23rd January 2016, Ms Bhargavi Dave, IAS has taken the session on ' New Dimensions of Research in Economics ' in the 15 th State Level Conference organised by Gujarat University Teachers association and Department of Rural Economics, Gujarat Vidyapith.
5. GDP GROWTH –ASIAN DEVELOPMENT
OUTLOOK 2015 - 16
The weak monsoon, flagging external
demand, and stalled parliamentary action on
structural reforms, including a revamped
domestic tax system and eased restrictions on
land acquisition and labor, are expected to
slow India’s economy. With growth in the
industrial economies falling short of earlier
assumptions, growth forecasts are revised
down for both financial year 2015 and 2016.
9. SKILL INDIA – MAIN OBJECTIVES
• Upgrade skills to international standards through significant industry
involvement and develop necessary frameworks for standards, curriculum and
quality assurance
•Enhance, support and coordinate private sector initiatives for skill
development through appropriate Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models;
strive for significant operational and financial involvement from the private
sector
• Play the role of a "market-maker" by bringing financing, particularly in sectors
where market mechanisms are ineffective or missing
• Prioritize initiatives that can have a multiplier or catalytic effect as opposed to
one-off impact.
10. SKILL INDIA – ACHIEVEMENTS
• Over 5.2 million students trained
• 235 private sector partnerships for training and capacity building, each to train
at least 50,000 persons over a 10-year period.
• 38 Sector Skill Councils (SSC) approved in services, manufacturing, agriculture
& allied services, and informal sectors.
• 1386 Qualification Packs with 6,744 unique National Occupational Standards
(NOS). These have been validated by over 1000 companies.
• Vocational training introduced in 10 States, covering 2400+ schools, 2 Boards,
benefitting over 2.5 lakh students.
• Skill Development Management System (SDMS) with 1400 training partners,
28179 training centres, 16479 trainers, 20 Job portals, 77 assessment agencies
and 4983 empanelled assessors.
14. DIGITAL INDIA- NATIONAL DIGITAL LITERACY
MISSION PROGRAMME
•Initiate entrepreneurship and bring uniform digital Literacy
•Bring socio-economic impact at rural regions;
•Digital Literacy: Tools for Information Society
•NDLM and Supplementary Education
•Helped Learning to Think Critically: Youths and Digital Literacy Skills
•NDLM and Women Empowerment
•NDLM as Knowledge Centres
Source: Digital Empowerment Foundation
16. INNOVATION
Mahatma Gandhi's Announcement of a Design Competition, 24th July 1929 One
Lakh Rupees or 7700 Pounds Prize!
Akhila Bharatiya Charkhaa Sangh Worker's Samiti has decided to organize this
contest for inventors and engineers all over the world that if they could come up
with a Charkha or a Samyukta Yantra which - for making the thread and cloth that
satisfies the mentioned criterion - shall be awarded prize money of 1 Lakh Rupees
or 7700 pounds.
Present value about Rs. 10 crore. Do we lack the resources? Why do we live with
the problems unsolved for so long ?
19. START UP INDIA
The year also witnessed hyper-growth in the technology startup and
software product landscape, India ranking as the fourth largest start-up
hub in the world with over 3,100 start-ups in the country
Going by NASSCOM data, the survey projects export revenues of the
sector to grow by 12%-14% to reach US$ 110-112 billion and domestic
revenues by 10%-15% to reach US$ 23-24 billion during 2015-16
Source: the Economic Survey 2014-15
21. WHY SMART VILLAGE ????
India lives in its 5 lakh village
Gujarat lives in its 18,000 villages
Metros , Cities and Towns are smaller area and lot
of things are happening to make it smart , techno
savvy and digitized .
On the other hand villages are in a shabby
condition and especially villages on the periphery
of big cities neither inheritate legacy of natural
rural life and nor having decent urban amenities
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MOU WITH M-PESA
M-Pesa is a mobile phone-based money transfer, financing
and microfinancing service, launched in 2007
by Vodafone for Safaricom and Vodacom, the largest mobile network
operators in Kenya and Tanzania.[1] It has since expanded to Afghanistan,
South Africa, India and in 2014 to Eastern Europe. M-Pesa allows users to
deposit, withdraw, transfer money and pay for goods and services (Lipa na
M-Pesa) easily with a mobile device
Impact
1. Users began to make smaller, more frequent transfers.
2. The income of rural recipients increased by up to 30 percent since
they started using M-PESA.
3. M-PESA empowers rural women by making it easier for them to
solicit funds from their husbands and other contacts in the city.
4. Urban migrants began to make home visits less frequently after
adopting M-PESA.
5. Users are integrating M-PESA into their savings portfolio. As a result,
savings patterns are changing.