All New & Important: Government Schemes

MOST IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SCHEMES: TARGET PRELIMS 2021
Under the Guidance of M K YADAV
ALL NEW & IMPORTANT
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
PRELIMS 2021
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE 5. MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND

1.1 NATIONAL DIGITAL HEALTH MISSION ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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(NDHM) AATMANIRBHAR SKILLED EMPLOYEE 20
5.1
1.2 PM ATMANIRBHAR SWASTH BHARAT EMPLOYER MAPPING (ASEEM) PORTAL
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SCHEME (PMASBY)
1.3 PRADHAN MANTRI SWASTHYA SURAKSHA 6. MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
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NIDHI (PMSSN) 6.1 SAKSHAM ABHIYAAN AND POSHAN 2.0 21
1.4 SURAKSHIT MATRITVA AASHWASAN 6.2 MISSION VATSALYA 23
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(SUMAN) INITIATIVE 6.3 MISSION SHAKTI: SAMBAL 23
1.5 MISSION INDRADHANUSH 8 6.4 MISSION SHAKTI: SAMARTHYA 24
1.6 RASHTRIYA AROGYA NIDHI (RAN) 9
1.7 NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN ON HIV/AIDS 7. MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS
& SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS 9 7.1 VAN DHAN YOJANA 25
(STI), 2017-24 7.2 TRIFOOD PROJECT 25
1.8 IT INITIATIVES FOR HEALTH 9 7.3 TECH FOR TRIBALS 25
7.4 SWASTHYA PORTAL 26
2. MINISTRY OF AYUSH EKLAVYA MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
7.5 26
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE DIGITAL (EMRS)
2.1 10
LIBRARY (TKDL)
SCHEME FOR PHARMACOVIGILANCE OF 8. MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS
2.2 11
AYUSH DRUGS SCHEMES FOR EDUCATIONAL
8.1 26
2.3 SWASTHYA RAKSHA PROGRAMME 11 EMPOWERMENT
2.4 OTHER INITIATIVES 11 SCHEMES FOR ECONOMIC
8.2 26
EMPOWERMENT
3. MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS 8.3 SCHEMES TO MEET SPECIAL NEEDS 27
SCHEMES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES AND
3.1 13 9. MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
BULK DRUGS
3.2 SCHEME FOR SETTING UP PLASTIC PARKS 14 AMBEDKAR SOCIAL INNOVATION &
9.1 28
INCUBATION MISSION (ASIIM)
4. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION VISVAS (VANCHIT IKAI SAMOOH AUR
9.2 29
NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY (NEP), VARGON KI AARTHIK SAHAYTA) YOJANA
4.1 14 SUGAMYA BHARAT ABHIYAN (ACCESSIBLE
2020: NEWLY LAUNCHED INITIATIVES 9.3 29
SARTHAQ - NEP IMPLEMENTATION PLAN INDIA CAMPAIGN)
4.2 15 SAFAI KARAMCHARIS: SWACHHTA
FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION 9.4 29
NISHTHA – INTEGRATED TEACHER UDYAMI YOJANA
4.3 15 PRADHAN MANTRI ADARSH GRAM
TRAINING PROGRAMME 9.5 30
NIPUN BHARAT MISSION YOJANA
4.4 16
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCHOOL
4.5 16 10. MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ
EDUCATION (DIKSHA) PORTAL
STRENGTHENING TEACHING-LEARNING 10.1 SVAMITVA SCHEME 30
4.6 AND RESULTS FOR STATES (STARS) 16 RASHTRIYA GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAN
10.2 30
PROJECT (RGSA)
4.7 MoE’s INNOVATION CELL (MIC) 16
INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION 11. MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI
4.8 17
11.1 JAL JEEVAN MISSION (JJM)-RURAL 31
VITTIYA SAKSHARATA ABHIYAN (VISAKA) -
4.9 20 11.2 ATAL BHUJAL YOJANA (ATAL JAL) 31
FINANCIAL LITERACY CAMPAIGN
DAM REHABILITATION AND
11.3 32
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (DRIP)

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DAM HEALTH AND REHABILITATION 32 17.1 ONE NATION ONE RATION CARD (ONORC) 43
11.4
MONITORING APPLICATION (DHARMA)
18. MINISTRY OF SHIPPING
12. MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT 18.1 JAL MARG VIKAS PROJECT 44
SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJEE NATIONAL NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR RECYCLING OF
12.1 32 18.2 44
RURBAN MISSION (NRUM) SHIPS
DEENDAYAL ANTAYODAYA YOJANA -
12.2 NATIONAL RURAL LIVELIHOOD MISSION 33 19. MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION
(DAY-NRLM) 19.1 KRISHI UDAN SCHEME 45
NABH (NEXTGEN AIRPORTS FOR BHARAT)
19.2 45
13. MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS NIRMAN INITIATIVE
DEENDAYAL ANTYODAYA YOJANA- 19.3 DIGIYATRA PLATFORM 45
13.1 NATIONAL URBAN LIVELIHOOD MISSION 35
(DAY-NULM) 20. MINISTRY OF POWER
13.2 JAL JEEVAN MISSION (URBAN) 35 20.1 RAISE INITIATIVE 45
PM STREET VENDOR’S AATMANIRBHAR
13.3 36
NIDHI (PM SVANIDHI) 21. MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
PM-KUSUM - PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN
14. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE 21.1 URJA SURAKSHA EVAM UTTHAAN 46
14.1 AYUSHMAN SAHAKAR 36 MAHABHIYAN
INNOVATION AND AGRI- 21.2 SURYA MITRA SCHEME 46
14.2 ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT 37 21.3 ATAL JYOTI YOJANA (AJAY) 47
PROGRAMME
PARAMPARAGAT KRISHI VIKAS YOJNA & 22. MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
14.3 37
PGS- INDIA PM JI-VAN (JAIV INDHAN – VATAVARAN 47
FORMATION AND PROMOTION OF 22.1 ANUKOOL FASAL AWASHESH NIVARAN)
14.4 FARMER PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS 38 YOJANA
(FPOS)
PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMMAN NIDHI 23. MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION
14.5 39
(PM-KISAN) TECHNOLOGY (MeiTY)
14.6 PM KISAN MAANDHAN YOJANA (PM-KMY) 39 PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN DIGITAL
PRADHAN MANTRI ANNADATA AAY 23.1 47
14.7 40 SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN (PMGDISHA)
SANRAKSHAN ABHIYAN (PM-AASHA) 23.2 GYAN CIRCLE VENTURES 48
NATIONAL INITIATIVE ON CLIMATE
14.8 41
RESILIENT AGRICULTURE (NICRA) 24. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION
24.1 FIVE STAR VILLAGE SCHEME 48
15. MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND PM WANI (Wi-Fi ACCESS NETWORK
DAIRYING 24.2 48
INTERFACE) SCHEME
PRADHAN MANTRI MATSYA SAMPADA
15.1 41
YOJANA (PMMSY) 25. MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
15.2 RASHTRIYA GOKUL MISSION 41 25.1 ONE DISTRICT ONE PRODUCT SCHEME 49
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY INFRASTRUCTURE START UP INDIA SEED FUND SCHEME
15.3 42 25.2 49
DEVELOPMENT FUND (AHIDF) (SISFS)
NIRVIK (NIRYAT RIN VIKAS YOJANA)
16. MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES 25.3 49
SCHEME
PM FORMALIZATION OF MICRO FOOD
16.1 PROCESSING ENTERPRISES (PMFME) 42 26. MINISTRY OF FINANCE
SCHEME 26.1 STAND-UP INDIA 50
16.2 OPERATION GREENS 43
27. MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
17. MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND ATAL BIMIT VYAKTI KALYAN YOJANA 50
PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION 27.1
(ABVKY)

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PRADHAN MANTRI SHRAM YOGI MAAN- 31.3 NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION 57

27.2 50
DHAN YOJANA (PM-SYM) 31.4 ACCELERATE VIGYAN (AV) SCHEME 57
PRADHAN MANTRI LAGHU VYAPARI SOPHISTICATED ANALYTICAL & TECHNICAL
27.3 51 31.5 58
MAAN-DHAN YOJANA HELP INSTITUTES (SATHI)
AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT ROZGAR
27.4 51
YOJANA (ABRY) 32. MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES
32.1 DEEP OCEAN MISSION (DOM) 58
28. MINISTRY OF TEXTILES
28.1 NATIONAL TECHNICAL TEXTILE MISSION 53 33. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE
28.2 SAMARTH SCHEME 53 CHANGE
33.1 NATIONAL CLEAN AIR PROGRAMME 59
29. MINISTRY OF MICRO SMALL AND MEDIUM 33.2 NAGAR VAN (URBAN FORESTRY SCHEME) 59
ENTERPRISES INDIA CLIMATE CHANGE KNOWLEDGE
29.1 MSME INITIATIVES 54 33.3 59
PORTAL
30. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 34. MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

DEFENCE TESTING INFRASTRUCTURE (DTI) 55 34.1 SWADES SCHEME 59
30.1
SCHEME
35. NITI AAYOG
31. MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
35.1 AIM-PRIME 60
POWER - PROMOTING OPPORTUNITIES
31.1 56 35.2 AIM-iCREST 60
FOR WOMEN IN EXPLORATORY RESEARCH
AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT ARISE-ANIC
VIGYAN JYOTI AND ENGAGE WITH SCIENCE 35.3 61
31.2 56 INITIATIVE
PROGRAMME

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1. MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE
1.1 NATIONAL DIGITAL HEALTH MISSION (NDHM)

• NDHM serves to implement a key
objective of National Health Policy 2017
ie. creation of a digital health technology
eco-system aiming at developing an
integrated health information system
that improves efficiency, transparency and
citizens’ experience, with linkage across
public and private healthcare.
• Implementation: National Health
Authority (NHA).
• Guiding principles: as per the guiding
principles as laid out in National Digital
Health Blueprint (NDHB).
• Digital Systems
- Health ID: Used to uniquely identify
persons, authenticate, and thread
health records across multiple
systems & stakeholders.
- Digi-Doctor: A comprehensive
repository of doctors practicing or teaching modern/traditional systems of medicine.
- Health Facility Registry (HFR): repository of both public & private health facilities across different
systems of medicine.
- Personal Health Records (PHR): electronic record of health-related information of an individual. The
most salient feature of the PHR, and the one that distinguishes it from the Electronic Medical
Records, is that the information it contains is under the control of the individual.
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR): it is a digital version of a patient’s treatment history from a single
facility. The patient’s clinical information will be linked to their Health ID.
NATIONAL DIGITAL HEALTH BLUEPRINT (NDHB)

• 2017 - The National Health Policy 2017 had envisaged creation of a digital health technology eco-system.
Thus, a Digital Health ID was proposed to “greatly reduce the risk of preventable medical errors and
significantly increase quality of care”.
• 2018 – In this context, National Health Stack (NHS) was proposed by NITI Aayog.
• 2019 - The components proposed by NITI Aayog were further examined by a committee constituted under
Chairmanship of Sh. J Satyanarayan, to create an implementation framework for National Health Stack.
- The committee released the National Digital Health Blueprint (NDHB).
- NDHB is an ‘architectural document’ with specific details of the building blocks required to fulfil the
vision of National Health Policy 2017.
• 2020 - NDHB recognised the need to establish a specialised organisation, called the National Digital Health
Mission (NDHM), to facilitate the evolution of the National Digital Health Ecosystem.
- In August 2020, National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) released its latest strategic document.
HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT POLICY (HDMP)

• Released by: National Health Authority (NHA), under the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM).

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• Objective: To provide adequate guidance and to set out a framework for the secure processing of personal
and sensitive personal data of individuals.
Key features (HDMP)
• Guidance to Digital health ecosystem: across the National Digital Health Ecosystem (NDHE) and sets out
the minimum standard for data privacy protection.
• Creation of Health ID: Participation of an individual will be on a voluntary basis. Those who wish to
participate will be issued a unique health ID after verification, linking it to an individual’s Aadhaar number.
• Data collection and storage: Data collected across the NDHE will be stored at the central level, the state or
Union Territory level and at the health facility level.
• Grievances: a data fiduciary can appoint a data protection officer as the grievance officer.
• Consent: The HDMP borrows the concept of the consent manager from the Personal Data Protection Bill.
Consent manager is an electronic system for consented sharing of data by individuals.
1.2 PM ATMANIRBHAR SWASTH BHARAT SCHEME (PMASBY)

• It is a centrally sponsored scheme announced in the Budget of FY 21-22. This will be in addition to the
National Health Mission.
• Objective: To build self reliable health infrastructure.
• Key Focus - on developing capacities of health systems at all levels viz. primary, secondary and tertiary
and on preparing health systems in responding effectively during disasters.
• Implementation Period – 6 years (till 2025-26).
• Under the new scheme, the government would:
- Support rural and urban health and wellness centers.
- Set up integrated public health labs and establish critical care hospital blocks
- Strengthen National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), its five regional branches and metropolitan
health surveillance units.
- Expand Integrated Health Information Portal to all states/UTs.
- Operationalise new Public Health Units and strengthening existing Public Health Units at Points of
Entry, at Airports, Seaports and land crossings.
- Set up of a national institution for One Health, a Regional Research Platform for WHO South East
Asia Region, Bio-Safety Level III laboratories and regional National Institutes for Virology.
• The PMASBY targets to build an IT-enabled disease surveillance system by developing a network of
surveillance laboratories at block, district, regional and national levels, in Metropolitan areas.
• Increased investments are also targeted to support research on COVID-19 and other infectious
diseases, to deliver the One Health Approach to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease
outbreaks in animals and humans.
1.3 PRADHAN MANTRI SWASTHYA SURAKSHA NIDHI (PMSSN)

• Recently Union Cabinet, approved Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Nidhi (PMSSN) as a single non-
lapsable reserve fund for Health, from the proceeds of Health and Education Cess levied under Section
136-b of Finance Act, 2007.
• Features
- To be established under the Public Accounts of India.
- Accruals into PMSSN will be utilized for flagship schemes of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare:
✓ Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)
✓ Ayushman Bharat - Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs)
✓ National Health Mission
✓ Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY)

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✓ Emergency & disaster preparedness and responses during health emergencies

✓ Any future programme/scheme that targets to achieve progress towards SDGs and the targets
set out in the National Health Policy (NHP) 2017.
- In any financial year, the expenditure on such schemes of the MoHFW would be initially incurred from
the PMSSN and thereafter, from Gross Budgetary Support (GBS).
• Benefit: enhanced access to universal and affordable health care through the availability of earmarked
resources, while ensuring that the amount does not lapse at the end of the financial year.
OCTOBER 2021

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1.4 SURAKSHIT MATRITVA AASHWASAN (SUMAN) INITIATIVE

• Aim:
- Assured, dignified and respectful delivery of SUMAN: SERVICE GUARANTEE.
quality healthcare services at no cost. • Respect for Women's Autonomy, Dignity, Feelings
- Zero tolerance for denial of services to any and Choices
woman and newborn visiting a public health • 100% Maternal Death Reporting
facility. • Grievance Redressal & Client Feedback Mechanism
• Target: ‘Zero Preventable Maternal and • Awards to Champions
Newborn Deaths’. • Community Level Maternal Death Reporting.
• Beneficiaries - Pregnant women, mothers up to 6 • Community Engagement & Mega IEC
months after delivery, and all sick newborns. • Intersectoral Convergence
• SUMAN aims to integrate benefits under all
ongoing initiatives (PM Surakshit Matrtiva Abhiyan, Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, LaQshya, etc.)
to ensure better access to free, quality medical services to pregnant women & newborns.
• Ministry has launched its website and the grievance redressal portal.
1.5 MISSION INDRADHANUSH

• Target: Full immunization of all children under the age of 2 years, and pregnant women, against vaccine
preventable diseases.
• Key Focus - Government has identified 201 high focus districts across 28 states in the country that have
the highest number of partially immunized and unimmunized children.
• Vaccines
- It targets immunizing all children against vaccine-preventable diseases namely: Diphtheria,
Pertussis, Tetanus, Childhood Tuberculosis, Polio, Hepatitis B, Measles, Meningitis.
- In addition to this, vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis and Haemophilus influenzae type B
(Pneumonia) are also being provided in selected states.
• New Vaccines
- Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV): introduced in UIP as part of Global Polio end-game strategy in 2015
- Rotavirus vaccine (RVV): introduced in 2016, to reduce mortality and morbidity caused by Rotavirus
diarrhoea.
- Measles Rubella (MR) vaccine: introduced through a campaign mode in a phased manner in 2017.
- Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV): launched in 2017 for reducing Infant mortality and
morbidity caused by pneumococcal pneumonia.
- Tetanus and adult diphtheria (Td) vaccine: TT vaccine has been replaced with Td vaccine in UIP to
limit the waning immunity against diphtheria in older age groups.
• Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI):
- Launched: 2017.
- Goal: The focus of the special drive was to improve immunisation coverage in select districts and
cities to ensure full immunisation to more than 90% by December 2018.
- The focus was also on the urban settlements and cities identified under National Urban Health
Mission (NUHM).
• Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 2.0: launched to ensure reaching the unreached with all
available vaccines and accelerate the coverage of children and pregnant women in identified districts
and blocks from December 2019-March 2020.
• Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 3.0: Objective - rolled out to cover children & pregnant women
who missed routine immunisation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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1.6 RASHTRIYA AROGYA NIDHI (RAN)

