Government Schemes
Government Schemes
Government Schemes
Ayushman Bharat
On September 23, 2018, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Ayushman
Bharat, world's largest government-funded healthcare scheme in Jharkhand's capital
Ranchi. The Centre's flagship scheme has been renamed as PM Jan Arogya Yojana
(PMJAY). The scheme become operational from September 25 on the birth anniversary
of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay.
Ayushman Bharat is National Health Protection Scheme, which will cover over 10 crore
poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage
upto 5 lakh rupees per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization.
Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission will subsume the on-going
centrally sponsored schemes - Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) and the Senior
Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS).
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To ensure that the funds reach SHA on time, the transfer of funds from Central
Government through Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission to
State Health Agencies may be done through an escrow account directly.
In partnership with NITI Aayog, a robust, modular, scalable and interoperable IT
platform will be made operational which will entail a paperless, cashless
transaction.
NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES
Ayushman Bharat - National Health Protection Mission will target about 10.74 crore
poor, deprived rural families and identified occupational category of urban workers'
families as per the latest Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data covering both rural
and urban. The scheme is designed to be dynamic and aspirational and it would take
into account any future changes in the exclusion/ inclusion/ deprivation/ occupational
criteria in the SECC data.
Ekalvya School
Ekalvya schools will be established for scheduled caste (SC) and schedule tribe students
by 2022 on the lines of Navodaya schools. They will be model residential schools set up
in each Block. It will in areas with more than 50% tribal areas and 20,000 tribal people.
These schools will be part of Navodaya Vidyalayas. It will provide training in sports and
skill development. It has special facilities for preserving local art and culture.
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Kisan Credit Card to Fishermen and Cattle owners
Kisan Credit Card was extended to fishermen and cattle owners. It will enable them to
avail the easier loans. It will help people associated with milk production business in
rural areas by providing financial assistance and also to fisheries.
Gobar-Dhan Yojna
Gobar-Dhan Yojana (also known as Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resource Fund
scheme) aims to improve lives of the villagers. Under it, solid waste of dung and fields
will be changed into compost, biogas and bio-CNG
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Saubhagya scheme
Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya, to provide electricity
connections to over 40 million families in rural and urban areas by December 2018.
The scheme funds the cost of last-mile connectivity to willing households to help
achieve the goal of lighting every household by 31 December 2018.
To ensure on-the-spot registration, mobile applications will be used. While free
connections will be provided to below poverty line (BPL) households, even those not
covered under this category can avail it by paying Rs500 in 10 instalments of Rs50
each along with their monthly bill.
For those household where the national electricity grid can’t reach, households will
be provided with solar power packs along with battery banks. State-run Rural
Electrification Corp. is the nodal agency for the scheme.
The beneficiaries for free electricity connections will be identified using Socio
Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 data.
The scheme will help India, the world’s third-largest energy consumer after the US
and China, to help meet its global climate change commitments as electricity will
substitute kerosene for lighting purposes. Lighting in turn will also help in
improving education, health, connectivity with the multiplier effect of increased
economic activities and job creation.
UDAN Scheme
Govt Scheme for Cheap Air Travel at 2500/- Per Hour
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government has launched a new scheme
named as UDAN (Udey Desh ka Aam Nagrik) to make the air travel cheaper. Under the
new UDAN scheme, people in tier 2 and tier 3 cities can fly at just Rs. 2500/- per hour.
The main objective of the UDAN scheme is to provide the cheaper air travel opportunity
to all the people in the country. The scheme also aims to make operational almost 50
underutilized airports across the nation.
Under the UDAN scheme, the fare for regional domestic flights will be capped at Rs.
2500/- per hour of flight for a fixed wing aircraft. One hour of flight can cover about 500
Kilometers, hence, the fare will be about Rs. 5 per kilometer, way cheaper than most cab
services in the country.
For journey on a helicopter, the fare will be capped at Rs. 2500/- for every 30 minutes,
i.e. Rs. 5000 per hour
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Under the UDAN scheme, the airline operator will have to provide a minimum of 9 and
a maximum of 40 UDAN seats in each flight to domestic regions. While, in case of
flights through helicopter, a minimum of 5 and maximum 13 UDAN seats to be provided
by the operator.
Under UDAN scheme, fare for 50% of the seats of flights will be capped at Rs 2,500
while the rest will be sold on the basis of current market price.
The selected operators will also need to operate at least 3 UDAN flights and a maximum
of 7 departures every week.
The scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 22 January 2015 as a
part of the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign.
The government recently revised the Sukanya Samriddhi account deposit rate to 8.5 per
cent from the previous 8.1 per cent. The interest rate is revised by the government every
year.
