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 EDUCATION

Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan Features

•overarching programme for the school

Ministry of Education
education sector extending from pre-
school to class 12
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
•subsumed the 3 Schemes
• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
• Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha
Objectives Abhiyan (RMSA)
• Teacher Education (TE)
• Provision of quality education & enhancing Why in
learning outcomes of students. news
• Support States in implementation of Right of Samagra Shiksha 2.0
Children to Free & Compulsory Education
(RTE) Act, 2009.
• Improving the quality of school education by • Centre has approved the
focusing on the two T’s – Teacher and implementation of scheme till
Technology. March 31, 2026
• With the inclusion of
recommendations of the National
Education Policy, 2020.
 EDUCATION

Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan Higher Education Financing Agency

(RUSA)
Ministry of Education
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
(HEFA)
Objectives
• financing creation of capital assets in
premier educational institutions.
• covers educational institutions under
higher education, school education and
institutions under the Ministry of Health.

Objective

Features
• funding to higher educational institutions
•joint venture of MoE Government of India and
Canara Bank.
•registered under Section 8 [ Not-for-profit] under
the Companies Act 2013.
•registered as Non–deposit taking Systemically
Important (NBFC-ND-SI) with RBI.
 EDUCATION

Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF)

Scheme
Features

Ministry of
Education •modifications made in PMRF Scheme in May 2020
Central Sector • students from any recognized university can apply
Scheme for the fellowship. [earlier, only for students from
Central Universities, IITs, IISc, NITs, IISERs, IIEST
and IIITs.]
Objective
• requirement of GATE score reduced from 750 to
600
improving the quality of research • two channels of entries - direct entry and lateral
in various higher educational entry
institutions in the country • NITs in top 25 institutions in the NIRF ranking can
become PMRF Granting institutions.
Why in
News?

Modificatio
ns made in
May 2020
 EDUCATION

PM eVIDYA
Features

Ministry of Programme for multi-mode access to digital/online

Education education consisting of:
Central Sector
Scheme • DIKSHA for school education: e-content and QR
coded Energized Textbooks for all grades (one
nation, one digital platform)
• One earmarked TV channel per class from 1 to 12
Objective through Swayam Prabha TV Channels (one class,
one channel)
educate students through digital • Extensive use of Radio, Community radio and
platforms so that the education of Podcasts
students does not suffer due to • Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired
nationwide lockdown • Top 100 universities permitted to automatically
Why in
start online courses by 30th May, 2020
News?

Launched in
June 2020
 EDUCATION

VidyaDaan 2.0
Mid Day Meal Scheme
Call to the nation, particularly
individuals & organizations across Ministry of Education
the country to contribute e-learning
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
resources in the education domain
to ensure that quality learning
continues for learners across India. Objective
• aims at enhancing enrolment, retention and
attendance and simultaneously improving
nutritional levels among children studying in
NIPUN Bharat Mission government and government-aided schools

• to ensure universal acquisition of foundational

literacy and numeracy, so that every child Beneficiaries
achieves the desired learning competencies in
reading, writing and numeracy by the end of • covers primary and upper primary school
Grade 3, by 2026-27. children (class I-VIII) in government and
• NIPUN Bharat will be implemented by the government-aided schools
Department of School Education and Literacy
under the aegis of Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
 EDUCATION

NEAT (National Educational Alliance for Technology) Scheme

Features

Ministry of Education

• NEAT is PPP model between the Government and

the edtech companies of India.
• The scheme aims to use Artificial Intelligence to
Objective make learning more personalized and customized
as per the requirements of the learner.
bring the best technological Products in
education pedagogy on a single platform for the • A National NEAT platform would be created to
provide one-stop access to Adaptive Learning
convenience of learners.
Solutions.
• NEAT is aimed at taking the concept of Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCS) platform a step
Implementing Agency
ahead.
All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE)
 HEALTH

Ayushman Bharat: Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM JAY)

Features
Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Implementing Agency
National Health Authority (attached office
of the MoH&FW)
Objective
Health insurance scheme to protect poor and
vulnerable families against financial risk arising
out of catastrophic health episodes
• cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per Beneficiaries
year for secondary and tertiary As identified by Socio-
care hospitalization across public Economic Caste Census
and private empaneled hospitals (SECC) data
in India. • 10 crore poor and
• provides cashless access to health vulnerable entitled
care services. families (approximately
• no restriction on the family size, 50 crore beneficiaries)
age or gender.
• cover will include pre and post-
hospitalization expenses.
• All pre-existing conditions will be
covered from day one of the policy.
• A defined transport allowance per
hospitalization will also be paid to
the beneficiary.
• Benefits of the scheme are
portable across the country i.e. a
beneficiary can visit any
empanelled public or private
hospital in India to avail cashless
treatment.
 HEALTH

Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana National Health Mission

Ministry of Health and Ministry of Health and

Family Welfare Family Welfare
Central Sector Scheme Centrally Sponsored Scheme

Objective Objectives

• correcting the regional imbalances in the
availability of affordable healthcare facilities in
different parts of the country.
• augmenting facilities for quality medical
education in the under-served States.
• launched in 2005, to provide universal access to
equitable, affordable & quality health care services
• Targets:
• MMR - 1/1000 live births
• IMR - 25/1000 live births
• TFR - 2.1
• Reduce anemia in women aged 15–49 years

2 components:
Features
Features
• setting up of AIIMS-like Institutions
2 sub-missions
• upgradation of existing Government
• National Rural Health Mission
Medical Colleges/Institutions
• National Urban Health Mission
 HEALTH
National Digital Health Mission
Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare
Central Sector Scheme
Implementing Agency
National Health Authority
Objective
• aims to provide the necessary support for
integration of digital health
infrastructure in the country
Features
•Building blocks of digital system:
• HealthID - a repository of all health-related
information of a person
• DigiDoctor – a single, updated repository of
all doctors enrolled in the country
• Health Facility Registry (HFR) - a single
repository of all the health facilities (both
public and private) in the country.
• Personal Health Records (PHR) - an
electronic record of health-related
information on an individual that can be
drawn from multiple sources while being
managed, shared, and controlled by the
individual.
• Electronic Medical Records (EMR) - a digital
version of a patient's chart which contains the
patient's medical and treatment history from
a single health facility.
 HEALTH

