Schemes for RBI Grade B

Scheme Ministry Salient features

Krishi Kalyan Agriculture & Farmers to aid farmers to improve farming techniques; 2 months program; distribution of Soil
Abhiyaan Welfare Health Cards, bovine vaccination, artificial insemination etc undertaken in 25 villages in
Aspirational Districts; coordination by Krishi Vigyan Kendras

Green Revolution - Agriculture & Farmers Umbrella of 11 schemes - Integrated development of horti, National Food Security
Krishonnati Yojana Welfare Mission, national e-governance plan-agri, etc
Krishi Vigyan Agriculture & Farmers address tech needs of farmers; skill development of rural youth; latest tech inputs like
Kendras Welfare seeds, planting materials, bio products; advice farmers; by ICAR
PM Annadaata Aay Agriculture & Farmers 3 components complementing existing schemes of Dept of Food and Public Distribution
Sanrakshan Welfare for procurement of paddy, wheat and other cereals and coarse grains where
Abhiyaan (PM- procurement takes place at MSP
AASHA) 1. Price Support Scheme (PSS) : physical procurement of pulses, oilseeds and copra by
Central Nodal Agencies; NAFED + FCI to procure under PSS; expenditure and losses
borne by Centre
2. Price-deficiency payment system (PDPS) : cover all oilseeds for which MSP is notified
and Centre will pay diff between MSP and actual selling price to farmer thru DBT
3. Pilot of Private Procurement and Stockist Scheme (PPSS) : for oilseeds; States given
option to roll out PPSS in select districts where a pvt player can procure at MSP when
prices drop below MSP; pvt player then compensated thru service charge upto max
15% of MSP
Gramin retail Agriculture & Farmers launched in the Budget 2018-19 under the Agri Market Development Fund; 22,000
agriculture Welfare rural haats and 585 AMC markets would be developed and upgraded into GrAM;
markets (GRAMs) physical infrastructure will be strengthened using MGNREGA; linked to eNAM and
exempted from APMC regulations; farmers can make direct sale to consumers and bulk
purchasers; Agri-Market Infra Fund with corpus of Rs. 2000 cr

Quality Mark Agriculture & Farmers by National Dairy Development Board under White Revolution; instill confidence in the
Award Scheme Welfare consumers for the quality of milk being marketed by cooperatives; Quality Mark valid
for 3 years

Operation Greens Agriculture & Farmers announced in Budget 2018; similar to Operation Flood (increasing milk production by
Welfare (Food National Dairy Development Board); ensure sustainable price to farmers as well as
Processing Ministry has availability of vegetables at affordable prices to consumers; reduce price volatility of
also begun work on this) fruits and vegetables; Government has decided to start focusing on three basic
vegetables - tomatoes, onions and potatoes (TOP) initially; help in doubling farmers’
incomes by 2022 by providing sustainable prices as these commodities generally face
price collapse; promote Farmer Producers Organizations (FPOs), agri-logistics,
processing facilities and professional management
NAFED will be nodal agency to implement price stabilisation measures; M o Food
Processing to provide 50% subsidy on 2 components - transportation of TOP crops from
production to storage, hiring of storage facilities for TOP crops
Agri Udaan Agriculture & Farmers scale-up Food & Agribusiness start-ups through rigorous mentoring, industry
Welfare networking and Investor pitching
Strengthening and Agriculture & Farmers Integrated pest mgt (environment friendly); locust control and research in scheduled
Mgt of Pest Mgt Welfare desert areas; regulate import, transport, use of insecticides under Insecticides Act
Approach
National Mission Agriculture & Farmers target of increasing production of oilseeds to 42 mn tonnes by FY2022 from estimated
on Oilseeds and Welfare 34 mn tonnes in FY2017; Increasing Seed Replacement Ratio (ratio of certified seeds
Oilpalm used to farm-saved seeds used) with a focus on Varietal Replacement; diversification
from low yield cereals to oilseed; intercropping oilseeds with cereals/pulses/sugarcane;
use of fallow land after paddy/potato cultivation; expansion in watersheds and
wasteland; R&D

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Kisan Credit Card Agriculture & Farmers loan disbursed under KCC is broad based and may be used for short term credit
Welfare requirements for cultivation of crops, post-harvest expenses, produce marketing loan,
consumption requirement of farmer household etc; extended to fisheries and animal
husbandry farmers; covers risk of KCC holders against death or permanent disability
resulting from accidents caused by external, violent and visible means; cash can also be
withdrawn using KCC

Unified Package Agriculture & Farmers provide yield-based crop insurance to the farmers based on his ownership rights
Insurance Scheme Welfare of the land and sown crop; covers both personal and work assets and also provides life
insurance protection to farmer and his family; also provides protection to farmer and
his/her family members in case of the Accidental Death/ Disablement; provisioning of
education fee to the students in case of death of parent

Mera Gaon, Mera Agriculture & Farmers scientists from ICAR and Agri Univs to select villages as per their convenience and be in
Gaurav Welfare touch with farmers and provide info to farmers on technical and other issues through
visits or phone
PM Fasal Bima Agriculture & Farmers farmers will have to pay a uniform premium of 2% for all kharif crops, 1.5% for all Rabi
Yojana Welfare crops; 5% for annual commercial and horticultural crops; remaining share of premium
to be borne equally by Centre and States; replaces National Agricultural Insurance
Scheme; no upper limit on government subsidy and even if balance premium is 90%, it
will be borne by the government; compulsory for farmers availing crop loans for
notified crops in notified
areas and voluntary for non-loanee farmers; smart phones and remote sensing to be
used to reduce delays in claim payments to farmers; farm level assessment for
localised calamities; In post-harvest losses, coverage will be available up to a maximum
period of 14 days from harvesting for those crops which are kept in “cut & spread”
condition to dry in the field

Sub-Mission on Agriculture & Farmers under National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology; promote agricultural
Agricultural Welfare mechanisation among small and marginal farmers; of training, testing, demonstration
Mechanisation of agricultural machinery and procurement subsidy; includes Farm Machinery Banks for
Custom Hiring and Hi-Tech High Productive Equipments Centres on custom hiring
model
Pashu Sanjivni Agriculture & Farmers under National Mission on Bovine Productivity scheme; milk producing animals have
Welfare been identified using polyurethane tags with 12 digit UID numbers and their data has
been uploaded on Information Network on Animal Health and Productivity data base;
to improve vaccination practices, breeding and milk production, control spread of
animal diseases;
National Mission Agriculture & Farmers to enhance milk production and productivity and making dairy more remunerative1.
on Bovine Welfare Pashu Sanjivni - each of the milch animals are identified using UID and given a health
Productivity card (Nakul Swasthya Patra) that will record the breed, its age and details of
vaccination etc2. Advanced reproductive tech - 10 A graded semen stations and 50
Embryo Transfer Technology Labs with IVF facilities are being created in the country3.
e-Pashu haat portals - linking farmers and breeders of indigenous breeds; provide all
details at a single platform, including availability of bovine germplasm; also connect
farmers with milk cooperatives4. National Bovine Genomic Centre for Indigenous
Breeds (NBGC-IB): For enhancing milk production and productivity through genomic
selection among indigenous breeds5. Mass Embryo Transfer programme in Indigenous
Breeds - for conservation and development of indigenous breeds under Rashtriya
Gokul Mission

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National Program Agriculture & Farmers arrange quality Artificial insemination services at farmer’s footsteps; bring all
for Bovine Welfare breedable females under organised breeding through Artificial Insemination (AI) or
Breeding and Dairy natural service using germplasm of high genetic merits; conserve, develop and
Development proliferate selected
indigenous bovine breeds of high socio-economic importance; infrastructure for
procurement, processing and marketing of milk and milk products; strengthen dairy
cooperatives;
National Program for Bovine Breeding : establish MAITRI (Multi-purpose AI(Artificial
Insemination) Technician in Rural India) to deliver the breeding inputs at doorstep
Rashtirya Gokul Mission also under this

National Agriculture & Farmers Centre for Conservation and Development of Indigenous Bovine Breeds; Nucleus Herd
Kamdhenu Welfare of all the Indigenous Bovine Breeds (37 Cattle and 13 Buffaloes) will be conserved and
Breeding Centre developed with the aim of enhancing their productivity and upgrading genetic merit; -
Two National Kamdhenu Breeding Centre one in north and one in south will be set up
in the country – one is at Itarsi (Hoshangabad, MP), and the other is at Chintaladevi
(Nellore, AP)
Rashtriya Gokul Agriculture & Farmers conserve and develop indigenous breeds in a focused and scientific manner; under
Mission Welfare National Programme for Bovine Breeding and Dairy Development; to improve the
genetic makeup and increase the stock; Enhance milk production and productivity;
implemented through the State Implementing Agency viz Livestock Development
Boards; establishment of Integrated Indigenous Cattle Centres viz “Gokul Gram” in
native breeding tracts of indigenous breeds
Dairy processing Agriculture & Farmers in NABARD; mgt by National Dairy Development Board; to modernize old and obsolete
and development Welfare milk processing units particularly in cooperative sector
fund
Dairy Agriculture & Farmers implemented by NABARD
Entrepreneurship Welfare
Development
Scheme
Soil Health Card Agriculture & Farmers Centre provides assistance to State for setting up Soil Testing Laboratories;
Scheme Welfare involvement of
agricultural students, NGOs and private sector in soil testing, determining average soil
health of villages, etc., to issue Soil Health Cards; GPS based soil sample collection;
online registration of samples; farm will get the soil card once in every 3 years; cards
carry crop wise recommendations of nutrients and fertilizers required for the particular
farm; status of his soil with respect to 12 parameters, namely N,P,K (Macro-nutrients);
S (Secondary nutrient); Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn, Bo (Micro - nutrients); and pH, EC, OC (Physical
parameters)
Zero Hunger Agriculture & Farmers through interventions in farm sector; by ICAR + ICMR + M S Swaminathan Foundation +
Programme Welfare Biotech Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC); setting up genetic gardens for
bio-fortified plants and initiation of ‘Zero Hunger’ training

Mission for Agriculture & Farmers National Horticulture Mission: to promote holistic growth of horticulture sector
Integrated Welfare through an area based regionally differentiated strategies
Development of Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan States: technology mission which
Horticulture focuses on production of quality planting material, organic farming, efficient water
management
National Agro-forestry & Bamboo Mission
Coconut Development Board
focus on cold chain infra; Project CHAMAN also part of this

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Project CHAMAN Agriculture & Farmers develop digital inventory of all horticulture zones in the country; uses satellites and
Welfare remote sensing technology; CHAMAN or Coordinated Horticulture Assessment and
Management is being implemented by the Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre;
to integrate information on weather, soil, land-use, and crop mapping to prepare
horticulture development plans; use space technology to identify crops suitable to
different areas; help states develop horticulture clusters and related infrastructure like
cold chains
Project FASAL Agriculture & Farmers Forecasting Agricultural output using Space, Agro-meteorology and Land based
Welfare observations; monitoring of 8 crops using optical and microwave tech of RISAT-1 MRS
and Landsat 8 satellites; drones also used to study crop locations

Project NADAMS Agriculture & Farmers National Agricultural Drought Assessment and Monitoring System; remote sensing
Welfare based real time info on current or developing droughts at state, district and subdistrict
level
Accelerated fodder Agriculture & Farmers cluster based approach; enhance availability of green and dry fodder and add to
development Welfare availability of fodder during lean period
program
Rashtriya Krishi Agriculture & Farmers RAFTAAR = Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied sector Rejuvenation;
Vikas Yojana- Welfare to make farming remunerative economic activity by strengthening farmer’s effort, risk
RAFTAAR mitigation and promoting agribusiness entrepreneurship; decentralised planning;
Sub-schemes are -
1. Bringing Green Revolution to eastern India - increasing productivity of rice based
cropping system in following states - AS, BH, CG, JK, OD, East UP, WB
2. Crop diversification program
3. Reclamation of Problem Soil
4. Foot and mouth disease control program
5. Saffron mission
6. Accelerated fodder development program

Rashtriya Krishi Agriculture & Farmers launched in 2007-08 to achieve 4% annual growth in agricultural sector by ensuring
Vikas Yojana Welfare holistic development; It encouraged decentralized planning for agriculture and allied
sectors through preparation of District Agriculture Plans (DAPs) and State Agriculture
Plan (SAP) based on agro-climatic conditions, availability of appropriate technology and
natural resources to ensure accommodation of local needs, cropping pattern, priorities

Pradhan Mantri Agriculture & Farmers Decentralized State level planning; District and State Irrigation Plans need to be
Krishi Sinchayee Welfare prepared to access PMKSY funds; Investments done at farm level; water budgeting
Yojana done for all sectors - household, agri, industry; Long Term Irrigation Fund has been
instituted under PMKSY in
NABARD for funding and fast tracking the implementation;
attract investments in irrigation system at field level, develop and expand cultivable
land in the country, minimize wastage of water, more crop per drop by implementing
watersaving technologies and precision irrigation; amalgamation of ongoing schemes -
Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme, Integrated Watershed Mgt Programme; On
Farm Water Mgt;
Har Khet ko Pani - on creation of new water sources through minor irrigation that
includes both surface and groundwater; repair, restoration and renovation of water
bodies; Strengthening carrying capacity of traditional water sources; construction of
rain water harvesting structures under its Jal Sanchay sub-component; Jal Mandir
(Gujarat); Khatri, Kuhl
(H.P.); Zabo (Nagaland); Eri, Ooranis (T.N.); Dongs (Assam); Katas, Bandhas (Odisha and
M.P.)
Watershed development - effective mgt of runoff water and improved soil and
moisture conservation activities

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Paramparagat Agriculture & Farmers Organic farming; reducing the dependency on agro-chemicals and fertilizers and to
Krishi Vikas Yojana Welfare optimally utilize the locally available natural resources for input production; cluster
under National based approach; farmers will be funded to meet the expenditure from farm to market
Mission for (20k/acre)
Sustainable
Agriculture
National Agriculture & Farmers connect e-mandis in several States; Funded by Agri-Tech Infrastructure Fund (ATIF)
Agriculture Market Welfare which is set up through the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium; Farmers can
(eNAM) showcase their produce online from their nearest market and traders can quote price
from anywhere; open price discovery; state govts need to amend their APMC Acts to
implement this; software provided for free to states + grant of 30 lakh per mandi

DDU Unnat Krishi Agriculture & Farmers promote agricultural education under which 100 centres are being opened; by ICAR;
Shiksha Scheme Welfare farmers who have attended training under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan or have working
knowledge of natural farming to be preferred

e-Krishi Samvad Agriculture & Farmers platform that will provide direct and effective solutions to the problems faced by
Welfare farmers and stakeholders in the agriculture sector; people can get the appropriate
solutions from the subject matter specialists and institutes through web or SMS

ARYA Project Agriculture & Farmers Attracting and Retaining Youth in Agriculture; implemented through Krishi Vigyan
Welfare Kendra; skill development of youth in entrepreneurial activities + establishment of
related micro-enterprise units

Yuva Sahakar - Agriculture & Farmers Under NCDC (National Cooperative Development Corp, the sole statutory org under
Cooperative Welfare this Ministry); to attract youth to cooperative business ventures; scheme to be linked
Enterprise Support to a Cooperative Startup and Innovation Fund (CSIF) created by NCDC with outlay of
and innovation 100 crore; 2% less than applicable interest rate on term loan for project of upto 3 crore
scheme + 2 years moratorium on principal repayment; all cooperative in operation for < 1 year
with positive net worth eligible
Scheme for AYUSH to develop culture of documenting adverse effects and undertake safety monitoring of
Pharmacovigilance AYUSH drugs; surveillance of misleading advertisements; 3-tier network of National,
of AYUSH drugs Intermediary and Peripheral Pharmacovigilance Centres; All India Institute of Ayurveda
(autonomous under AYUSH Ministry) designated National body

National Ayush AYUSH aimed at addressing the gaps in health services by supporting AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga
Mission and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha & Sowga Ripa and Homoeopathy); co-location of
AYUSH facilities at PHCs, CHCs and District Hospitals, AYUSH educational instis, quality
control of AYUSH drugs, medicinal plants

Mission AYUSH protocol on ‘Prevention and Control of Diabetes through Ayurveda’ was released for
Madhumeha implementing the ‘Mission Madhumeha’; Madhumeha Assessment Tool (MAT) based
on Ayurvedic philosophy has also been developed for the self assessment of the people
with regards to possibilities of diabetes

Nutrient Based Chemicals and Fertilizers fixed amount of subsidy decided on annual basis, is provided on fertilizers (other than
Subsidy Scheme Urea) depending on their nutrient content to fertilizer manufacturer; These fertilizers
are provided to the farmers at the subsidized rates based on the nutrients (N, P, K & S)
contained in these fertilizers; Under this scheme, Maximum Retail Price (MRP) of
fertilizers has been left open and manufacturers/marketers are allowed to fix the MRP
at reasonable level
City Compost Chemicals and Fertilizers market development assistance of Rs. 1500 per tonne of city compost for scaling up
Scheme production and consumption of the product, is being provided; Fertilizer companies
and marketing entities will also co-market City Compost with chemical fertilizers
through their dealers' network; companies also adopt villages for promoting the use of
compost

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PM Bhartiya Chemicals and Fertilizers Dept of Pharma; Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janushadi Kendras have been set up to
Janaushadhi provide generic drugs which are available at lesser prices but are equivalent in quality
Pariyojana and efficacy as expensive branded drugs; PMBJK may also be opened by any
Government agencies and NGOs/SHG/Individual Entrepreneurs/Pharmacist/Doctor
Suvidha : biodegradable sanitary napkin available at PMBJKs manufactured by Bureau
of Pharma PSU of India

