Professional Documents
Culture Documents
SCHEMES FOR
RBI GRADE B|SEBI GRADE A|IBPS AFO
2019
PART 2
The schemes pertaining to the Agriculture and Rural Sectors have been covered in a separate
document. Some of the schemes maybe common, like they may be coming under a ministry
concerned with the topic mentioned in the ESI syllabus and also catering to the Rural sector. So, they
have been included in both the documents to avoid confusion.
Part 1- Schemes related to Employment Generation (including social security schemes), Skill
Development, Financial Inclusion and Information Technology (IT)
Part 3- Women, Child Development and Social Justice (SC, ST, Senior Citizens, Divyang and Minority)
Objectives:
• To identify young talent, strengthen research culture, build capacity, promote innovation and
support trans-disciplinary research for India’s developing economy and national development.
• To fund multi institutional network high-impact research projects in humanities and human
sciences.
Key Features:
• Loan upto Rs 10 lakh for study in India and upto Rs 20 lakh for study abroad.
• Collateral free loans upto Rs 7.5 Lakh under the Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme for Education
Loans (CGFSEL).
• No Margin for loan up to Rs 7.50 Lakh.
• Repayment period of 15 years.
• One year moratorium for repayment after completion of studies in all cases.
• Moratorium taking into account spells of unemployment/under-employment, say two or three
times during the life cycle of the loan.
• Moratorium for the incubation period if the student wants to take up a start-up venture after
graduation.
• The scheme also provides for certain concessions on educational loans which inter-alia
includes:
✓ 1% interest concession if interest is serviced during the study period and subsequent
moratorium period prior to the commencement of the repayment.
✓ 0.5% concession in the interest rate to the girl students.
✓ Rebate in Income tax to the extent of interest paid on education loan.
Key Features:
• Student Induction Programme engages with the new students as soon as they come into the
institution, before regular classes start.
• The mentoring is one of the component of Student Induction Programme and it helps to
develop an everlasting bonding of teacher and student.
• UGC has decided to conduct Awareness Programmes and training programme for teachers in
different regions of the country to spread awareness about Deeksharambh.
• Students Induction could cover a number of different aspects (SAGE):
✓ Socializing: Meeting other new students, senior students, students union, lectures by Eminent
People.
✓ Associating: Visits to University / college, visits to Dept./Branch/ Programme of study and
important places in campus, local area, city and so on.
✓ Governing: Rules and regulations, student support etc.
✓ Experiencing: Subject lectures, study skills, small-group activities, physical activity, creative
and performing arts, literary activities, universal human values, etc.
Key Features:
• The Rs 250 crore worth of funds will be used for around 500 science projects.
• The selection of the benefitting projects will be done on the basis of competitions.
Selection Procedures: The students are selected based on their performance in the 8th Standard
(covering CBSE, ICSE and State syllabus), which includes both academic and extracurricular activities.
Key Features:
• It is 2 week (14 days) summer vacation residential training programme, which will be
conducted by ISRO from 13 May to 26 May 2019.
• It was launched by ISRO in tune with the Centre governments vision of “Jai Vigyan, Jai
Anusandhan”.
• 3 students from each Indian State and Union Territories are participating and will get trained
by ISRO Scientists.
• During programme students will be provided course material which has already been pre-
loaded on Tablets. It includes science topics like Rocket engineering, Environment science,
Astronomy, Space applications, Renewable Energy, and also soft skill improvement modules
like leadership, teamwork, communication, etc.
Objectives:
• To offer a simplified and increased exposure to satellite fabrication technologies, as part of the
UNISPACE initiative.
• To provide theoretical course on satellite technology.
• To provide hands-on training to assemble, integrate and test a low cost, modular nano
satellite.
Key Features:
• It is a capacity building programme on Nanosatellite development.
• It has been launched to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first United Nations
conference on the exploration and peaceful uses of outer space (UNISPACE-50).
• The programme provides opportunities to the participating developing countries to
strengthen in assembling, integrating and testing of Nanosatellite.
• UNNATI programme is planned to be conducted for 3 years by U.R. Rao Satellite Centre of ISRO
in 3 batches and will target to benefit officials of 45 countries.
• Each batch will be for 8-week duration and will comprise of theoretical course work on
nanosatellite definition, utility, laws governing their impact on space debris, design drivers,
reliability and quality assurance.