Pradhan Mantri Swathya Suraksha Nidhi (PMSSN) AarogyaPath

Ministry of Health A CSIR National Healthcare Supply

and Family Welfare Chain Portal that aims to provide real-
Features time availability of critical healthcare
supplies
•single non-lapsable reserve fund for Health from the proceeds of Health
and Education Cess
•Accruals into the PMSSN will be utilized for the flagship schemes of the
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare namely,
• Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-
PMJAY)
e-Sanjeevani platform
• Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs)
• National Health Mission • telemedicine services
• Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) • developed by Centre for
• Emergency & disaster preparedness and responses during Development of Advanced
health emergencies
• Any future programme/scheme that targets to achieve progress Computing (CDAC)
towards SDGs and the targets set out in the National Health
Policy (NHP) 2017
•Administration and maintenance of the PMSSN is entrusted to Ministry
of Health & Family Welfare
 HEALTH

PM-ABHIM
Prime Minister Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana’ (PMASBY) scheme was renamed PM – Ayushman Bharat
Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM)
The components of the PM-ABHIM scheme are:
Centrally Sponsored Components:
Ministry of Health and
1. SuppEstablishing 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres in all the States.
Family Welfare 2. ort for 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres in 10 High Focus States.
3. 3382 Block Public Health Units in 11 High Focus states. Support for other Sta
tes/UTs under XV Finance Commission Health Sector Grants and NHM.
Objective 4. Setting up of Integrated Public Health Labs in all districts.
5. Establishing Critical Care Hospital Blocks in all districts with population more than 5 lakhs.
to fill critical gaps in public health infrastructure,
Central Sector Components
especially in critical care facilities and primary care, in
1. 12 Central Institutions as training and mentoring sites with 150 bedded Critical Care Hospital
both the urban and rural areas Blocks;
2. Strengthening of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 5 New Regional NCDCs and 20
metropolitan health surveillance units;
3. Expansion of the Integrated Health Information Portal to all States/UTs to connect all public health l
abs;
4. Operationalisation of 17 new Public Health Units and strengthening of 33 existing Public Health
Units at Points of Entry, that is at 32 Airports, 11 Seaports and 7 land crossings;
5. Setting up of 15 Health Emergency Operation Centres and 2 container based mobile hospitals; and
6. Setting up of a national institution for One Health, 4 New National Institutes for Virology, a Regional
Research Platform for WHO South East Asia Region and 9 Bio-Safety Level III laboratories.
 POVERTY/HUNGER

National Food Security Act, 2013

Dept. of Food &Public Distribution (M/o Features

Consumer Affairs, Food & Public
Distribution
Central Sector Scheme
• The Act legally entitles upto 75% of the rural
population and 50% of the urban population
to receive subsidized food grains under
Targeted Public Distribution System.

Responsibilities under NFSA • Antyodaya Anna households (poorest of the

poor) are entitled to 35 kg of food grains per
• joint responsibility of the Centre and State/UT
Government family per month, priority households are
• Centre - allocation of food grains to entitled to 5 kg per person per month.
States/UTs, transportation of food grains.
• States/UTs - identification of eligible • Food grains at subsidized prices of Rs. 3/2/1
households, issuing ration cards to them, per kg for rice, wheat and coarse grains.
distribution of food grain entitlements to
eligible households through fair price shops
(FPS), issuance of licenses to Fair Price Shop
dealers.
 POVERTY/HUNGER

Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna National Food Security Mission

Yojana (PM-GKAY)
Ministry of Agriculture
Dept. of Food & Public & Farmers’ Welfare
Distribution Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Features

• During the period May - June 2021, more than Objective

80 crore people will be provided
• 5 kg free wheat/rice per person per month
along with 1 kg free whole chana to each • launched in 2007-08 to increase the
family per month over and above the regular production of rice, wheat and pulses
monthly entitlements under National Food
Security Act, 2013 (NFSA).
Components
Beneficiaries • NFSM-Rice
• NFSM-Wheat
• NFSM-Pulses
Antyodaya Anna households (poorest • NFSM-Coarse Cereals
of the poor) and priority households • NFSM-Commercial crops
• NFSM-Oilseeds and Oilpalm
 WOMEN & CHILDREN

All Major Schemes of WCD Ministry have been classified under 3 Umbrella Schemes [Centrally Sponsored]

• Saksham Anganvadi and Mission Poshan 2.0

• Umbrella ICDS - Anganwadi Services
• Poshan Abhiyan
• Scheme for Adolescent Girls
• National Creche Scheme

• Mission Vatsalya
• Child Protection Services and Child Welfare Services

• Mission Shakti
• SAMBAL (One Stop Centre, Mahila Police Volunteer, Women's Helpline/Swadhar/Ujjawala/Widow Homes etc)
• SAMARTHYA (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Creche, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana/ Gender Budgeting)
 WOMEN & CHILDREN

Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Scheme

Ministry of Women & Beneficiaries

Child Development
• Children in the age
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
group of 0-6 years
• Pregnant women and
• Lactating mothers
Objective
providing for supplementary
nutrition, immunization and pre- Features
school education to the children
ICDS Scheme offers a package of six
services:
• Supplementary Nutrition
• Pre-school non-formal education
• Nutrition & health education
• Immunization
• Health check-up and
• Referral services
 WOMEN & CHILDREN

Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana

Features
Cash incentive of Rs 5000 in three
Ministry of Women & instalments
Child Development • first instalment of Rs 1000/ - on
Beneficiaries
early registration of pregnancy at the
Centrally Sponsored Scheme Anganwadi Centre (AWC) approved
Health facility. • All Pregnant Women and
• second instalment of Rs 2000 after Lactating Mothers
six months of pregnancy on (excluding PW&LM who
receiving at least one ante-natal are in regular
check-up (ANC). employment with the
Objective Central Government/
• third instalment of Rs 2000 after
State Governments/ PSUs
Provide partial compensation for the childbirth is registered and the child
or those who are in
wage loss in terms of cash incentives has received the first cycle of BCG, receiving similar benefits
so that the woman can take adequate OPV, DPT and Hepatitis – B. under any law).
rest before and after delivery of the
first living child. The eligible beneficiaries would receive the • All eligible PW&LM for
incentive given under the Janani Suraksha first child only.
Yojana (JSY) for Institutional delivery and
the incentive received under JSY would be
Under the revamped PMMVY under Mission Shakti, the maternity accounted towards maternity benefits so
benefit amounting to ₹6000 is also to be provided for the second
child, but only if the second is a girl child, to discourage pre-birth
that on an average a woman gets Rs 6000.
sex selection and promote the girl child.
 WOMEN & CHILDREN

POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission)

Ministry of Women and Child

Development

Centrally Sponsored Scheme

Objectives

• achieve improvement in nutritional status of

Children from 0-6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant
Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound
manner.
• reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anemia
and low birth weight babies.
 WOMEN & CHILDREN

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Janani Suraksha Yojana

Abhiyan

Ministry of Health & Ministry of Health &

Family Welfare Family Welfare

Objective

antenatal care services to be Objective

provided to all Pregnant Women
on the 9th day of every month at
the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit
Matritva Clinics to ensure that
every pregnant woman receives
at least one checkup in the 2nd/
3rd trimester of pregnancy.
reduce maternal and infant mortality
by promoting institutional delivery
among pregnant women.
Features
Cash assistance to BPL women
for institutional delivery of child
 WOMEN & CHILDREN

Ujjawala Scheme

Beneficiaries

Ministry of Women and Women and children who are

Child Development victims of trafficking for
Centrally Sponsored Scheme commercial sexual exploitation.