Plastic Parks Chemicals and Fertilizers

Scheme
NABH Nirman Civil Aviation capacity augmentation of airports; enable airports to handle a bn trips per year;
(Nextgen Airports establish 100 airports in 15 years with investment of 4 lakh cr
for Bharat)
DigiYatra Civil Aviation industry-led initiative aimed at transforming the nation into a digitally empowered
society; ease security and boarding procedure
UDAN (Ude Desh Civil Aviation market-based mechanism in which airlines bid for seat subsidies; applicable on flights
Ka Aam Nagrik) which cover between 200 km and 800 km with no lower limit set for hilly, remote,
island and security sensitive regions; reserve min 9 and max 40 UDAN seats i.e. seats at
subsidized rates and also cap the fare for short distance flights of 1 hr journey (approx
500 km) to Rs 2500; Viability Gap Funding: A Regional Connectivity Fund would be
created to meet the VGF requirements under the scheme; AAI implementing authority;
80% of the subsidy will be collected by charging a levy of up to Rs.8,500 on each
departing flight of domestic airlines and the rest 20% will come from the respective
state governments

UDAN Phase 2 Civil Aviation relaxations include dilution of the exclusivity clause mandating that only one airline
may fly on one route in the initial years. The norms that restricted two airports in close
proximity from participating in the bidding has also been relaxed

UDAN 3.0 Civil Aviation Inclusion of tourism routes in coordination with M of Tourism; inclusion of seaplanes
(Regional for connecting water aerodromes; a number of routes in NE brought under UDAN;
Connectivity helicopter routes NOT considered for UDAN 3 bidding; 2 international flights started
Scheme) from Guwahati under Intnl Air Connectivity Scheme (ICAS-Udan), which will be market
driven with no capping
Coal Mine Coal reporting, monitoring and taking suitable action on unauthorised coal mining activities;
Surveillance and web based GIS app through which unauthorised mines can be detected; use satellite
Mgt System data; alert sent to concerned DM and SP

Khan Prahari App Coal Tool for reporting illegal coal mining like rat hole mining, pilferage etc; one can upload
geo-tagged photos + textual info directly into system; complainant remains
annonymous
SHAKTI Scheme Coal Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala Transparently in India; policy for auction
and allotment of coal linkages; award fuel supply agreements (FSA) to coal plants
already holding letters of assurance; Coal linkages would be allocated to state-owned
discoms; these, in turn, would assign linkages to state or central power generation
companies via allocation, and Private units through auction

SEVA app Coal Saral Eindhan Vitaran Application; developed indigenously by Coal India Limited; part
of ‘Digital India’; aimed at increasing the Consumer Connect as well as the
transparency and accountability in coal dispatch; SEVA Dashboard which provides
summary of quantity of coal dispatched along with grades for a day, month, and the
latest yearly updates as well
UTTAM app Coal Unlocking Transparency by Third Party Assessment of Mined Coal app; includes
information on production, dispatch and quantity sampled of coal

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Make In India Commerce and Industry designed to facilitate investment, foster innovation, enhance skill development,
protect intellectual property and build best in class manufacturing infrastructure in the
country. The primary objective of this initiative is to attract investments from across
the globe and strengthen India’s manufacturing sector; comprehensive and
unprecedented overhaul of out-dated processes and policies; by DIPP; target
manufacturing sector growth of 12-14% per annum in medium term; target share of
manufacturing in GDP from 16 to 25% by 2022; target 100 mn additional jobs in
manufacturing by 2022; skilling people; Investor Facilitation Cell to handhold in seeking
regulatory approvals and other stages

Govt e- Commerce and Industry national procurement portal of India; paperless, cashless, transparent, efficient, secure,
Marketplace made mandatory for govt purchases by Ministry of Finance
Niryat Bandhu Commerce and Industry mentoring the first generation entrepreneurs in the field of international trade
Scheme
Startup India Hub Commerce and Industry online platform for all stakeholders of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India to
connect; to solve the problem of info asymmetry; under Invest India, the official
Investment
Promotion and Facilitation Agency of GoI
Startup India Commerce and Industry Simplification and Handholding: With the intention of reducing regulatory burden on
start-ups, they have been exempted from six labour laws and three environmental laws
for a period of three years along with tax exemption for 3 years; Start-ups will also be
provided free legal support in filing intellectual property rights (IPR). Patent
applications filed by startup will be fast tracked at lower costs; industry-academia
partnership and incubation; funding support worth 10000 crore Rs. for next 4 years
through Fund of Funds at SIDBI; credit guarantee fund for startups through SIDBI with a
corpus of Rs.500 crore per year for the next four years
Trade Infra for Commerce and Industry Central and State Agencies like Export Promotion Councils, Commodities Boards, SEZ
Export Scheme Authorities and Apex Trade Bodies recognised under the EXIM policy of Government of
(TIES) India are eligible for financial support for setting up and upgradation of existing infra
with export linkages like border haats, cold chains, dry ports etc

Technology and Commerce and Industry DIPP + Punjab state; under World IP Org's programme of same name; Cell for IPR
Innovation Promotion and Mgt (CIPAM) designated as national focal point for TISC network;
Support Center provides innovators in developing countries with access to locally based, high quality
technology information and related services, helping them to exploit their innovative
potential and to create and manage their IPRs

Scheme for IPR Commerce and Industry by CIPAM under DIPP; at raising IPR awareness amongst students, youth, authors,
Awareness – artists, budding inventors and professionals to inspire them to create, innovate and
Creative India; protect their creations and inventions across India including Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 cities
Innovative India as well as rural areas in the next 3 years

eBiz Commerce and Industry online, single-point entry for investors looking to set up a business anywhere in the
country; under the National E-Governance Plan (NEGP); implemented by Infosys under
DIPP
Merchandise Commerce and Industry is to offset infrastructural inefficiencies and associated costs involved in export of
Export from India goods/products, which are produced/ manufactured in India, especially those having
Scheme high export intensity, employment potential and thereby enhancing India’s export
competitiveness; available to units located in SEZs as well

Services Export Commerce and Industry service providers of notified services are incentivized in the form of Duty Credit Scrips
from India Scheme at the rate of 3 or 5% on their net foreign exchange earnings. These SEIS scrips are
transferrable and can also be used for payment of a number of Central duties/taxes
including the basic customs duty

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Interest Commerce and Industry allowing exporters, mostly in the labour-intensive and small and medium sectors, to
Equalisation avail themselves of bank loans at a 3 per cent lower rate. The scheme, applicable from
Scheme April 1, 2015, would be available to all exports of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSME) and 416 tariff lines, but will not be available to merchant exporters. . Hence,
this scheme is to promote exports

BharatNet Project Communications forms backbone of Digital India; new name for National Optical Fibre Network; to
provide broadband connectivity of 100 mbps to all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats;
implemented by Bharat Broadband Network Limited; being funded by Universal
service Obligation Fund (under DoT) - 1)established in 2002 for universal service to all
uncovered areas, including rural areas and encourage development of telecom facilities
in remote, hilly, tribal areas 2) funding from Universal Service Levy of 5% charged from
all telecom operators 3) also being used for telecom services in Naxal areas

DDU Sanchar Communications establish more than 1,000 Sanchar Kaushal Vikas Pratisthan which will train youth
Kaushal Vikas according to NSQF and local needs of the telecom sector
Pratisthan Yojana
Tarang Sanchar Communications national EMF portal, developed in PPP mode, for Information sharing on Mobile
Towers and EMF (electromagnetic field) Emission Compliances; any person can request
for EMF emission measurement at a location by paying a nominal fee of Rs 4000/-
online
Cool EMS Service Communications import Japanese food items for personal use; food items will be carried by Japan Post
in special cool boxes containing refrigerant
DARPAN Project Communications Digital Advancement of Rural Post-Office for A New India; improve quality of service
through ICT and improve financial inclusion; low power tech solution to each Branch
Postmaster
Sampoorna Bima Communications provide affordable life insurance services to people; expanded the coverage of Postal
Gram Yojana Life Insurance - apart from government employees, PLI will now cover professionals
also; at least one village identified in each of the revenue districts of the country to
cover all households of identified village with a minimum of one RPLI (Rural Postal Life
Insurance) policy each; officers and staff of defense services also included; upper limit
50 lakh; group insurance scheme for extra dept employees of Dept of Post (Gramin Dak
Sevaks)
Deen Dayal Communications Pan India scholarship programme for school children to increase the reach of Philately;
SPARSH Yojana SPARSH (Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude & Research in Stamps as a Hobby)
Price Stabilisation Consumer Affairs, Food establish price stability through direct purchase from farmers /farmers’ associations at
Fund and Public Distribution farm gate/Mandi; maintaining a strategic buffer stock that would discourage hoarding
and unscrupulous speculation; protecting consumers by supplying such commodities at
reasonable prices through calibrated release of stock; for perishable agri-horticultural
commodities
Antyodaya Anna Consumer Affairs, Food covers poorest of the poor families from amongst the BPL families covered under
Yojana and Public Distribution Targetted Public Distribution System within the States and provides them food grains
at a highly subsidized rate of Rs.1/ per kg coarse grains, Rs.2/ per kg. for wheat and Rs.
3/ per kg for rice; part of NFSA and households under AAY are entitled to 35 Kg of
foodgrains per household per month

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Public Distribution Consumer Affairs, Food TPDS : NFSA provies for all India coverage of upto 75% of rural population and 50% of
Scheme (new form and Public Distribution urban population for receiving highly subsidized foodgrains; thus, coverage under TDPS
is Targeted PDS) has been delinked from poverty estimates; targeted households entitled to 5 kg
foodgrains per person per month at the rate of Rs.1/ per kg coarse grains, Rs.2/ per kg.
for wheat and Rs. 3/ per kg for rice
Integrated Mgt of PDS - integrate PDS systems of States and UTs with those of the
Centre; deduplication of ration cards; introduction of national portability
PDS facilitates the supply of food grains and distribution of essential commodities to a
large number of poor people through a network of Fair Price Shops at a subsidized
price on a recurring basis; Surpluses of food from increased crop yields (as a result of
the Green Revolution and good monsoon seasons) are managed by the Food
Corporation of India, established by the Food Corporation Act 1964, which implements
national policy for farm price support, operations, procurement, storage, preservation,
inter-state movement and distribution operations

MCA21 Corporate Affairs e-Governance initiative that enables an easy and secure access of the MCA services to
the corporate entities, professionals and citizens of India
Seva Bhoj Yojana Culture to reduce financial burden on chritable religious instis; reimbursing CGST and IGST of
charitable instis that provide food/prasad/langar/bhandara for free without
discrimination against public; insti should have been in existence for > 5 yrs,
distributing free food for > 3 yrs. serve food to >5k people per month, should not be
blacklisted under FCRA or other Acts; registration of insti valid for every FC period

Project Mausam Culture revive historical maritime cultural and economic ties with 39 Indian Ocean countries;
implemented by ASI; collating archaeological and historical research in order to
document the diversity of cultural, commercial and religious interactions in the Indian
Ocean – extending from East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent
and Sri Lanka to the Southeast Asian archipelago;

Guru Shishya Culture preserve and promote rare and vanishing art forms whether classical or folk/tribal;
Prampara Scheme nurturing of young talents to acquire skills in their chosen field of art through some
financial assistance by the Zonal Cultural Centre in the form of scholarship under the
guidance of Experts and Masters in these fields; scheme in-turn provides security to
large number of old and retired artists
Ek Bharat Shreshta Culture birth anniv of Sardar Patel; for bonding between States; all states and Uts covered;
Bharat pairing of States/Uts at national level for one year or till next round of pairings; district
level pairings (independent of state level pairings); Dept of School Education and
Literacy under MHRD has initiated Bhasha Sangam Program to enhance linguistic
tolerance and respect, introduce school kids to all 22 Schedule VIII languages

National Mission Culture part of the ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ umbrella; commemoration of the birth
on Cultural centenary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay; cultural repository of artists and art forms;
Mapping of India bringing all the cultural activities under one web based umbrella; open a direct channel
of communication of artists with the Government and peer to peer communication
among artists
One Rank One Defence Pension will be re-fixed for all pensioners retiring in the same rank and with the same
Pension length of service as the average of minimum and maximum pension in 2013; Personnel
who voluntarily retire will not be covered under the OROP scheme; In future, the
pension would be re-fixed every 5 years

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Hill Area Development of North wide gap exists between the hill and valley districts of Manipur, Tripura and Assam in
Development Eastern Region (DoNER) terms of infrastructure, quality of roads, health and education; hilly districts of Manipur
Programme ranked lowest in Composite District Infra Index; focused attention to the lesser
developed hilly areas and will be initiated on a pilot basis in the hilly districts of
Manipur
Composite District Development of North index prepared by Ministry of DoNER to aid in better targeting of schemes and projects
Infrastructure Eastern Region (DoNER) within the North Eastern region for reducing intra-regional disparity
Index

North East Special Development of North Physical infrastructure relating to water supply, power, connectivity and specially the
Infrastructure Eastern Region (DoNER) projects promoting tourism; Infrastructure of social sectors of education and health;
Development funds to be distributed among the 8 NE states on basis of - area, population, HDI, road
Scheme density etc; NLCPR placed under this now

North East Special Development of North incentivizing primarily the MSME Sector; incentive on capital investment in Plant &
Industrial Eastern Region (DoNER) Machinery; interest incentive on credit; reimbursement of insurance premium to the
Development tune of 100% for 5 years; reimbursement of central government share of GST and
Scheme income tax; transport incentive and employment incentive through part contribution
to EPF
Non Lapsable Development of North accrual of the unspent balance of the mandatory 10 % budgetary allocation for the
Central Pool of Eastern Region (DoNER) north-eastern region of the Ministry/Departmentenable completion of ongoing
Resources scheme projects; underutilisation of fund by one state will be transferred to better performing
(NLCPR) states; Tuirial Hydro Electric project was funded under this

Swachh Bharat Drinking Water and Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) implemented by Ministry of Drinking Water and
Mission Sanitation Sanitation in rural areas; Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) implemented by Ministries of
Urban Development in urban areas; elimination of open defecation by 2nd Oct 2019
(to coincide with 150th birth anniversary of Gandhiji), conversion of insanitary toilets
to pour flush toilets, eradicating of manual scavenging and Municipal Solid Waste
Management (MSWM); Arunachal Pradesh was officially declared ODF - second State
from Northeast after Sikkim and overall fifth state after HP, KL and HY; funding through
contribution to Swacch Bharat Kosh (through Swacch Bharat cess), commitments under
Corporate Social Responsibility, funding assistance from multilateral sources
toilet constructed across the country under the Swachh Bharat Mission should now be
called ‘Izzat Ghar’

Swachhta Hi Seva Drinking Water and nation-wide fortnight-long sanitation awareness campaign; Sri Meenakshi
Campaign Sanitation Sundareswarar Temple in Madurai adjudged cleanest iconic place under Swachhta Hi
Seva programme; 2nd edition launched in 2018; it is a Jan Andolan

Swachh Shakti Drinking Water and association with UP; women sarpanches, women Swachhagrahis and women
2018 Sanitation champions from across country were recognised for their outstanding contribution
towards making Swachh Bharat

Swachh Yug Drinking Water and partnership with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Ministry of Water Resources,
Sanitation River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation; involves intensifying support to the five
States of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal to make all
villages along the banks of the Ganga, ODF; Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is
enlisting the support of Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) and other youth
organisations. These organizations are called upon to mobilize local youth volunteers
to support behavior change campaign in the targeted villages

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Swachh Iconic Drinking Water and collaboration with Housing and Urban Affair, Culture and Tourism Ministries; PSUs and
Places Sanitation private sector as partners; ten New Iconic sites identified under Phase II are: 1.
Gangotri, 2. Yamunotri, 3. Mahakaleshwar Temple, 4. Charminar, 5. Church and
Convent of St. Francis of Assissi, 6. Kalady, 7. Gomateshwar, 8. Baijnath Dham, 9. Gaya
Tirth and 10. Somnath temple.
Phase I iconic places are: 1. Ajmer Sharif Dargah, 2. CST Mumbai, 3. Golden Temple, 4.
Kamakhya Temple, 5. Maikarnika Ghat, 6. Meenakshi Temple, 7. Shri Mata Vaishno
Devi, 8. Shree Jagannath Temple, 9. The Taj Mahal and 10. Tirupati Temple
Rashtriya Drinking Water and announced on centenary of Champaran Satyagraha; located opposite to Mahatma
Swachhta Kendra Sanitation Gandhi's Samadhi at Rajghat; to disseminate all info on sanitation matters and
advanced toilet technology among people

Darwaza Band Drinking Water and mass media campaign supported by WB; to encourage behaviour change in men who
Campaign Sanitation have toilets but are not using them
National Rural Drinking Water and With the restructuring of the NRDWP, there will be 2% earmarking of funds for
Drinking Water Sanitation Japanese Encephalitis (JE) /Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) affected areas; sub-
Programme programme - National Water Quality Sub Mission to address urgent need of clean
drinking water in Arsenic and Fluoride affected habitations; launched after merging the
three erstwhile programmes on Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme-ARWSP;
Swajaldhara and National Rural Water Quality Monitoring & Surveillance; 40 liters per
capita per day (lpcd) of safe drinking water for human beings; 30 lpcd additional for
cattle in the Desert Development Programme Areas; One hand-pump or stand post for
every 250 persons

Swajal Yojana Drinking Water and community owned drinking water programme which will not only ensure round-the-
Sanitation year availability of clean drinking water but also generate employment; derives its
name from an old Swajal project, a World Bank project; 90% funds from govt, 10%
from community
Ganga Gram Drinking Water and under the Namami Gange Programme, for holistic sanitation development in villages
Project Sanitation on the banks of River Ganga; include solid and liquid waste management, renovation of
ponds and water resources, water conservation projects, organic farming, horticulture,
and promotion of medicinal plants