• It will also include hands-on training on assembly, integration and testing of nanosatellites.
• The first batch of this programme began on January 17 with 32 participants from 18 countries.
Key Features:
• It is a people movement as there will be active involvement of people’s representatives,
officers from Government of India, Government of NCT Delhi, all three Delhi Municipal
Corporations, New Delhi Municipal Council, Railways and Cantonment Board and other
stakeholders.
8 Paramarsh Scheme
Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources and Development
Launched by: University Grants Commission (UGC)
Aim:
• To improve the global ranking of the Indian higher education institutions.
• The scheme has also proposed to provide financial assistance to the mentoring institutions
and the option of appointing an expert, who can be paid a fellowship amount of Rs. 31,000 per
month.
• The scheme will lead to enhancement of the mentee institutions' quality and its profile as a
result of improved quality of research, teaching and learning methodologies.
Eligibility:
• The mentor & mentee can be a government/aided/private/self-financing institution.
• The mentor institution should be NAAC accredited with an A grade having an overall score of
3.26 and above.
• Any such institution recognized under 2 (f) & 12 B of UGC Act 1956 will be eligible to receive
grants for the purpose from UGC.
• Since these grants will be utilized for mentoring the institution and not for creation of any
infrastructure, the private institution can also receive the funding as they do so for student
and teacher centric schemes.
Target: The scheme will target 1000 Higher Education Institutions for mentoring with a specific focus
on quality as enumerated in the UGC “Quality Mandate”.
Duration: Duration of the project under Paramarsh scheme shall be of one year which can be
extended upto two years.
9 SUPRA Scheme
• The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) has proposed a new scheme called
Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SUPRA) in August 2019.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Science and Technology
Objective: To provide funding for exploration of new scientific and engineering breakthroughs with
global impact.
Funding:
• Funding will be provided normally for a period of three years, which could be extended to 2
years (5 years total) as assessed by an expert committee.
• The research grant will encompass normal budget heads, apart from an overhead grant.
Key Features:
• The scheme will fund disruptive ideas that can lead to new areas of study, new scientific
concepts, new products and technologies.
• The focus is not on incremental or short-term advances in understanding, but new science or
truly disruptive technologies.
• The scheme is designed to attract high quality research proposals consisting of new
hypotheses or challenge existing ones and provide 'out-of-box' solutions.
10 NISHTHA Scheme
Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources and Development
Aim: To train over 42 lakh teachers across the country
Scope of Coverage
• It aims to build the capacities of participants covering all teachers and Heads of Schools at
the elementary level in-
I. all Government schools
II. faculty members of State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs)
III. District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs)
IV. Block Resource Coordinators and Cluster Resource Coordinators in all States and UT.
Implementation
• The training will be conducted directly by 33120 Key Resource Persons (KRPs) and State
Resource Persons (SRP) identified by the State and UTs, who will in turn be trained by 120
National Resource Persons.
• A Mobile App and Learning Management System (LMS) based developed by NCERT -
https://nishtha.ncert.gov.in/ will be used for registration of Resource Persons and Teachers,
dissemination of resources, training gap and impact analysis, monitoring, mentoring and
measuring the progress online.
Experts Group:
• The 10 Experts Groups were constituted by MHRD.
• The members of the groups were drawn from senior academicians, administrators and
industrialists.
• Expert Groups have identified 10 thrust areas while preparing the detailed plan. These are:
1. Strategies for expanding access
2. Towards global best teaching/learning process
3. Promoting excellence
4. Governance reforms
5. Assessment, Accreditation & Ranking systems
6. Promotion of research and innovation
7. Employability and entrepreneurship
8. Using technology for better reach
Goals: The Expert Groups have set the following goals for higher education sector –
1. Double the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education and resolve the geographically
and socially skewed access to higher education institutions in India.
2. Upgrade the quality of education to global standards.
3. Position at least 50 Indian institutions among the top-1000 global universities.
4. Introduce governance reforms in higher education for well-administered campuses.
5. Accreditation of all institutions as an assurance of quality
6. Promote Research & Innovation ecosystems for positioning India in the Top-3 countries in the
world in matters of knowledge creation.
7. Double the employability of the students passing out of higher education.
8. Harness education technology for expanding the reach and improving pedagogy.
9. Promote India as a global study destination.
10. Achieve a quantum increase in investment in higher education.
What it does?
The framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country.