Objectives
Features
•To prevent trafficking of women and children
•To facilitate rescue of victims •Following are main components of
•To provide rehabilitation services both immediate and this scheme:
• PREVENTION
long-term to the victims
• RESCUE
•To facilitate repatriation of cross-border victims to • REHABILITATION
their country of origin. • RE-INTEGRATION
• REPATRIATION
 WOMEN & CHILDREN

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Scheme

Ministry of Women and

Child Development
Centrally Sponsored Scheme

Objectives

• Prevention of gender-biased sex-selective elimination.

• Ensuring survival & protection of the girl child.
• Ensuring education and participation of the girl child.
• Protecting rights of Girl child.
 SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana Startup India

DPIIT, Ministry of Objective

Ministry of Finance
Commerce and Industry build a strong eco-
Central Sector Scheme system for nurturing
Central Sector Scheme innovation and
Startups in the
Features country that will
Features drive sustainable
• provide loans up to Rs. 10 lakh to the non-
corporate, non-farm small/micro enterprises. economic growth
• self compliance with labour and generate large
• These loans are given by Commercial Banks, and environment laws
RRBs, Small Finance Banks, MFIs and NBFCs. scale employment
• Startup India Hub - a single opportunities
• 3 types of MUDRA loans point of contact for the
• Shishu : loans upto 50,000/- entire Startup ecosystem
• Kishor : loans above 50,000/- and upto 5 • Legal Support and Fast-
lakh Startup India Action Plan
tracking Patent Examination
• Tarun : loans above 5 lakh and upto 10 lakh Action Plan is divided
at Lower Costs across the following
• Relaxed Norms of Public areas:
Beneficiaries Procurement for Startups 1. Simplification &
• Faster Exit for Startups - Handholding.
Any Indian Citizen who has a business plan for a Startups may be wound up 2. Funding support &
non-farm sector income generating activity within a period of 90 days Incentives.
and whose credit need is less than Rs 10 lakh from making of an 3. Industry-Academia
application for winding up. Partnership and
Incubation
 SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Stand Up India Scheme

Ministry of Finance

Features

Objective

To promote entrepreneurship facilitates bank loans between Rs 10

among women and scheduled lakh and Rs 1 Crore to at least one
castes and tribes Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled
Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one
woman borrower per bank branch for
setting up a greenfield enterprise.
 SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP)
Features
•Maximum Cost of
Ministry of Micro, Small and
Project/Unit Admissible:
Medium Enterprise
Manufacturing Sector: Rs. 25
Central Sector Scheme
lakh, Service Sector: Rs.10
lakh
•Government Subsidy: Rural
Implementation agency Areas (25% for general
category and 35% for special
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)
or reserved category), Urban
- a statutory organization under the
Areas (15% for general
administrative control of the Ministry of MSME
category and 25% for special
or reserved category)
Objectives
generation of employment opportunities
through establishment of micro enterprises
in rural as well as urban areas
Beneficiaries
•Any individual, above 18
years of age.
•VIII Std. pass required for
project above Rs.10.00
lakhs in manufacturing and
above Rs. 5.00 lakhs for
Service Sector
•Only new projects/units
are considered for sanction
of loans.
•Self-help groups that have
not availed benefits under
any other public scheme,
societies, production co-
operative societies, and
charitable trusts
 SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0

Beneficiaries
Implementation
Ministry of Skill Development &
•any candidate of
Entrepreneurship
Centrally Sponsored •PMKVY 3.0 will be implemented Indian nationality
Scheme in a more decentralized structure who:
with greater responsibilities and • an unemployed
support from States/UTs and youth, college /
Implementation agency
Districts. school dropout
•District Skill Committees (DSCs), • Has a verifiable
National Skill Development
under the guidance of State Skill identity proof
Corporation (NSDC)
Development Missions (SSDM),
shall play a key role in addressing
Objectives the skill gap and assessing
•To train 8 lakh candidates over a scheme demand at the district level.
•The new scheme will be more
period of 2020-2021
•make 300+ skill courses available to the trainee- and learner-centric
addressing the ambitions of
youth
•making skill development more demand- aspirational Bharat.
driven and decentralised in its approach.
 SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Pradhan Mantri Dakshta Aur Kushalta Sampann Hitgrahi (PM-DAKSH) SCHEME

Ministry of Social Justice Features

& Empowerment

• Implemented for the year 2020-21

Objective
• Provision of training and enhancing competencies
essential for economic empowerment/upliftment of
marginalized target groups.
• Updating target groups belonging to rural artisans
who have become marginalized owing to the coming
of better technologies in the market.
• Empowering women amongst the marginalized
target groups.
• Proving skill development training
programs to the eligible targets.
• Implementing agencies:
1. National Scheduled Castes
Finance and Development
Corporation (NSFDC),
2. National Backward Classes
Finance & Development Corporation
(NBCFDC),
3. National Safai Karamcharis
Finance and Development
Corporation
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Ministry of Rural Ministry of Petroleum &

Development Natural Gas
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Central Sector Scheme
Objective Objective
provide single all-weather road • provide LPG connections to women from
connectivity to unconnected Below Poverty Line (BPL) households.
habitations • Empowering women and protecting their
health.
Features • Reducing number of deaths due to unclean
cooking fuel. Why in
All habitations with a population of 500 persons and above in
the plain areas and 250 persons and above in hill states, the news
tribal and the desert areas will be connected by PMGSY.
• Govt. has recently announced PM UJJWALA
• Centre has proposed to fully fund certain road projects
under the PMGSY rather than meeting the usual 60% of YOJANA 2.0.
cost, in a move aimed at pushing rural jobs. • Now, the scheme will reach to 80 million
• Allocation under PMGSY has been increased by 35% for families.
FY23 from revised estimates for FY22. • Address proof will not be compulsory for
• It is part of the additional ₹1 trillion capital allocation migrant workers.
announced for states in the Union Budget 2022.
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har
Yojana Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya)