Atmosphere and Earth Sciences addresses different aspects of weather and climate services, including warnings for
Climate Research- cyclones, storm surges, heat waves, thunderstorms etc; 9 subschemes under it;
Modelling implemented thru IMD + IITM Pune + National Centre for Medium Range Weather
Observing Systems Forecasting + INCOIS; National Facility for Airborne Research (NFAR) under IITM is a
& Services research aircraft that can measure aerosols, trace gases, cloud microphysics etc
(ACROSS)
National Monsoon Earth Sciences In its phase I, IMD was able to develop high resolution-coupled dynamical prediction
Mission Phase II system (seasonal and extended time scale). For the first time, IMD used the Monsoon
Mission dynamical model to prepare operational seasonal forecast of 2017 monsoon
rainfall
over India; Phase II program, for next 3 years (2017-2020) with emphasis on predicting
extremes and development of applications based on monsoon forecasts
SAFAR Earth Sciences integrated early warning System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research
Nation-Wide Electronics and IT by NIC + Internet and Mobile Association of India across 7 states; 24hours Hackathon
Hackathon themed on Drinking Water & Sanitation, Transport, Education, Crime & Health; ideas
#OpenGovDataHac developed into Apps/Infographics primarily by use of Open Government Data
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Bharat Interface Electronics and IT using UPI, it enables direct bank to bank payments instantly and collect money using a
for Money (BHIM) Mobile number or Payment address; by NPCI; interoperable with other UPI apps; users
need to have an Aadhaar linked bank account and mobile number/credit/debit card;
any citizen without access to smart phones, internet, debit or credit cards will be able
to transact digitally through the BHIM Aadhaar platform

Software Electronics and IT 100% export-oriented scheme; focuses on one product / sector, i.e. computer
Technology Park software; 100 Percent Foreign Equity is permitted; all imports duty free; re-export of
Scheme capital goods also permitted

Modified Special Electronics and IT capital subsidy of 20% in SEZ (25% in non-SEZ) for units engaged in electronics
Incentive Package manufacturing; reimbursements of CVD/ excise for capital equipment for the non-SEZ
Scheme (M-SIPS) units
National Electronics and IT collaboration with DST, CDAC and IISc; empowering our national academic and R&D
Supercomputing institutions spread over the country by installing a vast supercomputing grid
Mission comprising of
more than 70 high-performance computing facilities; these supercomputers will also
be networked on the National Supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge
Network, a programme under same ministry which connects academic institutions and
R&D labs over a high-speed network
Jeevan Praman Electronics and IT AADHAR Biometric Authentication based digital life certificates (DLCs) for Pensioners;
will do away with the requirement of a pensioner having to submit a physical Life
Certificate in November each year in order to ensure continuity of pension being
credited into their
account; can be obtained through various Jeevan Pramaan Centres which are being
operated by CSCs, Banks, Government offices or by using the client application on any
PC/mobile
Digital India Electronics and IT creating a knowledge economy through universal provision of digital infrastructure and
programme platforms for cashless economic transactions; Digital infra as a Core Utility to every
citizen, Governance and services on demand and Digital empowerment of citizens; Plug
the widening digital divide; High speed internet at gram panchayat level; Includes
broadband highways, mobile connectivity, e-Kranti (electronic delivery of services),
electronics manufacturing, public internet access, IT for jobs, National Knowledge
Network (multiple gigabit bandwidth to connect Knowledge Institutions across the
country), connecting citizens by social network called MyGov, Net-Zero Electronics
Import Target by 2020 (Electronic Development Fund set up as fund of funds to achieve
this); backbone will be National Optical Fibre Network (100 Mbps)

Digital Locker Electronics and IT platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus
System (Digital eliminating the use of physical documents; Organizations that are registered with
India) Digital Locker can push electronic copies of documents and certificates (e.g. driving
license, Voter ID, School certificates) directly into citizens lockers; Citizens can access
their digital documents anytime, anywhere and share it online; Aadhar linked

MyGov.in (Digital Electronics and IT brings the government closer to the common man by the use of online platform
India) creating an interface for healthy exchange of ideas and views involving the common
citizen and experts with the ultimate goal to contribute to the social and economic
transformation of India
E-Sign Framework Electronics and IT online electronic signature service which can be integrated with service delivery
(Digital India) applications via an open API to facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a
document. Using authentication of the Aadhaar holder through Aadhaar e-KYC service,
online electronic signature service is facilitated

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Digitise India Electronics and IT provide digitization services for scanned document images or physical documents for
Platform (Digital any organization. The aim is to digitize and make usable all the existing content in
India) different formats and media, languages, digitize and create data extracts for document
management, IT applications and records management

UMANG Electronics and IT Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance; citizens can install one
application to avail multiple government services; service can also be accessed through
IVR(Interactive Voice Response) and SMS

e-Taal Electronics and IT web portal for dissemination of e-Transactions statistics of National and State level e-
Governance Projects including Mission Mode Projects in near real-time
Centre of Electronics and IT first such centre launched in Bengaluru; can house 40 startups; setup by NASSCOM +
Excellence on Meity + Education and Research Network; allows startups to build prototypes and test
Internet of Things them; will focus on building solutions for agri, automobile, telecom, healthcare,
consumer goods
PM Gramin Digital Electronics and IT to impart digital literacy among the people residing in rural areas; under Digital India;
Saksharta Abhiyan Illiterate people between the age group 14-60 years, nominated from every eligible
(PMGDISHA) rural household, are qualified for the scheme

Stree Swabhiman Electronics and IT providing adolescent girls and women an access to affordable sanitary products by
Initiative leveraging CSCs; sanitary napkin micro manufacturing units are being set up at CSCs
GI Cloud - Meghraj Electronics and IT discrete cloud computing environments spread across multiple locations, built on
existing or new (augmented) infrastructure, following a set of common protocols,
guidelines and standards issued by govt; harnessing the benefits of Cloud Computing
with focus onaccelerating delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT
spending of theGovernment

Secure, Scalable Electronics and IT website generating and deployment product hosted on the National Cloud of NIC;
and Sugamya leverages technology to generate secure websites using templates which are highly
Website As A customizable and can seamlessly be deployed
Service (S3WAAS)
Cyber Surakshit Electronics and IT in association with National e-Governance Division and industry; to spread awareness
Bharat about cybercrime and building capacity for safety measures for Chief Information
Security Officers and frontline IT staff across all government departments

Cyber Swachhta Electronics and IT Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Centre; part of Digital India; operated by CERT-
Kendra In; work in close collaboration with the Banks to detect malware infections in their
network
National Clean Air Environment, Forest and to cut conc of PM2.5 and PM10 by 20-30% by 2024; 2017 base year; 2019 first year; in
Programme Climate Change 102 non-attainment cities; also has regional, national and trans-boundary components;
mitigation measures + monitoring + public awareness; CPCB to implement; National
and State level apex committees

ENVIS Environment, Forest and collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information relating to a
(Environmental Climate Change variety of themes associated with Environment Sector; ENVIS is a decentralized system,
Information a web-based distributed network of subject-specific databases
System) ENVIS Centre : integral part of the ENVIS network and deal either with environment
related issues of a particular State/UT (generally called State/UT Centre) or have a
specific environment-related subject/theme mandate (generally called Thematic
Centre); State/UT Centres are hosted by the Environment/Forest Department of State
and the Thematic Centres by environment-related governmental or non-governmental
organisations; role of an ENVIS Centre is to act as a single-window information provider
on various areas related to environment

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Green Skill Environment, Forest and green skill' development in the environment and forest sector to enable youth to get
Development Climate Change gainful employment and/or self-employment utilising the vast network and expertise
Programme of ENVIS Hubs/RPs; 5 lakh 60 thousand people will be imparted training between 2018-
19 and
2020-21; 35 courses including pollution monitoring (air/water/noise/soil), effluent
treatment plant operation, forest management, water budgeting etc
SAMEEP External Affairs Students and MEA Engagement Programme; to bring foreign policy to the masses; all
the ministry officers – under-secretary and above – will be asked to go to their
hometowns, particularly their alma maters, and interact with students about working
of MEA
Stand Up India Finance promoting entrepreneurship among women and SC/STs. The scheme is anchored by
Department of Financial Services (DFS); facilitates bank loans between Rs 10 lakh and
Rs 1 Crore to at least one SC or ST borrower and at least one woman borrower per
bank branch for setting up a greenfield enterprise - may be in manufacturing, services
or the trading sector; non-individual enterprises with SC/ST/woman having 51%+ share
are also eligible; loan may be secured by collateral security or guarantee of Credit
Guarantee Fund Scheme for Stand-Up India Loans (CGFSIL); financed by SIDBI;
borrower required to bring in at least 10% of project cost as own contribution; RuPay
debit card issued; load to be repayed in 7 years (max moratorium of 18 months)

PM Jan Dhan Finance Account can be opened in any bank branch or Business Correspondent (Bank Mitr)
Yojana outlet; RuPay debit card, with inbuilt accident insurance cover of Rs. 1 lakh (now raised
to Rs. 2 lakh); No minimum balance required; life cover of Rs. 30,000/- payable on
death of the beneficiary, subject to fulfillment of the eligibility condition; DBT in these
accounts; Overdraft facility upto Rs.5000/- available (now doubled to Rs. 10k) in only
one account per household, preferably lady of the household after satisfactory
operation of the account for 6 months; upper age limit to avail overdraft facility raised
from 60 to 65
PM Vaya Vandana Finance pension scheme exclusively for senior citizens aged 60 years and above; can be
Yojana purchased offline as well as online through LIC, which has been given the sole privilege
to operate this Scheme; an assured return of 8% to 8.3% p.a. for 10 years; GST exempt;
Loan upto 75% of Purchase Price shall be allowed after 3 policy years to meet liquidity
needs; premature exit for critical treatment of self or spouse - 98% will be refunded;
investment limit extended to 15 lakh per family; deposits exempt from income tax,
interest not so
Gold Monetization Finance Revamped Gold Deposit Scheme - ease of depositing, processing etc and greater
Scheme flexibility in terms and tenure of deposit; minimum deposit at any one time shall be 30
grams of raw gold; no max limit; Gold Savings Account denominated in grams of gold
will be opened by customers at any time, , even prior to depositing gold at the
Collection and Purity Testing Centres; deposits under the revamped scheme can be
made for a short-term period of 1-3
years; a medium-term period of 5-7 years and a long-term period of 12-15 years
Gold Reserve Fund: The difference between the current borrowing cost for the govt
and the interest rate paid by the govt under the medium/long term deposit will be
credited to this fund; itwill be used to absorb the price risk of the gold and pay back the
amounts due to the depositor, based on the gold rates prevalent at the time of
redemption
Revamped Gold Metal Loan (GML) Scheme: A Gold Metal Loan Account, denominated
in
grams of gold, will be opened by the bank for jewellers

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Sovereign Gold Finance government securities denominated in grams of gold; issued by RBI on behalf of GoI;
Bond (SGB) available both in Demat and paper forms; min 8 years tenor; can be used as collateral
Scheme for loans; tradable on NSE and BSE; fixed interest of 2.5% per annum; Capital gains tax
exempted on redemption; investment by banks to be calculated as SLR
recent changes - increase in limit to 4 kg (from 0.5 kg) for individuals and HUF and 20
kg for Trusts - to encourage high net worth individuals and trusts to invest in these;
tradable on exchanges; all risks associated with gold price and currency will be borne
by Gol through the Gold Reserve Fund

PM MUDRA (Micro Finance objective is to refinance collateral-free loans given by the lenders(PSBs, regional rural
Units banks, cooperative banks, private banks, foreign banks, MFIs, NBFCs) to small
Development and borrowers for non-farm income generating activities; corpus of Rs 20,000 crore
Refinance Agency) allocated by RBI from priority sector lending shortfall; Banks and MFIs can draw
Yojana refinance under the MUDRA Scheme after becoming member-lending institutions of
MUDRA; MUDRA cards are the unique feature of this scheme - permit access to
working capital through ATMs and card machines; Shishu (upto 50k), Kishore (50k to 5
lakh), Tarun (5-10 lakh); does not directly lend; no subsidy for the loan given under this
(however MUDRA is currently extending reduction of 25 bps to institutions providing
loans to women entrepreneurs)

Public Finance Finance electronic fund tracking mechanism which compiles, collates and makes available in
Management real-time the information on resource availability and utilisation across all government
System (PFMS) schemes; implemented by the Office of Controller General of Accounts; mandatory for
all central sector schemes; other schemes also included as well as FC grants; just in
time transfer of funds
Project SAKSHAM Finance New Indirect Tax Network of CBEC; to bolster the information technology network for
the new GST regime; integration of CBEC IT systems with the Goods and Services Tax
Network (GSTN); Extension of Indian Customs Single Window Interface for Facilitating
Trade (SWIFT)
Duty Drawback Finance by CBEC; an exporter can opt for either All Industry Rate (AIR) of Duty Drawback
Scheme Scheme or brand rate of Duty Drawback Scheme. Major portion of Duty Drawback is
paid through AIR Duty Drawback Scheme which essentially attempts to compensate
exporters of various export commodities for average incidence of customs and Central
Excise duties suffered on the inputs used in their manufacture. Hence, this scheme is to
promote exports
National Pension Finance institute pension reforms and to inculcate the habit of saving for retirement amongst
Scheme (NPS) citizens; launched in 2004 for govt employees, opened to all by 2009
all citizens between 18 and 65 eligible (govt employees for tier-I, private employees,
unorganised sector, NRIs); Administered by PFRDA; 3 types:
o Tier 1 NPS account - non-withdrawable permanent retirement account
o Tier 2 NPS account - voluntary withdrawable account which is allowed only when
there is already existing Tier I account; to offer more liquidity to subscribers
Simple- opening an account with NPS provides A PERMANENT RETIREMENT ACCOUNT
NUMBER (PRAN), which is a unique number and it remains with the subscriber
throughout his lifetime
Portable across jobs and locations; market linked - investor can choose overall risk by
diversifying into different asset classes(equities, g-secs, credit risk, secs other than g-
secs);
Quasi-EET (Exempt-Exempt-Taxable) instrument in India where 40% of the corpus
escapes tax at maturity, while 60% of the corpus is taxable
PFRDA recently announced that the National Pension System (NPS) subscribers will
now have the option to partially withdraw funds from their accounts for pursuing
higher education or setting up new business; withdrawal allowed only after 3 years not
exceeding 25% of contribution made only by subscriber;
Cabinet has now approved EEE status to NPS in Dec 2018

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Jan Suraksha Finance subscribers to receive fixed min pension at age of 60 depending on contribution; open
Yojana - Atal to all Indians between 18 and 40; mainly focused on citizens in unorganised sector; any
Pension Yojana bank account holder not part of any statutory social security scheme and not an
income tax payer can avail; Centre to contribute 50% of total contri or Rs. 1000 per
annum, whichever lesser, for 5 years; replaces NPS Swavalamban scheme; cannot exit
before 60; same pension guaranteed to spouse after subscriber's death

Jan Suraksha Finance aimed at covering population not covered under any accident insurance cover at a
Yojana - PM highly affordable premium of Rs. 12/annum; available to 18-70 age group who enable
Suraksha Bima auto-debit of their savings account (annual renewal); coverage of 2 lakh for death and
Yojana perm disability, 1 lakh for perm partial disability; can be discontinued and rejoined
later
Jan Suraksha Finance one year life insurance scheme renewable every year offering coverage for death due
Yojana - PM to any reason; available to 18-50 age group; annual premium of Rs. 330; coverage of 2
Jeevan Jyoti Bima lakh on death
Yojana
Udyam Abhilasha Finance by SIDBI; national level entrepreneurship awareness campaign; focus on 115
aspirational districts; create cadre of 800 trainers to provide entrepreneurship training
in partnership with CSCs, e-gov services India ltd (an SPV set up by MeITY)

PM Kisan Food Processing Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters;
SAMPADA Yojana Industries supplement agriculture, modernize processing and decrease Agri-Waste; PMKSY is an
umbrella scheme incorporating ongoing schemes of the Ministry like Mega Food Parks,
Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure, Food Safety and Quality
Assurance Infrastructure, etc. and also new schemes like Infrastructure for Agro-
processing Clusters, Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages, Creation / Expansion
of Food Processing &
Preservation Capacities; provide effective and seamless backward and forward
integration for processed food industry by plugging gaps in supply chain and creation
of processing and preservation capacities and modernization/ expansion of existing
food processing unit
Ayushman Bharat - Health and Family 1. announced in Budget 2018, launched at Ranchi; to provide medical cover upto Rs. 5
National Health Welfare lakh per year per household for secondary and tertiary health care; to cover 10 crore
Protection Mission households across the country, constituting 40% of total population on the basis of
(PM Jan Aarogya “deprivation and occupational criteria” as per SECC 2011; National Health Agency to be
Yojana for set up to manage this; subsumes Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana and Senior Citizen
insurance Health Insurance Scheme; cashless, Aadhar enabled (JAM); portable across country -
component of beneficiary covered under the scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from
scheme) any public/private empanelled hospitals across the country;
2. proposal to set up Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission Council
chaired by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister for coordination between Centre
and States
3. PM Aarogya Mitras as a cadre of frontline health service professionals as primary
point of facilitation; to be skilled by NSDC using PM Kaushal Kendras under PMKVY; will
also be skill certified by Health Care Sector Skill Council (non-statutory body under
NSDC)
4. first scheme to have a Privacy Policy based on Srikrishna Committee
recommendations
5. 1.5 lakh Health and Wellness Centres will bring health care system closer to the
homes of people. These centres will provide comprehensive health care, including for
non-communicable diseases and maternal and child health services
Umbrella Scheme Health and Family 5 schemes - Swastha Nagrik Abhiyan (awareness on health issues), Free supply of
for Family Welfare Welfare contraceptives, Social marketing of contraceptives, Population Research Centres, MIS
and Other Health Scheme (now health surveys and health research)
Interventions