Key Features:
• NIRF survey is first of its kind of indigenous ranking framework for higher education institutions in
the country.
• NIRF ranks the institutions broadly on five clusters of parameters:
(1) Teaching, Learning and Resources (30% weightage)
(2) Research and Professional Practices (30% weightage)
(3) Graduation Outcomes (20% weightage)
(4) Outreach and Inclusivity (10% weightage)
(5) Perception (10% weightage)
• It covers six categories of institutions including universities, engineering, management, pharmacy,
architecture and colleges.
• In 2018, 3 new categories were also added. They are the disciplines of law, medicine and
architecture.
Objectives:
• To provide universal access to good quality health care services without anyone having to face
financial hardship as a consequence.
• To reduce the financial burden on poor and vulnerable groups arising out of catastrophic hospital
episodes and ensure their access to quality health services.
• To accelerate India’s progress towards achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and
Sustainable Development Goal - 3 (SDG3).
Target Beneficiary under PMJAY
• 10.74 crore poor deprived rural families and identified occupational categories of urban
workers’ families as per the latest Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data (approx. 50 crore
beneficiaries).
• In addition, all enrolled families under Rashtriya Swasthaya Bima Yojana (RSBY) that do not
feature in the targeted groups as per SECC data will be included as well.
Components of PMJAY
The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) consists of two components.
Functions:
• Provide overall vision and stewardship for design, roll-out, implementation and management
of PM-JAY in alliance with state governments.
• Foster linkages as well as convergence of PM-JAY with health and related programs of the
Central and State Governments.
• Develop strategic partnerships and collaborations with Central and State Governments, civil
society, financial and insurance agencies, academia, think tanks, national and international
organizations and other stakeholders.
• Provide technical advice and operational inputs, as relevant, to states, districts and sub-
districts for PM-JAY.
Objectives:
• Encourage youth pursuing higher studies to submit at least one story/article based on their
research work.
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• Foster, strengthen and create scientific temper through popular science writing and creating a
culture of science communication/popularization among the scholars.
• Recognize the initiative and output of researchers on the specific aspects of natural, physical,
mathematical and information sciences, applied science, technology, engineering, and multi-
disciplinary science.
• Conduct training Workshops for Early Career Researchers (PhD Scholars and PDFs) in popular
science writing.
Key Features:
• This scheme has been launched to bridge the existing gap in communicating research to common
man by utilizing the latent potential of PhD Scholars and Post-Doctoral Fellows.
• Under this scheme, 100 best entries of the year will receive a cash incentive of ₹10,000/- each
while the Top 3 stories out of these 100 selected entries, will receive ₹1 Lakh, ₹50,000/- and
₹25,000/- respectively.
Objectives:
• Enhance community awareness on hepatitis and lay stress on preventive measures among
general population especially high-risk groups and in hotspots.
• Provide early diagnosis and management of viral hepatitis at all levels of healthcare.
• Develop standard diagnostic and treatment protocols for management of viral hepatitis and its
complications.
• Strengthen the existing infrastructure facilities, build capacities of existing human resources and
raise additional human resources, where required, for providing comprehensive services for
management of viral hepatitis and its complications in all districts of the country.
• Develop linkages with the existing National programs towards awareness, prevention, diagnosis
and treatment for viral hepatitis.
• Develop a web-based “Viral Hepatitis Information and Management System” to maintain a
registry of persons affected with viral hepatitis.
Key Features:
• It is an integrated initiative for the prevention and control of viral hepatitis in India to achieve
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.3 which aims at ending viral hepatitis by 2030.
• This is a comprehensive plan covering the entire gamut from Hepatitis A, B, C, D & E, and the
whole range from prevention, detection and treatment to mapping treatment outcomes.
Objectives:
• To reduce maternal and newborn mortality & morbidity.
• To improve quality of care during the delivery and immediate post-partum care, stabilization of
complications and ensure timely referrals, and enable an effective two-way follow-up system.
• To enhance satisfaction of beneficiaries visiting the health facilities and provide Respectful
Maternity Care (RMC) to all pregnant women attending the public health facility.
Aim: To provide a financial incentive of Rs.500/- per month for each notified TB patient for duration
for which the patient is on anti-TB treatment.
Target Beneficiary:
• All notified TB patients
Target Beneficiaries:
• The scheme reaches out to all school children with special focus on girls and children belonging
to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), minority communities and transgender.
