Mandatory coverage of socially disadvantaged groups (SC/ST 50%;
Minority 15%; Women 33%)
• Shifting Emphasis from Training to Career Progression: Pioneers in providing incentives for job
retention, career progression and foreign placements
• Greater Support for Placed Candidates: Post-placement support, migration support and alumni
network
• Proactive Approach to Build Placement Partnerships: Guaranteed Placement for at least 75%
trained candidates
• Enhancing the Capacity of Implementation Partners: Nurturing new training service providers
and developing their skills
• Regional Focus: Greater emphasis on projects for poor rural youth in Jammu and Kashmir
(HIMAYAT). In the North-East region and 27 Left-Wing Extremist (LWE) districts it is named as
ROSHINI.
• Standards-led Delivery: All program activities are subject to Standard Operating Procedures that
are not open to interpretation by local inspectors. All inspections are supported by geo-tagged,
time stamped videos/photographs.
Aim/Objective:
• To attract investments from across the globe and strengthen India’s manufacturing sector.
• To utilize the existing Indian talent base, creating additional employment opportunities and
empowering secondary and tertiary sector for sustainable economic growth.
• To improve India’s rank on the Ease of Doing Business index by eliminating the unnecessary laws
and regulations, making bureaucratic processes easier, making the government more
transparent, responsive and accountable.
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Target:
• Target an increase in manufacturing sector growth to 12-14% per annum over the medium term.
• An increase in the share of manufacturing in the country’s Gross Domestic Product from 16% to
25% by 2022.
• To create 100 million additional jobs by 2022 in manufacturing sector.
Objectives:
• To enhance the number of PhDs in Electronics System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) and IT/IT
Enabled Services (IT/ITES) sectors in the country.
• Give thrust to R&D, create an innovative ecosystem and enhance India’s competitiveness in
these knowledge intensive sectors.
• To Support 1500 PhD Candidates including both Full-Time (500) and Part-Time (1000) in each of
ESDM and IT/ITES sectors (Total: 3000 PhDs).
Key Features:
• This Scheme provides 25% more fellowship amount than most of the other PhD Schemes.
• Scheme also provides infrastructural grant of ₹ 5,00,000/- per candidate to the academic
institutions for creation/ up-gradation of laboratories.
• Part-time PhD candidates get one time incentive on completion of the PhD.
• Scheme also supports 200 Young Faculty Research Fellowships in the areas of ESDM and IT/ITES
with the objective to retain and attract bright young faculty members in these sectors.
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Developed by: Infosys under the guidance and aegis of Department for Promotion of Industry and
Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
Aim: It aims at transforming and developing a conducive business environment in the country.
Key Features:
• The focus of eBiz is to improve the business environment in the country by enabling fast and
efficient access to Government-to-Business (G2B) services through an online portal.
• This will help in reducing unnecessary delays in various regulatory processes required to start
and run businesses.
1.78 eTAAL
Launch Year: 2013
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
Developed by: National Informatics Centre (NIC)
Key Features:
• eTaal (Electronic Transaction Aggregation and Analysis Layer) is a web portal for dissemination
of e-Transaction statistics of Central and State level e-Governance Projects including Mission
Mode Projects.
• It receives transaction statistics from web based applications periodically on near real time basis.
• eTaal presents quick analysis of transaction counts in graphical form (Bar Chart, Pie Chart,
Bubble Chart, etc.) and as Tabular Statements to give quick view of transactions done by various
e-Governance projects.
• It provides visibility for the National/State level services of e-Governance Projects and presents
status on actual utilization of various systems running at various locations.
1.79 UDAAN
Launch Year: 2012
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs
Implemented by: National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
Aim: The programme aims to provide skills training and enhance the employability of unemployed
youth of J&K.
Eligibility: The Scheme covers graduates, postgraduates and three year engineering diploma
holders.
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Aim/Objective:
• Provide retirement income to all the citizens.
• Inculcate the habit of saving for retirement amongst the citizens.
Eligibility:
• Any Indian Citizen, resident or non-resident, between the age of 18 - 65 years.
• All new employees of Central Government service (except Armed Forces) and Central
Autonomous Bodies joining Government service on or after 1st January 2004.
• All the employees of State Governments, State Autonomous Bodies joining services after the
date of notification by the respective State Governments.
• Private sector employees and unorganized sector workers.
Objectives:
• Generation of sustainable and continuous self-employment opportunities in urban and rural
areas of the country.
• Providing sustainable and continuous employment to a large segment of rural and urban
unemployed youth, traditional and prospective artisans through the establishment of micro-
enterprises.
• Facilitating the financial institution’s participation for higher credit flow to the micro sector.
Eligibility:
• Individuals with age of 18 years or more
• Passing standard VIII is required for a project above Rs 5 lakh in the service sector and above Rs
10 lakh in the manufacturing sector
• Institutions registered under Societies Registration Act- 1860
• Production based co-operative societies
• Self-help groups and charitable trust
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Rate of Interest and Repayment Schedule: The normal interest rate is applicable to the enterprise
from time to time. The Repayment Schedule ranges from 3 -7 years.
Security: No collateral security nor any third party guarantee is insisted here. Any assets created
from the bank loan should be hypothecated to Bank.
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