Ministry of Power Ministry of Power

Central Sector Scheme

Objective

ensure electrification of all remaining

unelectrified households in rural as
Objective
well as urban areas
•Rural electrification
•Separation of agriculture and
non-agriculture feeders Beneficiaries

identified using Socio Economic and Caste

Census (SECC) 2011 data
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (G)
Ministry of Rural
Development
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Objective
To provide pucca houses to all who
are houseless and living in
dilapidated houses in rural areas
by 2022
Features
• Identification of beneficiaries as per the housing
deprivation parameters and exclusion criteria
prescribed under Socio Economic Caste Census
(SECC) 2011 after due verification by Gram
Sabha.
• assistance Rs. 1.20 lakh in plain areas and Rs.1.30
lakh in Hilly States, NE States, difficult areas.
• assistance for construction of toilets of up to
Rs.12,000 to be provided under Swachh Bharat
Mission-Gramin (SBM-G).
MGNREGA
Ministry of Rural
Development
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
(Core of the Core)
Features
• guarantees 100 days of wage employment in a
financial year, to a rural household whose
adult members volunteer to do unskilled
manual work.
• wage employment to be provided to the
applicant within 15 days of submitting the
application or from the day work is demanded.
• Right to get unemployment allowance in case
employment is not provided within fifteen
days.
• Receipt of wages within fifteen days of work
done.
• Social Audit of MGNREGA works is mandatory.
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

National Social Assistance Programme

Features

Ministry of Rural
Development •social security and welfare programme to provide support
to aged persons, widows, disabled persons and bereaved
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
families on death of primary breadwinner, belonging to
(Core of the Core)
BPL households.
•NSAP comprises of five schemes, namely –
• Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme
(IGNOAPS) - pension Rs 200 per month
• Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme
(IGNWPS) - pension of Rs 300 per month
• Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension
Scheme (IGNDPS) - pension of Rs 300 per month
• National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) - Rs.
20000/ - will be given as a lump sum assistance
to the bereaved household in the event of death of
the breadwinner.
Annapurna - 10 kgs of food grains (wheat or rice) is given
per month per beneficiary.
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Vibrant Village Programme

Features

Ministry of Rural Development • Under the programme, residential and

tourist centres will be constructed.
• It will also provide for improvement in road
connectivity and development of
decentralized renewable energy sources.
• Apart from that, direct access of
Objective
Doordarshan and education related
To improve infrastructure in villages along channels will be provided. Support will be
India’s border with China provided for livelihood.
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Startup Village Entrepreneurship Programme

Beneficiaries

•Any Rural poor

Ministry of Rural •Highly vulnerable beneficiaries
under MGNREGA, marginalized
Development
sections, women, SC and ST
Sub-component of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National communities and rural artisans will
Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) [Centrally Sponsored be given specific preference in
Scheme] selection

Implementation Features

Implementation of SVEP shall be •SVEP addresses three major pillars

managed by NRLM through the of rural start-ups namely - finances,
State Rural Livelihood Missions incubation and skill ecosystems.
•one of the key areas is to develop a
Objectives
pool of community resource persons
•to support the rural poor come out of poverty, supporting – enterprise promotion (CRP-EP)
them setup enterprises and provide support till the who are local entrepreneurs setting-
enterprises stabilize up rural enterprises
•Another key area is to promote the
•providing self-employment opportunities with financial block resource center (BRC) in
assistance and training in business management and soft SVEP blocks, to monitor and
skills while creating local community cadres for promotion manage the community resource
of enterprises. persons.
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan (GKRA)

Features

•125-day Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister on 20th June,

2020
Ministry of Rural •to address the issues of returnee migrant workers and
Development similarly affected rural population by Covid-19 pandemic
•through a multi- pronged strategy of
• providing immediate employment & livelihood opportunities
to the distressed
• to saturate the villages with public infrastructure and
creation of livelihood assets to boost the income generation
activities and enhance long term livelihood opportunities
•focus on 25 works in 116 selected districts across 6 States
with a resource envelope of Rs 50,000 crore.
•6 states - Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, UP, Jharkhand, Odisha
(BIMARU + JH + OD)
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT

SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised

Technology in Village Areas) Scheme
Feature
s
•Coverage - 6 states: Haryana,
Karnataka, Madhya
Ministry of Panchayati Raj
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar
Pradesh, Uttarakhand
Central Sector Scheme •surveying the land parcels in
rural inhabited area using
Drone technology.
Objectives •The survey shall be done
•provide rural people with the right to document their across the country in a phase
residential properties so that they can use it for economic wise manner over the period of
purposes four years (2020 -2024)
•enabling the citizens in rural India to use their property as a
financial asset for taking loans and other financial benefits.
•creation of accurate land records for rural planning.
•determination of property tax
•To support the preparation of a better-quality Gram
Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP) by making use of GIS
maps.
•To reduce property related disputes and legal cases
 RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DAY-NRLM: National Rural Livelihood Mission (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana)
Ministry of Rural
Development
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Objective
To reduce poverty by enabling the
poor households to access gainful
self-employment and skilled wage
employment opportunities, resulting
in an appreciable improvement in
their livelihoods on a sustainable
basis, through building strong
grassroots institutions of the poor.
. Features
• At least one woman member from each identified rural
poor household, is to be brought under the Self Help
Group (SHG) network in a time bound manner.
• NRLM has devised special strategies to reach out to
these communities and help them graduate out of
poverty.
• On the demand side, it promotes financial literacy
among the poor and provides catalytic capital to the
SHGs and their federations. On the supply side, the
Mission coordinates with the financial sector and
encourages use of Information, Communication &
Technology (ICT) based financial technologies,
business correspondents and community facilitators
like ‘Bank Mitras’.
Beneficiaries
Target Group is identified through the
Participatory Identification of Poor
(PIP) method. The NRLM Target Group
(NTG) derived through the PIP is de-
linked from the BPL.
 URBAN DEVELOPMENT

AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and

Smart Cities Mission
Urban Transformation
Ministry of Housing Ministry of Housing
and Urban Affairs and Urban Affairs
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Centrally Sponsored Scheme

Objective Objective
Providing basic services (e.g. water supply, sewerage,
urban transport) to households and build amenities in
• to promote cities that provide core cities which will improve the quality of life for all.