• It is a National Illness assistance Fund by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
• Objective – To provide financial assistance to patients, living below poverty line, who are suffering from
major life threatening diseases to receive medical treatment at any of the 13 super speciality institutes
or Government hospitals.
• The financial assistance is not given directly to patients but released in the form of ‘one-time grant’ to
the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital in which the treatment has been/is being received.
• States are required to create their own State Illness Assistance fund.
• Scheme for financial assistance for patients suffering from specified rare diseases has also been included
under RAN.
1.7 NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN ON HIV/AIDS & SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS (STI),
2017-24
• The National Strategic Plan (2017-24) was developed by National AIDS Control Organization (NACO)
• It aims to strive, along with partners:
- To ‘fast track’ efforts to achieve an 'AIDS free India’ by 2030 (in line with SDG goal 3)
- To pave a roadmap for achieving the target of 90:90:90.
• Goal – “3 Zeros” - Achieving zero new infections, zero AIDS 90-90-90 Target
related deaths and zero discrimination • Adopted by UNAIDS
• Fast Track Targets • An ambitious treatment target to
- 75% reduction in New HIV Infections help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030
- 90-90-90 • By 2020:
- Elimination of Mother to Child By - 90% of all people living with HIV
Transmission of HIV & Syphilis 2020 will know their HIV status
- Elimination of Stigma & Discrimination - 90% of all people with diagnosed
HIV infection will receive
- 80% reduction in New HIV infections sustained antiretroviral therapy
By - 90% of all people receiving
- Extending from 90:90:90 strategy to
95:95:95 strategy 2024 antiretroviral therapy will have
• It will herald India to the midpoint of the 2030 SDG goals. viral suppression.
1.8 IT INITIATIVES FOR HEALTH

1.8.1 INTEGRATED HEALTH INFORMATION PLATFORM (IHIP)
• It is a web-enabled electronic information system that integrates data from various “registries” to
provide near real-time information on health surveillance from all across India, for decision-makers to
take action.
• Objective: To enable creation of standards compliant Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the citizens
on a pan-India basis.
• The EHRs aims to build a comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) as part of this centralized
accessible platform.
• Key features of IHIP
- Real time data reporting (along through mobile application); accessible at all levels (from villages,
states and central level).
- GIS enabled Graphical representation of data into integrated dashboard.
- Role & hierarchy-based feedback & alert mechanisms.
- Geo-tagging of reporting health facilities with scope for data integration with other health programs

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- Conduct public health surveillance in the context of ONE HEALTH (human health + animal health +
environment).
OTHER IT INITIATIVES
• National Health Portal (NHP) - Citizen portal for healthcare that serves as a single point access for information
on Health and Diseases including health messages; on Regulations, Standards, Policies, Programs,
Commissions etc.; Directory Services – Hospitals, Blood Banks, Ambulances.
• National Telemedicine Service "eSanjeevani" - is a digital health initiative that supports two types of
teleconsultation services - Doctor-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani) and Patient-to-Doctor (eSanjeevani OPD).
• Drugs and Vaccines Distribution Management System (DVDMS) - ‘eAushidhi’ - deals with purchase, inventory
management and distribution of various drugs.
• SUGAM by Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) enables online submission of applications,
their tracking, processing & grant of approvals online mainly for drugs, clinical trials, ethics committee, medical
devices, vaccines and cosmetics. Provides a single window for multiple stakeholders (Pharma Industry,
Regulators, Citizens) involved in the processes of CDSCO.
• Kilkari application - to deliver free weekly audio messages about pregnancy, child birth and care.
• Mera Aspataal – An ICT-based Patient Satisfaction System (PSS) for implementation in public and empanelled
private hospitals. It includes web portal, app, SMS to collect patients’ feedback.
• ANM on Line (ANMOL) - a tablet based application that allows Auxillary Nurse Midwives to enter and update
data for beneficiaries of their jurisdiction.
• Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) – Individual-based tracking system to facilitate timely delivery of
antenatal and postnatal care services and immunization to children with an objective of improving IMR, MMR,
& morbidity.
• eRakt Kosh - for all the licensed blood banks in public and private health facilities.
2. MINISTRY OF AYUSH
2.1 TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE DIGITAL LIBRARY (TKDL)

• Launched: 2001 (completed 20 years in 2021).
• Development: jointly by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Ministry of AYUSH.
• Objective: Protect Indian traditional medicinal knowledge and prevent its misappropriation at
International Patent Offices.
• TKDL database contains more than 3.9 lakh formulations/ practices from the Indian systems of medicine
(Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Sowa Rigpa) and Yoga.
• The database is available to only patent examiners through TKDL Access (Non-disclosure) Agreement.
• Avialable in 5 languages - English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish.

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2.2 SCHEME FOR PHARMACOVIGILANCE OF AYUSH DRUGS

• Launched: in 2018, as a Central Sector scheme.
• Objective – What is Pharmacovigilance - According to
- To develop a culture of documenting adverse WHO it is “the science and activities relating
effects & undertake safety monitoring of AYUSH to the detection, assessment, understanding
drugs. and prevention of adverse effects or any
- Surveillance of misleading advertisements other possible drug-related problem”.
appearing in the print and electronic media.
• Establishment of 3 Tier Network: It comprises of
Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission
- National Pharmacovigilance Centre (NPvCC)
• It is an autonomous institution under the
- Intermediary Pharmacovigilance Centres
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,
(IPvCCs)
responsible to set standards of drugs,
- Peripheral Pharmacovigilance Centres (PPvCC)
pharmaceuticals, and healthcare devices/
• National Pharmacovigilance Centre - All India technologies, etc. besides providing Reference
Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi, an autonomous Substances and Training.
body under the Ministry of AYUSH.
• Adverse Drug Reactions are reported to Indian
• Representatives of Central Drug Standards Control Pharmacopoeia Commission.
Organisation as the national drug regulatory
authority and the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, being the WHO Collaborating Centre, are
associated in the initiative as mentor and guide.
• Intended impact - Pharmacovigilance initiative will facilitate detection of potentially unsafe ASU&H
medicines and misleading advertisements for taking regulatory action against them.
2.3 SWASTHYA RAKSHA PROGRAMME

• Vision: To promote health and health education in villages.
• It is Linked with “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” by promotion of cleanliness in villages.
• Objectives:
- Organize Swasthya Rakshan OPDs, Swasthya Parikshan and Health/Hygiene awareness camps.
- Awareness about cleanliness of domestic surroundings & environment.
- Provide medical aid/incidental support in the adopted Colonies/villages.
- Assessment of health status and propagation of Ayurvedic concept of pathya-apathya and
extension of health care services.
- Documentation of demographic information, food habits, hygiene conditions, seasons, lifestyle
etc., incidence/prevalence of disease and their relation to the incidence of disease.
2.4 OTHER INITIATIVES

• National AYUSH Grid Project
- Initiated in 2018 for creating a comprehensive IT backbone for digitalization of the entire AYUSH
Sector.
- Aim - to bring onboard all AYUSH facilities including hospitals and laboratories and to promote
traditional systems of healthcare.
- Coverage - all the verticals of the Ayush Sector, like Health Services, Education, Ayush Research,
Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes, Training Programmes, Citizen Centric Services,
Drug Licencing Portal, and Media Outreach.
- Projects under AYUSH GRID - AYUSH Hospital Information Management System (A-HMIS), Ayush
Sanjivani mobile app, Yogaloctaor Application, Bhuvan Application, Yoga Portal, Case Registry
Portal, etc.
- Integration of Ayush Grid with the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM).

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• Pradhan Mantri VRIKSHAYUSH YOJANA: To cultivate and post-harvest management of medicinal plants
with the budget of Rs.4000 crore, covering 10 lac hectares. This will also cover cultivation of medicinal
plants in an area of 800 acres along the banks of river Ganga.
• e-Bhuvan herbs mobile app - for geo-tagging and monitoring of the organizations funded by National
Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB).

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3. MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS
3.1 SCHEMES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES AND BULK DRUGS
3.1.1 PRODUCTION LINKED INCENTIVE SCHEME FOR PROMOTING DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING OF MEDICAL
DEVICES
• Need: Domestic medical devices market in India is heavily dependent on imports which contribute to
more than 85% of the market.
• Objective: To boost domestic manufacturing & attract large investments in the Medical Devices Sector.
• Scope: Financial incentives shall be given to selected companies based on threshold investment and
incremental sales (over Base Year) of medical devices covered under target segments.
• Quantum of Financial Incentive: At the rate of 5% of incremental sales (over Base Year) of goods
manufactured in India and covered under Target segments.
• Applicability: The Scheme is applicable only for greenfield projects.
• Tenure of the Scheme: from FY 2020-21 to FY 2027-28. Total Financial Outlay: Rs. 3,420 crores.
• Target Segments
- Cancer care/Radiotherapy medical devices.
- Radiology & Imaging medical devices and Nuclear Imaging Devices.
- Anaesthetics & Cardio-Respiratory medical devices.
- All Implants including implantable electronic devices like Cochlear Implants and Pacemakers.
3.1.2 PROMOTION OF MEDICAL DEVICES PARKS SCHEME

• Central Sector Scheme – Four Medical Device Parks will be supported under the Scheme.
• Parks will provide common testing & laboratory facilities in one place, reducing the manufacturing cost
and will help in creating a robust ecosystem for medical device manufacturing in India.
• Financial Assistance: Grant-in-aid to 4 Medical Device Parks with a maximum limit of Rs. 100 Crore per
park or 70% of the project cost of Common Infrastructure Facilities, whichever is less (90% in the case
of the North-Eastern States and the Hilly States).
• Tenure of the Scheme: 5 years, from FY 2020-2021 to FY 2024-2025.
3.1.3 SCHEME FOR PROMOTION OF BULK DRUG PARKS

• Need:
- India is significantly dependent on import of basic raw materials, ie. Bulk Drugs (63% of total
pharmaceutical imports) that are used to produce the Finished Dosage Formulations.

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- The situation is more alarming in case of Key Starting Materials (KSMs)/ Drug Intermediates, which
are the building blocks for manufacturing of APIs.
• Objective: The scheme envisages the creation of 3 bulk drug parks in India, in partnership with states.
• Grant-in-aid: 90% of the project cost in case of North-East and hilly States and 70% in case of other States.
- Maximum grant-in-aid for one bulk drug park is limited to Rs.1000 crore.
• Selection of states: through a challenge method. Interested states will have to ensure ease of doing
business, an assured 24*7 supply of electricity & water and offer competitive land lease rates, incentive
policy, technical manpower, etc. to bulk drug units in the park.
• Features: A single window system is envisaged in these parks for all regulatory approvals under one roof.
- The creation of a centre of excellence is envisaged to enable ecosystem for Research & Development.
3.2 SCHEME FOR SETTING UP PLASTIC PARKS

• Aim - setting up of need based plastic parks, an ecosystem with state-of-the-art infrastructure and
enabling common facilities through cluster development approach, to consolidate and synergize the
capacities of the domestic downstream Plastic Processing industry.
• The larger objective of the scheme is to contribute to the economy by increasing investment,
production, export in the sector and generation of employment.
• Financial Assistance
- Central Govt. will grant funding up to 50% of the project cost, subject to a ceiling of Rs. 40 crore
per project.
- The remaining project cost is funded by the State Government or state industrial Development
Corporation, beneficiary industries and loan from financial institutions.
• Progress - 6 Plastic Parks have been approved in the states of Madhya Pradesh (two), Odisha, Jharkhand,
Tamil Nadu and Assam.
4. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
4.1 NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY (NEP), 2020: NEWLY LAUNCHED INITIATIVES

• Vidya Pravesh - A 3-month play-based school preparation module for Grade 1 students.
• SAFAL (Structured assessment for analysing learning)
- A Competency-based assessment for grades 3, 5, and 8, introduced by CBSE.
- Aim - To assess the progress of foundational skills and basic learning outcomes, through
assessment of core concepts, application of knowledge and higher order thinking skills, rather than
rote memorization.
- The results of this assessment will largely be used to provide development feedback to schools and
not for promotion of students to the next grade.
- Benefits – Designed to help students, parents, and teachers to track learning progress throughout
the school years and not just in Grades 10 and 12.
• Indian sign language as a subject at secondary level to plug the communication divide with Persons with
Disabilities (PwD).
• First-year engineering programmes in regional languages
- Emphasis on mother tongue as the medium of instruction to instil confidence in the students from
poor, rural and tribal background.
- A tool has been developed for translating engineering courses in 11 languages.
• NISHTHA 2.0 - An integrated programme of teacher training designed by the NCERT.

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• National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR) - launched within the context of a Digital First
Mindset. It will support teaching and learning activities, educational planning, governance
administrative activities of the Centre and the States/ UTs.
• National Education Technology Forum (NETF): a platform for the free exchange of ideas on the use of
technology to enhance learning, assessment, planning, administration.
• Academic bank of credit - that will provide multiple entry and exit options for students in Higher
education. It will provide a variety of services including credit verification, credit accumulation, credit
transfer or redemption and authentication of academic awards.
• Guidelines for internationalisation of higher education - developed by University Grants commission
(UGC). Includes - Internationally relevant curricula, brand building of Indian Higher Education
Institutions abroad, academic and research collaboration with foreign universities, credit recognition
under twinning arrangements, global citizenship approach and engaging with foreign alumni.
• ‘AI For All’ initiative - 4-hour, self-paced, micro-learning programme for everyone - students, parents,
senior citizens etc. Available in 11 different vernacular languages & PwD friendly.
4.2 SARTHAQ - NEP IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION

• SARTHAQ - Students and Teachers Holistic Advancement Through Quality Education.
• It delineates the roadmap for implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 for next 10 years.
• Launched to assist States and UTs in pursuing the goals and objectives of NEP, 2020.
- States and UTs are given the flexibility to adapt this plan with local contextualization and modify
as per their needs and requirements.
• Key focus - To define activities in such a manner that delineate goals, outcomes and timeframe i.e., it
links recommendation of NEP with 297 Tasks along with responsible agencies, timelines and 304 outputs
of these Tasks.
• It will be built upon the existing structure rather than creating new structures.
• Significance - SARTHAQ will pave the way for children and youth to meet the diverse national and global
challenges of the present and the future, and help them imbibe 21st century skills along with India’s
tradition & values.
4.3 NISHTHA – INTEGRATED TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME

• NISHTHA - National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement.
• It is the world’s largest teacher training programme of its kind, under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan.
• Launched by - Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education (MoE).
• It encompasses all the stages of school education:
- NISHTHA 1.0 for Elementary level (Class I-VIII).
- NISHTHA 2.0 for Secondary level (Class IX-XII).
- NISHTHA 3.0 for National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding and Numeracy
(NIPUN) Bharat (Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) to Class V).
• Aim - To motivate and equip teachers to encourage and foster critical thinking in students, handle
diverse situations and act as first level counsellors.
• Integrated training – 42 lakhs functionaries (at the state, district, block, cluster level) shall be trained on
learning outcomes, school based assessment, learner–centred pedagogy, new initiatives in education,
ICT in teaching-learning, Health and well-being including yoga, addressing diverse needs of children
through multiple pedagogies, etc.
• Online Mode - NISHTHA has been customized for an online mode to be conducted through DIKSHA and
NISHTHA portals by the NCERT (in view of COVID – 19 pandemic).

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4.4 NIPUN BHARAT MISSION

• NIPUN - National Initiative for Proficiency in reading with Understanding and Numeracy.
• It is the National Mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN).
• Launched: July 2021, under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan to meet the objectives of NEP, 2020.
• Objective: To ensure universal acquisition of foundational literacy and numeracy, so that every child
achieves the desired learning competencies in reading, writing and numeracy by the end of Grade 3, by
2026-27.
• Target Age group: Covers the learning needs of children between 3 to 9 years.
• Implementation: by Department of School Education and Literacy, MoE
• Institutional Mechanism - A 5-tier implementation mechanism will be set up at the National- State-
District- Block- School level in all States and UTs.
4.5 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION (DIKSHA) PORTAL

• An initiative of NCERT that serves as a National Digital Infrastructure for providing quality e-content in
school education.
• Includes
- Teaching and Learning Content - Curriculum linked resources for teachers and students
- Teacher Professional Development - Digital courses for Teachers’ professional development.
- Assessments - Resources and tools for teachers, students for school-level assessments.
- Content Creation Platform - Tools and platforms for creating and uploading content.
VIDYADAAN 2.0
• Launched on Diksha Platform. It is conceptualised as a common national program for individuals &
organizations, across India, to donate/contribute e-learning resources for both school and higher education.
• Need for VidyaDaan 2.0 - It is launched especially in the backdrop of situation arising out of Covid- 19 and also
due to the urgent need to integrate digital education with schooling to augment learning.
• Contributors can share different types of content (such as, explanation videos, presentations, competency-
based items, quizzes etc.), for any grade (from grade 1 to 12), for any subject as specified by the states/UTs.
4.6 STRENGTHENING TEACHING-LEARNING AND RESULTS FOR STATES (STARS) PROJECT

• It is a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme implemented under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan.
• Objective - Improving the overall monitoring and measurement activities in the Indian school
education system through interventions in selected states.
• Coverage - 6 States (Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Odisha).
• STARS project is aligned with the objectives of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
• World Bank support - Primarily in the form of a results-based financing instrument called Program for
Results (PforR).
• It envisages establishment of
- National Assessment Centre called PARAKH (an independent & autonomous institution under
DoSEL).
- Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC) which would enable better responsiveness
to any natural, man-made and health disasters (to prevent any loss of learning).
4.7 MoE’s INNOVATION CELL (MIC)

• It is MoE’s initiative, established at All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), with a purpose to
systematically foster the culture of Innovation in all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across India.

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• Primary mandate - to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by exposing them to new ideas
and processes, and promote them to create start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures.
KEY INITIATIVES UNDER MIC

1. Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)
- IIC envisions to promote innovation in young students by encouraging, inspiring and nurturing them to
work with new innovative ideas through periodic activities related to innovation and entrepreneurship.
- So far, IICs have been established in about 1700 higher educational institutions and will be established in
5000 higher educational institutions under IIC 3.0.
2. Smart India Hackathon (SIH) – A nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of pressing
problems faced in daily lives, and inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving.
3. National Innovation and Start-up Policy 2019 for students and faculty of all higher education institutions in
India, who are keen to become entrepreneurs.
4. YUKTI 2.0
- Objective - To help systematically assimilate technologies having commercial potential and information
related to incubated startups in higher education institutions.
- YUKTI 2.0 is an extension of ‘YUKTI (Young India combating Covid with Knowledge, Technology and
Innovation) Portal’ which was launched to identify ideas relevant in Covid pandemic.
5. Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA)
- It is an initiative to systematically rank all major educational institutions and universities (Public & Private)
on indicators related to promotion of “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst
students & faculties.
- The ranking aims at
✓ Measuring Innovation & Start-up ecosystem based on Input, Process, Output and Outcome-based
parameters.
✓ Focusing on both quantity and quality aspects of Startup Eco-System available at Institute.
✓ Aiming at uplifting India’s Position in Global Innovation Index from 57th to top 30 in 5 Years.
- Measure the impact created by these innovations and Startups in society and the market.
6. KAPILA Campaign
- Kalam Program for IP (Intellectual Property) Literacy and Awareness (KAPILA) campaign was launched
to bring awareness towards patenting of inventions.
- Launched virtually on 15th October 2020, the 89th birth anniversary of former President and Scientist Late
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (Celebrated as National Innovation Day).
- Key Objectives:
✓ Creating awareness regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
✓ Enabling IP protection of inventions originating from faculty and students of HEIs.
✓ Development of Credit Course on IPR
✓ Training program on IPR for faculty and students of HEIs
✓ Sensitization and development of vibrant IP filing system.
4.8 INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

4.8.1 GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR ACADEMICS NETWORK (GIAN)
• Objective - Tapping the talent pool of international scientists and entrepreneurs, to promote their
engagement with the institutes of higher education in India.
• Goal - To augment India’s existing academic resources, accelerate pace of quality reforms, & elevate
India’s scientific & technological capacity to global excellence.

