GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN INDIA 2018

CONTENTS

Ayushman Bharat Programme .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2

National Health Protection Scheme ................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Operation Green....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
GOBAR-Dhan Yojana .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
KUSUM Scheme ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Kisan Credit Card..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Ekalavya Model Residential Schools(EMRS)................................................................................................................................................ 3
Samarth Scheme ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Solar Charkha Scheme ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Rajiv Gandhi Entrepreneurship Encouragement Scheme ...................................................................................................................... 4
Swajal ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Gangotri Swachh Iconic Place Project: ........................................................................................................................................................... 5
Swachh Iconic Place project................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Bagori Ganga Gram’s Project .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Atal Bhoojal Yojana................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Objective ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
TARE Scheme: Teacher Associateship for Research Excellence Scheme: ........................................................................................ 6
Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
Distinguished Investigator Award ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) ......................................................................................................... 7
7.75% Savings (Taxable) Bond Scheme ......................................................................................................................................................... 7
FAME India Scheme Phase II .............................................................................................................................................................................. 7
SABLA Scheme .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Atal Mahaaphan Vikas Abhiyan ......................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana ................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
PRASAD Scheme ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Mission SAMPARK................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Atal Innovation Mission ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Deen Dayal Divyangjan Sashay Scheme ......................................................................................................................................................... 9
Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra Scheme ........................................................................................................................................10
National Nutrition Mission ................................................................................................................................................................................10
Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana ................................................................................................................................................................................10

AYUSHMAN BHARAT PROGRAMME

It is one of the most important schemes which got launched in the recently concluded budget speech
by our finance minister, Mr Arun Jaitley.We have majorly two initiatives under this programme-

Health and Wellness Centres-

 To develop or establish around 1.5 lakh health care centres.

 To provide the basic essential drugs and diagnostic services.
 A sum of 1200 crore rupees have been allotted for the scheme.

NATIONAL HEALTH PROTECTION SCHEME

 A family of an average of 5 members would be catered to their secondary and tertiary care
hospitalization upto a maximum of 5 lakhs per family per year.
 Over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families to be covered based on the SECC-2011.
 It would cover the pre and post hospitalisation expenses incurred.
 The funding pattern under this would be 60:40,wherein the central government would
sanction 60% of the funds while the rest 40% would be taken care of by the respective state
governments(general category states).

OPERATION GREEN

 A price fixation scheme which got launched on the lines of operation flood to achieve our
target of doubling the farmers income by 2022.
 Tomato,Onion and Potato(TOP) are being focused in this particular scheme so as to increase
their yield and income by ensuring they get adequate price for their produce.
 A sum of 500 crore rupees has been allotted for it in the union budget.

GOBAR-DHAN YOJANA

 It stands for Galvanizing Organic Bio -Agro Resources Dhan scheme.

 Under this the residuals and cattle dung would be converted into Bio-CNG and Bio-Gas,thus
providing the farmers in generating an alternative source of income.
 700 districts have been chosen to be covered during the current fiscal year.
 It would also help in achieving the status of open defecation free villages thus making it
cleaner.

KUSUM SCHEME

 KUSUM is the acronym for Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan.
 Its a solar power scheme especially for the farmers for setting up grid connected solar plants in
rural areas and off-grid solar pumps.
 The government has proposed and encourages, the use of solar farm water pumps by
incentivizing the farmers for employing these.
 It involves solar power production of upto 28,250(Mw) over the next 5 years.
 Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is the implementing agency.

KISAN CREDIT CARD

 Launched in the year 1998,prepared by NABARD on the recommendations of R.V. Gupta

committee
 KKC aims at providing credit support to the farmers for their use.
 Now this has been extended to the fishermen and cattle owners.
 Helps in meeting the working capital needs of the farmers in procuring their farm assets and
activities allied to Agriculture.
 A holder of KKC is also covered by a personal accident cover.

EKALAVYA MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS(EMRS)

 Proposed by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to set up EMRS in the tribal districts of India for the
promotion of education amongst the scheduled tribes.
 They are going to be on par with the already established Navodaya Vidyalayas.
 It’s going to come up where there is more than 50% ST population with atleast 20,000 tribal
persons by the year 2022.
 It would facilitate the preservation of local art and culture associated with the tribal groups.

