The central government is the welfare government that is why its social welfare schemes are made to increase the welfare of the general public. Schemes of the Central Government have three categories. These categories are “Core of Core Schemes”, “Core Schemes” and Major Central Sector Schemes.
7. The Prime Minister Of India Launched The Swachh Bharat Mission On 2nd
October, 2014.
The aim to achieve Swachh Bharat by 2019, as a fitting tribute to Mahatma
Gandhi on his 150th Birth Anniversary.
Objectives
To bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas,
by promoting cleanliness, hygiene and eliminating open defecation.
To accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to achieve the vision of Swachh
Bharat by 2nd October 2019.
To motivate communities to adopt sustainable sanitation practices and facilities
through awareness creation and health education.
To encourage cost effective and appropriate technologies for ecologically safe
and sustainable sanitation.
To develop, wherever required, community managed sanitation systems focusing
on scientific Solid & Liquid Waste Management systems for overall cleanliness in
the rural areas.
To create significant positive impact on gender and promote social inclusion by
improving sanitation especially in marginalized communities.
The Swachh Bharat Mission
8. Merits/Advantages:
Boost in Tourism
Improve Health of Masses
Adoption of Clean Technology
Improve Productivity of Individuals
Attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Demerits/Disadvantages:
Needs a lot of support
Improbability of sustained effort
Difficulty in enforcement
No clear goals
The Swachh Bharat Mission
12. The prime minister of India launched the digital India program on 1 July
2015.
A campaign launched to ensure the government services are made
available to citizens electronically
Improved online infrastructure
Increasing internet connectivity
Making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology.
The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high-speed
internet networks.
Digital India consists of three core components,
Development of secure and stable digital infrastructure,
Delivering government services digitally
Universal digital literacy.
Digital India
14. Objective
Make 6 Crore people in rural areas, across India, digitally literate,
reaching to around 40% of rural households by covering one
member from every eligible household by March 2019.
New digital service
Bharat net,
Digital Locker
E-education,
E-health,
E-sign,
E-shopping
National scholarship portal.
As the part of Digital India, Indian Government planned to launch
Botnet cleaning centers.
National e-Governance Plan aimed at bringing all the front-end
government services online.
Digital India
15. E-SAMPARK VERNACULAR EMAIL
SERVICE
Out of 10% English speaking Indians, only 2% reside
in rural areas. Rest everyone depends on their
vernacular language for all living their lives.
However, as of now, email addresses can only be
created in English language.
To connect rural India with the Digital India, the
Government of India impelled email services
provider giants including Gmail, office and Rediff
to provide the email address in regional
Languages.
An Indian-based company, Data Xgen Technologies
Pvt Ltd, has launched world’s first free linguistic
email address under the name ‘DATAMAIL’ which
allows creating email ids in 8 Indian languages,
English; and 3 foreign languages – Arabic, Russian
and Chinese.
Over the period of time the email service in 22
languages will be offered by Data XGen
Technologies.
Digital India
18. The Prime Minister Of India Launched The Heritage City Development
and Augmentation Yojana On 21 January 2015.
Objectives
Planning, development, and implementation of heritage-sensitive
infrastructure
Service Delivery and infrastructure provisioning in the core areas of the
historic city
Preserve and revitalise heritage wherein tourists can connect directly with
city’s unique character
Develop and document a heritage asset inventory of cities – natural,
cultural, living and built heritage
Implementation and enhancement of basic services delivery with focus on
sanitation services.
Local capacity enhancement for inclusive heritage-based industry
HRIDAY
19. Need for the scheme
India is endowed with rich and diverse natural, historic and cultural
resources.
However, it is yet to explore the full potential of such resources to its full
advantages.
Scheme statement
To undertake strategic and planning development of heritage cities aiming
at improvement in overall quality of life with specific focus on sanitation ,
security, tourism, heritage revitalization and livelihoods retaining the city’s
cultural identity.
India is a palette of different cultures, religions, traditions, home of various
forms of art & handicrafts, music and literature, architectural styles et al.