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4.8.2 MARGADARSHAN AND MARGADARSHAK SCHEME

• An initiative of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
• Margadarshan - Under this, institutions having good accreditation record (highly performing
institutions) will mentor relatively newer 10 - 12 potential institutions (mentees), to encourage best
practices.
• Margdarshak - Under this, mentor teachers or Margdarshaks, who are either serving or
superannuated, but are willing and motivated and have a good knowledge of accreditation and who can
devote adequate time to make required visits to these Institutions are identified, so that institutions are
able to get accreditation by National Board of Accreditation (NBA).
4.8.3 HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCING AGENCY (HEFA)
• HEFA is a joint venture, incorporated in 2017, between Ministry of Education and Canara Bank.
• Objective
- To provide timely finance at competitive interest rates for creation of quality infrastructure in HEIs
under Central govt. & supplement it with CSR funds from corporates and others.
- To develop India’s top-ranked institutions like IITs, IIITs, NITs, IISCs, AIIMS into Globally top-ranking
institutions through improvement in their academic & infrastructure quality.
• Scope expanded
- In 2018, scope was enlarged to fund Revitalising Infrastructure & Systems in Education (RISE) by
2022 (announced in Budget 2018-19).
- HEFA now covers all educational institutions under higher education, school education and
institutions under Ministry of Health.
• Established: as Not-for-profit company under Companies Act 2013 and Non-deposit taking NBFC.
• Equity Participation: Central Government and Canara Bank in ratio of 91% and 9% respectively.
• Funding – HEFA has been tasked to mobilise Rs. 1,00,000 crore for RISE by 2022.
RISE 2022 Objectives
• Qualitatively upgrade the research & academic infrastructure to global best standards by 2022.
• Allow access of HEFA funding to institutions like Central Universities, AIIMS, IISERs and newly created Institutes
of National Importance, without creating any additional burden to the students.
• Bring greater accountability and speed in execution of infrastructure project by moving from the block-grant
mode to project-mode.
• Cater to the requirements of the Kendriya Vidyalayas & Navodaya Vidyalayas, and medical institutions like AIIMS.
4.8.4 NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY (NTA)

• The NTA has been established as a premier, specialist, autonomous and self-sustained testing
organization to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions.
• Team NTA comprises: Education administrators, Education Specialists, Test Item Writers, Researchers
and Psychometricians etc.
• Some of the Major exams presently conducted by NTA: National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET),
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for IITs, UGC- National Eligibility Test (NET), Common Management
Admission Test (CMAT), Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT), Delhi University & JNU Entrance
Exams etc
• Finances of NTA:
- NTA will receive a one-time grant of Rs.25 crore from Union government to start its operation in
the first year. Thereafter, it will be financially self-sustainable.
- It is subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India.
4.8.5 TECHNICAL EDUCATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME (TEQIP)
• Central Sector scheme launched in the year 2002 with World Bank assistance.

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• It aims to upscale and support on-going efforts in improving quality of technical education and
enhancing existing capacities of the institutions to become futuristic.
• It was envisaged as a long-term programme of about 10-12 years duration to be implemented in 3
phases for transformation of the Technical Education System.
MERITE PROJECT
• TEQIP will be replaced with a new programme called Multidisciplinary Education and Research Improvement
in Technical Education (MERITE) Project.
• It is a new scheme aiming at integration with the objectives of New National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 and
fulfilling the targets of AatmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. It is still in the conceptual stage.
• It will be an Externally Aided Project (EAP) with external borrowing from the World Bank.
• A token amount of Rs. 10 crores had been provided in recent Budget 2021-22 to start preparatory works.
4.8.6 SCHEME FOR PROMOTION OF RESEARCH COLLABORATION (SPARC)

• Aim - To improve the research ecosystem of India’s higher educational institutions by facilitating
academic and research collaborations between Indian Institutions and top Global academic institutions.
• Coordinating Agency - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• Implementation - A set of Nodal Institutions (NI), from India, for each participating foreign country has
been identified to help, handhold and coordinate with willing Participating Indian (PI) Institutions.
• The Indian institutions will include those from top-100 or category-wise top-100 in NIRF (including such
Private Institutions which are recognized under 12(B) of UGC Act)].
• The foreign institutions will be from top-500 overall and top-200 subject-wise institutions listed in QS
World University Ranking from 28 selected nations.
4.8.7 IMPACTFUL POLICY RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (IMPRESS)

• Aim - To identify and fund research proposals in social sciences, with maximum impact on the
governance and society.
• Eligibility - Provide opportunity for social science researchers in any institution in the country, including
all Universities (Central and State), private institutions with 12(B) status conferred by UGC and ICSSR
funded/recognised research institutes
• Project Implementing Agency - Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR). It was established
in 1969 by GoI to promote research in social sciences in the country.
4.8.8 SCHEME FOR TRANS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FOR INDIA’S DEVELOPING ECONOMY (STRIDE)
• STRIDE envisages creation of trans-disciplinary researchers
among graduate, post-graduate doctoral and post-doctoral Trans-disciplinary research is a team
student population in HEIs. effort of investigators from different
• It will provide support to research projects that are socially disciplines to create new conceptual,
relevant, locally need-based, nationally important and globally theoretical, methodological
significant to accomplish Sustainable Development Goals. innovations that integrates and
• Key objectives - To fund multi institutional network high-impact transcends beyond discipline-specific
research projects in humanities, human sciences and Indian approaches to address a common
knowledge systems. problem.
4.8.9 NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR TECHNOLOGY (NEAT) SCHEME

• NEAT aims at using technology for better learning outcomes in Higher Education.
• Objective – To use Artificial Intelligence to make learning more personalised and customised.
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• National NEAT platform would provide one-stop access to such Adaptive Learning Solutions, so that
learners can access it easily.
• Implementation Strategy - MoE has Adaptive learning or Adaptive Teaching
proposed to create a National Alliance with It is an educational method which uses computer
technology developing EdTech Companies, algorithms to understands a student’s performance and
through a PPP model. design customized teaching based on that data
• Implementation Agency - All India Council analysed, and address the unique needs of each learner.
for Technical Education (AICTE)
4.9 VITTIYA SAKSHARATA ABHIYAN (VISAKA) - FINANCIAL LITERACY CAMPAIGN

• Objective: To actively engage the youth/students of Higher Education Institutions to encourage and
motivate all payers/payees to use digitally enabled cashless economic system for transfer of funds.
• Leading by example: All heads of higher educational institutions should plan for a cashless campus,
within a limited timeframe, for all transactions within the campus.
5. MINISTRY OF SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
5.1 AATMANIRBHAR SKILLED EMPLOYEE EMPLOYER MAPPING (ASEEM) PORTAL

• It is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based digital platform to bridge the demand-supply gap of skilled
workforce across sectors thereby facilitating skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities.
• It acts as a directory of skilled workforce.
• ASEEM App: it is developed and managed by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in
collaboration with Bengaluru-based company Betterplace.
• ASEEM will help in providing real-time data analytics to National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
and its Sector Skill Councils about the demand and supply patterns.
- It includes - industry requirements, skill gap analysis, demand per district/ state/cluster, key
workforce suppliers, key consumers, migration patterns etc.
• Benefits
- For workers/candidates: The portal and App will have provision for registration and data upload for
workers across job roles, sectors and geographies. The skilled workforce can register their profiles on
the app and can search for employment opportunities in their neighbourhood.
- Employers: Through ASEEM, employers, agencies and job aggregators looking for skilled workforce
in specific sectors will also have the required details at their fingertips.
- Policymakers: It will also enable policymakers take more objective view of various sectors.
• Data Integration
- Database of labour migrants in Indian states and overseas citizens, who returned to India under the
Vande Bharat Mission and filled SWADES Skill Card, has been integrated with the ASEEM portal.
- Candidate data coming to Skill India Portal from various state and central skilling schemes will be
integrated including PMKVY, Fee-based Programs, National Urban Livelihoods Mission, Deen Dayal
Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana and Seekho aur Kamao.

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6. MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
For effective implementation of various schemes and programmes of the Ministry of Women and Child
Development, all major schemes of the Ministry have been classified under 3 umbrella schemes viz. Mission
Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti.
Sno. Umbrella Scheme Schemes included

1 Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN Umbrella ICDS - Anganwadi Services, Poshan Abhiyan, Scheme for
2.0 Adolescent Girls, National Creche Scheme.
2 Mission VATSALYA Child Protection Services and Child Welfare Services
3 Mission Shakti (Mission for 1) SAMBAL (One Stop Centre, Mahila Police Volunteer, Women's
Protection and Empowerment for Helpline/Swadhar/Ujjawala/Widow Homes etc.)
Women)
2) SAMARTHYA (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Creche, Pradhan Mantri
Matru Vandana Yojana/ Gender Budgeting/Research)
6.1 SAKSHAM ABHIYAAN AND POSHAN 2.0

6.1.1 ANGANWADI SERVICES SCHEME (Erstwhile Core ICDS)
• Launched in – 1975
• Core Scheme - Centrally sponsored Scheme (60:40 – General states, 90:10 – Special Category)
• Target Beneficiaries: Children in the age group of 0-6 years and pregnant women and lactating mothers.
• Objective: early childhood care and development (DPSP: Article 45).
- Improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years.
- Proper psychological, physical and social development of the child.
- Reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition, and school dropout.
- Promote inter-ministerial/departmental coordination for Child Development.
- Enhance the capability of the mother to look after health and nutritional needs of child.
6.1.2 POSHAN ABHIYAAN (NATIONAL NUTRITION MISSION)
• Launched: in 2018. It is a flagship program to
Targets under NNM – (per annum)
improve nutritional outcomes for children,
pregnant women, and lactating mothers.
Children (0-6 years) Women
• Aim: reduce the levels of stunting, undernutrition,
To prevent and reduce To prevent and reduce
anemia, and low birth weight babies and address the
prevalence of prevalence of
problem of malnutrition in a mission-mode.
- Stunting by 2% - anaemia among
• Target: To reduce malnutrition in India by 2022 in a
- Under nutrition women (15-49
phased manner, through a life cycle approach, by
(underweight) by years) by 3%
adopting a synergized and result oriented approach.
2% - low birth weight
• Funding: 50% of the cost is being borne by the
- Anaemia by 3% by 2%
World Bank or other multilateral development
The mission would strive to achieve reduction in
agency and the remaining 50% is divided between
Stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022
the centre and state/UTs.
(as a part of Mission 25 by 2022).
• Strategy
- Introducing a robust Inter-sectoral convergence mechanism for better service delivery
- ICT based Real Time Monitoring and Social Audit.
- Intensified health and nutrition services for the first 1000 days.
- Involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation on nutrition
• Recently, NITI Aayog released 3rd progress report on Poshan Abhiyaan.

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6.2 MISSION VATSALYA

6.2.1 INTEGRATED CHILD PROTECTION SCHEME (ICPS) A child care institution as defined under
• Launched in – 2009-10 as Centrally sponsored scheme. the JJ Act (Juvenile Justice), 2015, means
• Objective - To provide safe and secure environment for Children Home, Open Shelter, Observation
children in conflict with law and children in need of care
Home, Special Home, Place of Safety,
and protection in urban and semi-urban areas, under the
Specialised Adoption Agency and a Fit
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act,
2015, and any other vulnerable child. Facility recognized under the Act for
• It also establishes a Child Helpline (1098), a 24-hour free providing care and protection to children,
emergency phone outreach service for children in need who are in need of such services.
of care and protection.
6.3 MISSION SHAKTI: SAMBAL

6.3.1 UJJAWALA
• Centrally sponsored scheme - “Comprehensive Scheme for Prevention of Trafficking for Rescue,
Rehabilitation and Re-Integration of Victims of Trafficking for Commercial Sexual Exploitation –Ujjawala”
• Target beneficiaries: Women/children vulnerable to trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.
6.3.2 SWADHAR GREH
• Launched in - 2015
• Target beneficiaries - women above 18 years of age who are in difficult circumstances.
• Objective - To provide Temporary residential accommodation to meet primary need of shelter, food,
clothing, medical treatment & care of women in distress and who are without any social/economic
support.
6.3.3 ONE STOP CENTRE SCHEME

• It is exclusively designed to provide support and assistance to women affected by violence, both in
private and public spaces, including in the family, community, workplace, etc. under one roof.
• Aim: to facilitate access to an integrated range of services including medical aid, police assistance, legal
aid/ case management, psychosocial counselling and temporary support service to affected women
• Target group - The OSC will support all women including girls below 18 years of age affected by
violence, irrespective of caste, class, religion, region, sexual orientation or marital status.
• To be funded from the Nirbhaya Fund. Central Government will provide 100% financial assistance.
• Women Helpline No. 181 has been integrated with One Stop Centre Scheme (OSC).
Nirbhaya Fund
• It is a dedicated, non-lapsable corpus fund, announced by GoI in 2013.
• Objective - To fund initiatives aimed at enhancing safety & security of women in India.
• Fund administered by - Department of Economic Affairs of Ministry of Finance.
• Ministry of Women and Child Development is the nodal Ministry to appraise schemes under Nirbhaya Fund
and also to review and monitor the progress of sanctioned Schemes.
• The Empowered Committee of Officers - It is an inter-ministerial committee, constituted under the
Chairmanship of Secretary, WCD that appraises and recommends various proposals/projects proposed by
different Ministries/Departments/States. It also regularly reviews the implementation of projects.
• Schemes of Ministry of Women and Child Development under Nirbhaya Fund - Sakhi Centres/One Stop Centre
Scheme, Mahila Police Volunteers (MPVs), Universalisation of Women Helpline (WHL) etc.

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6.3.4 MAHILA POLICE VOLUNTEERS (MPVs)

• The Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs have
started the engagement of Mahila Police Volunteers in States/UTs who will act as a link between police
and community and facilitate women in distress.
6.4 MISSION SHAKTI: SAMARTHYA

6.4.1 BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO (BBBP)
• Launched: in 2015 in Panipat, Haryana in selected districts.
• Pan India coverage of BBBP was launched in March 2018, covering all 640 districts.
• Tri Ministerial effort:
- Ministries of Women and Child Development (overall responsibility).
- Health & Family Welfare (implementation of PC&PNDT act).
- Ministry of Education (universal enrolment, retention & completion of secondary education)
• Objective
- Prevent gender-biased sex selective elimination – BBBP Addresses
enforcement of PC&PNDT Act. • Declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR).
- Ensure survival & protection of the girl child. • Related issues of women empowerment
- Ensure education and participation of the girl child. over a life-cycle continuum.
• Two components under the scheme include
- Advocacy and Media Campaign on Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao ➔ changing Mindsets.
- Multi-Sectoral intervention in selected Gender Critical Districts worse on Child Sex Ratio.
• No individual cash transfers or Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) under the scheme.
• Point to Note – India slipped by 28 spots to the 140th spot in the WEF’s Global Gender Gap Index 2021.
6.4.2 PRADHAN MANTRI MATRU VANDANA YOJANA
• Introduced in 2017, it is a maternity benefit programme being implemented in all districts of India.
• Target Beneficiaries – All pregnant women & lactating mothers (PW&LM), for the first child in the
family, excluding women who are in regular employment with Central/State Governments or PSUs or
those who are in receipt of similar benefits under any law for the time being in force,
• Objectives - Providing partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of cash incentive and improved
health-seeking behaviour amongst the PW& LM.
• Maternity benefit program ➔ Conditional Cash Transfer of Rs. 5000/- in 3 instalments at the time of
registration of pregnancy, pre-natal & post natal check ups, and immunisation of child.
• Cash benefits are provided only as Direct Benefit Transfer to pregnant women in their bank accounts.
• In 2013, the scheme was brought under the National Food Security Act, 2013 to implement the
provision of cash maternity benefit of ₹ 6,000 stated in the Act.
• The remaining cash incentive is provided under Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) after institutional delivery
so that on an average, a woman gets Rs. 6000/-.