infrastructure, clean and .

sustainable environment and give a
decent quality of life to their
citizens through the application of
‘smart solutions’.
• people.
100 cities to be developed as Smart
Cities
• Mission spans across 500 cities, covering more than
60% of urban population. Features
• Under this mission, drinking water surveys will be
conducted to provide better water services to the
• AMRUT 2.0 aims to provide 100% coverage of water
supply to all households in around 4,700 urban local
bodies by providing about 2.68 crore tap connections
and 100% coverage of sewerage and septage in 500
AMRUT cities by providing around 2.64 crore sewer/
septage connections, which will benefit more than 10.5
crore people in urban areas.
 URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Feature

Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) 2.0 • Executing period 2021-22 to 2024-25

• SBM-U 2.0 envisions to make all cities ‘Garbage
Free’ and ensure grey and black water
Ministry of Housing & Urban management in all cities other than those
Affairs covered under AMRUT, make all urban local
bodies as ODF+ and those with a population of
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
less than 1 lakh as ODF++, thereby achieving
[60:40/90:10]
the vision of safe sanitation in urban areas.
• The Mission will focus on source segregation of
Objective solid waste, utilizing the principles of 3Rs
(reduce, reuse, recycle), scientific processing of
•continuation of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), with the all types of municipal solid waste and
following components for funding and implementation across all remediation of legacy dumpsites for effective
statutory towns, viz. solid waste management.
• Sustainable sanitation (construction of toilets)
• Wastewater treatment, including fecal sludge management
in all ULBs with less than 1 lakh population (this is a new
component added to SBM-U 2.0)
• Solid Waste Management
• Information, Education and Communication
• Capacity building
 URBAN DEVELOPMENT

PM Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi)

Beneficiaries
Features
Ministry of Housing and •over 50 lakh street
Urban Affairs
•Vendors can avail a working vendors
Central Sector Scheme capital loan of up to rupees
10,000/-, repayable in monthly
instalments in the tenure of one
Implementing agency year.
•On timely repayment of the
Small Industries Development Bank of
India (SIDBI) loan, an interest subsidy @ 7%
per annum will be credited to the
bank accounts of beneficiaries
Objective through Direct Benefit Transfer
Why in
to provide collateral free working on quarterly basis. News?
capital loan to street vendors to •The scheme promotes digital Launched in
resume their livelihoods that have transactions through cash back June 2020
been adversely affected due to Covid- incentives until March
19 lockdown 2022
 AGRICULTURE

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman PM Krishi Sinchai Yojana

Nidhi (PM Kisan)
Tenure has been extended
Ministry of Agriculture
for a period of 2021-22 to
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare 2025-26 with allocation of
and Framers Welfare Rs 4,600 crore.
Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Central Sector Scheme
Components

Objective
Objective •Accelerated Irrigation
to provide income support to all landholding Benefit Programme
farmer’s families in the country to • Enhance the physical access of (AIBP): faster completion
supplement their financial needs for water on the farm and expand of ongoing major &
medium irrigation
procuring various inputs related to cultivable areas under assured
irrigation (Har Khet ko pani). projects
agriculture and allied activities as well as •Har Khet ko Pani:
domestic needs • Improve on-farm water use
extending the coverage of
efficiency to reduce wastage
irrigation
Features Beneficiaries
and increase availability both in
•Per Drop More Crop:
duration and extent.
financial benefit of All land holding eligible • Enhance the adoption of improve water-use
Rs. 6000 per precision-irrigation and other efficiency
farmer families (subject to •Watershed
annum per family water saving technologies
the exclusion criteria) are (More crop per drop). Development: effective
payable in three management of runoff
equal installments
to avail of the benefits
water & improved soil &
of Rs. 2000 each,
under this scheme
moisture conservation
every four months activities.
 AGRICULTURE
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
Ministry of Agriculture
and Framers Welfare
Central Sector Scheme
Objective
• To provide insurance coverage and financial
support to the farmers in the event of
failure of any of the notified crops as a
result of natural calamities, pests &
diseases.
• To stabilize the income of farmers to ensure
their continuance in farming.
• To encourage farmers to adopt innovative
and modern agricultural practices.
• To ensure flow of credit to the agriculture
sector.
Beneficiaries
All farmers growing notified crops in a
notified area during the season who
have insurable interest in the crop are
eligible
Features
• Uniform premium rate to be paid by the
farmers
• 2% - Kharif crops;
• 1.5% - Rabi crops;
• 5% - Commercial & horticultural crops
• Balance premium paid by the govt. There is
no upper limit on govt. Subsidy.
• Risks covered: Yield losses due to non-
preventable risks such as Hailstorm,
Cyclone, Typhoon, Tempest, Hurricane,
Tornado, flood , drought, dry spells, disease.
 AGRICULTURE
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund(AIF)
Ministry of Agriculture
and Framers Welfare
Central Sector Scheme
Objective
To provide a medium-long term debt financing
facility for investment in viable projects for
post-harvest management Infrastructure and
community farming assets through interest
subvention and financial support
Beneficiaries
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
(PACS), FPOs, SHGs, Farmers, Joint
Liability Groups, Multipurpose
Cooperative Societies, Agri Startups etc
Features
• Rs. 1 lakh crore will be provided for
financing agriculture infrastructure projects.
• All loans will have interest subvention of 3%
per annum.
• credit guarantee coverage under Credit
Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small
Enterprises (CGTMSE).
 AGRICULTURE

Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF)

DAH&D [Ministry of
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry Beneficiaries
and Dairying]

Central Sector Scheme Farmer Producer Organizations

(FPOs), MSMEs, Section-8
Companies, Private Companies and
Objective individual entrepreneurs

Incentivise investments in
• Dairy processing and product
diversification infrastructure,
• Meat processing and product
diversification infrastructure
• Animal feed plant
 AGRICULTURE

Kisan Credit Card

Ministry of Finance Beneficiaries

Objectives
To provide adequate and timely credit for the credit
requirements of farmers under single window for their
cultivation and other needs such as
• Post harvest expenses
• Marketing loan
• Consumption requirements of farmer
household
• Working capital for maintenance of farm assets
• credit requirement for pump sets, sprayers,
dairy animals, floriculture, horticulture etc.
• Short term credit requirements of rearing of
animals, birds, fish, shrimp, other aquatic
organisms, capture of fish.
• All farmers-individuals/Joint
borrowers who are owner
cultivators
• Tenant farmers, Oral lessees and
Share Croppers etc.
• SHGs or Joint Liability Groups of
farmers
• Groups including tenant farmers
having owned /rented/leased sheds.
• beneficiaries under KCC for Animal
Husbandry and Fisheries
 AGRICULTURE

PM Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana

Benefits
Ministry of Agriculture
& Farmers’ Welfare
minimum assured pension of Rs
Central Sector Scheme
3000/- per month after attaining
the age of 60 years.