However, it is yet to explore the full potential of such resources .
HRIDAY
23. The Prime Minister Of India Launched The Stand Up India Mission On 5
April 2016.
Objective
The objective of this launch is to promote entrepreneurship in India,
especially among women, SC and ST communities.
While launching the programme, PM Modi said
“Stand up India aims to empower
every Indian and enable them to
stand on their own feet.
Soon the job seeker would
become a job provider”.
Stand Up India
24. Merits/Advantages:
Weak Tax structure
Technological dependency
Demerits/Disadvantages:
Issue 1,25,000 bank branches will
give away the loan
Issue Tax structure
Issue Basic infrastructure
Stand Up India
28. The Prime Minister Of India Launched The Fasal Bima Yojna On 11
October 2014 .
Agriculture in India is highly susceptible to risks like droughts and
floods. It is necessary to protect the farmers from natural calamities
and ensure their credit eligibility for the next season. For this
purpose, the Government of India introduced many agricultural
schemes throughout the country.
Objectives
Provide insurance cover to rabi and kharif crops and financial support
to farmers in case of damage of crops.
In order to make crop insurance simpler and cheaper for the farmers
and to provide them with better insurance services, a Central Sector
Scheme of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFSY) was launched
by the Government of India replacing NAIS and MNAIS.
Under the new scheme, farmers will have to pay a uniform premium
of two per cent for all kharif crops and 1.5 per cent for all rabi crops.
Fasal Bima Yojna
29. Demerits/Disadvantages:
Increase in Centre's fiscal load
Less political will for states to
cooperate
Lack of contact between
insurance companies and farmers
Large number of farmers still
outside PMFBY net
Low Farmer
Irregular Funding in reality.
Ground-Reality
Merits/Advantages:
Maximum benefits by
paying minimal premium.
Post-harvest loss covered
Wide coverage of crops
"Capping" done away with
Fast assessment of crop
losses
Expected to stabilise
income of farmers and
provide credit flow.
Fasal Bima Yojna
33. The Prime Minister Of India Launched The Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao On 22
January 2015
Objectives
To generate awareness and improving the efficiency of welfare services meant
for women. The scheme is to have as focused intervention and multi-section
action in almost 100 districts with low Child Sex Ratio (CSR).
Strategies
Strategies employed to successfully carry out the scheme are:
Implement a sustained Social Mobilization and Communication Campaign to
create equal value for the girl child and promote her education.
Place the issue of decline in CHILD SEX RATIO/SEX RATIO AT BIRTH in public
discourse, improvement of which would be an indicator for good
governance.
Focus on Gender Critical Districts and Cities.
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao
34. Advantages
The scheme aims at making girls independent both socially and also
financially through education.
To generate awareness and improve the efficiency of delivery of welfare
services meant for women.
‘Sukanya Samridhi Yojana’
The effect of the Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao scheme is visible in a short period
of 2 years of its launch. The sex ratio has crossed up to 950 females per
1000 males.
During the last two years the ratio of women police officers has increased to
8.5% from the earlier 6 percent.
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao
39. Mission Indradhanush is a health mission of the government of India.
The Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda Launched The Indradanush On 25 December 2014
Objective
It aims to immunize all children under the age of 2 years, as well as all pregnant
women, against seven vaccine preventable diseases.
The diseases being targeted are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis,
tuberculosis, measles and Hepatitis B.
In addition to these, vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis and Haemophilus influenzae
type B are also being provided in selected states.
In 2016, four new additions have been made namely Rubella, Japanese Encephalitis,
Injectable Polio Vaccine Bivalent and Rotavirus.
In 2017, pneumonia was added to the Mission by incorporating Pneumococcal
conjugate vaccine under Universal Immunization Programme
Updates in the vaccines
It is expected that there would be a release of four new vaccines that have been
added to the Union Governments Mission Indradhanush followed by an announcement
made by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jaggat Prakash Nadda.