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Project Sunrise Health and Family AIDS prevention special programme for the North-East; diagnose 90% of drug addicts
Welfare with HIV and put them under treatment by 2020; steered by National AIDS Control
Organisation
National Health Health and Family National Rural Health Mission - ASHA; Janani Suraksha Yojana; Janani Shishu Suraksha
Mission Welfare Karyakram; Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram; RMNCH+A; mainstreaming AYUSH;
strengthening existing PHCs and CHCs; performance based funds to states
National Urban Health Mission - partnership with community and local bodies, NGOs;
district health action plan; reducing out of pocket expenditure

Accredited Social Health and Family interface between community and public health system; help villagers and mothers
Health Activist Welfare access immunization, ante and post natal check ups, sanitation, supplementary
(ASHA) nutrition; first port of call for healt related demands, especially for women and
children; create awareness
Auxiliary Nurse Midwives - work at health sub-centres; provide primary health care;
assisted by ASHAs
Rashtriya Kishore Health and Family beneficiaries - adolescents in age group 10-19; thematic areas of RKSK namely-
Swasthya Welfare nutrition, sexual reproductive health, substance misuse, non - communicable diseases,
karyakram mental health, injuries and violence; community-based interventions through peer
educators (Saathiyas); students screened in schools for early detection of diseases

Electronic Vaccine Health and Family support UIP; indigenously developed technology system in India that digitizes vaccine
Intelligence Welfare stocks and monitors the temperature of the cold chain through a smartphone
Network application; partnership with UNDP

Rashtriya Bal Health and Family health screening for 4 Ds - defect at birth, deficiencies, diseases and development
Swasthya Welfare delays; for all children 0-6 years; children upto 18 years in govt schools; children
Karyakram diagnosed with illness shall receive follow up treatment free under NRHM; newborn
screening by ASHAs (0-6 week old); for 6 weeks to 18 years olds - screening by mobile
health teams (2 AYUSH docs - 1 male, 1 female)

Janani Suraksha Health and Family promoting institutional delivery; under NRHM; eligible pregnant women entitled to
Yojana Welfare cash assistance irrespective of age of mother and number of children; performance
based incentives to ASHAs for promoting institutional delivery; small cash assistance
alsoo given for home deliveries

Janani Shishu Health and Family eliminate out-of-pocket expenses for both pregnant women and sick neonates; Zero
Suraksha Welfare expense deliveries: pregnant women are entitled for free drugs and consumables, free
Karyakram diagnostics, free blood whenever required, and free diet up to 3 days for normal
delivery and 7 days for c-section in public institutions; free transport from home to
institution, supplements the cash assistance given to a pregnant woman under Janani
Suraksha Yojana, without any component of cash assistance within itself

Rashtriya Arogya Health and Family financial assistance to BPL patients suffering from life threatening diseases; RAN
Nidhi Welfare registered under Societies Act; not directly given to patient - given to superintendent of
hospi; govt hospitals only

IT initiatives Health and Family ANMOL - tablet based app for Auxiliary Nursing Midwives to update data on
Welfare beneficiaries; e-raktakosh initiative - connect all blood banks in India digitally; Kilkari -
audio msgs about pregnancy to families' mobile phones

‘Skill for Life, Save Health and Family promote skill development in the health sector; upscale the quantity and quality of
a Life’ initiative Welfare trained professionals in the healthcare system

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India newborn Health and Family goal is to attain Single Digit Neonatal Mortality and Stillbirth Rates by 2030; to be
action plan Welfare implemented within the existing Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and
Adolescent health (RMNCH+A) framework of the National Health Mission (NHM)

Vatsalya – Maatri Health and Family National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre was recently inaugurated
Amrit Kosh Welfare at the Lady Hardinge; in collaboration with Norway
Mothers Absolute Health and Family create awareness regarding breastfeeding
Affection Welfare
Intensified Health and Family create mass awareness about the most effective and low-cost diarrhoea treatment— a
Diarrhoea Control Welfare combination of Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS) solution and Zinc tablets; ASHAs to
Fortnight distribute ORS packets; ORS-Zinc corners to be set up

Mission Parivar Health and Family focus on districts with highest total fertility rates; to reach the replacement level
Vikas Welfare fertility goals of 2.1 by 2025; accelerate access to high quality family planning choices
based on information, reliable services and supplies
launc of 2 new contraceptives - injectible 'Antara' and pill 'Chhaya'

National Health and Family organised twice in a year covering all the children from 1-19 years of age; deworming
Deworming Welfare tablet called ‘Albendazole’; collaboration with HRD and WCD Ministries; intestinal
Initiative parasitic worms aka Helminths

Intensified Mission Health and Family accelerate full immunization coverage to more than 90% by December 2018; aims at
Indradhanush Welfare reducing maternal and child mortality; monitored at highest level under PRAGATI
(Universal (Proactive Governance and Timely Implementation);
Immunization Diseases targeted - diphtheria, whopping cough (pertussis), tetanus, polio, TB,
Programme is for measles, HepB, Japanese Encephalitis, Meningitis and Pneumonia caused by
pregnant women Haemophilus influenzae type B, rubella, rotavirus, injectible polio vaccine bivalent
and infants;
Indradhanush is
for unvaccinated
and partially
vaccinated
children)
Rashtriya Health and Family for BPL family; cashless insurance for hospitalisation in public as well as selected
Swasthya Bima Welfare private hospitals; for IT-enabled and smart–card-based cashless healthy insurance
Yojana cover, up to Rs. 30,000/- per annum on a family floater basis to unorganized sector;
earlier was under Ministry of Labour

LaQshya – Labour Health and Family Safe Delivery Mobile Application for health workers; to reduce preventable maternal
Room Quality Welfare and new-born mortality, morbidity and stillbirths; improving infrastructure up-
Improvement gradation, ensuring availability of essential equipment, providing adequate human
Initiative resources, capacity building of health care workers and improving quality processes in
the labour room; will be assessed through NQAS

National Strategic Health and Family aimed at eradicating HIV/AIDS by 2030; for achieving the target of 90:90:90 Strategy by
Plan (2017-24) Welfare UNAIDS - 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 90% of all people
with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy, 90% of all
people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression

Mission SAMPARK Health and Family to trace those who are Left to Follow Up and are to be brought under Antiretroviral
Welfare therapy (ART) services; “Community Based Testing” will be taken up for fast-tracking
the identification of all who are HIV positive

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PM Surakshit Health and Family provide assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care, free of cost, universally to
Matritva Abhiyan Welfare all pregnant women on the 9th of every month; through third to sixth month of
pregnancy; by gynaecology specialists and physicians with support from private sector
doctors to supplement the efforts of the government sector

Affordable Health and Family provide affordable life-saving cancer, cardiac drugs and medical disposables through
Medicines and Welfare AMRIT pharmacies; by mini-ratna PSU HLL Lifecare Ltd.
Reliable Implants
for
Treatment(AMRIT)
PM Swasthya Health and Family correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/ reliable tertiary
Suraksha Yojana Welfare healthcare services and augment facilities for quality medical education; setting up
AIIMS like instis and upgradation of govt medical colleges

Integrated Disease Health and Family assisted by WB; to meet the WHO Guidelines for South East Asian countries on disease
Surveillance Welfare surveillance
Programme
Swachh Swasth Health and Family collaboration with Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and HRD; to strengthen
Sarvatra initiative Welfare community health centres in 708 open defecation-free blocks across the country to
enable them to achieve higher levels of cleanliness and hygiene; 10 lakh Rs. To
community health centres;
Similar scheme Kayakalp - one PHC in each district is awarded for meeting quality
standards including sanitation and hygiene + under SBM, Gram Panchayat in which PHC
is awarded gets special focus to make it ODF
FAME India Heavy Industries Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles under the National
Scheme Electric Mobility Mission; four focus areas, technology development, demand creation,
pilot projects and charging infrastructure; all vehicle segments included; manufacturer
to reduce prices which would be reimbursed by govt
Phase II : electrification of public and shared transport; incentives for local
manufacturing; set up charging stations (at least one in 3 by 3km grid in cities and on
both sides of highways at every 25 km); incentives to Original Equipment
Manufacturers to set up charging stations; withdrawal of subsidies to EVs using lead-
acid batteries (to promot Li-ion)

YUVA – a skill Home Affairs initiative by Delhi Police under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana; help youth get
development gainful employment by upgrading their skills; Delhi Police + National Skill Development
programme Corp + CII
National Home Affairs autonomous org that organises communal harmony campaign coinciding with Quami
Foundation for Ekta Week; Under its Project ‘Assist’, the NFCH also provides financial assistance for
Communal relief
Harmony and rehabilitation of children rendered orphan or destitute in communal, caste, ethnic
or terrorist violence
Bharat Ke Veer Home Affairs web portal and mobile application named “Bharat ke Veer” to enable people to
contribute towards family of martyrs from central paramilitary forces
Border area Home Affairs cover all the villages which are located within the 0-10 Km of the International Border,
development irrespective of the border block abutting on the International Border or not of 17
programme States which constitute the International Land Borders; to meet the special
developmental needs and well being of the people living in remote and inaccessible
areas situated near the international border and to saturate the border areas with the
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Swachh Housing and Urban QCI responsible for assessment; collection, transport, processing and disposal of
Survekshan 2018 Affairs Municipal solid waste, sanitation related progress, IEC (info, education,
communication), capacity building, innovation and best practices); negative marking
introduced in 2018 to ensure cities do not make false claims

Swachh Housing and Urban 4th edition; extended to all cities under SBM-Urban; 4 broad parameters : service level
Survekshan 2019 Affairs progress, direct observation, citizens' feedback and certification (newly introduced)
Certification components : ODF protocols and Start rating of garbage-free cities
(cleanliness of drains and water bodies, plastic and construction waste mgt etc)

ODF+ protocol Housing and Urban original ODF protocol - ward/city notified ODF if at any point of day not a single person
Affairs is found defecating in the open; ODF+ also includes public urination for the 1st time
and also says that all community and public toilets should be functional and well
maintained
ODF++ protocol Housing and Urban In addition to ODF+, faecal sludge/septage and sewage should be safely mgd and
Affairs treated, with no discharging of untreated sewage in drains, water bodies or open areas
Swachh Manch Housing and Urban to bring together all stakeholders of SBM; allow stakeholders to
Web Portal Affairs create/invite/participate in volunteering opportunities in neighbourhoods; enable
upload of pictorial evidence, record of number of hours volunteered; will also be
integrated with Swachhta App to act as grievance redressal forum

Deendayal Housing and Urban imparting skill training, enabling entrepreneurship, providing wage employment and
Antyodaya Yojana Affairs selfemployment opportunities to the urban poor, including homeless; replaces the
– National Urban existing Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana; organise urban poor into SHGs;
Livelihoods Providing shelter equipped with essential services in phased manner to urban poor
Mission (DAY- including urban homeless
NULM)
Smart cities Housing and Urban chosen cities to get central funds of Rs. 100 crore each year for 5 years; Bottom-up
mission Affairs approach has been the key planning principle; basic infrastructure through assured
water and power supply, sanitation and solid waste management, efficient urban
mobility and public transport, IT connectivity, e-governance and citizen participation;
states and ULBs to play key supportive role; implementation by a Special Purpose
Vehicle; each smart city will have a SPV which will be headed by a full time CEO and
have nominees of Central Government, State Government and ULB on its Board

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Heritage Housing and Urban partnership of Government, academic Institutions and local community; 12 cities
Infrastructure Affairs selected for the scheme are Ajmer, Amritsar, Amravati, Badami, Dwarka, Gaya,
Development and Warangal, Puri, Kanchipuram, Mathura, Varanasi and Velankanni; beautification of
Augmentation heritage cities, focussing on livelihoods, skills, cleanliness, security, safety, accessibility,
Yojana (HRIDAY) faster service delivery
Atal Mission for Housing and Urban new version of JNNURM; ensure basic infrastructure services relating to water supply,
Rejuvenation and Affairs sewerage, storm-water drains, transportation and development of green spaces and
Urban parks with special provision for meeting the needs of children; 500 locations with a
Transformation population>one lakh; states get the flexibility of designing, execution and monitoring of
(AMRUT) schemes based on needs of identified cities; central govt to release funds in 3
instalments in the ratio 20:40:40 based on state annual action plans; States will
transfer funds to urban local bodies within 7 days of transfer by central government
and no diversion of funds to be made
Pradhan Mantri Housing and Urban Housing for All by 2022 (2 crore houses); housing requirement of urban poor including
Awas Yojana Affairs slum dwellers; 4 verticals are -
(Urban) 1. Slum rehabilitation of Slum Dwellers with participation of private developers using
land as a resource
2. Affordable Housing for weaker section through credit linked subsidy
3. Affordable Housing in Partnership with Public & Private sectors
4. Subsidy for beneficiary-led individual house construction
EWS beneficiaries eligible for support under all 4 verticals, whereas LIG and MIG
eligible only for Credit Linked Subsidy (this is the only Central Sector component);
houses to be preferably alloted in the name of women; Geo-tagging for monitoring the
progress of construction of houses, Public Financial Management System (PFMS) to
ensure electronic fund flow and Technology Sub-Mission to implement new
construction technologies, have been introduced;
Infrastructure status granted to housing sector
beneficiary family must not own a pucca house anywhere in India

SHREYAS Scheme Human Resource improve employability of students by introducing employment relevance in learning
(Scheme for Higher Development process; earn while you learn system in higher education; MHRD + M of Skill
Education Youth in Development and Entrepreneurship (NAPS) + M of Labour and Employment (National
Apprenticeship Career Service); implemented by Sector Skills Councils; to cover 50 lakh students by
and Skills) 2022; apart from funding under NAPS, an amount of 7500 will be met towards basic
training cost, where reqd
STARS Scheme Human Resource 500 science projects to be funded; coordinated by IISc; launched on National Science
(Scheme for Development Day (celebrated to mark discovery of Raman effect, this year theme was Science for
Translational and People and People for Science
Advanced
Research in
Science)
PM Research Human Resource announced in Budget 2018; best students who have completed (in last 5 years) or are
Fellowship Scheme Development in the final year of B. Tech or Integrated M.Tech or M.Sc. in Science and Technology
streams from IISc/IITs/NITs/IISERs/IIITs, with atleast 8.0 CGPA, will be offered direct
admission in Ph.D programme in the IITs / IISc, after going through the selection
process; students will be offered fellowship of > Rs. 70k per month; 3000 Fellows
would be selected in a three year period
Integrated Scheme Human Resource recently approved for 2018-2020 period; subsumes 3 schemes - SSA, Rashtriya
for School Development Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and Centrally Sponsored Scheme on Teacher Education
Education

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Sarva Shiksha Human Resource for achievement of Universalization of Elementary Education (UEE) in a time bound
Abhiyan Development manner, as mandated by 86th amendment to the Constitution of India making free and
compulsory Education to the Children of 6-14 years age group, a Fundamental Right;
sub-schemes -
Padhe Bharat, Badhe Bharat
Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan
Vidyanjali
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas - in educationally backward blocks to promote girls'
education

Mid-day meal Human Resource to enhance enrolment, retention and attendance, improve nutritional levels; for every
scheme Development child in every govt and aided primary school (class 1 to 8) and other institutions like
madarsas under SSA; min content of 450 cal of energy and 12 gm protein everyday for
min 200 days (700 cal and 20 gm protein for upper primary); for upper primary, revised
to 30 gm pulses and 75 gm vegetables; TSR committee recommended extension to
Secondary students as well (not yet done); Centres run under Education Guarantee
Scheme/Alternative and Innovative Education; also provide nutritional support to
children in elementary stage in drought-affected areas during summer vacations;
Revised norms : cooking cost linked to inflation index, transportation rate revised to
PDS rate, fortification of food items, rice kitchen gardens in each school, use of pulses
from buffer stock, Tithi bhojan (locals can celebrate important days by contributing to
MDM), involve jails, temples, gurudwaras in MDM

Padhe Bharat, Human Resource sub-programme of SSA with special focus on improving language development and to
Badhe Bharat Development create interest in mathematics; two tracks of Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat are: Early
reading and writing with comprehension (ERWC) and Early mathematics (EM); For
classes I and II (reading initiative till class VIII)

Vidyanjali Human Resource involve volunteers from different walks of life to strengthen the co-scholastic activities
Development in government schools., performing arts and life skills also to be included
Technical Human Resource to overhaul quality of technical education in low income states and special category
Education Quality Development states by employing graduates from premier colleges like IITs and NITs to teach in engg
Improvement colleges in backward districts for a period of 3 years; WB assistance
Programme
Swasth Bachche, Human Resource prepare a physical Health and Fitness Profile Card for more than 12 lakh KV students;
Swasth Bharat Development Imbibe values of Olympics and Paralympics; make physical activity and recreational
games an integral part of learning process

Rashtriya Human Resource to enhance access to secondary education and to improve its quality; providing a
Madhyamik Development secondary school within a reasonable distance of any habitation; improving quality of
Shiksha Abhiyan education imparted at secondary level through making all secondary schools conform
to prescribed norms, removing gender, socio-economic and disability barriers,
providing universal access to secondary level education by 2017 and achieving
universal retention by 2020; provision of physical facilities like additional classrooms,
labs, toilets, hostels for teachers in remote areas, additional teachers to improve PTR
to 30
Rashtriya Human Resource enhance access to higher education by setting up instis in unserved and underserved
Uchchatar Shiksha Development areas; providing funding to existing higher education instis; improve overall quality of
Abhiyan state instis; improve gross enrolment ration from 19% to 30% by 2020; accreditation,
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Madhyamik and Human Resource non-lapsable pool in the Public Account for secondary and higher education known as
Uchchtar Shiksha Development "Madhyamik and Uchchtar Shiksha Kosh" (MUSK) to which all proceeds of Secondary
Kosh and Higher Education Cess would be credited; MUSK would be maintained as a Reserve
Fund in the non-interest bearing section of the Public Accounts of India