Beneficiary Eligibility

Small and Marginal Framers of age

between 18-40 years
 AGRICULTURE

National Saffron Mission

Ministry of Agriculture and

Cooperation The National Saffron Mission (NSM) was
launched in 2010-11 but it was only
applicable for the cultivation of saffron in
Jammu and Kashmir. However, in 2020, the
Government has decided to revive this
Objective mission and expand the cultivation of
saffron to the north eastern part of the
• Rejuvenation/replanting of existing country.
Saffron area for improving
productivity.
• lmproving soil health.
• Strengthening the irrigation system.
• Mechanization.
 AGRICULTURE
National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm
Objective
• Achieve self-reliance in edible oil.
Harness domestic edible oil prices that
are dictated by expensive palm oil
imports.
• To raise the domestic production of
palm oil by three times to 11 lakh MT
by 2025-26.
Features
• The special emphasis of the scheme will be
on India’s north-eastern states and the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands due to the
conducive weather conditions in the
regions.
• Under the scheme, oil palm farmers will be
provided financial assistance and will get
remuneration under a price and viability
formula.
• It is expected to incentivize the production
of palm oil to reduce dependence on
imports and help farmers cash in on the
huge market.
 INFRASTRUCTURE

PM-GATI SHAKTI

Ministry of Ports, Shipping
and Waterways
Objectives
Also known as National Master Plan for multi-modal
connectivity plan, aims at coordinated planning and
execution of infrastructure projects to bring down
logistics costs.
Features
• a digital platform to bring 16 Ministries including
Railways and Roadways together for integrated planning
and coordinated implementation of infrastructure
connectivity projects.
• Driven by 7 engines – roads, railways, airports, ports,
mass transport, waterways, logistics
• The multi-modal connectivity will provide integrated and
seamless connectivity for movement of people, goods and
services from one mode of transport to another. It will
facilitate the last mile connectivity of infrastructure and
also reduce travel time for people.
• PM Gati Shakti will incorporate the infrastructure
schemes of various Ministries and State Governments
like Bharatmala, Sagarmala, inland waterways, dry/land
ports, UDAN etc. Economic Zones like textile clusters,
pharmaceutical clusters, defence corridors, electronic
parks, industrial corridors, fishing clusters, agri zones
will be covered to improve connectivity & make Indian
businesses more competitive.
• It will also leverage technology extensively including
spatial planning tools with ISRO (Indian Space Research
Organisation) imagery developed by BiSAG-
N (Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space
Applications and Geoinformatics).
 INFRASTRUCTURE

Krishi Udan 2.0

Features

Ministry of Civil Aviation

• An online platform named E-KUSHAL (Krishi
Central Sector Scheme Udaan for Sustainable Holistic Agri-Logistics)
would also be developed to facilitate information
dissemination to all stakeholders regarding the
transportation of agricultural produce.
Objectives
• Strengthen Cargo related infrastructure at airports
and off airports by facilitating the development of
a hub and spoke model and a freight grid.
to increase the share of air carriage of Agri-produce
• Facilitate and incentivize movement of agri-
like horticulture, fishery, livestock and processed produce by air transportation by giving a full
products waiver of landing, parking, Terminal Navigation
and Landing Charges and Route Navigation
Facilities Charges for domestic airlines.
 INFRASTRUCTURE

PM Development Initiative for North East Region (PM DeVINE)

Ministry of Development of
North-East Region

Objectives

The scheme aims to:

Objectives
• Enable livelihood activities for youth & women
• Filling gaps in various sectors
• Fund infrastructure and social development
projects as per the need of the region
• Promote livelihood activities among the youth
and women, and fill the gaps in various sectors
in the region
• Establish proper services for the management
of cancer

Implementing Agency

North Eastern Council (NEC).

 MSME

Special Credit Linked Capital Subsidy

Scheme
Features
Ministry of Micro, Small
and Medium-sized
Enterprises • It has a provision of 25% capital subsidy for
Central Sector Scheme procurement of plant and machinery and
service equipment through institutional
credit to the Scheduled Caste – Scheduled
Tribe MSMEs without any sector-specific
Objective
restrictions on technology up-gradation.
to facilitate technology up-gradation in MSEs by providing
an upfront capital subsidy of 15% (on institutional finance
of upto Rs 1 crore availed by them) for induction of well-
established and improved technology in the specified 51
sub-sectors/products approved
 MSME

SFURTI Scheme

Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of

Traditional Industries by Ministry of
Micro, Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises

Central Sector Scheme

Objective

To provide sustained employment for traditional

industry artisans and rural entrepreneurs
 TOURISM

Swadesh Darshan Scheme PRASHAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and

Spiritual Augmentation Drive) Scheme

Ministry of Tourism
Ministry of Tourism
Central Sector Scheme
Central Sector Scheme

Objective
Objective

the integrated development of theme-based tourist

Harness pilgrimage tourism for its multiplier and
circuits. The scheme aims to promote, develop and
direct effect on employment generation and
harness the potential of tourism in India.
economic development
 SECURITY

Border Infrastructure & Management Police Modernisation Scheme

Scheme

Ministry of Home Affairs Ministry of Home Affairs

Central Sector Umbrealla

Centrally Sponsored Scheme
Scheme

Objective
the creation of infrastructure such as border fence, border
flood lights, technological solutions, border roads and
Border OutPosts (BOPs) and company operating bases to
secure India's borders with Pakistan, Bangladesh, China,
Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar.
Objective
to gradually reduce the dependence of the State
Governments on the Army and the Central Armed Police
Forces to control internal security and law and order
situations by equipping the State Police Forces adequately
and strengthening their training infrastructure
 MANUFACTURING

Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme

Sectors Beneficiaries
Covered
•Companies that are
Objective •Mobile Manufacturing and Specified registered in India and
Electronic Components are involved in the
•Aims to give companies incentives on •Critical Key Starting materials/Drug manufacturing of goods
incremental sales (over FY 2019-20) Intermediaries and Active covered under the
from products manufactured in domestic Pharmaceutical Ingredients and
target segments of the
units. Manufacturing of Medical Devices.
•Advance Chemistry Cell (ACC) scheme
•The scheme invites foreign companies
to set up units in India, however, it also Battery
aims to encourage local companies to •Electronic/Technology Products
set up or expand existing manufacturing •Automobiles & Auto Components
units and also to generate more •Pharmaceuticals drugs
employment and cut down the country's •Telecom & Networking Products
reliance on imports from other countries. •Textile Products: MMF segment and
•Incentives disbursed after the technical textiles
production has taken place •Food Products
•High Efficiency Solar PV Modules
•White Goods (ACs & LED)
•Specialty Steel
 MANUFACTURING
DLI (Design Linked Incentive) Scheme
Ministry of Electronics and
Information (MeitY)
Objective
to provide financial and infrastructural
support to companies setting up fabs or
semiconductor making plants in India
Features
3 Components
1. Chip Design infrastructure support: C-DAC will set up
the India Chip Centre to host the state-of-the-art
design infrastructure (viz. EDA Tools, IP Cores, and
support for MPW (Multi Project Wafer fabrication) &
post-silicon validation) and facilitate its access to
supported companies.
2. Product Design Linked Incentive: Reimbursement of
up to 50% of the eligible expenditure subject to a
ceiling of Rs. 15 Crore per application will be provided
as financial support to the approved applicants who
are engaged in semiconductor design.
3. Deployment Linked Incentive: An incentive of 6% to
4% of net sales turnover over 5 years subject to a
ceiling of Rs. 30 Crore per application will be provided
to approved applicants whose semiconductor design
for Integrated Circuits (ICs), Chipsets, System on Chips
(SoCs), Systems & IP Cores and semiconductor linked
design are deployed in electronic products.
 MANUFACTURING

PM Mega Investment Textiles Parks (MITRA) Scheme

Features

• MITRA will be launched in addition to the Production

Linked Incentive Scheme(PLI).
Ministry of Textiles • create world class infrastructure with plug and play
facilities to enable create global champions in exports.
• 7 Textile Parks to be established over 3 years.

• The Government has approved setting up of 7 PM Mega Integrated

Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks in
Greenfield/Brownfield sites with an outlay of Rs. 4445 cr for a
period of seven years upto 2027-28.
• Government of India is implementing the Scheme for Integrated
Objective Textile Park (SITP) which provides support for creation of world-
class infrastructure facilities for setting up of textile units.
•to enable the textile industry to
become globally competitive, PM POSHAN- Renamed as "National Scheme for PM POSHAN in
Schools", the scheme from 2021-22 is to be extended to students
attract large investments, boost studying in pre-primary or Bal Vatikas of Government and
employment generation and Government-aided primary schools in addition to all the 11.80 crore
exports children from elementary classes.
 OTHERS

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan Yojana (PM KUSUM)
Scheme

The govt. will provide a subsidy of 60% to farmers

Ministry of New and and 30% of the cost will be given by the MNRE has cautioned
Renewable Energy Government in the form of loans. Farmers will only against fraudulent
have to give 10% of the total cost of the project. The websites cheating the
electricity generated from the solar panel can be public through fake
Central Sector Scheme
sold by the farmers registration portals of PM-
KUSUM scheme

3 components Features Why in

• State Nodal Agencies (SNAs) of MNRE will • Component-A: News?
coordinate with States/UTs, Discoms and decentralised ground- •MNRE amended the
farmers for effective implementation mounted grid-connected implementation Guidelines
renewable power plants of PM-KUSUM Scheme
of upto 2 MW based on the learnings from
Objective • Component-B: the implementation of the
standalone solar- Scheme during the first year.
•ensuring energy security for farmers in powered agriculture • Besides barren, fallow
India pumps and agricultural land,
•honouring India’s commitment to • Component-C: solar power plants can
increase the share of installed capacity of solarisation of grid- also be installed on
electric power from non-fossil-fuel sources connected agriculture pastureland and marshy
to 40% by 2030 as part of INDCs pumps land of farmers + more.
 OTHERS

Pradhan Mantri Karam Yogi Maandhan Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan

Ministry of Labour & Ministry of Labour &

Employment Employment
Central Sector Scheme Central Sector Scheme

Benefits
Benefits

minimum assured pension of Rs

minimum assured pension of Rs
3000/- per month after attaining
3000/- per month after attaining
the age of 60 years.
the age of 60 years.

Beneficiary Eligibility Beneficiary Eligibility

• Small trader / shopkeepers whose unorganized worker of age between

annual turnover does not exceed Rs 18 and 40 years having monthly
1.5 crore Income Rs 15000 or below
• age between 18 and 40 years
 OTHERS

PM Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises

Scheme
Features Beneficiaries
•One District One Product (ODOP) Farmer producer organizations,
Ministry of Food Processing Approach self help groups, producers
Industries • The States would identify food cooperatives, food processing
products for districts keeping in view entrepreneurs, workers and
Centrally Sponsored Scheme the existing clusters and availability of other stakeholders along the
raw material. entire chain
• could be a perishable agri-produce,
cereal based product or a food product
widely produced in a district and their
Objectives allied sectors.
•Upgradation of Individual Micro Food
Processing Units
•Enhance the competitiveness of existing • credit-linked capital subsidy @35% of
individual micro-enterprises in the unorganized the eligible project cost with a
segment of the food processing industry maximum ceiling of Rs.10 lakh per unit.
•Support for capital investment for upgradation •Support to FPOs / SHGs / Cooperatives Why in
and formalization • credit linked grant @ 35% News?
•Capacity building through skill training, imparting • Marketing and branding support
technical knowledge •Seed capital @ Rs. 40,000/- per SHG Launched in
•on food safety, standards & hygiene and quality member would be provided to those June 2020
improvement engaged in food processing
 OTHERS

Operation Greens
Objectives
Ministry of Food Processing
Industries •stabilize the supply of Tomato, Onion and
Potato (TOP) crops and to ensure availability
of TOP crops throughout the country round
Implementing agency the year without price volatility.
• extended during June 2020 to cover all
NAFED
fruits & vegetables (TOTAL) for a period of
six months on pilot basis as part of
Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
Why in •Enhancing value realisation of TOP farmers
News? •Price stabilisation for producers and
consumers
The scheme was extended
•Reduction in post-harvest losses
during June 2020 to cover all
•Increase in food processing capacities and
fruits & vegetables (TOTAL) for
value addition in TOP value chain
a period of six months on pilot
•Setting up of a market intelligence network
basis as part of Aatmanirbhar to collect and collate real time data on
Bharat Abhiyan.
demand and supply and price of TOP crops.