As per reports the new vaccines inactivate
Polio vaccine
Rotavirus vaccine
Adult Japanese Encephalitis
Measles Rubella vaccine
Mission Indradanush
40. Mission Indradhanush is a health mission of the government of India.
The Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda Launched The Indradanush On 25 December 2014
Objective
It aims to immunize all children under the age of 2 years, as well as all pregnant
women, against seven vaccine preventable diseases.
The diseases being targeted are diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, poliomyelitis,
tuberculosis, measles and Hepatitis B.
In addition to these, vaccines for Japanese Encephalitis and Haemophilus influenzae
type B are also being provided in selected states.
In 2016, four new additions have been made namely Rubella, Japanese Encephalitis,
Injectable Polio Vaccine Bivalent and Rotavirus.
In 2017, pneumonia was added to the Mission by incorporating Pneumococcal
conjugate vaccine under Universal Immunization Programme
Updates in the vaccines
It is expected that there would be a release of four new vaccines that have been
added to the Union Governments Mission Indradhanush followed by an announcement
made by the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jaggat Prakash Nadda.
As per reports the new vaccines inactivate
Polio vaccine
Rotavirus vaccine
Adult Japanese Encephalitis
Measles Rubella vaccine
Mission Indradanush
41. The coverage area
The first and second phase had 1.48 crore children and 38 lakh pregnant women
additionally immunised. Of these around 39 lakh children and more than 20 lakh
women have been additionally fully immunised. Across the country, 21.3 lakh
sessions held through the country in the high and mid-priority districts and more
than 3.66 crores antigens were administered.
The third phase had 28.7 lakh immunisation sessions that were conducted covering
2.1 crore children of which 55 lakh were fully immunised. Along with 55.9 lakh
pregnant women that were given the tetanus toxoid vaccine across the 497 districts.
Strategy of Mission Indradhanush
Mission Indradhanush will be a national immunisation ambition to strengthen key
functional areas of immunisation for ensuring a high coverage throughout the
country with special attention to the districts with low immunisation coverage.
The wide strategy is based on evidence and best practices that would include four of
the basic elements:
Meticulous planning of campaigns/sessions at every level
Effective communication and social mobilisation efforts
Establish accountability framework through task forces
Intensive training of the health officials and frontline workers
Mission Indradanush
45. Skill India
The Prime Minister Of India Launched The
Skill India On 15 July 2015
Objectives
Skill India aims to train over 40 crore
people in India in different skills by
2022.
The main goal of Skill India Program is
to create opportunities, space and
scope for the development of talents
of the Indian youth.
The scheme also targeted to identify
new sectors for skill development and
develop more of those sectors which
have already been put under skill
development for the last so many
years.
46. Skill India Initiative
Various initiatives under this campaign are:
National Skill Development Mission
National Policy for Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship, 2015
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)
Skill Loan scheme
Rural India Skill
Impact
As of 15 February 2016, the "Indian Leather
Development Programme" trained 51,216
youth in a span of 100 days and it plans to
train 1,44,000 young persons annually. Four
new branches of "Footwear Design &
Development Institute" —
at Hyderabad, Patna, Banur (Punjab)
and Ankleshwar (Gujarat) — are being set up
to improve training infrastructure. The
industry is undergoing acute skill shortage
and most of the people trained are being
absorbed by the industry
Skill India
50. The Prime Minister Of India Launched The Smart City Mission On 25 June 2015
An urban renewal and retrofitting program by the Government of India with the
mission to develop 100 cities across the country making them citizen friendly
and sustainable.
The Union Ministry of Urban Development is responsible for implementing the
mission in collaboration with the state governments of the respective cities.
Objectives
The objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give
a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment
and application of 'Smart' Solutions.
Smart City Mission
51. Smart City Mission
• Potentially, better governance.
• Lower crime. Smart Cities
Merits/
Advantages:
• Big concentration of power.
• Potentially, overreliance on
electronics/’the network’.