SAMARTH SCHEME

 SAMARTH- Scheme for capacity building in Textile Sector, got launched by the Ministry of
Textiles for the training and employability of the youth in the booming textile sector of India.
 Aim: Provide skill development training to around 10 lakh youth(9 lakh in the organised and 1
lakh in the traditional textile sector)over a period of 3 years(2017-2020) with an outlay of 1300
crore Rupees, so as to achieve the governments vision of increasing India’s textile export to
300 billion USD by 2025.
 PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA YOJANA

 Launched on: 6th March 2018

 Launched by: The central government of India
 Implemented by: The Ministry of Food Processing Industries
 Type of Benefits: Agro-Marine Produce Processing and Development of Agro-Processing
Clusters
 Beneficiaries: All the citizens and Farmers
 Budget allocation: Rs.6, 000 Crores
 Term Period: 2016-2020

Objective:

 To integrate all the current and new schemes in the Food processing sector
 To reduce the Food Wastage
 To double the Farmers income by giving good returns to all the Farmers.
 To create Modern Infrastructure with good supply chain management

SOLAR CHARKHA SCHEME

 Launched on: April 2018

 Launched by: the Central government of India
 Type of benefit: Employment opportunity
 Beneficiary: Women
 Budget: Rs 400000 crores
 Target: 5 crore jobs across the country
 Scheme period: 5 years
 This employment system will be started first in the Beed district of Maharashtra because of
the favourable condition of the textile industry.

Objective:

 To generate employment opportunity for the unemployed women

 To give Skill-Based Training this will end in employment generation.
 To support local level work for the weak and poor section.
 To improve and recover Khadi.
 To Promote Green Energy and environment-friendly Khadi Fabric.
 To deliver this scheme sustainably and replicable.

RAJIV GANDHI ENTREPR ENEURSHIP ENCOURAGEMENT SCHEME

 Launched on: 12th March 2018

 Launched In: Karnataka State
 Launched By: The Information and Technology Minister of the state Priyanka Kharge
 Type of benefit: Financial and non-financial help
 Objective: To boost Information Technology (IT) sector
 To focus on improving the IT sector for new innovators and Entrepreneurs
 Under this scheme, the state government will give a grant of Rs. 30,000 to each individual
entrepreneur having innovative approaches.

SWAJAL

 Swajal is a national drinking water programme launched by Union Drinking Water and
Sanitation minister Uma Bharati
 The scheme was launched in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand.
 Swajal is a demand-driven and community-owned drinking water programme for sustained
drinking water supply.
 The project was launched with the help of World Bank
 Initially, as a pilot program it was Six states. They are Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar
 These states will be covered under the programme in the first phase.

GANGOTRI SWACHH ICONIC PLACE PROJECT:

 Gangotri Swachh Iconic Place project was launched by Union Drinking Water and Sanitation
minister Uma Bharati in Utstarakhand’s Uttarkashi district.
 The main aim of the scheme is to make Gangotri as Swachh Iconic Place.
 For Gangotri, the Oil and Natural Gas Limited (ONGC) has been selected as the CSR partner

SWACHH ICONIC PLACE PROJECT

 The Swachh Iconic Place is a drive under the Swachh Bharat Mission.
 The project aims to improve the sanitation and cleanliness of 100 most iconic places in the
country.
 Under the Swachh Iconic Place, sites that have been selected under the project will be jointly
developed by the Union ministry of drinking water and sanitation, in collaboration with Union
ministries of housing and urban affairs, Tourism, culture, state governments

BAGORI GANGA GRAM’S PROJECT

 Bagori is one of the 24 pilot Ganga Villages picked up to be transformed into Ganga Grams this
year. As a first initiative Bagori Ganga Gram project was launched by Union Ministry of water
resources.
 The project is related to solid and liquid waste management in Bagori Gram panchyat.
 Total Rs. 11.88 lakhs budget allotted for this project.