Unnat Bharat Human Resource building capacity in institutes of higher education to research fields relevant to needs
Development of rural India; connecting institutes of higher education including IITs, NITs etc with
local communities to address development challenges

Diksha Portal Human Resource National Digital Infrastructure for Teachers; all teachers across the nation will be
Development equipped with advanced digital technology; portal will cover the whole teacher’s life
cycle – from the time they were enrolled as student teachers in Teacher Education
Institutes (TEIs) to after
they retire as teachers; private institutes and NGOs can also participate
National Testing Human Resource Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860; autonomous and
Agency Development self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for
higher educational institutions in online mode at least twice a year; chaired by an
eminent educationist appointed by MHRD; CEO will be the Director General to be
appointed by the
Government; Board of Governors from user institutions; to be financially self-
sustainable in the long run
Higher Education Human Resource set up as SPV with a PSB (Canara); be jointly funded by the promoter/bank and the
Funding Agency Development MHRD with an authorised capital of ₹2,000 crore. Government equity in it is Rs.1000
crore; is not-for-profit org that will leverage funds from market and supplement them
with donations and CSR funds; RBI has granted it license to operate as NBFC; market
linked education financing
Maitreyi Yatra Human Resource student exchange programme for school children as part of MoU with J&K
Development
Saakshar Bharat Human Resource 4 broad objectives - Impart functional literacy and numeracy to non-literate and non-
Programme Development numerate adults; Enable the neo-literate adults to continue their learning beyond basic
literacy and acquire equivalency to formal educational system; Impart non and neo-
literates relevant skill development programmes; Promote a learning society by
providing opportunities to neo literate adults for continuing education; eligibility - all
LWE affected districts + districts with adult female literacy rate <50% as per 2001
census
Vittiya Saksharata Human Resource make people aware about cashless economic system; young students and faculty will
Abhiyan (VISAKA) Development be roped in along with NCC/NCC volunteers; faculty to try and make their college
campus cashless; DigiShala channel by DD

ShaGun Human Resource dedicated web portal ‘ShaGun’ for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan; capture and showcase
Development innovations and progress in Elementary Education sector of India by continuous
monitoring of SSA; ‘Shala’ meaning Schools and ‘Gunvatta’ meaning Quality; an online
monitoring module to measure state-level performance and progress against key
educational indicators
Saraansh Human Resource to allow CBSE schools to identify areas of improvement in students, teachers,
Development curriculum; performance metrics presented through numbers, hence schools can be
compared too
Ishan Vikas Human Resource select engg students from NE to be taken to premier instis for internships
Development
Ishan Uday Human Resource 10k fresh scholarships for NE in general degree course, medical, technical courses etc
Development
ASMITA (All School Human Resource to track educational journey of 25 crore students in 15 lakh schools under Shala Asmita
Monitoring Development Yojana; online db that will carry info on attendance and enrolment, learning outcomes,
Individual Tracing mid-day meal service, infra etc; students tracked through Aadhaar

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Analysis)

UDAAN (Giving Human Resource address the lower enrolment of girls in engineering colleges/IITs; training 1000 selected
Wings to Girl Development girl students to compete for admission at premier Engineering colleges in India by
Students) providing course in an online and offline format; girls enrolled in XI in govt run schools
eligible
SWAYAM Human Resource Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds; e-education platform;
Development courses from high school stage to post-graduate stage; bridge digital divide; to address
access, equity, quality

Global Initiative for Human Resource to attract the best foreign academics to Indian Universities of Excellence. The
Academics Development programme has been launched to facilitate the partnership between Higher Education
Network (GIAN) Institutions of India and other foreign universities. Under this (352) courses are being
offered by foreign faculty from 38 Countries

Saksham Human Resource scholarship scheme for differently abled students to pursue technical education
Development
National Academic Human Resource 24X7 online store house of all academic awards viz. certificates, diplomas, degrees,
Depository Development mark-sheets etc. duly digitised and lodged by academic institutions / boards / eligibility
assessment bodies; UGC will be authorised body to operationalise the NAD; two inter-
operable digital depositories by NSDL and CDSL
integrated with e-Sanad portal which aims at online submission/ verification of
documents with an ultimate object to extend contactless, cashless, faceless and
paperless document attestation service for apostille and normal attestation to
applicants in India
PM Vidya Lakshmi Human Resource web-based portal for the benefit of students seeking Educational Loans; developed
Karyakram Development and maintained by NSDL e-Gov; info on govt scholarships also available
Impacting Human Resource developing a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology
Research Development challenges in 10 tech domains relevant to India; by IITs+IISc; Inter-Ministerial Group
INnovation and with Rs. 1000 crore corpus formed - HRD, Defense, DST, Dept of Biotech, Rural
Technology development
(IMPRINT)-India
IMPRINT II Human Resource 122 new research projects selected; 10 tech domains are health care, ICT, Energy,
Development sustainable habitat, nano-tech, water resources and river systems, advanced materials,
manufacturing, security and defence, environment and climate change; MHRD+DST as
equal partners
Rashtriya Avishkar Human Resource for 6-18 year olds; mentoring by IITs/IIMs/IISERs etc through innovative programmes,
Abhiyan Development student exchanges, demos etc; promote Art 51A
Digital Gender Human Resource collaboration with UNICEF; help identify low performing geographic pockets for girls,
Atlas for advancing Development particularly from marginalized groups; atlas placed on MHRD website for trend analysis
girls' education in and tracking
India
Scheme for Human Resource Implementing agency is IIT-Kgp; aim is to boost joint research with global univs from 28
Promotion of Development countries and get international expertise to solve major national problems, exposure to
Academic and Indian students, improve Indian univs' rankings; All Indian instis in top 100 rankings in
Research NIRF eligible to send their PhD and postdoc researchers
Collaboration
(SPARC)
Impactful Policy Human Resource Implementing agency is ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research); aim is to
Research in Social Development identify and fund research proposals in social sciences with max impact on governance
Science (IMPRESS) and society

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PM Shram-Yogi Labour and Employment pension plan for informal workers with monthly income <15k (Atal Pension Yojana has
Maandhan Yojana not such limit) and in entry age of 18-40 + not covered under NPS, ESIC or EPFO + not
income tax payers; min assured pension of 3k per month after age of 60 (50% to
spouse in case of death during receipt of pension; in case of death before 60, spouse
entitled to join and continue the scheme); subscriber to contribute Rs. 55 at 18 yrs age,
100 at 29 yrs and 220 at 40 yrs + matching contri by govt; voluntary; allows only
monthly contri whereas APY allows quarterly or half yearly too; directly managed by
govt, unlike APY managed by PFRDA
One IP - 2 Labour and Employment Two Dispensaries schemes of ESIC has given an option to an Insured Person (IP) to
dispensaries choose two dispensaries, one for self and another for family through an employer; will
especially benefit migrant workers

Aadhaar based Labour and Employment provide an easy PF final settlement under EPFO
Online Claim
Submission
PENCIL Portal Labour and Employment Platform for Effective Enforcement for No Child Labour; components — Child Tracking
System, Complaint Corner, State Government, National Child Labour Project and
Convergence
National Child Labour Project Scheme to rehabilitate working children by eliminating all
forms of child labour through identification and withdrawal of all children from child
labour, Preparing children withdrawn from work for mainstream education along with
vocational training
Shram Awards Labour and Employment conferred on workers in PSUs for outstanding contributions that improve productivity,
innovation, and indigenization, resulting in saving foreign exchange
DDU Shramev Labour and Employment create conducive environment for industrial development and ease of doing business;
Jayate Karyakram schemes under it -
1. Shram Suvidha Portal - Allocation of Unique Labour ID Numbers to units; Self
certified and simplified single online return by the industry; Mandatory uploading of
inspection reports by inspectors within 72 hours; Timely redressal of grievances
2. Random Inspection Scheme - bring transparency in labour inspection; computerized
list of inspections will be generated randomly based on pre-determined objective
criteria.
3. Universal Account Number - allotted to EPF subscribers to make Provident Fund
account
more portable and universally accessible
4. Apprentice Protsahan Yojana - support manufacturing units mainly by reimbursing
50% of the stipend paid to apprentices during first two years of their training
5. Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana - Single central smart card to be issued
to include other welfare schemes like Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana and National Old Age
Pension
Scheme - TO BE CHECKED
PM Paridhan Labour and Employment Recent modifications - scope enhanced; GoI will now contribute the employer's full
Rojgar Protsahan admissible contribution (12%) for the first three years, and for all the sectors including
Yojana existing beneficiaries for their remaining period of three years;
employers would be provided an incentive for enhancing employment by
reimbursement of the 8.33% EPS contribution made by the employer in respect of new
employment(those joining after 1st April 2016); targeted for workers earning wages
upto Rs. 15,000/- per month. Publicity and awareness campaign is an integral
component of the PMRPY scheme for encouraging employers including Micro, Small
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National Career Labour and Employment bridge gap between job seekers and hirers; replace the National Employment Service
Service comprising a network of 978 employment exchanges; comprises an ICT-based portal, a
countrywide set-up of career centres, a multilingual call centre, and a network of
career counsellors

Central Sector Labour and Employment financial assistance for rehabilitation of a rescued bonded labour; ₹1 lakh per adult
Scheme for male beneficiary; ₹2 lakh for special category beneficiaries such as women and
rehabilitation of children; ₹3 lakh in cases of extreme deprivation or marginalisation such as
bonded labourers transgenders, women or children rescued from ostensible sexual exploitation or
trafficking; creation of a Bonded Labour Rehabilitation Fund at District level by each
State with a permanent corpus of at least Rs. 10 lakh

Revised integrated Labour and Employment provide financial assistance upto 1.5 lakh to workers for house construction; DBT;
housing scheme includes workers from beedi industry and mines, registered with Labour Welfare Org
Tele-law Law and justice make legal aid easily accessible to the marginalized communities and citizens living in
rural areas; partnered with the MeitY, to provide legal aid services through its Common
Service Centres (CSC) at the panchayat level; NALSA will provide a panel of lawyers
from State capitals, who will be available through video conferencing; CSCs will engage
a Para Legal
Volunteer (PLV)(women PLVs to be encouraged), who will help citizens in
understanding the legal issues, explain the advice given by lawyers and assist in further
action required in cases as per the advice of the lawyer
Pro bono legal Law and justice web based platform, through which interested lawyers can register themselves to
Services volunteer pro bono services for the underprivileged litigants, who are unable to afford
it
Nyaya Mitra Law and justice reducing pendency of cases across selected districts, with special focus on those
scheme pending for more than 10 years; a retired judicial or executive officer (with legal
experience) designated as the ‘Nyaya Mitra’, the project would be operated out of
District Facilitation Centres, housed in Common Service Centres(CSCs); providing legal
advice and connecting litigants to District Legal Service Authority (DLSA), CSC Tele Law,
Lok Adalats etc; prison reforms
PM Employment Micro, Small and implemented by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), a statutory
Generation Medium Enterprises organization under the administrative control of the Ministry of MSME; credit linked
Programme subsidy programme for generation of employment opportunities through
establishment of micro enterprises in rural as well as urban areas; second loan of up to
Rs 1 crore to existing and better performing PMEGP units for upgrading with subsidy of
15%; Merger of Coir Udyami Yojana, a credit linked subsidy scheme to establish coir
units, in PMEGP; Mandatory Aadhaar and Pan card and Geotagging of units

ASPIRE (A Scheme Micro, Small and create a framework for startup promotion through network of tech centers and
for Promotion of Medium Enterprises incubation centers and commercialisation of Business Idea Programme
Innovation, Rural
Industry and
Entrepreneurship)
SFURTI (Scheme of Micro, Small and to organise traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make them competitive
Fund for Medium Enterprises and provide support for their long term sustainability
Regeneration of
Traditional
Industries)
MSME Samadhaan Micro, Small and delayed payment portal for empowering MSMEs to directly register their cases relating
Medium Enterprises to delayed payments by Central Ministries/depts/PSUs etc

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MSME Sambandh Micro, Small and public procurement portal for MSMEs
Medium Enterprises

ZED (Zero Defect Micro, Small and to manufacture goods in the country with Zero defects and ensure Zero effect on the
Zero Effect) Medium Enterprises environment; there are 50 parameters for ZED rating and additional 25 parameters for
ZED Defence rating under ZED Maturity Assessment Model; MSMEs are provided
financial assistance for the activities to be carried out for ZED certification i.e.,
Assessment / Rating, Additional rating for Defence angle, Gap Analysis, Handholding,
Consultancy for improving the rating of MSMEs by Consultants and Re-Assessment /
Re-Rating;
Quality Council of India (QCI) has been appointed as the National Monitoring &
Implementing Unit (NMIU) for implementation of ZED

MSME Sampark Micro, Small and Digital platform to connect 5 lakh job seekers with recruiters
Medium Enterprises

Solar Charkha Micro, Small and MSME Ministry to disburse a subsidy of 550 cr to artisans, generating employment in
Medium Enterprises rural areas and contributing to green economy; cover 50 clusters, each one employing
400 to 2000 artisans

PM Khanij Kshetra Mines welfare of areas and people affected by mining related operations, using the funds
Kalyan Yojana generated by District Mineral Foundations; priority areas like drinking water supply,
health care, sanitation, education, skill development, women and child care, welfare of
aged and disabled people, skill development and environment conservation will get at
least 60 % share of the funds; Approval of Gram Sabha will be required for all plans and
projects taken under PMKKKY in villages within scheduled areas
District Mineral Foundation : Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation)
Amendment
Act, 2015, mandated the setting up of District Mineral Foundations in all districts in the
country affected by mining related operations

TAMRA Portal and Mines Transparency, Auction Monitoring and Resource Augmentation (TAMRA) Portal and
Mobile App Mobile Application to ensure transparent award of statutory Clearances for mining
operations; also enables successful bidder to give suggestions and inputs

Project SUDOOR Mines MoU between Indian Bureau of Mines and National Remote Sensing Centre of Dept of
DRISHTI Space; Bhuvan based services will be used for monitoring changes in mining areas
PM Jan Vikas Minority Affairs Multi-sectoral development program restructured into PMJVK; identified as one of
Karyakram Core of the Core schemes by NITI; Minority Conc Districts (with >25% (earlier 50%)
(PMJVK) minority pop); additional class rooms, labs, school buildings, hostels, toilets, ITI,
polytechnics, CHCs, PHCs, Anganwadis etc; now criteria for identification of Minority
Conc Towns (MCTs) has been rationalised and based on 2011 census - earlier only
towns backward in both basic amenities and socio-economic parameters were
considered, now either of 2 conditions admissible + pop criteria brought down from
50% minority to 25% minority
Hamari Dharohar Minority Affairs collaboration with Culture Ministry; Documentation of oral traditions and art forms,
support to ethnic museums, workshops/seminars/exhibitions, fellowship for R&D, etc
provided
Padho Pardesh Minority Affairs interest Subsidy linked with the existing Educational Loan Scheme of Indian Banks’
Association; available to the eligible students only once, either for Masters, M.Phil or
Ph.D levels
Cyber Gram Minority Affairs for students in classes 6th to 10th in Madarsas/Schools having no facility of computer
education; 39 hours basic computer concepts syllabus; village level entrepreneurs to
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Jiyo Parsi Minority Affairs for containing the declining trend of population of the Parsi community; medical
assistance + counselling
Nai Roshni Minority Affairs for Leadership Development of Minority Women; scheme aims to empower and instil
confidence among minority women by providing knowledge, tools and techniques for
interacting with Government systems, Banks and other institutions at all levels through
NGOs; involvement of Gram Panchayats and ULBs

Nai Udaan Minority Affairs financial support to minority community candidates clearing prelims of UPSC, SPSC or
SSC
Gharib Nawaz Skill Minority Affairs job-oriented skill development courses and offer certificate course in Goods and
Development Services
Centres Tax accounting/programming and other related subjects; first centre in Hyderabad;
courses also offered in health services, mobile/laptop repairing, driving training etc
Seekho aur Kamao Minority Affairs a placement linked skill development; upgrading the skills of minority youths
USTTAD Minority Affairs Upgrading the Skills & Training in Traditional Arts/Crafts for Development; boosting the
skill of craftsmen, weavers and artisans who are already engaged in the traditional
ancestral work; soft skills, spoken English, IT also taught; Hunar Haat organised at
Pragati Maidan to showcase crafts

Nai Manzil Minority Affairs to benefit the minority youths who are school-dropouts or educated in the community
education institutions like Madrasas, by providing them an integral input of formal
education (up till Class VIII or X) and skill training along with certification; WB
supported
Maulana Azad Minority Affairs entrepreneurship and skill development programme; arrangement to meet all Skill
National Academy Development/Up-gradation needs of the Minority communities; extensive All India
for Skills (MANAS) Level, Training Framework based on Collaboration (PPP mode) with leading and
reputed Training Providers at National/ International level; The National Minorities
Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC) will provide assistance with credit for
persons who have undergone training at MANAS and wish to establish their own
business or be self employed
National Biogas New and Renewable setting up of family type biogas plants for providing biogas as clean cooking fuel and a
and Manure Mgt Energy source of lighting in rural and semi-urban areas of the country; implemented by the
Programme State Nodal Departments and Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Biogas
Development and Training Centers

Green Energy New and Renewable grid connected network for the transmission of renewable energy produced from
Corridor Project Energy various renewable energy projects; 2 networks envisioned -
1. Green Corridor I: Inter-State transmission network is constructed for connecting
renewable energy-rich states. Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) is implementing
this corridor. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided loan assistance.
2. Green Corridors II: This is intra-state transmission network implemented by
respective states and connects solar parks in different states