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7. MINISTRY OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS
7.1 VAN DHAN YOJANA

• Launched: 2018
• It is a component of the ‘Mechanism for Marketing of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) through Minimum
Support Price (MSP) & Development of Value Chain for MFP’
• Aim: to improve tribal incomes through value addition of tribal products and promote MFPs-centric
livelihood development of tribal gatherers & artisans.
• Implementation: TRIFED (Tribal Cooperative Marketing Minor Forest Produce
Development Federation). Section 2(i) of Scheduled Tribes and Other
• Van Dhan Vikas ‘Samuh’: Self Help Groups (SHGs) having Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of
about 30 members each are formed that will help in Forest Rights) Act, 2006 defines Minor
aggregation of produce. These clusters are then linked Forest Produce (MFP) as all non-timber
with Van Dhan Vikas Kendra. forest produce (NTFPs) of plant origin and
• Van Dhan Vikas Kendra: are multi-purpose establishments includes bamboo, brushwood, stumps,
for providing capacity building training and skill canes, Tusser, cocoon, honey, waxes, Lac,
upgradation and setting up of primary processing and tendu/kendu leaves, medicinal plants and
herb, roots, tuber.
value addition facility.
• They are then trained and provided with working capital to add value to the products.
• Intended benefits - Through this initiative, the share of tribals in the value chain of Non-Timber Forest
Produce is expected to rise from the present 20% to around 60%.
7.2 TRIFOOD PROJECT

• It is joint initiative of Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Ministry of Food Processing Industry (MoFPI) and TRIFED.
• Under this scheme tertiary value addition centres will be set up (in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh and Raigad,
Maharashtra).
• Key Features
- Implemented in the backdrop of Van Dhan Yojana: to promote value addition to Minor Forest
Produce & create local employment opportunities.
- Collaboration with MoFPI: The processing units will be set up under the Scheme for Creation of
Backward and Forward Linkages under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY).
- Fully processed products will be sold across Tribes India outlets, and franchisee stores.
Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation (TRIFED)

• It is a national level cooperative body under administrative control of Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
• Established under Multi-state co-operative societies act 1984 under the former Ministry of Welfare.
• Main objective:
- To institutionalise the trade of Minor Forest Produce (MFP).
- To provide the tribals of India a fair price for the surplus agricultural products produced by them
- Capacity building of the tribal people through sensitisation and the formation of Self-Help Groups.
7.3 TECH FOR TRIBALS

• Tech for Tribals is a unique program to make tribals of India “Aatmanirbhar”, focussing to bridge the
gap between tribal entrepreneurs and urban markets.
• Initiative of: TRIFED under Ministry of Tribal Affairs, supported by Ministry of MSME, and supported by
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• It is a training programme for tribal MSMEs that aims at the holistic development of tribals with a focus
on entrepreneurship development, soft skills, IT, and business development through SHGs operating
through Van Dhan Vikas Kendras (VDVKs).
7.4 SWASTHYA PORTAL

• It is a first of its kind e-portal, providing all health and nutrition related information of the tribal
population of India in a single platform. It is hosted on National Informatics Centre (NIC) cloud.
• Objective: to provide collated information and ease visualisation to ensure data driven decision making
in the area of tribal health and nutrition.
• It will curate innovative practices, research briefs, case studies, and best practices collected from
different parts of India to facilitate the exchange of evidence, expertise and experiences.
• It has a dashboard, knowledge repository, partner segment, Sickle Cell Diseases support corner.
• The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has recognized Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute as
the Centre of Excellence for Knowledge Management (CoE for KM) for Health and Nutrition.
- ALEKH is a quarterly newsletter of the CoE for Knowledge Management in Health and Nutrition.
7.5 EKLAVYA MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS (EMRS)

• Launched: in 1998
• Objective - to provide quality middle and high-level education (Class 6th – 12th) to Scheduled Tribes (ST)
students in remote areas ➔ in line with Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalays, Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalays
& Kendriya Vidyalays.
• Budget (2018-19) Announcement – Extend the facility of EMRSs in all the 672 Blocks by 2022 where
- ST population is more than 50% of the total population, and
- With least 20, 000 tribal persons
• Special Facilities for preserving local art & culture, and training in sports & skill development.
8. MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS
SCHEMES FOR EDUCATIONAL EMPOWERMENT

PADHO PRADESH It is a scheme of Interest Subsidy on Educational Loans for Overseas Studies for students
belonging to the Minority Communities.
NAI UDAAN Support for Students who have cleared Prelims exams Conducted by UPSC/SSC, State
Public Service Commission (PSC) etc.
NAYA SAVERA Free coaching and allied Scheme - to enhance skills and knowledge of students and
candidates for employment through competitive examination and admission in technical
and professional courses.
BEGUM HAZRAT Scholarship to girl students for classes 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th – implemented by Maulana
MAHAL NATIONAL Azad Education Foundation (MAEF).
SCHOLARSHIP
MINORITY CYBER Aim: to introduce digital literacy skills in identified minority clusters in India through
GRAM designated Digital Fellows towards knowledge empowerment and entitlement gains of
minority-focused groups and beneficiaries.
SCHEMES FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

SEEKHO AUR KAMAO • Objectives - Upgrading skills of minority youths in various modern/traditional
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and the market potential, which can earn them a suitable employment or make them
suitably skilled to go for self-employment.
• It provides placement-linked skill training to youths from minority communities.
• Eligibility - The trainee should be between 14-35 years of age with minimum
qualification of trainee of least Class V.
• Ministry will take up skill development programme for Modular Employable Skills
(MES) approved by National Council of Vocational Training (NCVT).
USTTAD • Upgrading the Skills & Training In Traditional Arts/Crafts For Development (USTTAD)
• Objective
- Capacity building and upgrading the traditional skills of master
craftsmen/artisans.
- Training of next-generation minority youths by master craftsmen/artisans in
various specific traditional arts/crafts.
- Preservation of rich traditions of cultural arts and crafts of minorities
- Provide linkages of tradition skills with global markets
- To ensure dignity of labour.
• Under the scheme, assistance will be provided to traditional artisans to sell their
products in order to make them more compatible with modern markets
HUNAR HAAT • It is an exhibition, organized under USTTAD scheme, where master artisans,
craftsmen and culinary experts participate to showcase their rich heritage and skills
• Significance - Provide market (domestic & international), employment, and
opportunities to talent of master artisans and craftsmen from across the nation.
NAI MANZIL • Objective – To improve completion of secondary education and market-driven skills
training for targeted youth from Minority communities.
• Target Group – Minority youths in the age group of 17 to 35 years who are school
dropouts or educated in the community education institutions like Madarsas
• They are provided an integrated input of
- Formal education (up till Class VIII or X) through open schools.
- Additional education support/bridge program.
- Skill training along with certification ➔ help them seek better.
- Post-placement support to assist in getting sustainable employment.
• Minimum 30% seats are earmarked for minority girls. Supported by World Bank.
MANAS • Maulana Azad National Academy for Skill (MANAS)
• Aim: providing an all-India Level training framework, based upon tie-ups with
National/ International training organizations.
• It also provides concessional credit for minority community (after meeting their
Skilling Needs) for expanding their existing businesses & setting up new businesses.
• It includes a special vertical for identifying, supporting, and promoting those arts and
crafts of minority community which are getting phased out due to globalization.
SCHEMES TO MEET SPECIAL NEEDS
NAI ROSHNI • Objective - to empower & instil confidence among minority women by providing
knowledge, tools & techniques for interacting with Government systems, banks &
other institutions at all levels.
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- All Minority Communities Women (Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist,

Zoroastrian (Parsis), Jain)
- Scheme permits a mix of women from non-minority communities not exceeding
25% of a project proposal (esp. SCs/STs/OBCs, women with disabilities etc.)
HAMARI DHAROHAR • 100% Central Scheme
• Objective: preservation of rich heritage and culture of minority communities of India.
JIYO PARSI • Objective: to reverse the declining trend of Parsi population by adopting a scientific
protocol and structured interventions, stabilize and increase their population in India
• Scheme has two components: Medical Assistance and Advocacy/Counselling.
PRADHAN MANTRI • Restructured Multi-sectoral Development Programme (MsDP).
JAN VIKAS • Under it the Ministry will construct schools, colleges, ITIs, skill development centres,
KARYAKRAM (PMJVK) multi-purpose community centres “Sadbhav Mandap”, “Hunar Hub”, hospitals,
business centres etc. on waqf properties across the country.
HAJ INITIATIVES • The Haj Committee of India (HCOI) established under the Haj Committee Act, 2002
and functioning under the administrative control of Ministry of Minority Affairs
makes the arrangements in India. The Consulate General of India (CGI), Jeddah,
coordinates arrangements for HCOI pilgrims in Saudi Arabia.
9. MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
9.1 AMBEDKAR SOCIAL INNOVATION & INCUBATION MISSION (ASIIM)

• Launched: in 2020 under the Venture Capital fund for Scheduled Caste (VCF-SCs).
- VCF-SCs was set up in 2016 with a Fund size of Rs. 500 Cr.
- Objective - To provide concessional finance to the entities of the SC/Divyang entrepreneurs, to
enable them to become 'job-givers’.
• ASIIM Objective:
- To promote entrepreneurship among the Scheduled Caste (SC) Youth, studying in higher educational
institutions with special preference to Divyangs.
- To support 1,000 innovative ideas till 2024 through a synergetic work with the Technology Business
Incubators (TBIs) set up by the Department of Science and Technology
• Funding: They will be funded @Rs. 30 lakhs in 3 years as equity funding so that they can translate their
start-up ideas into commercial ventures.
- Successful ventures would further qualify for venture funding of up to Rs. 5 Crore from the Venture
Capital Fund for SCs.
• Eligibility: Following SC/Divyang youths
- Identified by the Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) being promoted by the Department of
Science & Technology.
- Identified for incubation by reputed private TBIs.
- Students who have been awarded under Smart India Hackathon or Smart India Hardware
Hackathon being conducted by the Ministry of Education.
- Innovative ideas focusing on the socio-economic development of the society identified in the TBIs.
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9.2 VISVAS (VANCHIT IKAI SAMOOH AUR VARGON KI AARTHIK SAHAYTA) YOJANA
• Launched: in 2020
• Under this scheme, interest subvention is provided to Self Help Groups with 100% OBC members and
OBC individuals who have taken loan for various income generating activities from those Lending
Institutions who have signed MoA with National Backward Classes Finance & Development
Corporation (NBCFDC) and National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation (NSFDC)
• Eligibility
- Applicant’s annual family income should be less than Rs. 3Lakh.
- SHGs must be registered with National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)/National Urban Livelihood
Mission (NULM)/NABARD with more than two years of credit history.
- SHGs/Individuals must have made all repayments timely to be eligible for Interest Subvention.
- All OBC Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) card holders, and OBC individuals facing three or more
Deprivations in terms of SECC-2011 shall be eligible for Interest Subvention.
- All OBC beneficiaries involved in Agricultural activities and getting coverage under the PM Kisan shall
be eligible for coverage under Interest Subvention
• Maximum Loan limit – SHGs: 4 Lakhs & Individuals: 2 Lakhs (Maximum Subvention Amount @5% p.a)
9.3 SUGAMYA BHARAT ABHIYAN (ACCESSIBLE INDIA CAMPAIGN)

• Launched: in 2015 as a nationwide campaign that aims to make barrier free environment for persons
with disabilities to ensure universal access, equal opportunity for development, independent living and
participation in an inclusive society in all aspects of life.
• Verticals of Campaign:
- Built Environment - Enhancing the proportion of accessible government buildings
- Transport - Enhancing proportion of accessible airports, railway stations and Public Transport
- Information & Communication Technology (ICT) ecosystem.
✓ Enhancing proportion of accessible and usable public documents and websites
✓ Enhancing the pool of sign language interpreters
✓ Enhancing the proportion of daily captioning and sign-language interpretation of public
television news programmes
• Implementation: by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) and is in line
with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) to which India is a signatory.
• Key Strategies of the campaign - Create Mass Awareness, Capacity Building, Interventions (Technology
solutions, Legal framework, Resource generation), Leverage CSR resources, Leadership endorsements.
• ‘Sugamya Pustakalaya’- Launched an online library for Persons with Print Disabilities centred on
achieving ‘Universal Accessibility’.
Sugamya Bharat App:
• It is a crowd-sourcing mobile application, to enable people with disabilities & elderly to register accessibility-
related problems in buildings, in modes of transport or any infrastructure by uploading pictures on it.
‘Divyang Sarathi’ mobile application: integral part of ICT component of Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan.
• Aim - to empower the ‘Divyangjans’ by providing easier and convenient access of information pertaining to
the schemes, scholarships, employment opportunities, statutes, institutional support systems.
9.4 SAFAI KARAMCHARIS: SWACHHTA UDYAMI YOJANA

• Launched: in 2014 as Swachhta Udyami Yojana-‘Swachhta Se Sampannta Ki Aur’
• Objective
- To provide livelihood to Safai Karamcharis and liberated Manual Scavengers.
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• Implementation – by National Safai Karamcharis Finance & Development Corporation (NSKFDC), a non
statutory, recommendatory organisation under the Ministry.
• Approach – NSKFDC provides concessional loans to Safai Karamcharis and identified Manual Scavengers
(including women beneficiaries) for
- Construction, Operation & Maintenance of community toilets in Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
- Purchase of Sanitation related Vehicles.
9.5 PRADHAN MANTRI ADARSH GRAM YOJANA

• Objective: Integrated development of selected villages having more than 50% Scheduled Caste (SC)
population.
• Strategy – Objective will be realised through implementation of existing schemes of Central and State
Governments in convergent manner & by utilization of gap filling funds provided as Central Assistance.
• Funding - For every new village selected, the Scheme provides for a total of Rs. 21 lakh of which Rs.20
lakh is for the ‘Gap-filling’ component and Rs.1 lakh is meant for ‘administrative expenses’ in the ratio
of 1:1:1:2 at the Centre, State, District and Village level, respectively.
• Monitoring - 50 discrete monitorable indicators covering 10 domains for intervention.
10. MINISTRY OF PANCHAYATI RAJ
10.1 SVAMITVA SCHEME

• SVAMITVA - Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology In Village Areas.
• Launched: as a Central Sector Scheme on National Panchayat Day i.e. 24th April 2020.
• Aim - Providing a ‘record of rights’ to household owners possessing houses in inhabited rural areas
(abadi or residential areas) in villages, and issuance of property cards to the property owners.
• Target - To provide property cards to each household, in every village (6.62 lakh villages) across the
country by the end of the financial year 2023-24.
• It is a collaborative effort of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR), State Panchayati Raj Department,
State Revenue Department and Survey of India (Technology partner).
• The plan is to survey all rural properties using drones and prepare GIS-based maps for each village.
• Once the GIS database is prepared encompassing the 6.62 lakh villages, state governments will be
responsible for conducting future surveys and updating the GIS database.
• Intended Benefit of issuing an SVAMITVA property card
- Enabling rural households to use their property as a financial asset for taking loans and other financial
benefits from Bank.
- Creation of accurate land records for rural planning.
- Determination of property tax, thereby, enhancing Gram Panchayat’s revenues
- Preparation of better-quality Gram Panchayat Development Plan.
- Reduce property-related disputes and legal cases.
10.2 RASHTRIYA GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAN (RGSA)

• Launched: Union Budget 2016-17 as a Centrally sponsored scheme.
• It is a revamped version of erstwhile Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyan.
• Objective:
- Develop governance capabilities of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to deliver on the SDGs.
- Promote devolution of powers and responsibilities to Panchayats according to the spirit of the
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- Develop a network of institutions of excellence to support capacity building & handholding for PRIs.
• Coverage- It extends to all States/ UTs and will also include institutions of rural local government in non-
Part IX areas, where Panchayats do not exist.
• Implementation & monitoring – it will broadly be aligned for achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) with main thrust on Panchayats identified under Mission Antyodaya and 117 Aspirational
districts as identified by NITI Aayog.
• Sunset date for RGSA will be 31.03.2030.
11. MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI
11.1 JAL JEEVAN MISSION (JJM)-RURAL

• Announced in Union Budget 2019-20, it is a restructured version of National Rural Drinking Water
Programme (NRDWP) that was launched in 2009.
• Objective: JJM: INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISM
- To ensure ‘Har Ghar Nal Se Jal’ ie.
safe and adequate drinking water
through individual household tap
connections by 2024 to all
households in rural India (55 litres
per capita per day)
- To provide functional tap connection to Schools, Anganwadi centres, GP buildings, Health centres,
wellness centres and community buildings.
- To promote and ensure voluntary ownership among local community by way of contribution in
cash (into ‘Rashtriya Jal Jeevan Kosh’), kind and voluntary labour (shramdaan).
• JJM is based on a community approach to water and aims to create a jan andolan for water, thereby
making it everyone’s priority.
• Components under JJM: Grey Water Management
- Rural piped water supply infrastructure development. • Grey water is the category of
- Development of reliable drinking water sources. wastewater that is not contaminated
- Augmentation of existing sources to provide long-term with faecal or urinal matter (Black
sustainability of water supply system. water is water that has been
- Providing contaminant free water by technological contaminated by faecal matter).
intervention. • It includes post-use water from most
- Greywater management (domestic non-faecal domestic purposes like bathing,
wastewater). washing dishes, laundry etc.
- Development of utilities, water quality laboratories, • Grey water is a potent resource for
water quality testing & surveillance etc. several non-potable uses for eg.
• Fund sharing pattern: 90:10 for Himalayan and North- irrigation, kitchen gardens, water
Eastern States; 50:50 for other States and 100% for UTs. recharge, washing, cleaning etc.
11.2 ATAL BHUJAL YOJANA (ATAL JAL)

• Atal Jal is designed as a Central Sector Scheme with a total outlay of Rs. 6,000 Crore, with 50% in the
form of World Bank loan & remaining 50% through Central Assistance from regular budgetary support.
• Implementation period - 5 years from 2020-21 till 2024-25.
• Objective - To improve the management of groundwater resources of the selected 7 over-exploited and
ground water stressed states: Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan
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• Components of Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL)

- Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building Component - aimed at strengthening the ground
water governance mechanism in the participating States.
- Incentive Component - aimed at rewarding/incentivizing the States for various measures aimed at
ensuring the long-term sustainability of ground water resources.
• Strategy
- Revival of surface water bodies so that ground water level can be increased, especially in the rural
areas. Convergence with different water schemes.
- Involvement of local communities and making society responsible and bringing about behaviour
change to manage groundwater resource.
11.3 DAM REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (DRIP)

• Launched: 2012 with World Bank assistance.
• Key Objectives
- To improve the safety and performance of selected existing dams and mitigate risks to ensure
safety of downstream population and property.
- To strengthen the dam safety institutional setup in participating states as well as at central level,
through capacity building of staff and officials.
• Intended beneficiary - Both urban and rural communities dependent on the reservoir and downstream
communities, who are prone to risk associated with dam failure or operational failure.
• It was initially taken up for the repair and rehabilitation of dam projects across the 7 states of India,
namely Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.
• Implemented period: 10 years duration in two Phases.
• Overall supervision and coordination: Central Water Commission (CWC), a premier Technical
Organisation in the field of water resources.
• Recent Updates: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the DRIP Phase II & Phase III
with the financial assistance of the World Bank (WB) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
- It envisages comprehensive rehabilitation of 736 existing dams located across the country and
complements the Dam Safety Bill, 2019.
11.4 DAM HEALTH AND REHABILITATION MONITORING APPLICATION (DHARMA)