The investment in SSY account needs to be made for 14 years only, while it matures in
21 years.
One can start an SSY account with an investment of as little as Rs 250/month. The
maximum deposit limit in the SSY account is Rs 1,50,000/years.
Any legal parent or guardian can open the SSY account in the name of the girl child
below 10 years of age.
BHIM
It has been named after Bhim Rao Ambedkar and is intended to facilitate e-
payments directly through banks and as part of the 2016 Indian banknote
demonetisation and drive towards cashless transactions
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This UPI app supports all Indian banks which use that platform, which is built
over the Immediate Payment Service infrastructure and allows the user to
instantly transfer money between the bank accounts of any two parties
During the Union Budget 2017, Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley said that
BHIM is currently being used by over 125 lakh Indian citizens. He said that
Government will launch two new schemes to promote the use of the BHIM app.
One will be referral payments for individuals, and the other will cashback for
merchants who accept payments from BHIM.
PM Modi has launched two schemes under BHIM App namely BHIM Referral
Bonus Scheme and BHIM Merchant Cashback Scheme
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Yarn Bank Scheme – Small weavers will be provided an interest-free corpus
fund to special purpose vehicle (SPV)/consortium which will further help them in
purchasing yarn at the wholesale rate and selling further to small weavers at the
reasonable price. The main purpose of this component is to cut-off middle
man/local supplier’s brokerage charge on sales of yarn.
The web portal and app has been launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs in order to
pay homage to the brave-hearts who have laid down their lives in order to protect their
country and citizens.
The main objective of the Bharat Ke Veer portal is to enable general public help the
families of martyrs by donating money online directly to the individual braveheart’s
account or to Bharat Ke Veer corpus. Braveheart’s from the following armed forces are
among the major forces included in the Bharat Ke Veer Portal for contribution.
1. Assam Rifiles
2. Border Security Force (BSF)
3. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
4. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
5. Indo – Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP)
6. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF – India)
7. National Security Guards (NSG)
8. Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
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Rs. 6000 Pregnancy Aid Scheme for Pregnant Women in India
Narendra Modi On 31 December 2016 announced new schemes for poor, senior citizens
and women including the Rs. 6000 pregnancy aid scheme. The scheme was announced
by the Prime Minister as an effort to bring down the maternal mortality rate. Under the
scheme, a financial Aid of Rs. 6000 would be provided to pregnant women who undergo
institutional delivery for hospital admission.
The main objective of the scheme is to bring down the maternal mortality rate by
increasing the number of institutional deliveries across the nation. The scheme is aimed
at encouraging institutional deliveries in order to reduce maternal as well as infant
mortality. The scheme would be implemented across all the 650 districts of the country.
The financial aid amount of Rs. 6000 will be directly transferred to the saving bank
account of pregnant women through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
17% of all maternal deaths in the world occur in India with maternal mortality rate is
pegged at 167 per 100,000 live births, whereas infant mortality is estimated at 43 per
1,000 live births. However, these numbers may not sound too high but when comparing
to other nations, these are significant. The primary causes of high maternal and infant
mortality rate are inadequate medical care during pregnancy and child birth and poor
nutrition. The Rs. 6000 being provided under the scheme also sums up for the
vaccination and nutritious food during pregnancy.
The pregnancy aid scheme is being implemented in 53 districts on pilot basis where
financial assistance is Rs. 4000. Initially launched in 2010, this was the first scheme
under Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) to provide conditional financial
assistance to pregnant women above the age of 18 years for birth of up to 2 live births.
In the new scheme, the cash benefit has been increased to Rs. 6000 which will be
directly transferred to the bank account of the beneficiary pregnant women.
Vrishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2017 (The Old Age Pension Scheme)
The Old Age Pension Scheme would be implemented by LIC (Life Insurance
Corporation of India) for current financial year, however the launch of VPBY 2017 has
not been declared yet.
From launch date, the scheme will be opened for the subscription period of one year.
The scheme will provide income security to old persons aged 60 years and above against
uncertain market falls.
VPBY will provide an assured pension based on a guaranteed interest rate of 8% for 10
years.
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The scheme will come up with an option of monthly/quarterly/half-yearly or annual
basis benefits so that the beneficiary can choose any of the options under Varishtha
Pension Bima Yojana 2017.
The maximum amount to deposit under Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2017 has not
been mentioned, however PM had addressed in his New Year Eve speech that upto Rs.
7.5 lakh could be invested in Old Age Pension Scheme.