One Nation, One Ration Card
Ministry of Consumer Affairs,
Food & Public Distribution
Implementing agency
Dept. of Food & Public
Distribution
Objective
to ensure the delivery of food security
entitlements to all beneficiaries covered
under the National Food Security Act
(NFSA), 2013, irrespective of their physical
location anywhere in the country, by
implementing nation-wide portability of
ration cards under the ongoing central
sector scheme on ‘Integrated Management
of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS)’ in
association with all States/UTs
OTHERS
Benefits
Beneficiaries
•National portability will be achieved in the
'one nation, one ration card' scheme by
March 2021. •migratory NFSA
•For national portability, the state beneficiaries
governments have been asked to issue the •Eligible beneficiaries would
ration card in bi-lingual format, wherein be able to avail their entitled
foodgrains under the
besides the local language, the other
National Food Security Act
language could be Hindi or English.
(NFSA) from any Fair Price
•Scheme will ensure availability of sufficient Shop in the country using
food grains to those poor workers who the same ration card
migrate from their home district.
•Reduce the practice of black marketing at
the PDS shops. Currently, the PDS shop Why in
owner sells these food grains in the market News?
in the absence of the actual beneficiaries. Seventeen States
•Reduce the incidence of hunger death in have successfully
the country which will further Improve the operationalised
Indian rank in the Global Hunger Index “One Nation One
Ration Card
ranking.
system” till March
2021
 OTHERS

Jal Jeevan Mission

Features

•Development of in-village piped

Ministry of Jal Shakti
water supply infrastructure
Centrally Sponsored Scheme •Development of reliable drinking
water sources and/ or
augmentation of existing sources
Implementing agency
•bulk water transfer, treatment
•National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM) at the Central level plants and distribution network to
•State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM) at the State level cater to every rural household,
•District Water and Sanitation Mission (DWSM) at the District level wherever necessary
•Village Water Sanitation Committee (VWSC) at Village level •technological interventions for
Why in
News? removal of contaminants where
Objective
Review of the
water quality is an issue
progress of •Greywater management
•to provide safe and adequate drinking
implementing
water through individual household tap Jal Jeevan
connections to all rural households in Mission in
India by 2024 States/UTs
 OTHERS

Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) Objectives

•to provide universal coverage of water supply to all
households through functional taps in all 4,378 statutory
Ministry of Housing & Urban towns in accordance with SDG Goal- 6.
Affairs •Sewerage/septage management in 500 AMRUT cities
Centrally Sponsored Scheme with the objective of making them water secure.
• Estimated gap in urban household tap connections is
2.68 crore and estimated gap in sewer
•Union Territories - 100% central funding connections/septage in 500 AMRUT cities is 2.64
•North Eastern and Hill States - 90% crore, which is proposed to be covered in JJM(U).
•cities with less than 1 lakh population - 50% •Rejuvenation of water bodies to augment sustainable
•cities with 1 lakh to 10 lakh population - one-third fresh water supply and creating green spaces and
•cities with million plus population - 25% sponge cities to reduce floods and enhance amenity
value through an Urban Aquifer Management plan
•promote circular economy of water through development
of city water balance plan for each city focusing on
Features recycle/reuse of treated sewage, rejuvenation of water
Why in bodies and water conservation.
•The total outlay proposed for News? •IEC campaign to spread awareness about conservation
JJM(U) is ₹2,87,000 crore which Announc of water
includes ₹10,000 crore for ed in •Pey Jal Survekshan will be conducted in cities to
Budget ascertain equitable distribution of water, reuse of
continuing financial support to
2021-22 wastewater and mapping of water bodies with respect to
AMRUT Mission. quantity and quality of water
 OTHERS

Atamnirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana

Features

Ministry of Labor and •Government of India provides subsidy for Beneficiaries

Employment
Central Sector Scheme
Objective
•to boost employment in formal sector
and incentivize creation of new
employment opportunities during the
Covid recovery phase under
Atmanirbhar Bharat Package 3.0
provident fund contribution for adding new
employees to establishments registered
with the EPFO
• Establishments employing up to 1000
employees: Employee’s contributions
(12% of Wages) & Employer’s
contributions (12% of wages) totalling
24% of wages
• Establishments employing more than
1000 employees: Only Employee’s EPF
contributions (12% of EPF wages)
•operational for the period 2020-2023
Why in
News?
Launched in
November
2020
•Any new employee
joining employment in
EPFO registered
establishments on
monthly wages less than
Rs. 15,000.
•Those who left their job
between 1st March to
30th September and are
employed on or after 1st
October
•Time period- effective
from 1st October, 2020
and operational till 30th
June 2021
 OTHERS
PM WANI (Wi-Fi Access Network Interface)
Ministry of Communications
Implementing agency
Dept. of Telecom
Objective
to bring large scale deployment of
Wi-Fi hotspots through the country
to drive up connectivity options and
improve digital access
Features
•PM-WANI ecosystem will be operated by
different players as described herein under:
• Public Data Office (PDO): It will
establish, maintain, and operate only
WANI compliant Wi-Fi Access Points and
deliver broadband services to subscribers.
• Public Data Office Aggregator (PDOA):
It will be an aggregator of PDOs and
perform the functions relating to
Authorization and Accounting.
• App Provider: It will develop an App to
register users and discover WANI
compliant Wi-Fi hotspots in the nearby
area and display the same within the App
for accessing the internet service.
• Central Registry: It will maintain the
details of App Providers, PDOAs, and
PDOs. To begin with, the Central Registry
will be maintained by C-DoT.
 OTHERS

MPLAD Scheme Features

Ministry of Statistics and

• Every MP is entitled to spend Rs 5 crore
Programme Implementation annually.
• The funds released under the scheme are
Central Sector Scheme
non-lapsable.
Benefits

to enable the Members of Parliament (MP) to

suggest and get executed developmental works
of capital nature based on locally felt needs
with emphasis on creation of durable assets.
 OTHERS

Support for Marginalized Individuals for

Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE)

Ministry of Social Justice &

Empowerment

• ‘Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation for Welfare of

Transgender Persons’
• ‘Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of engaged in the
act of Begging’

Objective

to provide welfare measures to the

Transgender community and the people
engaged in the act of begging.
 OTHERS

Scheme for Economic Empowerment of DNTs (SEED) for the welfare

of De-notified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Communities

Ministry of Social Justice &

Empowerment

Objective

the welfare of De-notified, Nomadic and Semi

Nomadic tribal Communities (DNT/NT/SNT), which
are the most neglected, marginalized and
economically and socially deprived communities.