ATAL BHOOJAL YOJANA

 Name of the scheme- Atal Bhoojal Yojana

 Expenditure of the scheme- Rs.6,000 crores
 With the help of World Bank
 Ministry-Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.
 Duration-5 years

OBJECTIVE

 To recharge groundwater and create sufficient water storage for agricultural purposes.
 The revival of surface water bodies so that groundwater level can be increased.
 The Atal Bhujal Yojana will be launched in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh covering 78 districts, 193 blocks and more than
8,300-gram panchayats.

TARE SCHEME: TEACHER ASSOCIATESHIP FOR RESEARCH E XCELLENCE SCHEME:

 The main aim of this scheme is to connect the educators to leading public funded institutions
like Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Science (IISC) or national institutions
like CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) to pursue research.
 Under Teacher Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) scheme500 teachers will be
assisted
 They will be paid Rs. 5 lakh yearly, and a monthly out-of-pocket expense of Rs.5, 000

OVERSEAS VISITING DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

 Under Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship scheme the government of India offers support to
100 PhD scholars for training in universities and laboratories in foreign countries.
 Under this scheme, support will be provided Up to 12 months during their doctoral research.
 Under this scheme fellowship equivalent to USD 2,000 would be given to scholars as a monthly
stipend and one-time contingency allowance of Rs 60,000 would be given to cover travel and
visa fee.

DISTINGUISHED INVEST IGATOR AWARD

 Under this scheme, the government offers a maximum of 100 fellowships to principal
investigators of Science and Engineering Research Board/Department of Science and
Technology projects.
  The selected 100 researchers will be given a monthly fellowship of Rs 15,000 for three years
and an optional research grant, based on peer review of the project proposal submitted.

AUGMENTING WRITING S KILLS FOR ARTICULATI NG RESEARCH (AWSAR)

 The purpose of the scheme is to encourage science writing.

 The scheme seeks to tap the potential of over 20,000 PhD scholars in science to popularise and
communicate their research outcome.
 AWSAR carries a monetary incentive of Rs. 10,000/- each of 100 best entries in a year and a
Certificate of Appreciation, besides getting the story published.
 Three leading stories from the selected 100 would be awarded Rs. 1 lakh, Rs.50, 000/- and Rs.
25,000/- respectively.

7.75% SAVINGS (TAXAB LE) BOND SCHEME

 Launched on: 5th January 2018

 Commenced from: 10th January 2018
 Launched by: Government of India and Reserve Bank of India
 Maturity period: 7 years
 Replaces to: 8% savings Scheme

Objective:

 To help citizens invest in a taxable instrument, without any monetary ceiling.

 This will facilitate resident of Indian or Hindu Undivided Families (HUF) to invest in a taxable
bond, without any monetary ceiling.
 This 7. 75% savings (Taxable) bond scheme will give a steady flow of income although there is a
lower rate of interest.

FAME INDIA SCHEME PHASE II

 FAME stands for Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles.
 This scheme is a part of National Electric Mobility Mission (NEMM) which was set by the
Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises under the central government of India.
 It is launched by the central government of India under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and
Public Enterprises.
 The central government has allocated total budget for this scheme is Rs 14000 crore.
 Under FAME India Scheme 2, total 11 cities are selected are which are Delhi, Jaipur,
Hyderabad, Jammu, Ahmedabad Mumbai Indore, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Lucknow and Kolkata

Objective:
  100% electrification of all the Public Transport System
 To support hybrid or electric vehicles market development and Manufacturing eco-system.
 To promote eco-friendly vehicles

SABLA SCHEME

 SABLA is a scheme for the empowerment of teenage and young girls was launched under the
Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG)
 It was launched on the 1st April 2011, International day of women.
 In the year 2018, it is extended with an aim to expand and make it applicable in whole India.
 This scheme is managed by the ministry of women and child development, Smt Maneka Sanjay
Gandhi.
 The scheme will cover all the adolescent girls in the age group of 11 to 18 years in 202 districts
initially.
 The scheme has further divided the age group of 11 to 14 years and 14 to 18 years keeping in
view the need for a different age group and to give proper attention to each group.

ATAL MAHAAPHAN VIKAS ABHIYAN

 Announced on: In the year 2017

 Launched by: The Maharashtra state government
 Inaugurated by: Shri Devendra Fadnavis, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra government.