The weakest link in the value chain is distribution, wherein DISCOMs in the
country have accumulated losses of approximately Rs. 3.8 lakh crore and
outstanding debt of approximately Rs. 4.3 lakh crore
States shall take over 75% of DISCOM debt as on 30 September 2015 over two
years - 50% of DISCOM debt shall be taken over in 2015-16 and 25% in 2016-17.
(This debt taken by states will not be calculated as a part of state fiscal deficit for
2015-16 and 2016-17 years
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PM Ujjawala Yojana
This is the first ever welfare scheme by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Gas which would benefit crores of women belonging to the poorest households.
Financial support of Rs. 1600 for each LPG connection for BPL
This Scheme would be implemented over three years, namely, the FY 2016-17,
2017-18 and 2018-19
Budgetary provision of Rs. 2000 crore for 2016-17 to provide deposit free LPG
connections to 1.5 crore women belonging to the Below Poverty Line (BPL)
families.
208 Railway Over Bridges (ROB)/Railway Under Bridges (RUB) will be built at
the level crossings at a cost of Rs. 20,800 crore as part of the programme.
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Shyama Prasad Mukherjee National Rurban Mission
Ministry of Rural Development
Rurban clusters will be developed to create over 300 smart villages in the next 3
years
Stand up India
Refinance window through SIDBI with initial corpus of Rs. 10,000 crore
Creation of credit guarantee through National Credit Guarantee Trustee
Company (NCGTC)
ICT based multi-modal mechanism to track key projects and policy outcomes
Three tier system: PMO, Union Government Secretaries and Chief State
Secretaries
Socio economic and caste census (SECC) will be used to identify beneficiaries
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Central government to state government ratio will be 60:40 for plain area states
and 90:10 for north eastern and hilly states
Houses constructed under the mission would be allotted in the name of the
female head of the households or in the joint name of the male head of the
household and his wife
Make in India
DIPP — Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Body named “Invest India” created in partnership with FICCI and State
governments
Ease of Doing Business
E-Biz Portal
Main Objective: Providing basic services (e.g. water supply, sewerage, urban
transport) to households and build amenities in cities which will improve the
quality of life for all, especially the poor and the disadvantaged.
o Clean drinking Water
o Sanitation
o Solid Waste management
o Efficient urban mobility and public transportation
o Affordable housing for the poor
o IT connectivity
o E-governance
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8. Convergence with various ministries including Panchayati Raj Ministry, Women and
Child Welfare, MPLADS program, schemes such as MNREGA, BRGF, National Rural
Drinking Water program etc.
Personal Accident Insurance Scheme (for death and disability due to accident)
Public Sector General Insurance Companies to administer and offer, and others
also allowed if agreed to the terms
Savings bank holders of Age: 18-70 years (must have a bank account)
Receive Rs. 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k or 5k per month depending on their contributions after
Age of 60 years
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Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana
Ministry of Finance
Skill India
Skill India is a campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas
Modi on 15 July 2015 which aim to train over 40 crore (400 million) people
in India in different skills by 2022
In the budget of fiscal year 2017 - 18 the government of India has decided to set
aside Rs. 17,000 crore, the highest ever allocation to this sector, in order to boost
the Skill India Mission
The government has invested Rs. 4000 crore in the launch of SANKALP (Skill
Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion Programme),
another big initiative under the Skill India Mission. Through this it aims at
providing market relevant training to 350 million young Indians. Apart from this,
the government would set up 100 India International Skills Centres that will
conduct advanced courses in foreign languages to help youngsters prepare for
overseas jobs
1. Rural electrification
2. Strengthening of transmission and distribution infra.
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3. Separation of agri and non-agro feeders to enable judicious supply of electricity to
agro and non-agro users respectively.
4. This used to be RG Gram Vidyutikaran Yojana
MUDRA
SIDBI
Main Objective: To send the subsidy money of LPG cylinders directly into the bank
accounts of the consumers and increase efficiency & transparency in the whole system.
Under the scheme, the LPG consumer can now receive subsidy in his bank account by
two methods. Such a consumer will be called CTC (Cash Transfer Compliant) once he
joins the scheme and is ready to receive subsidy in the bank account.
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Sagarmala Project
Main Objective: To transform the existing ports into modern world class ports.
The prime objective of the Sagarmala project is to promote port-led direct and indirect
development and to provide infrastructure to transport goods to and from ports quickly,
efficiently and cost-effectively.
The Sagarmala Project, aimed at port-led development in coastal areas, is bound to
boost the country’s economy and the government has lined up about Rs 70,000 crore
for its 12 major ports only
Main Objective: Bringing together urban planning, economic growth and heritage
conservation in an inclusive manner to preserve the heritage character of each Heritage
City.
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