• DHARMA is a web-based software package to support the effective collection and management of Dam
Safety data in respect of all large dams under the DRIP Project.
• It will digitize all dam related data & document authentic asset and health information pertaining to the
large dams, thus, enabling appropriate actions to ensure need-based rehabilitation.
• Developed and operated by Central Water Commission (CWC).
12. MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
12.1 SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJEE NATIONAL RURBAN MISSION (NRUM)

• Launched in 2015
• Objective - to stimulate local economic development, enhance basic services, and create well planned
Rurban clusters ➔ SMART VILLAGES
• Smart village - an area which possesses the economic characteristics and lifestyles of an urban area
while retaining its essential rural features.
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- 25000 to 50000 in plain and coastal areas

- 5000 to 15000 in desert, hilly or tribal areas
• Target - Mission aims at development of 300 Rurban clusters.
• 2 categories of clusters under NRuM: Non-Tribal and Tribal
• Strategy - These clusters would be developed by provisioning of economic activities, developing skills &
local entrepreneurship and providing infrastructure amenities.
• Funding: PPP as preferred mode of delivery.
- Resources to be mobilized through convergence of various schemes of the Government.
- Additional support of up to 30% of project cost per cluster as critical gap funding.
12.2 DEENDAYAL ANTAYODAYA YOJANA - NATIONAL RURAL LIVELIHOOD MISSION (DAY-NRLM)

• Launched: as Aajeevika - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), renamed as DAY-NRLM in 2015
• Aid: partly through investment support by the World Bank.
• Objective –
- To reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled
wage employment opportunities.
- To create efficient & effective institutional platforms4 (eg. SHGs) to increase household income
through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services.
Sub – Schemes under DAY-NRLM

• Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY)
- Objective - To provide an alternative source of livelihood to members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) by
facilitating them to operate public transport services in backward rural areas.
- Transport vehicles will connect remote villages with key services & amenities like Market, Education,
Health ➔ overall economic development of the area.
- Financial assistance
✓ Community Based Organization (CBOs) to provide interest free loans to SHG from Community
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✓ CBO can also own the vehicle and lease it to an SHG member.
• Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY)
- It is a placement Linked Skill Development scheme, announced in 2014.
- Dual Objective
✓ Adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families
✓ Cater to the career aspirations of rural youth
- Target group - Rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families.
- Special initiatives
✓ Himayat: A special scheme for the youth (rural & urban) of Jammu & Kashmir
✓ Roshni: A special initiative for the rural youth of poor families in 27 Left-wing Extremist (LWE) districts
across 9 states.
✓ Northeast Region: 10% of DDU-GKY programme funds are reserved for projects in North-East,
wherein the centre contributes 90% of training costs.
• Startup Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP)
- SVEP is aimed at creating an ecosystem for rural population, including women, to be able start their own
local enterprises for sustainable livelihood.
- It provides entrepreneurs with business skills, exposure to new ideas, financial linkages and other necessary
business support.
- Loans will be made available through Banks/SHGs for starting the enterprise.
• Mahila Kisan Sahshaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP)
- Objective – To promote agriculture based livelihoods of rural women by strengthening community
institutions of poor women farmers to promote sustainable agriculture.
- MKSP focuses on agriculture, non-timber forest produce and livestock interventions.
- It provides three kind of services to the farmers, namely: (1) Extension services, (2) Training capacity
building and handholding services and, (3) Facilitation for convergence with other line department to
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13. MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
13.1 DEENDAYAL ANTYODAYA YOJANA-NATIONAL URBAN LIVELIHOOD MISSION (DAY-NULM)

• Launched in 2013 as Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
• Objective –
- Organizing urban poor in their strong grassroots level institutions (via SHGs).
- Creating opportunities for skill development leading to market-based employment (via City
Livelihood Centres)
- Helping them to set up self-employment venture by ensuring easy access to credit and interest
subsidy on loans.
• Target - urban poor, including urban homeless (street vendors, slum dwellers, rag pickers)
• Cost of construction of shelters for urban homeless is fully funded under the Scheme.
INITIATIVES UNDER DAY-NULM

PAISA – Portal
• PAiSA – “Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access”
• It is a centralized electronic platform (web portal) for processing interest subvention on bank loans to
beneficiaries under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM).
• Designed & developed by - Allahabad Bank (Nodal Bank)
Personalized After-training Rapid Assessment (PARAS) system - To get direct feedback from skill trained candidates
regarding quality of skill training under DAY-NULM.
City Livelihood Centres (CLCs) - DAY-NULM, in collaboration with Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is facilitating
CLCs in standardization of products and their specifications, identification of products to be launched on e-
marketplace and registration on GeM portal as ‘seller’.
13.2 JAL JEEVAN MISSION (URBAN)

• Announced in: Union Budget 2020-21
• Aim: to provide universal coverage of water supply to all households through functional taps in all 4,378
statutory towns in accordance with SDG Goal- 6.
• Objectives:
- Rejuvenation of water bodies to augment sustainable fresh water supply.
- Creating green spaces and 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 recycle/reuse of treated sewage, rejuvenation of water bodies and water conservation.
• Key features:
- Recycle of treated used water to meet at least 20% of total city water demand and 40% for
industrial water demand at State level.
- Focus on strengthening of urban local bodies and water security of the cities by reducing non-
revenue water to below 20%.
- A Technology Sub-Mission for water: to leverage latest global technologies in the field of water.
- Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaign: to spread awareness among masses.
- Pey Jal Survekshan will be conducted in cities to ascertain equitable distribution of water, reuse of
wastewater and mapping of water bodies with respect to quantity and quality of water through a
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• Central funding: Union Territories: 100% central funding; North Eastern and Hill States: 90%; and 50%
for cities will less than 1 lakh population, one third for cities with 1 lakh to 10 lakh population and 25%
for cities with million plus population.
13.3 PM STREET VENDOR’S AATMANIRBHAR NIDHI (PM SVANIDHI)

• Launched in 2020 as a Central Sector Scheme, for providing affordable Working Capital loan to street
vendors to resume their livelihoods that have been adversely affected due to Covid-19 lockdown.
• Objectives of the Scheme - To facilitate working capital loan subsidized rate of interest; incentivize
regular repayment of the loan; and reward digital transactions.
• Salient features of the Scheme
- Initial working capital of up to Rs. 10,000/-.
- Interest subsidy on timely/ early repayment @ 7%.
- Monthly cash-back incentive on digital transactions.
- Higher loan eligibility on timely repayment of the first loan.
• Target beneficiary: Street vendors/ hawkers vending in urban areas, as on or before March 24, 2020,
including the vendors of surrounding peri-urban and rural areas.
• Tenure of the Scheme: up to March, 2022.
• Implementation agency: Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
• Mobile Application - Will enable field functionaries of Lending Institutions (LIs) like Banking
Correspondents (BCs) and Agents of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs)/ Micro-Finance
Institutions (MFIs), who have proximity with the street vendors, to ensure maximum coverage.
14. MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
14.1 AYUSHMAN SAHAKAR

• Launched: 2020
• Aim: to assist cooperatives play an important role in National Cooperative Development
creation of healthcare infrastructure in the country. Corporation (NCDC)
• Formulated by: National Cooperative Development • It is the apex autonomous development
Corporation (NCDC). finance institution under the Ministry of
• Objectives: Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
- To assist provision of affordable and holistic • Set up under the Act of Parliament in
healthcare through hospitals/ healthcare/ education 1963.
facilities by cooperative societies, including • Functions - It is the sole statutory
education, services, insurance activities. organisation functioning as an apex
- To assist promotion of AYUSH facilities by cooperative financial and developmental institution,
societies. exclusively devoted to cooperative sector.
- To assist cooperative societies meet the objectives of • It supports cooperatives in diverse fields
National Health Policy and participate in the National apart from agriculture and allied sectors
Digital Health Mission. for eg. Rural industries, Rural sanitation,
• Eligibility: Any Cooperative Society registered under any hospitality, transport, rural housing,
State/ Multi State Cooperative Societies Act in India, with hospitals/health etc.
suitable provision in the bye-laws to undertake services
related to hospital/ healthcare/ health education.
• NCDC assistance - It will flow either through the State Governments/ UT Administrations or directly to
the eligible cooperatives. It will provide working capital to meet operational requirements and provide
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YUVA SAHAKAR-COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE SUPPORT AND INNOVATION SCHEME

• Objectives - To cater to the needs and aspirations of the youth for attracting them to cooperative business
ventures and to encourage cooperatives to venture into new and innovative areas.
• Dedicated Fund - The scheme will be linked to Rs 1000 crore Cooperative Start-up and Innovation Fund (CSIF)
created by the NCDC.
• Inclusive approach - It would have more incentives for cooperatives of North Eastern region, Aspirational
Districts and cooperatives with women or SC or ST or PwD members.
• Funding - Funding for the project will be up to 80% of the project cost for special categories & 70% for others.
• Eligibility - All types of cooperatives in operation for 3 month and having positive net-worth are eligible.
14.2 INNOVATION AND AGRI-ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

• Objective: To promote innovation and agripreneurship by providing financial support and nurturing the
incubation ecosystem.
• Identified start-ups: These start-ups are in various categories such as agro-processing, artificial
intelligence, digital agriculture, farm mechanisation, waste to wealth, dairy, fisheries etc.
• Selection of five Knowledge Partners (KPs) as Centres of Excellence:
- National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad,
- National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM) Jaipur,
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) Pusa, New Delhi
- University of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, Karnataka and
- Assam Agriculture University, Jorhat, Assam
• Appointment of 24 RKVY-RAFTAAR Agribusiness Incubators (R-ABIs) from across the country.
• Components of the scheme:
- Agripreneurship Orientation: 2 months duration with a monthly stipend of Rs. 10,000/- per
month. Mentorship is provided on financial, technical, IP issues etc.
- Seed Stage Funding of R-ABI Incubatees: Funding upto Rs. 25 lakhs (85% grant & 15% contribution
from the incubatee).
- Idea/Pre-Seed Stage Funding of Agripreneurs: Funding up to Rs. 5 lakhs (90% grant and 10%
contribution from the incubatee)
• Training on technical, finance, intellectual property, statutory compliance issues etc. would be provided.
• Mentoring of start-ups through monitoring of milestones and timelines.
• Significance –
- These start-ups will lead to employment to youth.
- They, directly and indirectly, will contribute to enhancing the income of farmers by providing
opportunities to them.
AGRIBUSINESS INCUBATORS (R-ABIs)
They invite applications from agripreneurs in different stages of business life cycle (ideation/expansion) and
provide them an opportunity to generate innovations in the agriculture and allied sector.
14.3 PARAMPARAGAT KRISHI VIKAS YOJNA & PGS- INDIA

• PKVY is a sub-component of Soil Health Management (SHM) scheme under National Mission of
Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA).
• Aim – to promote organic farming and reduce reliance on chemical fertilizers.
• Approach - Cluster based ➔ organising farmers in groups of 50 or more, having total holdings of 50
acres to take up organic farming. Organic products will be linked with the market.
• Financial Assistance - Every farmer will be provided Rs. 50,000 per hectare in three years for cluster
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• No liability on the farmers for expenditure on certification of organic manure.

• Participatory Gurantee System under PGS-India programme will be the key approach for quality
assurances under the PKVY.
PARTICIPATORY GUARANTEE SYSTEMS FOR INDIA (PGS - India)

• It is a quality assurance initiative that is locally relevant, emphasize the participation of stakeholders, including
producers and consumers and operate outside the frame of third-party certification.
• Purpose – To promote domestic organic market growth and enable small and marginal farmer to have easy
access to organic certification.
• Exclusion - Individual farmers or group of farmers having less than 5 members are not covered under PGS.
• Secretariat of the PGS India programme - National Centre of Organic Farming (NCOF) which is the monitoring
body for PGS certification programme.
Large Area Certification (LAC) Scheme
• The News: About 14,500-hectare area of Car Nicobar and Nancowry group of islands in UT of Andaman
and Nicobar Islands became the first large contiguous territory to be conferred with organic certification
under ‘Large Area Certification’ scheme.
• LAC scheme is a quick certification programme launched under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana.
• It is a part of PGS-India (Participatory Guarantee System) certification programme.
• Under the scheme, organic certification can be availed by both traditional organic areas and areas having
chemical input usage history.
• It has eliminated the transition period of minimum 2-3 years for the areas having chemical input usage
history to qualify as organic. (Previously, the areas having chemical input usage history were required to
undergo a transition period of minimum 2-3 years to qualify as organic.)
14.4 FORMATION AND PROMOTION OF FARMER PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS (FPOS)

• It is a Central Sector Scheme to
- Form and promote 10,000 new FPOs, in 5 years period from 2019-20 to 2023-24.
- Handhold each FPO for 5 years from its aggregation and formation (from 2024-25 to 2027-28).
• Target beneficiaries - Small and marginal farmers who do not have economic strength to apply
production technology, services and marketing including value addition.
• Significance – With the formation of FPOs, farmers will have better collective strength for better access
to quality input, technology, credit, markets, and economies of scale for better realization of income.
• Implementing Agencies - initially 3 IAs to form and promote FPOs, namely (1) Small Farmers Agri-
business Consortium (SFAC), (2) National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), (3) National
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
- States may also, if so desire, nominate their Implementing Agency in consultation with DAC&FW.
• Implementation strategy: “Cluster Based Approach”
- DAC&FW will allocate Cluster/States to Implementing Agencies which in turn will form the Cluster
Based Business Organization (CBBOs) in the States.
- FPOs will be formed and promoted through these Cluster Based Business Organizations (CBBOs)
• Project Management & Monitoring - National Project Management Agency (NPMA) at SFAC (Small
Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium) for providing overall project guidance, data compilation and
maintenance through integrated portal and Information management and monitoring.
• FPO Promotion
- FPOs will be promoted under "One District One Product" cluster to promote specialization and
better processing, marketing, branding & export by FPOs.
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- Initially the minimum number of members in FPO will be 300 in plain area and 100 in North East
& hilly areas.
- There will be a provision of Equity Grant for strengthening equity base of FPOs.
- Adequate training and handholding will be provided to FPOs.
FARMER PRODUCER COMPANIES (FPC)
• FPC is a hybrid between cooperative societies and private limited companies.
• Objective - to organize farmers into a collective to improve their bargaining strength in the market.
• Owned and governed by - shareholder farmers and administered by professional managers.
• FPC can be formed by any 10 or more primary producers or by two or more producer institutions, or by a
contribution of both. Non-producers cannot invest in FPC shareholding.
• Voting rights - each producer or member has equal voting rights irrespective of the number of shares held.
• Profit - is largely distributed on the basis of “patronage”, which acts as a reward for undertaking risk.
14.5 PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMMAN NIDHI (PM-KISAN)

• It is a Central Sector Scheme (100% funding from GoI), announced in interim Budget 2019-20, launched
in 2019. (retrospectively applicable from December, 2018)
• Objective: To provide assured supplemental income to most vulnerable farmer families, to meet their
emergent needs ie. procuring various inputs to ensure proper crop health and appropriate yields,
commensurate with the anticipated farm income at the end of each crop cycle.
• Eligible beneficiaries:
- Previously - Small and Marginal landholder farmers' (SMF) families with cultivable land holding upto
2 hectare (5 Acres).
- Has now been expanded to all land holding eligible farmer families (subject to exclusion criteria).
• Definition of Families: SMFs landholder farmer family is defined as “a family comprising of husband,
wife and minor children”.
• Financial assistance – Rs. 6,000 pa released in three 4-monthly instalments of Rs. 2000/- each over the
year via Direct Benefit Transfer into bank accounts.
• Identification – The responsibility of identifying the eligible beneficiary farmers and uploading their data
on PM-KISAN portal lies entirely with the state governments, subject to the "existing exclusion factors".
• Exclusion - There will be exclusion of certain categories of beneficiaries of higher economic strata which
will be separately notified by the Government.
- These include - institutional land holders, farmer families holding constitutional posts, serving or
retired officers and employees of state/central government, PSUs and government autonomous
bodies, Professionals like doctors, engineers and lawyers, retired pensioners with a monthly pension
of over Rs 10,000, income tax payers etc.
14.6 PM KISAN MAANDHAN YOJANA (PM-KMY)
• It is a Central Sector Scheme meant for old age protection and social security of all landholding Small
and Marginal Farmers (SMF). It is a voluntary and contribution based pension scheme.
• Eligibility –
- For Small and Marginal Farmers with entry Age between 18 to 40 years.
- Cultivable land up to 2 hectares as per land records of the concerned State/UT.
• Should not be
- SMFs covered under any other statutory social security schemes such as National Pension Scheme
(NPS), Employees’ State Insurance Corporation scheme, Employees’ Fund Organization Scheme etc.
- Farmers who have opted for Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan Yojana and Pradhan Mantri
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- Beneficiaries belonging to higher economic status (as mention under PM Kisan).