Atal Jyoti Yojana New and Renewable by EESL; Solar LED Lights are to be installed in rural, semi-urban and urban areas which
Energy do not enjoy adequate coverage of power; in states of AS, BH, JK, OD, UP; Phase II for
Solar Street Lighting Systems in aspirational districts, hilly states, islands, north eastern
states and Phase I states;

PM Ladakh New and Renewable 1.5 MW Small Hydro Power Plant in Biaras Drass, Kargil has become the first project to
Renewable Energy Energy be commissioned under this; will power the Drass town; developed by Kargil
Initiative Renewable Energy Development Agency (KREDA) under Ladakh Autonomous Hill
Development Council; project also envisages setting up of 10 solar photovoltaic power
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Sustainable New and Renewable national solar rooftop target of 40 GW till 2021-2022; Central Financial Assistance will
Rooftop Energy be provided only for installation of roof top solar plants in residential sectors
Implementation
for Solar
Transfiguration of
India (SRISTI)
Surya Mitra New and Renewable National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), an autonomous institution of the Ministry is
Energy organizing “Suryamitra” skill development programmes to develop the skills of youth,
considering the opportunities for employment in the growing Solar Energy Power
project’s installation, operation & maintenance in India and abroad. The Suryamitra
Programme is also designed to prepare the candidates to become new entrepreneurs
in Solar Energy sector
Suryamitra App : can handle thousands of calls simultaneously and can efficiently
monitor all visits of Suryamitras; also improve the businesses of solar entrepreneurs
because of quality servicing, maintenance and repairing professionals are now
available to customers at the click of a button on their mobiles

National Solar New and Renewable one of 8 missions under NAPCC; target of 100 GW by 2022; 40 GW Rooftop and 60 GW
Mission Energy through Large and Medium Scale Grid Connected Solar Power Projects; - power
bundling mean that NTPC would tender private players to produce solar energy and
would bundle that energy with thermal energy to sell at an average rate; viability gap
funding based projects through Solar Energy Corp of India

Aspirational NITI Aayog transforming 115 districts across 28 states that have witnessed the least progress along
Districts certain development parameters; convergence (of central and state schemes),
Programme collaboration (of central, state level ‘Prabhari’ officers & district collectors), and
competition among districts; five core dimension : health and nutrition, education,
financial inclusion, agriculture and water resources, skill development and basic infra;
Cooperative Federalism: Local, state and central governments work together; focus on
the strength of each district, identify low-hanging fruits for immediate
improvementOut of 115 districts, 30 were identified by the NITI Aayog, another 50 by
Central Ministries and 35 by MHA as LWE districtsSIDBI + CSCs to promote micro
enterprises

SATH Programme NITI Aayog Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital’ with the State Govts; initiate
transformation in the education and health sectors; by NITI along with McKinsey &
Company
and IPE Global consortium; build three selected states Assam, UP and KN as future ‘role
model’ states for health systems; in education, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and
Jharkhand has been selected for support to better learning outcome
“Mentor India” NITI Aayog to engage leaders who can guide and mentor students at more than 900 Atal Tinkering
Campaign Labs, established across the country as a part of the Atal Innovation Mission
Atal Innovation NITI Aayog AIM includes establishing Atal Tinkering Labs and Atal Incubation Centers, for providing
Mission support to established Incubation Centers; aims to promote innovation and
entrepreneurship nationwide in schools, universities and industry; Entrepreneurship
promotion through Self-Employment and Talent Utilization(SETU), is techno-financial,
incubation and facilitation programme to give support and encouragement to young
start-ups and other selfemployment technology-intensive ideas; Atal Tinkering
Marathon launched under this to select top 30 student innovations in 6 thematic areas
- clean energy, water resources, waste mgt, healthcare, smart mobility and agri-tech

Champions of NITI Aayog effort to bring together diverse strengths for the benefit of the nation and society;
Change initiative discussions

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National Nutrition NITI Aayog four proximate determinants of nutrition – uptake of health services, food, drinking
Strategy water & sanitation and income & livelihoods – work together to accelerate decline of
under nutrition in India; community mobilisation; envisages a Kuposhan Mukt Bharat

Intelligent NITI Aayog collaboration with International Road Federation, Geneva; create a national platform
Transportation to develop a national ITS policy covering traffic mgt, parking mgt, electronic
Systems enforcement of traffic rules, fleet mg and monitoring, innovation and education in ITS

Lucky Grahak and NITI Aayog cash awards to consumers and merchants who utilize digital payment instruments for
DigiDhan Vyapar personal consumption expenditures; implemented by NPCI; included all forms of
Yojana transactions viz. UPI, USSD (smartphones not necessary, hence poorest of the poor can
also participate), AEPS (Aadhar enabled) and RuPay Cards but for the time being
excluded transactions through Private Credit Cards and Digital Wallets

Rashtriya Gram Panchayati Raj Enhance the capacities and effectiveness of Panchayats and the Gram Sabhas; Enable
Swaraj Abhiyan democratic decision-making and accountability in Panchayats; specially strengthen
(earlier Panchayat Gram Sabhas in Schedule V areas to discharge their responsibilities as envisaged in
Sashaktikaran Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas 1996 Act (PESA)
Abhiyan)
e-Sansad and e- Parliamentary Affairs to make the functioning of Parliament and State Legislatures paperless
Vidhan
Comprehensive Personnel, public for State govt officials; provide citizen centric administration through capacity building
Online Modified grievances of officials who interact with the citizens on day-to-day basis; collaboration with UNDP
Modules on
Induction Training
(COMMIT)
PM JI-VAN (Jaiv Petroleum and Natural financial support to Integrated Bioethanol Projects using lignocellulosic biomass and
Indhan - Vatavaran Gas other renewable feedstock; 12 commercial scale and 10 demonstration scale 2G
Anukool Fasal ethanol projects will be provided VGF support over next 6 yrs; promote R&D; ethanol
Awshesh Nivaran) produced by beneficiaries mandatorily supplied to OMCs for Ethanol Blended Petrol
Yojana Programme; Centre for High Tech under PNG Ministry will implement

LPG Panchayat Petroleum and Natural as backup to Ujjwala Yojana; educating rural LPG users about proper safety precautions
Gas to be taken while using LPG, its benefit to the environment, its effect on women
empowerment
and health through an interactive communication platform
PM Ujjwala Yojana Petroleum and Natural tagline - 'swachh indhan, behetar jeevan'; providing 5 crore (now enhanced to 8 crore
Gas by 2020) LPG connections to BPL households; adult woman member of a BPL family
identified through SECC given a deposit-free LPG connection with financial assistance
of Rs 1,600 per connection by the Centre; earlier genuinely poor households whose
names were not there in SECC were getting excluded; the Scheme was expenaded to
cover all SC/ST households, beneficiaries of PMAY (Gramin), AAY, Forest dwellers, Most
Backward Classes, Tea and Ex-Tea Garden Tribes, people residing in Islands and rivers
etc. in addition to SECC identified households; now the scheme will cover all poor
households of the country (those holding both ration and Aadhaar cards and self-
declaring selves as poor

PAHAL (Pratyaksh Petroleum and Natural DBT for LPG subsidies; world's largest such cash subsidy
Hanstantrit Labh) Gas
DBT in PDS Petroleum and Natural similar to PAHAL + states/Uts encouraged to become Kerosene Free by bringing all
Kerosene Scheme Gas households under LPG

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Start-up Sangam Petroleum and Natural develop new business models, marketing plans, technology and innovations in heavy
initiative Gas oil and gas industry sector by supporting 30 start-ups; corpus of 320 crore by
contribution of various PSUs; fields such as converting waste plastics to petroleum
fuels, solar stove, multipurpose fuel from agricultural waste biomass and leak detectors
for LNG cylinders etc
PM Urja Ganga Petroleum and Natural gas pipeline project aims to provide piped cooking gas to residents of Varanasi and
Gas later to people in states like BH, JK, WB, OD; pipeline from Jagdishpur (UP) to
Haldi(WB) and Dhamra (OD); by GAIL

Saksham-2018 Petroleum and Natural Saksham(Sanrakshan Kshamta Mahotsav) is an annual flagship event of Petroleum
Gas Conservation Research Association; sensitize masses on conservation and efficient use
of petroleum products

National e- Power To provide an impetus to the entire e-mobility ecosystem including vehicle
Mobility manufacturers, charging infrastructure companies, fleet operators, service providers,
Programme etc; implemented by EESL; Electric Vehicles (EVs) will be procured by EESL in bulk to
increase aggregate demand and ensure economies of scale

Kisan Urja Power Utilisation of barren land by farmers to generate 10,000 MW of solar energy and sell it
Suraksha Evam to grid; discoms to be given 50 paise per unit as generation-based incentives to buy
Utthaan power from farmers for five years; subsidy to farmers for buying 17.5 lakh off grid solar
Mahabhiyan farm pumps (only 10% of cost borne by farmers); Solarisation of government
(KUSUM) departments' grid connected water pumps

Street Lighting Power through Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) under Ministry of Power, will retrofit
National 3.5 crore conventional street lights with LED lights; EESL replaces the conventional
programme street lights with LEDs at its own costs and consequent reduction in energy and
maintenance cost of the municipality is used to repay EESL over a period of time

PM Sahaj Bijli Har Power providing last mile electricity connectivity to all rural and urban households; provide
Ghar Yojana free electricity to all households identified under SECC data 2011, while others will be
(SAUBHAGYA) charged 500 Rs; Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC), a Navaratna CPSE
under the
Ministry of Power is the nodal agency; beneficiary household will get five LED lights,
one DC fan, one DC power plug; households located in remote and inaccessible areas
would be provided with Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) based standalone systems with LED
lights, fan, power plug etc
Deendayal Power 24×7 uninterrupted electricity supply to each rural household across the country by
Upadhyaya Gram 2022; strengthen sub-transmission and distribution network to prevent power losses;
Jyoti Yojana feeder separation for rural households and agricultural purpose; metering at all levels
including at input points, feeders and distribution transformers; Strengthening of Micro
grid and off grid distribution network; replaces Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran
Yojana; Rural Electrification Corporation is the Nodal Agency for implementation
Grameen Vidyutikaran App (GARV) : provides real-time updated data of ongoing
electrification process to all users/stakeholders and provides information about
Government schemes and electrification data. The app can also be used for sharing
inspirational stories of differently-abled, who achieved success despite all odds

Unnat Jyoti by Power replacing Bachat lamp Yojana; promote efficient lighting, enhance awareness on using
Affordable LEDs efficient equipment which reduce electricity bills and help preserve environment;
for all (UJALA) implemented by EESL; distribution of LED bulbs will happen through DISCOM offices,
scheme DISCOM bill collection centres, designated EESL kiosks, Weekly haat markets, etc; EESL
has also launched this scheme in Malaysia and UK

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SAATHI Power collaboration with Textiles Ministry; EESL would procure energy efficient powerlooms,
(Sustainable and motors and repair kits in bulk and provide them to the small and medium powerloom
Accelerated units at no upfront cost
Adoption of
efficient Textile
technologies to
Help small
Industries)
Ujwal DISCOM Power State governments taking over up to 75% of their respective discoms’ debt and issuing
Assurance Yojana sovereign bonds to pay back the lenders; Discoms are expected to issue bonds for the
(UDAY) remaining 25 percent of their debt; to reduce interest burden on DISCOMs; reduce cost
of power and operational efficiencies, reduction in transmission losses; demand side
interventions like usage of energy efficient devices; optional for states to join (OD and
WB not in); GoI not to include debt taken over by states under this in calculation of
state fiscal deficit for 2 years - 2015-17; states to issue non-SLR bonds

Tuirial Hydro Power on Tuirial River, a tributary of Barak River; biggest power project in MZ; implemented
Electric Power by North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO), under the Ministry of Power
Project
URJA (Urban Jyoti Power by Power Finance Corp; to enhance consumer connect with the Urban Power
Abhiyaan) mobile Distribution sector by providing information of IT enabled towns on important
app parameters which concern the consumers like outage information, timely release of
connections, addressing complaints, power reliability etc

Vidyut PRAVAH Power Vidyut PRAVAH- Electricity, Price Availability and Highlights; information pertaining to
mobile app the current demand met, shortages if any, surplus power available and the prices in the
Power Exchange; data from multiple sources, including the States and Power
Exchanges, has been made available through a single portal for convenience of all; all
India Power map will showcase surplus power available at power exchange

MERIT (Merit Power Displays the actual data of dispatched generation by the states transparently and
Order Despatch of provides opportunity to states for improving their power purchase portfolio
Electricity for
Rejuvenation of
Income and
Transparency) web
portal
STAR rating app Power linked to the Standards and Labeling database and provides the user a platform to
compare personalized energy saving devices across the same class and get a real-time
feedback from consumers and other stakeholders so they can make an informed
purchase decision
PRAAPTI app and Power Payment Ratification and Analysis in Power Procurement for Bringing Transparency in
website Invoicing of Generators to bring more transparency in power purchase txns between
Generators and DISCOMs

SMARTGRAM President's Secretariat selected villages will see new ventures in agriculture, skill development, energy,
Initiative education, heath, employment generation and entrepreneurship; based on the
convergence of resources and effort by the centre, state govt, district administration,
PRIs, private sector and enlightened villagers to enhance the environment, connectivity
of each village; foundation stone of a driving school laid at Dhaula village in Gurugram

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PRAGATI (Pro- Prime Minister's Office interactive platform to address common man’s grievances, and simultaneously
Active Governance monitoring and reviewing important programmes and projects of the Government of
And Timely India as well as projects flagged by State Govts; using Digital data management, video-
Implementation) conferencing and geo-spatial technology; three-tier system (PMO, Union Government
Secretaries, and Chief
Secretaries of the States; not a public web platform
PM National Relief Prime Minister's Office set up in 1948 to assist displaced persons from Pakistan; now used for people in certain
Fund difficult circumstances; onsists entirely of public contributions and does not get any
budgetary support; disbursements are made with the approval of the Prime Minister;
not been constituted by the Parliament; recognized as a Trust under the Income Tax
Act; contributions towards it are notified for 100% deduction from taxable income

Aapoorti app Railways e-procurement system; info on e-tendering and e-auctioning activities of railways
Mission Railways Aims at sensitizing all railway employees about the need to adhere to good ethics and
Satyanishtha to maintain high standards of integrity at work
Avataran Railways transformation of Railways through 7 mission mode activities -
Mission 25 Tonne – It aims to increase revenue by augmenting carrying capacity
Mission Zero Accident - Elimination of unmanned level crossings; Train Collision
Avoidance System
Mission PACE (Procurement and Consumption Efficiency
Mission Raftaar: doubling of average speeds of freights trains and increasing the
average speed of superfast mail/express trains by 25 kmph in the next 5 years
Mission Hundred: This mission will commission at least a hundred sidings
Mission beyond book-keeping: accounting system where outcomes can be tracked to
inputs
Mission Capacity Utilisation of new capacity that will be created through two Dedicated
Freight Corridors between Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata

Project Swarn Railways upgrade the condition of Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express Trains
Project Saksham Railways country’s largest timebound upskilling exercise for govt employees launched by IR
National Rail and Railways Deemed to be university in Vadodara to skill its human resources and build capability;
Transportation
University
SFOORTI Railways To help plan traffic flows and optimize freight operations - Smart Freight Operation
Application Optimisation & Real Time Information (SFOORTI) App; monitoring and managing
freight business using GIS Views and Dashboard; to track movement of freight and
even passenger trains

Bidder Info Mgt Road transport and database of info about bidders to be used by all project implementation agencies of
System (BIMS) highways the Ministry; to streamline process of pre-qualification of bidders for Engg
Procurement Construction mode contracts for national highways; bidders can then use
apply for civil works using Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP)

Bhoomi Rashi Road transport and comprises entire revenue data of the country, right down to 6.4 lakh villages; entire
highways process flow from submission of draft notification by state govt to its approval by
Ministry is online; portal created to expedite process of publification of notifications;
integrated with Public Finance Mgt System (PFMS) to facilitate payment of
compensation by Ministry to beneficiaries in time, without any parking of funds

FASTags for e- Road transport and NHAI has come out with two mobile apps – MyFASTag and FASTag Partner for
tolling highways electronic toll payment; RFID tags that contain their own power source are called
active tags

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BharatMala Road transport and include economic corridors, intercorridor and feeder route, national corridors
Project highways efficiency
improvement, border roads and international connectivity, coastal roads and port
connectivity, Greenfield expressways and remaining road projects under National
Highways
Development Project; provide easier access to border areas for armed forces; Road
connectivity to small industries will be ensured and manufacturing centres will be
connected with national highways
NHAI has launched Logistic Efficiency Enhancement Programme (LEEP) under
Bharatmala Pariyojna which aimed to enhance the freight transportation in India
National Highways Road transport and by NHAI for attracting domestic and foreign investment for highways projects
Investment highways
Promotion Cell
Vahan and Sarathi Road transport and e-governance initiatives; ‘Vahan’ is the national vehicle registry, which intends to
highways collate all the information available with road transport authorities for easy access by
both citizens and regulators; Driving Licence and related data automated through
separate app ‘Sarathi’
INFRACON Road transport and portal acting as bridge between consultancy firms working in the road engineering and
highways construction sector and domain experts and key personnel who are deployed both for
project preparation and supervision