Objective:

 To support and promote non-banking business in a state

 To help and give financial support to cooperative communities to start a new business
 To encourage, assist and supervise young entrepreneurs.

 Atal Mahaaphan Vikas Abhiyan aims to double the income of framers at the end of the year
2022.
 The Maharashtra state government has decided to fund approx. 5000 cooperative societies to
start a new business.

BHAVANTAR BHARPAI YO JANA

 Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana is launched on 1st January 2018 by Haryana government within a
state.
 It is launched by the chief minister of Haryana, Shri Manohar Lal Khattar.
 It is managed, regulated and supervised by state agricultural department and state
government.
 Objective: To give right price of crops to farmers
 PRASAD SCHEME

 PRASAD scheme was announced during the union budget 2017-2018.

 The government will set special tourism zones with five states and this special zone will work as
special purpose vehicles.
 It will boost an image of India in a foreign country and for this, an incredible 2.0 campaign
launched.
 A total budget for this is Rs 100 allocated by the government and Rs 412 crore is specially
funded to promote and make publicity of various schemes and programmes.
 Along with ministry of tourism, a ministry of railways also started to promote Prasad scheme
by launching especially dedicated train.
 PRASAD scheme will focus on improvement and beautification of the classified pilgrimage
destinations.
 The ministry of tourism initially aims to cover 25 cities

MISSION SAMPARK

 Organized by: The National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and the Union Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare
 Objective: To eradicate HIV/AIDS by 2030
 To track those who are left to follow up and are to be taken under Antiretroviral therapy (ART)
services.

ATAL INNOVATION MISSION

 Launched at: Atal Tinkering Lab’s Community Day in New Delhi

 Organized By: NITI Ayog

Aim:

 To make an attempt to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

 To provide a stage to promote world-class innovation hubs, grand challenges, start-up
businesses and many other self-employment activities especially in technology driven areas.

DEEN DAYAL DIVYANGJAN SASHAY SCHEME

 To give an equal priority and reverence to the physically challenged persons and to inspire
pride in the disabled persons
 To end the stigmatization and biases with the disabled persons
 To change the mind set of people towards those who are differently abled persons and try to
give a superior life
 To give financial sustenance to the disable people for the treatment
  To support the Deen Dayal Divyangjan Sahajya Scheme, A Assam government has proposed a
new Act named " Assam Employees PRANAM act, 2017" and under this new act, each and
every government employee of the Assam state have to share 10 percent of his salary to take
care of his family member or any other people who are physically disable.

PRADHAN MANTRI MAHIL A SHAKTI KENDRA SCHE ME

Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra Scheme is an expansion of the umbrella scheme mission which
was set up by the Ministry of Women and Child Development for the financial year 2017-2020.

Objectives:

 To make an improvement in the child sex ratio especially girl child and their education and
employment.
 To improve quality of life, to give security and take care of the rural women all across the India
by training and capacity building.
 To provide a path to the rural women use their potential at maximum level and to get all the
availed benefits from the government directly to them.
 A budget for this scheme is of Rs 3636.85 crore for the financial year 2017-2020 and out of
which 3084.96 is given by the central government and the rest by the state government

NATIONAL NUTRITION M ISSION

The Union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi approved setting up of National
Nutrition Mission (NNM) with a target to reduce malnutrition and low birth weight by 2% each year
with a three year budget of Rs 9046.17 crore commencing from 2017-18.

Key Facts

 National Nutrition Mission, through robust convergence mechanism and other components,
would strive to create the synergy and link the existing schemes.
 The mission is implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
 More than 10 crore people will be benefited by this scheme.
 All states and districts will be covered in a phased manner. Currently a pilot approach is
followed, i.e. first 315 worst affected districts will be targeted this financial year and later on,
the mission can be spread to other areas also.

BHAVANTAR BHUGTAN YO JANA

Launched by: Government of India

Aim of this scheme: to make sure that farmers get reasonable prices for their crops
Inaugurated By:Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
8 Crops Covered Under Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana are

 Soybean
 Groundnut
 Til
 Ramtil
 Maize
 Moong
 Urad
 Tuar Daal