• Contribution: (Pension Fund Manager - Life Insurance Corporation of India)
- The applicants between the age group of 18 to 40 years will have to make monthly contributions
ranging between Rs 55 to Rs 200 per month, till they attain the age of 60.
- Central Government will also make an equal contribution of the same amount in the pension fund.
- The spouse is also eligible to get a separate pension of Rs.3000/- upon making separate
contributions to the Fund.
• Benefits
- Assured pension of Rs 3000/- per month after attaining the age of 60 years.
- If the farmer dies after retirement, the spouse of the farmer shall be entitled to receive 50% of the
pension as family pension ie. Rs. 1500.
- If the farmer dies before retirement, the spouse may continue in the scheme by paying the
remaining contributions till the remaining age of the deceased farmer.
- If the farmer dies before retirement, if the spouse does not wish to continue, the total contribution
made by the farmer along with interest will be paid to the spouse.
- If the farmer dies before retirement, if there is no spouse, then total contribution along with interest
will be paid to the nominee.
• Synergy with PM-KISAN - If the farmer is a beneficiary of the PM-KISAN Scheme, he/she may allow the
contribution to be directly paid from the same bank account in which he/she receives PM-Kisan benefit.
14.7 PRADHAN MANTRI ANNADATA AAY SANRAKSHAN ABHIYAN (PM-AASHA)

• Launched: 2018 as an umbrella Central Sector Scheme.
• Aim - To ensure a robust procurement mechanism, in coordination with the State Governments, such
that an increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP) will be translated to higher farmer’s income.
• PM-AASHA scheme has 3 components:
1. Price Support Scheme (PSS)
- Under PSS, physical procurement of pulses, oilseeds and Copra will be done by Central Nodal
Agencies like NAFED and Food Cooperation of India (FCI), at the MSP declared by government.
- Losses, if any, incurred in undertaking MSP operations are reimbursed by Central Government.
Profit, if any, earned in undertaking MSP operations is credited to the Central government.
- This scheme is implemented at the request of the concerned State Government which agrees
to exempt the procured commodities from levy of mandi tax and assist central nodal agencies
in logistic arrangements.
2. Price Deficiency Payment Scheme (PDPS)
- Under this, the Centre proposes to cover all oilseeds and pay the farmer directly into his bank
account the difference between the MSP and his actual selling/modal price.
- Pre-registered farmers who sell their crops in recognised mandis within the notified period can
benefit from it.
- This scheme does not involve any physical procurement of crops.
3. Pilot of Private Procurement & Stockist Scheme (PPSS).
- In the case of oilseeds, States will have the option to roll out PPSSs in select districts where a
private player can procure crops at MSP when market prices drop below MSP.
- The private player will then be compensated through a service charge that will be up to a
maximum of 15% of the MSP of the crop.
- It involves physical procurement of the notified commodity.
• It will be complementing the existing schemes of the Department of Food and Public Distribution for
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14.8 NATIONAL INITIATIVE ON CLIMATE RESILIENT AGRICULTURE (NICRA)

• Launched: 2011 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), funded by the Ministry of Agriculture.
• Objective:
- To enhance resilience of Indian agriculture to climate change and climate variability.
- To make farmers self-reliant by use of climate-resilient agricultural technologies and management
of natural and manmade resources.
• 4 Components:
- Strategic Research
✓ Long term research in Natural Resource Management, Crops, Pests and disease dynamics,
Livestock, Fisheries & Energy Efficiency
✓ Detailed assessment on vulnerability of different agro-climatic zones of the country
✓ Selection of crop genotypes & livestock breeds with greater tolerance to climatic stress.
✓ Strengthening Infrastructure at key research institutes for climatic change research
- Technology Demonstration: on 100 vulnerable districts for adapting to current climate risks.
- Capacity Building: of all stakeholders
- Sponsored/competitive research: to fill critical gaps.
15. MINISTRY OF FISHERIES, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND DAIRYING
15.1 PRADHAN MANTRI MATSYA SAMPADA YOJANA (PMMSY)

• Launched in 2020 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
• It is the flagship scheme to bring about Blue Revolution through sustainable and responsible
development of fisheries sector in India.
• Key Targets –
- Enhancing fish production by an additional 70 lakh tonne by 2024-25 to 220 lakh metric tons at an
average annual growth rate of about 9%.
- Increasing fisheries export earnings to Rs. 1 lakh crore by 2024-25.
- Doubling of incomes of fishers and fish farmers.
- Reducing post-harvest losses from 20-25% to about 10%.
- Generation of additional employment - 55 lakhs direct and indirect gainful employment
• Investment - Rs. 20,050 crores. It is the highest ever in the fisheries sector with focus on:
- Beneficiary-oriented activities in Marine, Inland fisheries and Aquaculture
- Fisheries Infrastructure – 42% of investment
• Implementation period - 5 years from FY 2020-21 to FY 2024- 25 in all States/Union Territories.
• Implementation strategy
- Adopting ‘Cluster or Area based approaches’ and creation of Fisheries clusters through backward
and forward linkages.
- Special focus on employment generation activities such as seaweed & ornamental fish cultivation.
- Consolidating gains of Blue Revolution & New interventions (Swath Sagar plan) such as fishing
vessel insurance, support for new/up-gradation of fishing vessels/boats, Bio-toilets, Sagar Mitras,
Fisheries FPOs/Cs, Fisheries and Aquaculture start-ups, Integrated Aqua parks, Integrated coastal
fishing villages development, E-Trading/Marketing etc.
15.2 RASHTRIYA GOKUL MISSION

• Launched in 2014 as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme
• Objective:
- Development, preservation and conservation of indigenous Bovine breeds “in a focused and
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- To enhance milk production and productivity of indigenous bovines.

• Interventions under RGM
- Setting up of integrated cattle centres - Gokul Grams
- Establishment of breeders societies – Gopalan Sangh
- Award to Farmers – Gopal Ratna & Award to breeders societies – “Kamdhenu”
• Target beneficiaries – Rural cattle and buffalo keepers irrespective of caste, class and gender.
RGM: 2 SUB COMPONENTS
• National Programme for Bovine Breeding
- Focuses on extension of field level Artificial Insemination (AI) network through MAITRI.
- MAITRI - Multi Purpose Artificial Insemination Technicians to provide AI services& and breeding inputs at
Farmer’s Doorstep)
• National Mission on Bovine Productivity
- Objective – Enhance milk production and thereby make dairying more remunerative to farmers.
- Key components
✓ Pashu Sanjivni – It is an Animal Wellness Programme; encompassing setting up of Emergency Help
Lines, provision of Animal Health cards (‘Nakul Swasthya Patra’) along with UID identification and a
National Data Base (INAPH).
✓ E-PashuHaat portal - To connect farmers and breeder (State, Central, Co-operative, Milk Federations,
and private agencies) of indigenous breeds regarding availability of bovine germplasm. It provides real
time authentic certified information on availability of germplasm.
✓ Establishment of National Bovine Genomic Centre (NBGC-IB) - for enhancing milk production and
productivity through genomic selection among indigenous breeds.
15.3 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FUND (AHIDF)

• Announced under AtmaNirbhar Bharat Abhiyan (ANBA) worth Rs. 15000 crore.
• Objective
- To support private investment in dairy processing, value addition, and cattle feed infrastructure.
- To provide incentives for establishing plants for the export of niche dairy products.
• Eligible beneficiaries - Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), MSMEs, Section 8 Companies, Private
Companies and individual entrepreneurs.
• Financial Assistance
- Minimum 10% margin money to be contributed by the beneficiaries. The balance 90% would be the
loan component to be made available by scheduled banks.
- GoI will provide 3% interest subvention to eligible beneficiaries.
- There will be 2 years moratorium period for principal loan amount and 6 years repayment period.
• Setting up of Credit Guarantee Fund of Rs. 750 crore, to be managed by NABARD.
16. MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
16.1 PM FORMALIZATION OF MICRO FOOD PROCESSING ENTERPRISES (PMFME) SCHEME

• Launched: in 2020 under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
• Promotes vision of Hon. PM: ‘Vocal for Local with Global outreach’.
• Aim: to enhance the competitiveness of existing individual micro-enterprises in the unorganized
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• Beneficiaries: Existing micro food enterprises, Farmer Producer Organisations, Self Help Groups and
Cooperatives to be supported.
• The Scheme adopts One District One Product (ODOP) approach to reap benefits of scale in terms of
procurement of inputs, availing common services and marketing of products.
- For e.g. Mango in UP, Kesar in J&K, Bamboo shoots in North-East, Chilli in Andhra Pradesh, Tapioca
in Tamil Nadu etc.
• Implementation period - 5 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, with an outlay of 10, 000 crore.
• Nodal Bank: Union Bank of India
• Expected outcomes: Improved health and safety standards, integration with retail markets, improved
incomes, reaching untapped export markets etc.
• The PMFME scheme supports in terms of:
- Credit-linked capital subsidy @35% of the eligible project cost with a maximum ceiling of Rs.10 lakh
per unit.
- Seed capital @ Rs. 40,000/- per SHG member for working capital and purchase of small tools.
- Credit linked grant of 35% for capital investment to FPOs/ SHGs/ producer cooperatives.
- Support for marketing & branding to micro-units.
- Support for common infrastructure & handholding support to SHGs, FPOs & Producer Cooperatives.
- Providing Capacity building and training support to increase the capabilities of the enterprises and
upgradation of skills of workers.
16.2 OPERATION GREENS

• Launched: Union Budget 2018-19 on the lines of “Operation Flood”, as a vertical of Pradhan Mantri
Krishi SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY).
• Objectives:
- Enhancing value realisation of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) farmers by targeted interventions
to strengthen TOP production clusters & their FPOs, and linking/connecting them with the market.
- Price stabilisation for producers and consumers by proper production planning in the TOP clusters
- Reduction in post-harvest losses by creation of farm gate infrastructure, development of suitable
agro-logistics, creation of appropriate storage capacity linking consumption centres.
• Nodal Agency to implement price stabilisation measures: National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing
Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED).
• Recent Update
- MoFPI had recently extended the scheme from Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) to all fruits &
vegetables (TOTAL) for a period of 6 months on pilot basis as part of Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.
- Objective: to protect the growers of fruits and vegetables from making distress sale due to
lockdown and reduce the post-harvest losses.
- Pattern of Assistance: Ministry will provide subsidy @ 50% of the transportation and storage cost
of the following.
17. MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
17.1 ONE NATION ONE RATION CARD (ONORC)

• Launched: in 2019 as a pilot scheme, in all states & UTs.
• Objective
- To ensure hassle-free delivery of subsidized food grains, at any Fair Price Shop (FPS), to all migratory
beneficiaries anywhere in India through nation-wide portability under National Food Security Act
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- Reforms in public distribution system and Integration of all the Indian states and UTs in the scheme.
• Key highlights
- Universal Ration card - Existing ration cards will be turned as one nation one ration card. It will be
a universal ration card allotted to each beneficiary registered under NFSA.
- Incentive states for adoption - On adoption of the scheme, States become eligible for additional
borrowing limit of 0.25% of the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP).
- Technology driven - Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS) portal and
Annavitran portals provide the technological platform for implementation of the ONORC scheme.
- Benefits - Enables the States in better targeting of beneficiaries, elimination of bogus/
duplicate/ineligible card holders resulting in enhanced welfare and reduced leakage.
- Achievement – So far it is enabled in 33 states and UTs covering almost 86% of the NFSA population.
18. MINISTRY OF SHIPPING
18.1 JAL MARG VIKAS PROJECT

• It is a National Waterways development project on river
Ganga, between Haldia-Varanasi (phase 1) stretch of NW 1: Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river
National Waterway-1 (NW-1). system (Allahabad-Haldia)
• Objective: to develop a fairway (navigable waterway) with
States along NW 1: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
3 metres depth to enable commercial navigation of at least
Jharkhand, West Bengal.
1500 tonne vessels on the river.
• 4 Multi-Modal Terminals (MMTs) planned on NW1 - Varanasi, Gazipur Sahibganj, & Haldia. Under this,
2 MMTs have been constructed so far in Varanasi (UP) and Sahibganj (Jharkhand).
• Implemented by: Inland Waterways Authority of India (Ministry of Shipping),
• Technical assistance and investment support: World Bank.
• Funding pattern: IBRD loan component + Government of India counterpart funds + Private sector
participation under PPP mode. Expected Completion of the project – 2023.
• Includes - construction of multi-modal terminals, Ro-Ro terminals, provision of navigational aids, River
Information System (RIS) and Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS).
• Benefits - Employment generation, Environmentally Sustainable transportation, Infrastructure
development, reduced Logistics Cost, National/International Connectivity (NE states, Neighbours).
18.2 NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR RECYCLING OF SHIPS

• Union Government recently notified the Directorate General of Shipping as National Authority for
Recycling of Ships.
• National Authority for Recycling of Ships - It is established under the Recycling of Ships Act, 2019.
- The office of the authority will be set up in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The location of the office will
benefit the ship recycling yard owners situated in Alang, Gujarat.
- Alang is the home of Asia's largest ship-breaking and ship recycling industry in the world.
• Role of Directorate General (DG) of Shipping: As an apex body, DG Shipping is authorized to administer,
supervise and monitor all activities relating to Ship Recycling. DG Shipping will look after:
- Sustainable development of the Ship Recycling industry
- Monitoring the compliance to environment-friendly norms
- Safety and health measures for the stakeholders
• It will be the final authority for the various approvals required by the Ship-Recycling yard owners and
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RECYCLING OF SHIPS ACT, 2019

• The Act provides for the regulation of recycling of ships by setting certain international standards and laying
down the statutory mechanism for enforcement of such standards.
• The Act imposes a statutory duty on ship recyclers to ensure safe and environmentally sound removal and
management of hazardous wastes from ships.
HONG KONG CONVENTION FOR SAFE AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND RECYCLING OF SHIPS
• Under Ship Recycling Act, 2019 India has acceded to Hong Kong Convention for Ship Recycling.
• International Maritime Organization (IMO), a UN specialised agency for regulating shipping, adopted Hong
Kong Convention for Ship Recycling in 2009 for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.
• It intends to address all issues around ship recycling such as environmental hazard and working conditions.
19. MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION
19.1 KRISHI UDAN SCHEME

• Launched: Budget 2020-21
• Aim: to assist farmers in transporting agricultural products so that it improves their “value realisation”.
• Under the scheme, the first domestic dedicated freighter carried perishable agricultural produce from
Lengpui airport (Mizoram) to Kolkata airport.
• Agricultural produce is also transported from Guwahati International Airport to Hong Kong.
19.2 NABH (NEXTGEN AIRPORTS FOR BHARAT) NIRMAN INITIATIVE

• It is a government initiative to expand airport capacity more than five times to handle a billion trips a
year, in the next 10-15 years.
• Three key aspects of NABH Nirman are
1. Fair and equitable land acquisition.
2. Long-term master plan for airport and regional development and
3. Balanced economics for all stakeholders.
19.3 DIGIYATRA PLATFORM

• The 'DigiYatra' is an industry-led initiative co-ordinated by the Ministry of Civil Aviation in line with the
Digital India vision.
• Passengers will be automatically processed based on facial recognition system at check points like; Entry
point check, Entry in to Security Check, Aircraft Boarding.
• This will also facilitate
- Self-Bag Drop and Check-in, using facial recognition to identify pax and data recall.
- Paperless travel and avoid identity check at multiple points.
20. MINISTRY OF POWER
20.1 RAISE INITIATIVE

• RAISE - “Retrofit of Air-conditioning to improve Indoor Air Quality for Safety and Efficiency”.
• It is a recently launched a national programme, developed for healthy and energy-efficient buildings, in
partnership with U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under MAITREE programme.
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- The Market Integration and About United States Agency for International
Transformation Program for Energy Development (USAID)
Efficiency (MAITREE) is a part of the US- • It is the international development agency and a
India bilateral Partnership between the catalytic actor driving development results.
Ministry of Power and USAID. • It works to help lift lives, build communities, and
- It is aimed at accelerating the adoption of advance democracy.
cost-effective energy efficiency as a
• It is primarily responsible for administering civilian
standard practice within buildings and
foreign aid and development assistance.
specifically focuses on cooling.
21. MINISTRY OF NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
21.1 PM-KUSUM - PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN URJA SURAKSHA EVAM UTTHAAN MAHABHIYAN
• Launched: In 2019
• Implemented by: State Nodal Agencies of MNRE will coordinate with States/UTs, DISCOMS and farmers.
• Aim- To add solar and other renewable capacity of 25,750 MW by 2022.
• Objectives: Installation of solar pumps and grid-connected solar and other renewable power plants in
India by the farmers. It intends to provide financial and water security to farmers.
• Intended Benefits:
- Stable and continuous source of income to the rural landowners for a period of 25 years by
utilisation of their dry/uncultivable land.
- Sufficient local solar/ other renewable energy-based power is available for feeding rural load
centres and agriculture pump-set loads, which require power mostly during the day time.
- Substantial environmental impact in terms of savings of CO2 emissions.
- The scheme has direct employment and indirect potential in the tune of 6 lakh job years for skilled
and unskilled workers.
• The Scheme consists of three components.
1. Component-A: 10,000 MW of Decentralized Ground Mounted Grid Connected Renewable Power
Plants of individual plant size up to 2 MW.
2. Component-B: Installation of 17.5 lakh standalone Solar Powered Agriculture Pumps of individual
pump capacity up to 7.5 HP.
3. Component-C: Solarisation of 10 Lakh Grid-connected Agriculture Pumps of individual pump
capacity up to 7.5 HP.
21.2 SURYA MITRA SCHEME
• It is a skill development program to provide entrepreneurship and employability opportunities to rural
and urban youth & women. Special emphasis is given to skill youth from SC/ST/OBC categories.
• Aim: create skilled manpower in commissioning, installation, Operation & Management of solar power
plants & equipment.
• Total duration - 600 hrs or 90 days.
• The qualification required to participate in the program is ITI (Electrical & Wireman) / Diploma in
Engineering (Electrical, Electronics & Mechanical).
• Higher qualified participants such as B.Tech etc are not eligible for this programme.
• The programme is 100% funded by GOI and implemented by National Institute for Solar Energy (NISE),
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21.3 ATAL JYOTI YOJANA (AJAY)

• Objective - to provide Solar Street Lighting Systems for public use and to popularise solar energy.
• It is a sub-scheme under Off-Grid and Decentralized Solar Application Scheme of MNRE.
• Under this scheme, Solar LED Lights are to be installed in rural, semi-urban and urban areas which do
not enjoy adequate coverage of power.
• Implementation agency - Energy Efficiency Services limited (EESL).
22. MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
22.1 PM JI-VAN (JAIV INDHAN – VATAVARAN ANUKOOL FASAL AWASHESH NIVARAN) YOJANA
• Launched: 2019
• It is a scheme for providing financial support to Integrated Bioethanol Projects using lignocellulosic
biomass and other renewable feedstock.
• Under this Yojana, 12 Commercial Scale and 10 demonstration scale Second Generation (2G) ethanol
Projects will be provided a Viability Gap Funding (VGF) support in two phases:
• Benefits of the Scheme
- Meeting GoI vision of reducing import dependence by way of substituting fossil fuels with Biofuels.
- Achieving GHG emissions reduction targets through progressive blending/substitution of fossil
fuels.
- Addressing environmental & health concerns caused due to burning of biomass/ crop residues.
- Improving farmer income by providing them remunerative income for their otherwise waste
agriculture residues.
- Creating rural & urban employment opportunities in 2G Ethanol projects and Biomass supply chain.
- Contributing to Swacch Bharat Mission by supporting aggregation of non-food biofuel feedstocks
such as waste biomass and urban waste.
- Indigenizing of Second Generation Biomass to Ethanol technologies.
• The ethanol produced by the scheme beneficiaries will be mandatorily supplied to Oil Marketing
Companies (OMCs) to further enhance the blending percentage under EBP Programme.
• Implementation Agency: Centre for High Technology (CHT), a technical body under MoP&NG.
23. MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (MeiTY)
23.1 PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN (PMGDISHA)

• Launched: 2017
• Objective - To make 6 crore rural households digitally literate by March 2019
• An initiative under ‘Digital India’ that intends at making one person in every family digitally literate.
• Target group – Digitally Illiterate people between the age group 14-60 years, nominated from every
eligible rural household.
• Special focus – SC/ST, Minorities, BPL, differently-abled, women in the rural India.
• Training on how to operate a computer, tablet, smartphones, and access the Internet, government
services, undertake digital payment, compose e-mails, etc.
• Implementation: The scheme is implemented by CSC e-Governance Services India Limited, a Special
Purpose Vehicle (SPV) incorporated under the Companies Act 1956.