INAM PRO Road transport and web-based market place that brings together the material providers(cement, steel,
highways steel slag) and the prospective buyers on a common platform
Zojila Pass tunnel Road transport and Asia’s longest bidirectional tunnel; all-weather connectivity between Srinagar, Kargil
highways and
Leh; through the National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation
Limited
Setu Bharatam Road transport and to make all national highways free of railway crossings by 2019; 1,500 bridges that are
highways over 50 to 60 years old or of the British era will be overhauled and will be rebuilt
Deendayal Rural development earlier called 'Ajeevika'; povery alleviation scheme; promote self employment;
Antyodaya Yojana supported by WB; organise poor into SHGs and make them capable of self
– National Rural employment; Organizing at least one-woman member from each rural poor household
Livelihoods into SHGs; focus on bank linkages; start-ups at village level also supported;
Mission (DAY- Participatory Identification of Poor (PIP) instead of the BPL. The PIP is a community-
NRLM) driven process where the CBOs themselves dentify the poor in the village using
participatory tools. The list of poor identified by the CBO is vetted by the Gram Sabha;
Ajeevika Skill Development Programme; Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana -
facilitating scaling-up successful, small-scale projects

Aajeevika Rural development sub-scheme under DDU Antyodaya Yojana; alternative source of livelihoods to
Grameen Express members of SHGs by facilitating them to operate public transport services in backward
Yojana rural areas; Community Investment Fund (CIF) provided to Community Based
Organization (CBOs) under DAY-NRLM will be utilized to provide interest free loan to
SHG member for purchase of transport vehicles

Neeranchal Rural development by Dept of Land Reforms; WB assisted; provide technical assistance to Watershed
Watershed component of PMKSY; to ensure rainfed irrigation mgt practices are better focussed
Programme
Kaushal Panjee Rural development skill register mobile platform; connected to SECC; to aid mobilization of candidates for
RSETIs and DDU-GKY through SHG members, Gram Panchayat Functionaries, Block
Officials, CSCs and directly by the candidate

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Deen Dayal Rural development part of NRLM; demand led skill training at no cost to rural youth; tasked with the dual
Upadhyaya objectives of adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families and catering to the
Grameen career aspirations of rural youth; Panchayats to play key role; mandatory coverage of
Kaushalya Yojana socially disadvantaged groups; guaranteed placement to at least 75% participants;
independent third party assessment mandatory; Greater emphasis on projects for poor
rural youth in Jammu and Kashmir (HIMAYAT), the North-East region and 27 Left-Wing
Extremist (LWE) districts (ROSHINI)

Gram Samridhi Rural development to prepare the Gram Panchayat Development Plan through extensive community
Evam Swachhata participation especially of women and youth; Disha Monitoring Portal would enable
Pakhwada MPs to
track progress in implementation of various centrally sponsored schemes in their
constituency; Gram Samvaad Mobile app allows a citizen to access information on and
implementation of Rural Development schemes at Panchayat level
Pradhan Mantri Rural development single allweather road connectivity to all eligible unconnected rural habitation with a
Gram Sadak minimum population of 500 in the plains and 250-plus in hill states, tribal districts and
Yojana desert areas; 75 paise per litre earmarked for this out of cess levied on high speed
diesel; encouraging use of Green tech and non-conventional materials like waste
plastic, cold mix, geo-textiles, fly ash, iron and copper slag etc; unit for this program is a
habitation and not a revenue village
Pradhan Mantri Rural development “Housing for All” in rural areas; an environmentally safe and secure pucca house to
Awas Yojana every rural household by 2022; Minimum support of nearly Rs. 1.5 lakh to Rs. 1.6 lakh
(Gramin) to a household; provision of Bank loan upto Rs. 70,000/-, if beneficiary desires;
selection of beneficiaries through SECC data and validating it through Gram Sabhas;
houses to be preferably alloted to women members; skilling of 5 lakh rural masons by
2019; use of local materials; complete home; ICT and space tech to ensure
accountability; Beneficiary is entitled to 90/95 person day of unskilled labour from
MGNREGS; assistance for toilets thru convergence of SBM Grameen

Land title Rural development modernize management of land records, minimize scope of land/property disputes,
digitalization enhance transparency in the land records maintenance system, and facilitate moving
eventually towards guaranteed conclusive titles to immovable properties in the
country; computerization of all land records including mutations, digitization of maps
and integration of textual and spatial data, survey/re-survey and updation of all survey
and settlement records
National Social Rural development implemented in rural as well as urban areas; aims at ensuring minimum national
Assistance standard for social assistance in addition to the benefits that states are currently
Programme providing or might provide in future; at present, comprises of -
1. Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) - 75 per month is
provided per beneficiary for destitute above 65 years
2. Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS) - pension to BPL widows in
the age group of 40-64 years @ Rs. 200 p.m. per beneficiary
3. Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS) - BPL persons with severe
or multiple disabilities between the age group of 18-64 years @ Rs. 200 p.m. per
beneficiary
4. National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) - grant of Rs 5000 in case of death due to
natural causes and Rs 10,000 in case of accidental death of the “primary breadwinner”
is provided to the bereaved household
5. Annapurna - providing food security to meet the requirement of those senior citizens
who, though eligible, have remained uncovered under the NOAPS; 10 kg of food grains
provided per month

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MGNREGA Rural development to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of
guaranteed employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members
volunteer to do unskilled manual work; work at statutory min wages; 60:40 wage
material ratio needs to be maintained; no contractors and machinery allowed; at least
1/3rd beneficiaries to be women; social audit by gram sabha mandatory; additional
employment over and above 100 days, upto 150 days, in drought affected notified
districts; National Electronic Fund Mgt System - timely wage payment directly to
Aadhaar linked bank accounts; GeoMGNREGA - in association with National Remote
Sensing Centre of ISRO, MGNREGA assets geotagged

Startup Village Rural development under DAY-NRLM; generate livelihood through self employment; loans through SHGs
Entrpreneurship
Program
Shyama Prasad Rural development social, economic and infra development in rural areas by developing a cluster of 300
Mukherjee Rurban smart villages by 2019-20; providing electronic delivery of citizen centric services;
Mission successor of PURA (Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas); clusters to be identified
by state govts; PPP mode preferred

Saansad Adarsh Rural development to develop 3 adarsh grams by each MP by 2019 of which one to be achieved by 2016;
Gram Yojana thereafter, 5 adarsh grams (1 per year) to be developed by 2024; people's
(SAANJHI) participation, dignity of women, social justice, community service, cleanliness, self
reliance etc
Atal Science and Technology by dept of biotech; to transform health, agriculture and energy sectors in next 5 yrs;
Jaianusandhan GARBH-ini: promote maternal and child health & develop prediction tools for pre-term
Biotech Mission - birth
Undertaking IndCEPI : develop affordable vaccines for endemic diseases
Nationally develop biofortified wheat contributing to POSHAN abhiyaan
Relevant Tech Mission on AMR for affordable diagnostics and therapeutics
Innovation (UNATI) Clean Energy Mission : tech interventions for Swachh Bharat
Ramanujan Science and Technology for Indian brilliant scientists and engineers from all over the world, especially those
Fellowship who wish to return to India, to take up scientific research positions at any of the
Program scientific institutions and universities in India; All areas of science are covered under
this Fellowship and the Fellowship is given for 5 years duration with fellowship of Rs.
75,000 consolidated per month and a contingent grant of Rs.5 lakhs per year

Ramalingaswami Science and Technology for Indian Nationals who are working overseas in various fields of biotechnology and
Re-entry life sciences and are interested in taking up scientific research positions in India; upto
Fellowship 50 fellowships annually, for a period of five years

Innovate in India Science and Technology National Biopharma Mission; first ever Industry-Academia mission to accelerate
(i3) biopharmaceutical development; collaboration with WB; be implemented by
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), PSU of Department of
Biotechnology
INSPIRE Science and Technology to attract talented youth to science; 3 components -
(Innovation in Scheme for Early Attraction of Talent (SEATS) : by providing INSPIRE Award of
science pursuit for Rs.5,000/- to one million young learners in the age group 10-15 years; INSPIRE Awards
inspired research) have been renamed as MANAK
Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) : offers 10,000 Scholarship every year at Rs 0.80
lakh per year for the talented youth in the age group 17-22 years, for undertaking
Bachelor and Masters level education in natural sciences
Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC) : 1000 INSPIRE fellowships in basic
and applied sciences in engg and medicine; INSPIRE Faculty Scheme

Cyber Physical Science and Technology fund top institutes for research in this field that deals with deployment of computer
System Scheme based systems to do things in physical world (like autonomous vehicles)
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Visiting Advanced Science and Technology to connect the Indian academic and research and development (R&D) systems to the
Joint Research best of
(VAJRA) Faculty global science and scientists; VAJRA Faculty should be an active researcher working in
Scheme an overseas leading academic / research / industrial organization; implemented by
Science and Engg Research Board (SERB), a statutory body of DST
NIDHI (National Science and Technology nurturing knowledge-based and technology-driven ideas and innovations into
Initiative for successful start-ups; to provide technological solutions to the pressing needs of the
Development and society and create
Harnessing new avenues for wealth and job creation; components -
Innovations) PRAYAS (Promoting and Accelerating Young and Aspiring Innovators & Start- ups),
which aims to support innovators to build prototypes of their ideas by providing a grant
up to Rs.10 lakhs and an access to Fabrication Laboratory (Fab Lab)
Seed Support System which provides up to One Crore rupees per start-up and is
implemented through Technology Business Incubators

Biotech KISAN Science and Technology Link farmers, scientists and science institutions in 15 agro climatic zones of the country
in a network that identifies and helps solve their problems in a cooperative manner
“JIGYASA” – Science and Technology CSIR + KVs to implement; connecting school students with scientists
Student-Scientist
connect
programme
Deen Dayal Science and Technology DST will adopt a few clusters of villages in Uttarakhand and transform them
Upadhayay Vigyan to become self-sustainable in a time bound manner using Sci&Tech tools; Utilise local
Gram Sankul resources and locally available skill sets
Pariyojana
Vidyarthi Vigyan Science and Technology nationwide science talent search examination to give a boost to the learning of science,
Manthan technology and mathematics among the youth-especially the school students;
organised by Vigyan Prasar (under DST) and NCERT (under MHRD) with eminent
scientists
AWSAR Science and Technology encourage popular science writing through newspapers, magazines, blogs, social
(Augmenting media, etc. by young PhD Scholars and Post-Doctoral Fellows during the course of their
Writing Skills for higher studies and research; initiated by National Council of Science and Tech
Articulating Communication (NCSTC)
Research)
TARE (Teacher Science and Technology will allow undertaking of part-time research by the faculty working in a regular capacity
Associates for in State Universities or Colleges by integrating them in Academic Institutions such as
Research IITs, IISc, IISERs, National labs, etc. located in the same city where the faculty member
Excellence) is working
Mobility Scheme
Biotech labs in Science and Technology 50 Biotech labs in Arunachal Pradesh (scheme is for North Eastern states)
senior secondary
schools (BLISS)
RO RO Ferry Shipping between Ghogha(Saurashtra) and Dahej(south GJ); part of Sagarmala
Service (Roll on
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Sagarmala Shipping string of ports around India’s coast; port-led development; Sustainable development of
Programme the population living in the Coastal Economic Zone; Improve port connectivity through
rail corridors, freight-friendly expressways and inland waterways; Develop skills of
fishermen and other coastal and island communities; Evacuation to and from
hinterland; a National Sagarmala Apex Committee headed by Shipping Minister will
provide overall policy guidance; state governments will set up State Sagarmala
committees, headed by the chief minister or the minister in charge of ports
Coastal Berth Scheme aims to provide financial support to ports or state governments
for creation of infrastructure for movement of cargo and passenger by sea or national
waterways
Center of Excellence in Maritime and Ship Building - collaboration with Siemens and
Indian Register of Shipping; campus at Vizag and Mumbai; ship design, manufacturing,
operating and MRO related skill development

Jal Marg Vikas Shipping facilitate plying of vessels with capacity of 1,500-2,000 tonnes in the Haldia- Varanasi
Project stretch of National Waterway-1 (NW1) on Ganga River; WB providing technical
assistance and financial support; NW1 passes through UP, BH, JK, WBPhase 2 of River
Info System on NW 1 between Farakka and Patna – RIS is a vessel traffic mgt system for
inland navigation safety by preventing ship collisions, ship-bridge collisions, groundings
etc; real-time exchange of info; virtual navigational aids; under Jal Marg Vikas; Phase 1
covered the stretch between Haldia and Farakka; Phase 3 will cover stretch between
Patna and Varanasi

National Skills Skill Development and 1. quality assurance framework which organizes qualifications according to a series of
Qualifications Entrepreneurship levels (1 to 10) of knowledge, skills and aptitude. These levels are defined in terms of
Framework learning outcomes which the learner must possess regardless of whether they were
acquired through formal, non-formal or informal learning
2. shift emphasis to outcome based learning; by shifting the focus from inputs to
learning outcomes, the NSQF would aim to tackle the challenge of lack of uniformity in
the outcomes associated with different qualifications across institutions, each with its
own duration, curriculum, entry requirements as well as title
3. facilitate Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
4. help alignment of Indian qualifications to international qualifications
5. credit accumulation and transfer system will allow people to move between
education, vocational training and work at different stages in their lives according to
their needs and convenience
6. operationalized by the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA), an autonomous
body attached to the Ministry of Finance
7. Government funding would not be available for any training/ educational
programme/ course which is not NSQF-compliant
8. recruitment rules of the Government of India and PSUs of the central government
shall be amended to define eligibility criteria for all positions in terms of NSQF levels;
state govt and psus also to be encouraged to do the same

SANKALP (Skills Skill Development and WB supported; provide market relevant training to 3.5 crore youth; setting up of
Acquisition and Entrepreneurship National Skill Certification Body, National Accreditation Board, Kaushal Mart (Skilling
Knowledge Resource Marketplace), Takshila (National Portal for trainers and assessors)
Awareness for
Livelihood
Promotion)
STRIVE (Skill Skill Development and WB supported; focus to improve on the quality and the market relevance of vocational
Strengthening for Entrepreneurship training provided in ITIs and strengthen the apprenticeship programme through
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National Skill Development and sharing of expenditure incurred in both providing training and stipend to the
Apprenticeship Entrepreneurship apprentice; Reimbursement of 25% of prescribed stipend subject to a maximum of Rs.
Promotion Scheme 1500/- per month per apprentice by Centre to all employers; Sharing of the cost of
basic training in respect of fresher limited to Rs. 7500/- per apprentice; implemented
by Director General of Training; now to be executed in PPP mode

PM Kaushal Skill Development and for skilling in smart cities; under PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana by National Skill
Kendra Entrepreneurship Development Corp in collaboration with NDMC; capacity building of municipal
employees

Pravasi Kaushal Skill Development and consultation with MEA; to skill Indian youth seeking jobs abroad; train and certify; skills
Vikas Yojana Entrepreneurship + cultural orientation; implemented by NSDC

PM Kaushal Vikas Skill Development and Skill Certification Scheme; industry relevant, skill based training; individuals with prior
Yojana Entrepreneurship learning experience or skills are also assessed and certified under Recognition of Prior
Learning; Government will pay complete training and assessment fees; National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC) is the implementing agency; based on National Skill
Qualification Framework (NSQF); monetary reward given to trainees on assessment

National Skill Skill Development and PPP model; not-for-profit company set up by the Ministry of Finance in 2008, under
Development Entrepreneurship Companies Act; 51% private;
Corporation

UDAAN Skill Development and skills training and enhance the employability of unemployed youth of J&K
Entrepreneurship

PM Yuva Yojana Skill Development and provide entrepreneurship education and training to over 7 lakh students in 5 years
Entrepreneurship through 3,050 institutes; easy access to information and mentor network, credit,
incubator and accelerator and advocacy to create a pathway for the youth

Inclusive India Social justice & National Trust catering to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities;
Initiative empowerment inclusive education, employment and community life
PM Adarsh Gram Social justice & developing 1000 villages with more than 50% SC population into “model villages”;
Yojana empowerment should be covered with all the facilities necessary for dignified living; requisite physical
and social infra for socioeconomic development; eliminate disparity between SC and
non-SC population in terms of common socioeconomic indicators; Untouchability,
discrimination,
segregation, and atrocities against SCs are eliminated
Divyang Sarthi Social justice & accessible and comprehensive mobile application for easy dissemination of information
empowerment to
‘Divyangjans’; audio notes (text-to-voice conversion software) as well as the adjustable
font size; is compliant with the principles of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities (UNCRPD) for Universal Access and the provisions of the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016; part of Accessible India Campaign
Accessible India Social justice & to make a barrier free and conducive environment for Divyangjans all over the country;
Campaign empowerment dimensions - built environment, transport and ICT; ‘Sugamya Pustakalaya’- an online
(Sugamya Bharat library
Abhiyan)
Rashtriya Vayoshri Social justice & providing Physical Aids and Assisted-living Devices for Senior citizens belonging to BPL
Yojana empowerment category; implemented through Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Co (ALIMCO);
beneficiaries identified by Collector; 30% for women

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Manual Social justice & eliminate insanitary laterines, prohibit hazardous manual cleaning of sewer and septic
Scavenging Act empowerment tanks; survey of manual scavengers and their rehabilitation; cognisable, non-bailable
offence; National Commission for Safai Karmacharis would monitor implementation;
provision for construction of sufficient number of sanitary community latrines in urban
areas within 3 years, to eliminate open defecation;National Commission for Safai
Karmacharis - monitor implementation of schemes, enquire into complaints, statutory
body under National Commission for Safai Karmacharis Act 1993; can take suo moto
notice of matter; National Safai Karmachari Finance and Development Corp for
rehabilitation of identified manual scavengers and their dependants

Swachhta Udyami Social justice & providing livelihood to safai karmacharis and liberated manual scavengers; National
Yojana empowerment Safai Karmacharis Finance and Development Corp implementing the scheme;
concessional loans for viable community toilet projects and sanitation related vehicles
to collect the garbage; entrepreneurs among safai karmacharis can avail loans at
concessional rates (4%) (rebate of 1% for women)