Demerits/
Disadvantages:
55. The Prime Minister Of India Launched Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana On 25 June 2015
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an initiative by Government of India in
which affordable housing will be provided to the urban poor with a target of
building 20 million affordable houses by 31 March 2022.
It has two components:
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) (PMAY-U) for the urban poor
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin) (PMAY-G and also PMAY-R) for the rural
poor.
Cumulative total number of funded houses approved thus far is 39,25,240 in
urban area including the subsumed RAY scheme and completion of
construction of 5 million rural houses by March 2018 and 10 million rural
houses by March 2019.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
56. The government will provide an interest subsidy of 6.5% on housing loans availed by the
beneficiaries for a period of 20 years under credit link subsidy scheme (CLSS) from the
start of a loan. the houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana would be constructed
through a technology that is eco-friendly, while allotting ground floors in any housing
scheme under PMAY, preference will be given to differently abled and older persons.
Finance
The government has approved an investment of ₹439.22 billion (US$6.5 billion) for
construction of 6,83,724 houses for urban poor including central assistance
commitment of ₹100.50 billion (US$1.5 billion) by April 2016.
Eligibility criteria
Condition for PMAY:
Beneficiary max age 70 years,
EWS (Economic Weaker Section) annual income Less than Rupees 3 Lac, LIG (Lower Income
Group) Annual Income 3,00,001 to 6,00,000 Lac INR as well as Mid Income group since Feb
2017
The beneficiary should not have an own dwelling unit on the name of any family member in
any part of India.
The houses given under this scheme will be owned by females or jointly with males.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
57.
58. BJP vs Congress
Congress basically believes only one family can lead it to victory. BJP has leaders changing as per
time.
Congress and its allies believes in dividing the Hindus (majority) and uniting the minority. BJP
believes in uniting the Majority and dividing the minority.
Congress cares a lot about Minority Sentiments and ignores the majority ones. BJP takes care of the
majority sentiments and ignores the minority sentiments.
Congress is infamous for Corruption including the Dynasty themselves found entangled in National
Herald type cases. BJP believes in tying up with any corrupt leader to win votes.
Congress is good with tying up with Minority Community Leaders who give hate speeches. BJP is
good with tying up with Majority Community Leaders who give hate speeches.
Modi is viewed as someone who is working very hard for the country and can do something as he has
shown everyone a dream(however distant the dream may be).
Rahul Gandhi is looked on as a leader who needs more maturity to handle politics even by his own
allies
Political funding in India has long lacked transparency and undocumented cash -- known as black
money -- is regularly used to fund campaigns.
59. On 15 June, 2017,
Congress Member Of Parliament Shashi Tharoor
Claimed That 23 Of
The BJP-led Government’s New Programs
Were Merely Renamed Versions Of Schemes
Launched By
The Previous Governments Led By His Party.
60. 19 Of The 23 Programs Were Indeed Renamed
Versions Of Older Schemes
Claim 1: Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana = Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account
Claim 2: Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana = National Girl Child Day programmes
Claim 3: Swach Bharat Abhiyan = Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan
Claim 4: Sardar Patel National Urban Housing Mission = Rajiv Awaas Yojana
Claim 5: Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin) = Indira Awaas Yojana
Claim 6: Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana = Rajiv Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana
Claim 7: Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation = Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
Claim 8:BJP’s neem-coated urea = Congress’s neem-coated urea
Claim 9: Soil Health Card scheme = National Project on Management of Soil Health and Fertility
Claim 11: Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana = Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana and other programmes
Claim 13: Atal Pension Yojana = Swavalamban Yojana
Claim 14: Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Yojana = Jan Aushadhi scheme
Claim 16: Make In India = National Manufacturing Policy
Claim 17: Digital India = National eGovernance Plan
Claim 18: Skill India = National Skill Development Programme
Claim 19: Mission Indradhanush = Universal Immunisation Programme
Claim 20: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana = National Rural Livelihood Mission
Claim 21: PAHAL = Direct Benefits Transfer for LPG
Claim 22: BharatNet = National Optic Fibre Network