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23.2 GYAN CIRCLE VENTURES

• It is a MeitY funded Technology Business Incubator (TBI) of Indian Institute of Information Technology,
Sri City (Chittoor), Andhra Pradesh. Recently inaugurated by the Ministry of Education.
• Objective: To promote deep-tech entrepreneurship through financial and technical support to incubators
engaged in using emerging technologies such as the Internet of things (IoT), Artificial intelligence (AI),
Block-chain, Robotics, etc. in areas including manufacturing, education, Smart Cities, etc.
• Key Features
- Gyan Circle Ventures would function as a Technology Incubation and Development of
Entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) incubation centre, as approved by (MeitY).
- Support to Start-ups: It will serve as a hub for innovation and start-ups by providing support, in
various phases, via investments, infrastructure, and mentoring.
- Advisory Committee comprising leading Industrialists, entrepreneurs, and technical experts.
Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE) 2.0
• An initiative of MeitY, with the objective of:
- Fostering and evangelizing a vibrant entrepreneurship ecosystem that inspires budding entrepreneurs as well as
support existing ones and creating entrepreneurship models of both financial as well as social value.
• The Scheme will be implemented through empowering 51 incubators and handholding 2000 tech start-ups in India.
24. MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION
24.1 FIVE STAR VILLAGE SCHEME

• Launched: in 2020 by Department of Posts.
• Aim: To ensure universal coverage of flagship postal schemes in rural areas.
• All postal products and services will be made available and marketed and publicized at the village level,
under the scheme, to bridge the gaps between public awareness & reach of postal products and services.
• The schemes covered under the Five Star scheme include:
1 Savings Bank accounts, Recurrent Deposit Accounts
2 Sukanya Samridhi Accounts/ PPF Accounts,
3 Funded Post Office Savings Account linked India Post Payments Bank Accounts,
4 Postal Life Insurance Policy/Rural Postal Life Insurance Policy and
5 Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana Account / Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana Account.
• Star Rating: If a village attains universal coverage for 4 schemes from the above list, then that village
gets 4-star status, and so on.
• Implementation: By a team of 5 Gramin Dak Sevaks (Headed by Branch Post Master) who will be
assigned a village for marketing all products, savings & insurance schemes of the Department of Posts.
24.2 PM WANI (Wi-Fi ACCESS NETWORK INTERFACE) SCHEME

• Launched: 2020 as a nationwide network of public Wi-Fi hotspots.
• Implementing agency: Department of Telecommunications (DoT)
• Policy origins: DoT’s National Digital Communications Policy, 2018 - Mentions the development of
public Wi-Fi hotspots in rural and urban areas as a goal.
• PM-WANI eco-system will be operated by different players
- 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
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- 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 DoT
• PDOAs and App Providers will get themselves registered with DoT through online registration portal
(SARALSANCHAR), without paying any registration fee.
• There shall be no license fee for providing Broadband Internet through these public Wi-Fi networks.
25. MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
25.1 ONE DISTRICT ONE PRODUCT SCHEME

• Launched: 2018
• Implemented by: Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Department of Commerce, Department
for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
• The initiative is operationally merged with ‘Districts as Export Hub’.
• Objective
- To convert each District of the country into an Export Hub by identifying products with export
potential in the District.
- To address bottlenecks for exporting these products, supporting local exporters/manufacturers
- To scale up manufacturing, and find potential buyers outside India with the aim of promoting
exports, promoting manufacturing & services industry in the District.
• Engagement with state and district agencies: State Export Promotion Committee (SPEC) and District
Export Promotion Committee (DEPC) have been constituted.
• Coverage: Under the initial phase of the ODOP programme, 106 Products have been identified from 103
districts across 27 States.
- Example: In Rajasthan two products namely Blue Pottery (Jaipur) and Markhana Marbels (Nagaur)
are among the identified 106 Products.
25.2 START UP INDIA SEED FUND SCHEME (SISFS)

• Aim: to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product
trials, market entry, and commercialization.
• Execution and Monitoring of the scheme: by an Experts Advisory Committee (EAC) created by DPIIT.
• Process of the SISFS: The seed fund will be distributed to eligible startups through eligible incubators
across India.
- The EAC will select eligible incubators who will be provided grants of upto Rs 5 Crores each.
- The selected incubators will provide startups with up to Rs 20 lakhs for validation of Proof of
Concept, prototype development, product trials to startups.
- Up to Rs 50 lakhs shall be provided to the startups for market entry, commercialization, or scaling
up through convertible debentures or debt-linked instruments.
25.3 NIRVIK (NIRYAT RIN VIKAS YOJANA) SCHEME
• Launched: 2020 and is also called Export Credit Insurance Scheme (ECIS).
• Aim: to provide enhanced insurance cover and reduce premium for small exporters to achieve higher
export credit disbursement.
• Implementation: Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC)
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26. MINISTRY OF FINANCE
26.1 STAND-UP INDIA

• Support entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities.
• Launched: in 2016 (recently extended up to 2025).
• Objective – To facilitate bank loans between 10 lakh and 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 in the non farm sector.
- This enterprise may be in manufacturing, services or the trading sector.
• Refinance agency: through Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).
• Credit guarantee mechanism: through National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company (NCGTC)
• Repayment: loan is repayable in 7 years with a maximum moratorium period of 18 months.
27. MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
27.1 ATAL BIMIT VYAKTI KALYAN YOJANA (ABVKY)

• It is a social security scheme aimed to compensate for
the condition of ‘Frictional Unemployment’. Frictional unemployment
• It occurs when workers are searching for new
• Under the scheme, unemployment benefit is paid to
employment or transitioning from their old
the formal sector workers covered under the
jobs to new ones.
Employees' State Insurance (ESI) scheme.
• Also referred to as natural unemployment as
• Key Objective – To provide a relief in form of cash
it is present even when the economy is
compensation to formal sector workers, directly into
considered at full employment.
their bank accounts, in case of unemployment and
• Causes – Job-Skill mismatch, dissatisfaction
while they search for new engagement.
with working conditions, etc.
• Implementing Agency - The ESI Corporation
• Eligibility Criteria –
- Workers who are Insured Persons (IP) under the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, for a period
of two years continuously, immediately before her/his unemployment.
- The unemployment should not have been as a result of any punishment for misconduct or
superannuation or voluntary retirement.
• Funding - Workers who are left unemployed for whatsoever reasons will be paid money from their own
contribution towards the ESI scheme.
• The person can choose to receive the cash at one go or in instalments.
• New Norms: To provide relief for workers who have lost employment during Covid-19 pandemic period.
ABVKY: Previously ABVKY: After relaxation
Eligibility The Insured Person should have contributed Should have contributed for not less than 78
not less than 78 days during each of the days in the contribution period immediately
preceding 4 contribution periods. preceding the unemployment, and minimum 78
days in 1 of the remaining 3 contribution periods.
Note: In a financial year, there are 2
contribution periods, each of 6 months
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Cash benefit in 25% of average per day earning, upto 90 days 50% of average per day earning, upto 90 days of
case of of unemployment, withdrawable once in a unemployment, withdrawable once in a
unemployment lifetime. lifetime.
Can be claimed 90 days after date of unemployment. 30 days after date of unemployment.
27.2 PRADHAN MANTRI SHRAM YOGI MAAN-DHAN YOJANA (PM-SYM)

• A central sector scheme, launched in 2019.
• Objective - A voluntary and contributory pension scheme for old age protection and social security of
Unorganised Workers (UW).
• Target Beneficiaries - Unorganised Workers (UW) who are mostly engaged as rickshaw pullers, street
vendors, mid-day meal workers, brick kiln workers, cobblers, rag pickers, domestic workers, washer
men, home-based workers, agricultural workers, construction workers, Beedi/handloom/leather
workers, or in similar other occupations.
• Eligibility – (1) Should be an unorganised worker (UW), (2) Entry age between 18 and 40 years, (3)
Monthly Income ₹15000 or below and, (4) Should possess Aadhar card and Savings Bank Account / Jan
Dhan account number with IFSC.
• Exclusion criteria
- Should not be engaged in Organized sector (ie. should not be a member of Employees’ Provident
Fund (EPFO), Employees’ State Insurance Scheme (ESIC), and the National Pension Scheme (NPS)).
- Should not be a tax payer.
• Contribution - The subscriber is required to pay the prescribed age-specific monthly contribution
amount (ranging between Rs 55 to Rs 200 per month) and the Central Government provides the equal
matching contribution.
• Benefits
- Assured monthly pension of Rs. 3000/- to the beneficiaries after attaining the age of 60 years.
- Family Pension - If the subscriber dies, the spouse of the beneficiary shall be entitled to receive
50% of the pension as family pension. Family pension is applicable only to spouse.
- If a beneficiary has given regular contribution and died due to any cause (before age of 60 years),
his/her spouse will be entitled to join and continue the scheme subsequently.
• Implementation agency – Life Insurance Corporation of India and CSC eGovernance Services India
Limited (CSC SPV). LIC will be the Pension Fund Manager and responsible for Pension pay out.
• Enrolment agencies - all the Common Services Centres (CSCs)
• Exit and Withdrawal - Considering the hardships and erratic nature of employability of Unorganised
Workers (UW), the exit provisions of scheme have been kept flexible.
27.3 PRADHAN MANTRI LAGHU VYAPARI MAAN-DHAN YOJANA

• National Pension Scheme for Traders & Self-Employed Persons Scheme (Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari
Maan-dhan Yojana) is a pension scheme for shopkeepers/ retail traders & self-employed persons.
• Launched in 2019, it is a voluntary and contribution based central sector scheme.
• Eligibility –
- Laghu Vyapari 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 etc.
- Entry Age between 18 to 40 years.
- Annual turnover not exceeding Rs 1.5 crore.
- Should not be covered under any other statutory social security schemes such as National Pension
Scheme (NPS), Employees’ State Insurance Corporation scheme, Employees’ Fund Organization
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• Contribution: The applicants between the age group of 18 to 40 years will have to make monthly
contributions (ranging between Rs 55 to Rs 200 per month), in accordance with the age of the eligible
subscriber, till they attain the age of 60. The Central Govt will also make an equal contribution in the
pension fund.
• Benefits
- Assured pension of Rs 3000/- per month, after attaining the age of 60 years.
- If the beneficiary dies after retirement, their spouse shall be entitled to receive 50% of the pension
as family pension ie. Rs. 1500.
- If the beneficiary dies before retirement, the spouse may continue in the scheme by paying the
remaining contributions till the remaining age of the deceased.
- If the beneficiary dies before retirement, if the spouse does not wish to continue, the total
contribution made by the subscriber along with interest will be paid to the spouse.
- If the beneficiary dies before retirement, if there is no spouse, then the corpus shall be credited back
to the fund.
• Benefits on disablement - If an eligible subscriber become permanently disabled due to any cause
before attaining his/her age of 60 years, and is unable to continue to contribute, their spouse shall be
entitled to continue with the Scheme.
• Pension Fund Manager - Life Insurance Corporation of India.
27.4 AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT ROZGAR YOJANA (ABRY)

• Launched: As part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package. A Central Sector scheme.
• Aim: to incentivize creation of new employment opportunities during the COVID-19 recovery phase by
providing assistance to the employers of establishments registered with EPFO, to recruit unemployed
persons, including re-employment of those who were rendered unemployed during the Pandemic.
• Implemented by: Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO).
• Benefits
- For establishments employing upto 1000 employees: Government will pay both employees' and
employers' contribution of wages towards Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) in respect of new
employees for two years.
- For establishments employing more than 1000 employee: Government will pay only employees'
EPF contribution in respect of new employees for two years.
• Eligibility - benefits are provided to every establishment registered with EPFO and their new employees,
earning wage less that Rs. 15,000/- per month.
- New employees – Those who were not working in any establishment registered with Employees'
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28. MINISTRY OF TEXTILES
28.1 NATIONAL TECHNICAL TEXTILE MISSION

• Launched: 2020
• The focus of the Mission is for developing on usage of technical textiles in various flagship missions and
programmes (like Ayushman Bharat, Jal Jeevan, Agriculture etc), including strategic sectors.
• Implementation period: 4 years (2020-21 to 2023-24).
• Components
A. Focus on research and development and innovation:
✓ At both, fibre level and application-based in geo, agro, medical, sports and mobile textiles and
development of bio-degradable technical textiles.
✓ It will also focus on development of indigenous machinery and process equipment.
B. Promotion and development of market for technical textiles: The Mission will aim at taking
domestic market size to $40 billion to $50 billion by 2024
C. Export promotion: An export promotion council for technical textiles will be set up.
D. Education, training and skill development: promote technical education at higher engineering and
technology levels related to technical textiles and its application areas.
TECHNICAL TEXTILES
• Technical textiles or engineered textiles are textile material and products manufactured primarily for technical
performance and functional properties rather than aesthetic and decorative characteristics.
• Applications - Clothing, agriculture, medical, infrastructure, automotive, aerospace, sports, defence and
packaging etc.
TECHNICAL TEXTILES: KEY FACTS
• Indian technical textiles segment estimated at $16 billion = approx. 6% of the global technical textiles market.
• Penetration level of technical textiles in India varies between 5% and 10% against the level of 30% to 70% in
developed countries.
• Distribution - manufacturing units mostly concentrated in Gujarat, Maharashtra & Tamil Nadu.
28.2 SAMARTH SCHEME

• Launched: in 2020. It is known as the “Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector” (SCBTS).
• It is a placement-oriented programme targeting skill development of 10 lakh youth in the entire value
chain of textiles (excluding Spinning & Weaving in the organized Sector).
• Objectives:
- To provide demand-driven, placement-oriented National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF)
compliant skilling programmes.
- To incentivize and supplement the efforts of the industry in creating jobs in the organized textile
and related sectors, covering the entire value chain of textile, excluding Spinning and Weaving.
- To promote skilling and skill upgradation in the traditional sectors of handlooms, handicrafts,
sericulture and jute.
• Implementing Agencies:
- Institutions/Organization of Ministry of Textiles/State Governments having training infrastructure
and placement tie-ups with textile industry.
- Reputed training institutions/ NGOs/ Societies/ Trusts/ Organizations/ Companies /Start Ups /
Entrepreneurs active in textile sector having placement tie-ups with textile industry.
• Placement linked skilling programme with mandatory wage employment in organized sector (70%) and
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• Centralized web-based Management Information System (MIS): shall act as an integrated platform for
registration and empanelment of Implementing Agencies.
29. MINISTRY OF MICRO SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
NEW MSME DEFINITION: a composite criterion of classification of MSMEs based on investment in plant &
machinery/equipment and turnover of MSMEs.
REVISED MSME CLASSIFICATION
Composite Criteria: Investment & Annual Turnover
Classification Micro Small Medium
Manufacturing Investment < Rs. 1 crore Investment < Rs. 10 crore Investment < Rs. 50 crore
& Services Turnover < Rs. 5 crore Turnover < Rs. 50 crore Turnover < Rs. 250 crore
28.1 MSME INITIATIVES
Policy mandates every Central Ministry /Department / PSUs to set an annual

Public Procurement Policy for target of 25% procurement from MSE Sector.
MSME A sub-target of 4% for procurement from MSEs owned by SC/ST entrepreneurs
and a sub-target of 3% for procurement from MSEs owned by women.
Prime Minister’s Employment It offers credit linked subsidy for to establish new enterprises for generating
Guarantee Programme continuous and sustainable employment opportunities in rural and urban areas.
‘Sampark’ portal Bridge between the talent pool and enterprises seeking trained manpower.
An ICT based technology system for making the smaller units big by helping and
Champions Portal handholding them. The portal is not only helping MSMEs in the present situation,
but also providing guidance to grab the new business opportunities.
PSB 59 Minute Loan PSBs Loans upto 1 cr within 59 minutes through an online portal
India Aspiration Fund Refinance for MSME
Credit Guarantee Fund Trust
for Micro and Small To strengthen credit delivery system and facilitate flow of credit to MSE sector.
Enterprises (CGTMSE)
It is to organize the traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make
Scheme of fund for
them competitive and provide support for long term sustainability by way of
Regeneration of Traditional
enhancing markets, improving the skills and strengthening of cluster governance
Industries (SFURTI)
system
ASPIRE (A Scheme for
Promotion of Innovation, To set up a network of technology centres, incubation centres to accelerate
Rural industry & entrepreneurship and promote start-ups in rural and agriculture based industry
Entrepreneurship)
Credit Linked Capital Subsidy
It provides 15% (subject to a limit of 15 Lakhs) capital subsidy for purchase of
Scheme for Technology
Plant and Machinery.
Upgradation
Aim: to rate and handhold all the MSMEs to deliver top quality products using
Zero Defect, Zero effect clean technology (Rating by QCI). It is based on the principles of
scheme • Zero Defect (focus on customer): high quality manufacturing products
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It revolves around Cloud Computing which is emerging as a cost effective and