DDU Disabled Social justice & Promoting voluntary action to provide rehabilitation services (financial assistance by
Rehabilitation empowerment govt to volunteers, NGOs etc)
Scheme
Vayoshreshtha Social justice & Awards are given to eminent citizens and institutions in recognition of their
Samman empowerment outstanding services to the elderly people, especially indigent senior citizens
MPLADS Statistics and funds are released in the form of grants in aid directly to the district authorities; MPs to
Programme recommend works of developmental nature for creation of durable community assets
Implementation and for provision of basic facilities including community infrastructure, based on locally
felt needs; funds are non-lapsable; LS members can recommend works in their resp
constitutencies; elected members of RS anywhere in the state from which they are
elected; nominated members anywhere in the country; at least 15% money for SC
areas and at least 7.5% for ST areas
Rythu Bandhu Telangana govt investment support scheme to farmers; cheque payments (not DBT so that banks do
not adjust DBT against farmers' dues) to farmers based on landholding; 4000 per acre
before every crop season for seed, fertiliser, pesticide and field prep; every farmer
owning land eligible
Mission Kakatiya Telangana govt Telangana government’s flagship programme aimed at restoring minor irrigation
sources like tanks and other water bodies to help small and marginal farmers
Mission Bhagiratha Telangana govt provide safe drinking water to all; 100 lts in rural areas and 150 lts in urban
Amended Textiles Employment generation and export by encouraging apparel and garment industry,
Technology which will provide employment to women in particular and increase India’s share in
Upgradation Fund global exports;
Scheme one-time capital subsidy for eligible benchmarked machinery at the rate of 15% for
garmenting and technical textiles segments with a cap of Rs. 30 crore and at the rate of
10% for weaving, processing, jute, silk and handloom segments with a cap of Rs. 20
crore;
Promotion of technical textiles, a sunrise sector;
conversion of existing looms to better technology looms;
segments which have achieved desired level of modernization, i.e. spinning etc., have
been excluded
Scheme for Textiles skill development scheme covering the entire value chain of the textile sector excluding
capacity building in Spinning & Weaving in organized Sector to be implemented from 2017-18 to 2019-20;
textile sector soft skills too; placement guarantee of the 70% successful trainees
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Paryatan Parv Tourism showcasing folk and classical dance & music, handicrafts & handlooms and cuisine from
all regions of the country; MEA through Indian Missions will be conducting outreach
programmes to encourage people to visit India, with special focus on PIOs who have
never visited the country; 3 main components -
1. Dekho apna desh - to encourage Indians to visit their own country
2. Tourism for all - tourism events at sites across all states

Adopt a Heritage Tourism collaboration with Culture Ministry and ASI; developing monuments, heritage and
Scheme (Apni tourist sites across India and making them tourist friendly; invited Private, Public Sector
Dharohar Apni Companies and Corporate individuals to adopt the sites and to take up the
Pehchan Project) responsibility for making our
heritage and tourism more sustainable through conservation and development;
companies would be called Monument Mitras; recently Red Fort adopted by Dalmia
Group; total 10 adopted now
PRASAD Tourism Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive aims to create spiritual
centres for tourism development; Amaravati(AP), Gaya, Dwaraka, Amritsar, Ajmer,
Kanchipuram, Vellankani(TN), Puri, Varanasi, Mathura, Kedarnath and Kamakhya
Recently Gangotri, Yamunotri(UK), Parasnath(JK) and Amarkantak(MP) included in list

Swadesh Darshan Tourism 15 thematic circuits have been identified for development, North-East India Circuit,
Scheme Buddhist Circuit, Himalayan Circuit, Coastal Circuit, Krishna Circuit, Desert Circuit, Tribal
Circuit, Eco Circuit, Wildlife Circuit, Rural Circuit, Spiritual Circuit, Ramayana Circuit and
Heritage Circuit, Sufi Circuit, Tirthankar Circuit
Under Rural Circuit - development of Gandhi circuit : Bhitiharwa-Chandrahia-Turkaulia
sanctioned in BH in celebration of centenary of Champaran satyagraha; Chandrahia-
Gandhiji stopped here; Bhitiharwa-center of social work chosen by Gandhiji when in
Champaran; Turkaulia-burning center of indigo agitation

Van Dhan Scheme Tribal Affairs 10 Self Help Groups of 30 Tribal gatherers (Van Dhan Vikas Samuh) will be constituted;
provided with working capital to add value to the products collected from the jungle;
cluster of ten such SHGs within the same village shall form a Van Dhan Vikas Kendra
which are multi-purpose establishments for providing skill upgradation, capacity
building training and setting up of primary processing and value addition facility;
TRIFED as Nodal Agency; first model Van Dhan Kendra in Bijapur (CG)

Eklavya Model Tribal Affairs such schools in all 672 blocks where ST population>50%
Residential Schools
Vanbandhu Kalyan Tribal Affairs scheme ensures that all the intended benefits through various schemes of Central and
Yojana State Governments covered under the respective Tribal Sub-Plans actually reach them
by way of appropriate convergence

Namami Gange Water Resources, River aka Integrated Ganga Conservation Mission project; expenditure of over Rs. 20
Development and Ganga thousand crore for five years from 2014-15; Under the aegis of National Mission for
Rejuvenation Clean Ganga (NMCG) & State Programme Management Groups (SPMGs) States and
Urban Local Bodies and Panchayati Raj institutions will be involved in this project;
establishment of Clean Ganga Fund; river centric urban planning process

National Mission Water Resources, River registered under Societies Act; implementation wing of National Ganga Council (PM is
for Clean Ganga Development and Ganga Chairman) which is setup in october 2016 under River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection
Rejuvenation and Management) Authorities order 2016. This order dissolves NGRBA (National Ganga
River Basin Authority); NMCG has a two tier management structure and comprises of
Governing Council and Executive Committee. Both of them are headed by Director
General, NMCG. Executive Committee has been authorized to accord approval for all
projects up to Rs.1000 crore
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National Hydrology Water Resources, River WB supported; NHP will gather Hydro-meteorological data which will be stored and
Project Development and Ganga analysed and can be assessed by any user; facilitate integrated water resource
Rejuvenation management by adopting river basin approach through collation and management of
data

Dam Rehabilitation Water Resources, River for 7 states; 80% funds by WB; Emergency Action Plan (EAP) for the Dams has been
and Improvement Development and Ganga proposed that identifies potential emergency conditions at a dam and prescribes the
Project (DRIP) Rejuvenation procedures to be followed to minimize loss of life and property damage
DHARMA (Dam Health and Rehabilitation Monitoring App) : document authentic
asset and health information pertaining to the large dams in the country

National Water Resources, River 50% funds by WB; for sustainable groundwater mgt by addressing supply and demand
Groundwater Mgt Development and Ganga side issues to reduce consumption; create awareness among farmers about the ill
Improvement Rejuvenation effects of rapid drying up of groundwater
Scheme

Atal Bhujal Yojana Water Resources, River sustainable ground water management with emphasis on demand side interventions
Development and Ganga with
Rejuvenation community participation; WB assistance

Jal Kranti Abhiyan Water Resources, River use of modern technologies along with traditional wisdom for devising area/region
Development and Ganga specific innovative measures for increasing water security;
Rejuvenation Jal Gram Yojana: two villages, preferably facing acute water scarcity are being selected
as “Jal Grams”; from each Jal Gram, one elected representative of Panchayat and one
representative of the Water Users Association are being identified as Jal Mitra/ Neer
Nari and training is being imparted to them to create mass awareness
Sujalam Card (with the logo “Water Saved, Water Produced) is being prepared for
every Jal gram which would provide the yearly status/information on availability of
water for the village from all sources

Kanyashree West Bengal govt West Bengal government received UN Public Service Award for its initiative to combat
Scheme child marriage and ensure education to the girl child in the state; India was named first
in the Asia-Pacific group for the category: ‘Reaching the Poorest and Most Vulnerable
through Inclusive Services and Participation’; Through the initiative, cash was
deposited into the bank account of girls for every year they remained in school and
were unmarried
Gender Budgeting Women and Child India formally adopted gender responsive budgeting in 2005 because the policy
Scheme Development outcomes are not gender neutral and have differential effect on men and women;
every year the budget gives out two parts where Part A is for Women Specific schemes
(100% allocations is women specific) and Part B is for ‘Pro Women schemes’(atleast
30% allocation is women specific)
Sukanya Women and Child Ministry of WCD+Financa; motivate parents to open account in the name of the girl
Samruddhi Yojana Development child and to deposit max of their savings to a prescribed limit; to meet higher education
expense; for girls < 10 years; part of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao; girl can withdraw 50%
when 18; interest rate of 9.1% compounded annually; account to remain operative till
girl is 21
National Mission Women and Child provide a single window service for all programmes run by the government for women
for Empowerment Development under aegis of various central ministries; Poorna Shakti Kendra in every village;
of Women Coordinators at the Kendras would reach out to the women with the motto “hum
(Mission Poorna sunenge naari ki baat!”
Shakti)
Priyadarshini Women and Child livelihood enhancement; NABARD implementing; training to SHG members on income
Scheme Development generation, marketing etc; cheap credit

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Sabla (Rajiv Gandhi Women and Child improve nutrition and health status of adolescent girls; promote awareness about
Scheme for Development health, hygiene, family, child care etc; iron and folic acid supplementation; health
Empowerment of check up and referral services; upgrade home based skills, life skills, vocational skills,
Adolescent Girls) info on existing govt services; mainstream out of school girls into formal/non formal
education
Saksham (Rajiv Women and Child all round development of adolescent boy to make them self reliant, gender sensitive
Gandhi Scheme for Development aware citizens; address their health needs; provide vocational skills to 16+; ICDS used
Empowerment of as platform
Adolescent Boys)
Support to trainng Women and Child provide competencies and skill that enable women to become self-
and employment Development employed/entrepreneurs; for 16+ women
programme for
women (STEP)
Ujjwala scheme to Women and Child prevention of trafficking and at providing support for rescue, rehabilitation,
combat trafficking Development reintegration and repatriation of victims of trafficking for commercial sexual
of women exploitation; implemented mainly through NGOs

Mahila Police Women and Child Ministry of WCD+Home; link between police and community to help women in
Volunteer Scheme Development distress
Sakhi one stop Women and Child will be established across the country to provide integrated support and assistance
centre Development under one roof to women affected by violence, both in private and public spaces;
Medical, police, legal assistance, shelter (short stay with food and clothing), video
conferencing facility, counseling; 100 additional OSCs identified; sub-scheme under
National Mission for Empowerment of Women; one of the key components of
Nirbhaya Fund; integrated with newly operational women's helpline 181; first OSC was
at Raipur
SwadharGreh Women and Child for women victims of difficult circumstances (who have been deserted, women
Development prisoners released from jail who are without family, victims of domestic violence,
trafficked women, survivors of natural disasters) so that they could lead their life with
dignity and conviction. It envisages that shelter, food, clothing, and health as well as
economic and social security are assured for such women; set up in every district with
capacity for 30 women
Beti Bachao Beti Women and Child no provision for individual cash transfer component by Government of India; Strict
Padhao Development enforcement of PC&PNDT Act; education of the girl child; tri-ministerial effort of
Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human
Resource Development; theme of Beti bachao week - Daughters of New India;
awareness campaign to change mindsets; Digital Gudda-Guddi board from Jalgaon
adopted as best practice - platform for dissemination of info on BBBP and monthly
birth stats
Pradhan Mantri Women and Child 1. previously Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY)
Matru Vandana Development 2. conditional cash transfer for pregnant and lactating women >19 years for first two
Yojana live births
3. partial wage compensation to women for wage-loss during childbirth and childcare
and to provide conditions for safe delivery and good nutrition and feeding practices
4. brought under the National Food Security Act, 2013 to implement the provision of
cash maternity benefit of ₹6,000
5. DBT of Rs. 5000 in 3 installments - early registration of pregnancy, after 6 months of
pregnancy on ante natal check up; first cycle of immunization of child
6. Universal screening of pregnant women for Anaemia and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA)
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Sexual Harassment Women and Child ensure effective implementation of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
e-box (She-Box) Development (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (the SH Act), 2013 (this law superseded
Vishakha guidelines by SC); platform for all women, whether working in organised or
unorganised, public or private sectors, even domestic workers

Jan Sampark Women and Child by Central Adoption Resource Authority to enable public to interact with its staff for
programme Development seeking info related to adoption; CARINGS = Child Adoption Resource Info and
Guidance System
PM Mahila Shakti Women and Child part of Mission for Protection and Empowerment of Women; empowering rural
Kendra Development women with opportunities for skill development, employment, digital literacy, health
and nutrition; interface for rural women to approach the government for getting their
entitlements
Integrated Child Women and Child Improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years;
Development Development Reduce mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout; Supplementary
Services (ICDS) nutrition; Pre-school non-formal education; immunization, health check-ups; referral
services; self selecting scheme - anyone can visit Anganwadi centres and avail benefits;
Sub-schemes -
1. Anganwadi services - holistic development of children < 6; pregnant and lactating
mothers
2. Scheme for adolescent girls - 11-14 years, awareness about health, hygiene,
nutrition, mainstreaming out of school girls into formal/non formal education; info on
public services; anganwadis focal points; Iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation
3. Child protection services - for children in conflict with law or in need of care
4. National creche scheme
Sakhi one stop Women and Child access to an integrated range of services including medical aid, police assistance, legal
centres Development aid/case management, psychosocial counselling, and temporary support services to
women affected by violence; funded by Nirbhaya Fund

National Nutrition Women and Child targeting a reduction of 2% a year in stunting, undernutrition and low birth weight
Mission Development among 100 million people; ICT-based real-time monitoring system, social audits, and
setting up of nutrition resource centres; ministries of women and child development,
health and family welfare, and water and sanitation will work together;
to address Maternal and Child Under-Nutrition in 200 high-burden districts, which aims
at prevention and reduction in child under-nutrition (underweight prevalence in
children under 3 years of age) and reduction in levels of anaemia among young
children, adolescent girls and women

Online portal NARI Women and Child to provide women citizens with easy access to information on government schemes
Development and initiatives for women run by both Central as well as the States Governments
e-Samvad Women and Child online platform for NGOs and Civil Societies to interact with the
Development Ministry of Women & Child Development
Mahila e-haat Women and Child facilitate women entrepreneurs to sell their products; part of Digital India and Standup
Development India
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh : to undertake activities for the promotion of credit as an
instrument of socio-economic change and development through the provision of
package of financial and social development services; autonomous body under WCD
Ministry
Second edition of Youth affairs and sports part of Adopt Slum Campaign by the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports and Nehru Yuva
slum daud Kendra Sangathan; involve groups like NSS, public schools, RWAs, NGOs, rotary clubs
etc
Revamped Khelo Youth affairs and sports Pan Indian Sports Scholarship scheme, which would cover 1,000 most talented young
India Programme athletes each year across select sports disciplines; annual scholarship worth Rs. 5 lakh
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National Service Youth affairs and sports motto is 'not me, but you'
Scheme
Rashtriya Yuva Youth affairs and sports umbrella scheme which consolidates Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, National Youth
Sashaktikaran Corps, National Programme for Youth & Adolescent Development, National Discipline
Karyakram Scheme, National Service Scheme and National Young Leaders Programme

Mission XI Million Youth affairs and sports making football the sport of choice; work with principals and sports teachers

Ganga River Basin comprehensive River Basin Management Plan for Ganga is being prepared by the
Management Plan consortium of 7 IITs; objectives of taking comprehensive measures for restoration of
the wholesomeness of the Ganga ecosystem and improvement of its ecological health,
with due regard to the issue of competing water uses in the river basin; four defining
concepts: “Aviral Dhara” (Continuous Flow”), “Nirmal Dhara”(“Unpolluted Flow”),
Geologic Entity, and Ecological Entity
Yamuna Action bilateral project between the GoI and Japan; cleaning in Delhi, UP and Haryana
Plan
SAUNI Yojana multipurpose project that aims to solve the water problems of the Saurashtra region; is
not a part of the Narmada project but is based on it; involves making pipe canals
instead of the
conventional open canals; hence no land acquisition; filling of Aji Dam near Rajkot
under
Sauni Yojana
ISARC in Varanasi establishment of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South Asia Regional
Center (ISARC) at National Seed Research and Training Center; Centre of Excellence in
Rice Value Addition (CERVA) will be set up in Varanasi; sophisticated laboratory with
capacity to
determine quality and status of heavy metals in grain and straw
Scientific DST has set up committee to select projects that can help scientifically validate the
Validation and benefits of panchgavya — the concoction of cow dung, cow urine, milk, curd and ghee
Research on
Panchgavya
National registry of Indian Society for Training and Development to form a national registry of skilled
skilled people people to help upgrade the large number of unskilled population in the country
Transparency of Economic Survey 2016-17 proposed Transparency of Rules Act (TORA), a legislation to
Rules Act (TORA) end any asymmetry of information regarding rules and regulations faced by an average
citizen; TORA will require all departments to mandatorily place all citizen-facing rules
on their website. Officials will not be able to impose any rule not mentioned
beforehand
National launched by WB + ICAR; improving the relevance and quality of higher education in
Agricultural Higher agriculture
Education Project
Umbrella scheme scholarships and hostels for students among other things
for development
of
SCs/STs/Minorities
/Other vulnerable
groups

Mukhya Mantri AP govt Unemployment allowance of Rs. 1000 per month to unemployed youth between 22-35
Yuva Nestam through DBT using Aadhaar
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National 2015 scheme; NABARD designated implementing agency since it was also
Adaptation Fund implementing agency for Adaptation Fund under Kyoto Protocol; funding for National
for Climate Change and State Action Plans for Climate Change

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