Digital MSME scheme
viable alternative in comparison to in-house IT infrastructure installed by MSMEs.
SC/ST candidates have been provided capacity building skill/entrepreneurship
National Schedule Caste and
development training in various sectors through 40 autonomous training institutes
Schedule Tribe Hub (NSSH)
across India.
To promote and support new MSMEs. Helps getting NOC, legal compliance,
Udhyami Mitra Yojna
capital, training, plants-machinery-technology etc. to startup entrepreneurs
Launched as a universal loan portal to improve accessibility of credit and
‘Udyamimitra’ Portal handholding services to MSMEs. Entrepreneurs can apply online for MSME loans
up to Rs.2 crore without physically visiting bank branches
A National Level Entrepreneurship Awareness Campaign by SIDBI to train rural
Udyam Abhilasha
youth in aspirational districts to be entrepreneurs.
Udhyam Sakhi
A one stop platform portal launched for emerging women entrepreneurs of India.
MSME Delayed Payment To empower micro & small entrepreneurs across the country to directly register
Portal: MSME Samadhaan their cases relating to delayed payments
Public procurement portal to monitor the implementation of the Public
MSME Sambandh
Procurement from MSMEs by CPSE
• It is technology revolution scheme in the cotton industry, under which
Charkas (Spinning wheel for making Khadi) are operated using solar energy.
Mission Solar Charkha
• Aims to set up 50 clusters in the first phase giving employment opportunities
to nearly 1 lakh people in the rural, areas mostly to women.
Sweet Revolution To increase the production of honey, KVIC has launched Honey Mission.
30. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
30.1 DEFENCE TESTING INFRASTRUCTURE (DTI) SCHEME

• Launched: 2020, Duration: Five years.
• Aim: to provide a focused, structured and significant thrust to indigenous defence manufacturing by
providing state of art testing facilities to the defence design and production industry in India.
• It envisages to setup six to eight new test facilities in partnership with private industry.
• Funding:
- The projects under the Scheme will be provided with up to 75% government funding in the form
of ‘Grant-in-Aid’.
- The remaining 25% of the project cost will have to be borne by the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
whose constituents will be Indian private entities and State Governments.
• The SPVs under the Scheme will be registered under Companies Act 2013 and shall also operate and
maintain all assets under the Scheme, in a self-sustainable manner by collecting user charges.
• The equipment/systems tested will be certified as per appropriate accreditation.
• Significance: This will facilitate indigenous defence production, consequently reduce imports of military
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31. MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
31.1 POWER- PROMOTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN IN EXPLORATORY RESEARCH

•
It is a scheme designed exclusively for women scientists to mitigate gender disparity in science and
engineering research and development.
• Implementing agency: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).
• Need: India has only 16.6% women researchers directly engaged in R&D activities.
• It has two parts:
1. SERB-POWER Fellowship: Science and Engineering Research Board
- Target: Women researchers in 35-55 years of (SERB)
age and up-to 25 Fellowships per year and not • Nature: A statutory body established through
more than 75 at any point in time. the SERB Act, 2008. Established: in 2009.
- Components of Support: • It is chaired by the Secretary, GoI in the
✓ Fellowship of Rs. 15,000/- per month in Department of Science and Technology.
addition to regular income. • Mandate: To promote basic research in
✓ Research grant of Rs. 10 lakh per annum. science and engineering and to provide
✓ Overhead of Rs. 90,000/- per annum. financial assistance to scientists, academic
- Duration: Three years, without the possibility institutions, R&D laboratories, industrial
of extension. Once in a career. concerns and other agencies for such research.
2. SERB-POWER Research Grants:
- Funding under Two Categories for up to 50 Power Grants
✓ Level I: Up to 60 lakhs for three years for applicants from IITs, IISERs, IISc, NITs, Central
Universities, and National Labs of Central Government Institutions.
✓ Level II: Up to 30 lakhs for three years for applicants from State Universities/ Colleges &
Private Academic Institutions.
• Significance - It will serve to empower women scientists and cultivate a women-friendly
culture and ensure more women in leadership positions in decision-making bodies.
31.2 VIGYAN JYOTI AND ENGAGE WITH SCIENCE PROGRAMME

• Department of Science & Technology (DST) and IBM India recently announced collaborations to scale up
to two DST initiatives--Vigyan Jyoti and Engage with Science (Vigyan Prasar).
• Objectives:
- To create a robust STEM ecosystem that nurtures critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and next-
generation innovators.
- Integrate and develop Science & Technology in the education ecosystem with short-term courses,
workshops, mentoring, and online science content communication for teachers and students.
• Vigyan Jyoti programme: It aims at creating a level-playing field for meritorious girls from grade 9 to 12
to pursue STEM in their higher education
- Target: to increase the proportion of girl students enrolled in engineering and technology streams to
one-third of the total.
- Implemented by: Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in 58 districts.
• Engage with Science: Aim at creating excitement and involvement among school students through
tools like gamification and help increase consumption of science and technology content from India
Science and make STEM look aspirational for their future careers.
- Under it, Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization of DST, will build and run ‘Engage with
Science’, a technology-driven interactivity platform, which shall work in tandem with India’s
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31.3 NATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTING MISSION

• Launch approved in 2015, and initiated for a period of 7 years.
• The Mission is being jointly steered by: Department of Science and Technology (DST) & Ministry of
Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
• Implemented by: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, and the Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru.
• Aim:
- The Mission envisages empowering the national academic and R&D institutions spread over the
country by installing a vast supercomputing grid comprising of more than 70 high-performance
computing facilities (HPCs).
- These supercomputers will also be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the
National Knowledge Network (NKN).
✓ The NKN is a GoI initiative under Digital India programme which connects academic institutions
and R&D labs over a high speed network.
• 3 Phases implementation
- Phase I - PARAM Shivay, the first supercomputer assembled indigenously, was installed in IIT (BHU),
followed by PARAM Shakti (in IIT-Kharagpur), PARAM Brahma (in IISER, Pune), PARAM Yukti (in
JNCASR, Bengaluru), PARAM Sanganak (in IIT Kanpur).
✓ PARAM Siddhi - AI, the High-Performance Computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI)
supercomputer, recently achieved global ranking of 62 in TOP 500 most powerful
supercomputer systems in the world.
- Phase II: the speed of supercomputers in the country will reach around 16 Petaflops (PF)
- Phase III: initiated in January 2021 will take the computing speed to around 45 PF.
• The Mission also includes development of highly professional High Performance Computing
(HPC) aware human resource for meeting challenges of development of these applications.
- PARAM Shavak is one such machine that has been deployed to provide training.
• India has developed an Indigenous server (Rudra), which can meet the HPC requirements of all
governments and PSUs. This is the first time that a server system was made in India, along with the full
software stack developed by C-DAC.
31.4 ACCELERATE VIGYAN (AV) SCHEME

• Launched by - SERB to strengthen scientific research mechanisms in India.
• Objective: It strives to provide a big push to high-end scientific research and prepare scientific
manpower which can venture into research careers and a knowledge-based economy.
• Implementation: Inter-Ministerial Overseeing Committee (IMOC) involving all the scientific
ministries/departments has been constituted for the implementation of the AV scheme.
• Components: AV has Two components
1. SAMOOHAN (Bring Together): Aims to encourage, aggregate, and consolidate all scientific
interactions in the country under one common roof. It has two parts:
✓ SAYONJIKA: it aims to catalogue capacity-building activities in science & technology supported
by government funding agencies.
✓ SANGOSHTI: it aims to facilitate the scientific community to establish an interaction with other
individuals and research groups to enhance knowledge exchange.
2. ABHYAAS: Mission ‘ABHYAAS’ is an attempt to boost Research & Development in India by enabling
and grooming potential PG / Ph.D. level students by developing dedicated research skills in selected

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areas/disciplines/fields through high-end workshops and Training and Skill Internship. It has two
components
✓ KARYASHALA: High-End Workshops
✓ VRITIKA: Research Internships
31.5 SOPHISTICATED ANALYTICAL & TECHNICAL HELP INSTITUTES (SATHI)

• Objective - To address the need for building shared, professionally managed and strong Science and
Technology infrastructure in India, which is readily accessible to academia, start-ups, manufacturing,
industry and R&D labs.
• Such S&T infrastructure will be known as Sophisticated Analytical &Technical Help Institute (SATHI).
• Centres - DST has already set up three such centres the first phase SATHI, one each at IIT Kharagpur, IIT
Delhi and BHU. It is planned to set up 4 SATHI Centres every year for the next 4 years.
• SATHI facilities will be used for 80% of their available time by External Users i.e. out-side of the Host
Institutes and rest 20% of available time for Internal Users of the Host Institute.
• Significance:
- Efficient use of Resources: SATHI will address the problems of accessibility, maintenance,
redundancy and duplication of expensive equipment in Institutions, while reaching out to the less
endowed organizations in need, e.g., industry, MSMEs, startups and State Universities.
- Collaborative effort: This will also foster a strong culture of collaboration between institutions
and across disciplines to take advantage of developments, innovations and expertise in diverse
areas.
32. MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES
32.1 DEEP OCEAN MISSION (DOM)

• The mission proposes to explore the deep ocean similar to the space exploration started by ISRO. It is
an effort to tap into the blue ocean economics.
• Broad Objectives of DOM: Development of technologies for exploration and harnessing of living and
non-living resources (deep-sea mining).
• The targeted depth to be reached is 5-6 km into the sea, where the resource availability, living
organisms, environmental conditions, etc. are to be studied and understood.
• The Deep Ocean Mission consists of the following six major components:
1. Development of Technologies for Deep Sea Mining, and Manned Submersible: help the Blue
Economy (BE) priority area of exploring and harnessing of deep sea minerals and energy.
2. Development of Ocean Climate Change Advisory Services: support the BE priority area of coastal
tourism.
3. Technological innovations for exploration and conservation of deep-sea biodiversity: support the
BE priority area of Marine Fisheries and allied services.
4. Deep Ocean Survey and Exploration: support BE priority area of deep sea exploration of ocean
resource.
5. Advanced Marine Station for Ocean Biology: support the BE priority area of Marine Biology, Blue
trade and Blue manufacturing.
6. Energy and freshwater from the Ocean: support BE priority area of off-shore energy development.

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33. MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
33.1 NATIONAL CLEAN AIR PROGRAMME (NCAP)

• Launched: 2020
• It is a long-term, time-bound, national level strategy to tackle the air pollution problem across India, in
a comprehensive manner.
• Objectives
- Stringent implementation of mitigation measures to prevent, control, & abatement of air pollution.
- Augmenting and strengthen air quality monitoring networks across the country.
- Strengthening public awareness and capacity-building measures.
• Target - Achieve a national-level target of 20-30% reduction of PM2.5 and PM10 concentration by 2024,
taking 2017 as the base year for comparison.
• Coverage - The plan includes 122 non-attainment cities, across 23 states and Union territories, which
were identified by CPCB on the basis of their ambient air quality data from 2014-2018.
• Duration - The NCAP will be a mid-term, five-year action plan with 2019 as the first year.
• It incorporates measures for urban as well as rural areas, including trans-boundary air pollution.
33.2 NAGAR VAN (URBAN FORESTRY SCHEME)

• Launched: on June 5th 2020 (World Environment Day).
• MoEFCC selected Arunachal Pradesh capital (Itanagar) for implementation of Urban Forestry
the ‘Nagar Van’ scheme. It is care/management
• Objective: developing 200 Nagar Van (City Forests) across India, over next 5 of tree populations in
years, by involving local communities, educational institutions, local bodies, urban settings for
NGOs etc purpose of improving
• Maintenance: Nagar Van Udyan, once established, will be maintained by the urban environment.
State Government.
• Funding: Ministry would offer an initial grant of ₹2 crores. Assistance under Compensatory Afforestation
Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) Fund will be provided for this initiative.
33.3 INDIA CLIMATE CHANGE KNOWLEDGE PORTAL

• Recently, the MoEFCC launched the India Climate Change Knowledge Portal.
• The portal will help in disseminating knowledge among citizens about all the major steps Government is
taking at both national and international levels to address climate change issues.
• The portal will be a “single point Information resource” which provides information on the different
climate initiatives taken by various Ministries
• It captures sector-wise adaptation and mitigation actions by Ministries in one place, including updated
information on their implementation.
• According to the Central government, India has practically achieved its pre-2020 climate action targets.
34. MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
34.1 SWADES SCHEME

• SWADES - Skilled Workers Arrival Database for Employment Support.
• Objective - To conduct a skill mapping exercise of the returning citizens under the Vande Bharat
Mission (repatriation mission for Indians stranded abroad due to COVID-19).

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• It aims to create a database of qualified citizens to tap into and fulfil demand of Indian and foreign
companies.
• It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), the Ministry of
Civil Aviation and the Ministry of External Affairs.
• MSDE’s implementation arm National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) is supporting the
implementation of the project.
35. NITI AAYOG
35.1 AIM-PRIME
• NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) recently launched AIM-PRIME (Program for Researchers on
Innovations, Market-Readiness & Entrepreneurship).
• Objective: It is aimed at promoting science-based, deep technology ideas to market through training
and guidance over a period of 9 months.
• The initiative was launched in collaboration with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and will be
implemented by Venture Center, a non-profit technology business incubator.
• Target Beneficiaries: The first cohort of the program is open to
- Technology developers (early-stage deep tech start-ups, and scientists/ engineers/ clinicians).
- CEOs and senior incubation managers of AIM Funded Atal Incubation Centres.
DEEP TECHNOLOGY
• The term “deep tech” is described as technology that is based on tangible engineering innovation or scientific
advances and discoveries. It is an outcome of very intense research and development (R&D) with high
knowledge content.
• Application: Life Sciences, Processing & Computing, Food & AgriTech, Energy & Clean tech, Infrastructure, etc.
35.2 AIM-iCREST
• Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) recently
launched AIM-iCREST (Incubator Capabilities What is an Incubator?
enhancement for a Robust Ecosystem for high • Business incubators are institutions that support
performing Startups), to encourage and enable entrepreneurs in developing their businesses,
holistic progress in the incubator ecosystem especially in initial stages.
across India. • Incubation is usually done by institutions which have
• Launched: in partnership with the Bill & experience in the business and technology world.
Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani • There are different types of incubators:
Foundation. 1. Academic institutions
• Objective – It has been designed to enable the 2. Non-profit development corporations
incubation ecosystem and act as a growth hack 3. For-profit development ventures
for AIM’s Atal and Established incubators 4. Venture capital firms, & combinations of above.
across India.
- Atal Incubation Centres (AICs) - new greenfield incubation centres.
- Established Incubation Centres (EICs) - brownfield established startup incubators, who needs to be
supported to augment, enhance and upgrade their incubation capacity.
• Under the initiative, the AIM’s incubators will be upscaled and provided requisite support to foster the
incubation enterprise economy.
• This will be complemented by providing training to entrepreneurs through technology driven processes.

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35.3 AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT ARISE-ANIC INITIATIVE

• Recently, launched by Atal Innovation Mission (AIM).
• It stands for Atal New India Challenges in Applied Research and Innovation for Medium and Small
Enterprises (ARISE).
• Objective: To spur applied research and innovation in Indian MSMEs and start-ups.
• It will be driven by following to facilitate innovative solutions to sectoral problems.
- Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
- Four ministries: Ministry of Defence; Ministry of Food Processing Industries; Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare; and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
- Associated industries.
• Key features:
- Promote and encourage entrepreneurs to develop new products: by advising Ministries to become
first buyers to encourage innovative products.
- Sectoral specific approach: 15 sector-specific challenges will be selected where challenges are kept
for each ministry.
- Incentive based approach: A grant-of-aid of up Rs. 50 lakhs for a period of 9 to 12 months have been
earmarked for start-ups to develop a minimum usable prototype.
- Innovators would also be attracted by using the Mahatma Gandhi Challenge method
✓ The method was launched on the 150th birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
✓ It provides a platform for every child across India to ideate innovative solutions for a sustainable
India of their dreams, using Gandhi’s principles.
- Broad categories in the challenge: like Art & Innovation and Science, Technology & Innovation.
- Supplement government programs such as Make in India, Start-up India and Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
- ISRO will adopt 100 Atal Tinkering Labs from Atal Innovation Mission.
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MOST IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT SCHEMES: TARGET PRELIMS 2021

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30. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 34. MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

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1. MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE

1.1 NATIONAL DIGITAL HEALTH MISSION (NDHM)

NATIONAL DIGITAL HEALTH BLUEPRINT (NDHB)

HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT POLICY (HDMP)

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1.2 PM ATMANIRBHAR SWASTH BHARAT SCHEME (PMASBY)

1.3 PRADHAN MANTRI SWASTHYA SURAKSHA NIDHI (PMSSN)

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✓ Emergency & disaster preparedness and responses during health emergencies

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1.4 SURAKSHIT MATRITVA AASHWASAN (SUMAN) INITIATIVE

1.5 MISSION INDRADHANUSH

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1.6 RASHTRIYA AROGYA NIDHI (RAN)

1.8 IT INITIATIVES FOR HEALTH

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2.1 TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE DIGITAL LIBRARY (TKDL)

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2.2 SCHEME FOR PHARMACOVIGILANCE OF AYUSH DRUGS

2.3 SWASTHYA RAKSHA PROGRAMME

2.4 OTHER INITIATIVES

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3. MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS

3.1 SCHEMES FOR MEDICAL DEVICES AND BULK DRUGS

3.1.2 PROMOTION OF MEDICAL DEVICES PARKS SCHEME

3.1.3 SCHEME FOR PROMOTION OF BULK DRUG PARKS

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3.2 SCHEME FOR SETTING UP PLASTIC PARKS

4.1 NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY (NEP), 2020: NEWLY LAUNCHED INITIATIVES

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4.2 SARTHAQ - NEP IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION

4.3 NISHTHA – INTEGRATED TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME

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4.4 NIPUN BHARAT MISSION

4.5 DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCHOOL EDUCATION (DIKSHA) PORTAL

4.6 STRENGTHENING TEACHING-LEARNING AND RESULTS FOR STATES (STARS) PROJECT

4.7 MoE’s INNOVATION CELL (MIC)

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KEY INITIATIVES UNDER MIC

4.8 INITIATIVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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4.8.2 MARGADARSHAN AND MARGADARSHAK SCHEME

4.8.4 NATIONAL TESTING AGENCY (NTA)

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