• The scheme also gives attention to urban deprived children, children affected by periodic
migration and children living in remote and scattered habitations.
• Preference will be given to: Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs), Special Focus Districts (SFDs),
Border areas, LWE affected districts.
• Aspirational Districts identified by NITI Aayog.
• Special Focus Districts: The districts with high concentration of population of SCs, STs and
Muslims have been identified as Special Focus Districts (SFDs) for ensuring equity and inclusion
at all levels of school education.
Target Beneficiary:
• Ensure that students of classes I & II are able to read with comprehension as well as basic
numeracy skills
Note: The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme was merged with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in the
XIth Plan with effect from 2008.
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Launch Year: 2016
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource and Development
Aim: To boost community and private sector participation in government schools and to strengthen
implementation of co-scholastic activities through the services of volunteers.
Approach
• It is planned to provide nourishing and nurturing support to and a platform for schools in a dual
track approach to make Science, Mathematics and Technology exciting to children and
encourage them to have an enduring interest both inside classroom and outside classroom
activities.
• Government schools will be mentored by Institutes like IITs/IIMs/IISERs and other Central
Universities and reputed organizations through innovative programmes, student exchanges,
demonstrations, student visits, etc.
Objectives:
• To improve quality of education imparted at secondary level by making all secondary schools
conform to prescribed norms.
• To remove gender, socio-economic and disability barriers.
• Universal access to secondary level education by 2017.
• Universal retention of students in secondary education by 2020.
What is it?
It is an e-Governance platform that covers all the Kendriya Vidyalayas, to improve quality of learning,
efficiency of school administration, governance of schools & service delivery.
21..3 e-Pathshala
Launch Year: 2015
Key Features:
• Joint initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India and
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
• It is a single point repository of e-resources containing, NCERT textbooks and various other
learning resources.
Components:
• Setting up of District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs).
• Strengthening of Secondary Teachers Education Institutions into Colleges of Teacher Education
(CTEs) and Institutes of Advanced Study in Education (IASEs).
Objectives:
• Facilitate academic and research collaborations between Indian Institutions and the best
institutions in the world.
• Facilitate strong research collaboration between Indian research groups with the best in class
faculty and renowned research groups in the leading universities of the world, in areas that are
at the cutting edge of science or with direct social relevance to mankind, specifically India.
Eligibility Criteria
• All government funded institutions including universities (central and state), private institutions
with UGC 12(b) status and Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR) Research
Institutes are eligible to apply.
• The Project Director should be a regular employee, possessing Ph.D. degree and have an interest
in high quality research which may be evidenced by past studies, publications and academic
background.
• Retired faculties with proven research interests can also apply under the scheme but they would
be required to get themselves affiliated to any of the research institutions mentioned above.
• Individual scholars can apply for maximum two projects at a time.
Key Features
• Selected candidates would be offered a fellowship of Rs.70,000/- per month for the first two
years, Rs.75,000/- per month for the 3rd year, and Rs.80,000/- per month in the 4th and 5th
year.
• A research grant of Rs.2.00 lakh per year will be provided to each of the Fellows for a period of
5 years to cover their academic contingency expenses and for foreign/national travel expenses.
• A maximum of 3000 Fellows would be selected in a three year period.
Key Features:
• All centrally-funded institutes (CFIs), including central universities, IITs, IIMs, NITs and IISERs
can borrow from a Rs. 1,00,000 crore corpus in the upcoming 4 years.
• RISE will be financed via the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA), a non-banking
financial company.
• IITs will get the largest part of loans on offer under the scheme.
Key Features:
• All centrally run educational institutions referred by concerned ministries would be eligible
for financing their capital expenditure from HEFA.
• HEFA will raise funds from the market and mobilize CSR funds from PSUs/Corporates.
• The funding will also be available to government-run schools Kendriya Vidyalayas and
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.
• Funding: HEFA will directly release the sanctioned amount to vendors or contractors only
after the certification of executing agency and educational institutions.
• All the Centrally Funded Institutions will have to repay the borrowed amount (loans) in a time
frame of over 10 years.
Components:
• The course is a 40 hour module with 20 hours of video content and 20 hours of non-video
content.
• They are offered in a highly flexible format and can be done at one’s own pace and time.
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• There are built-in assessment exercises and activities as part of the academic progression in
the course.
• At the end of the course, there will be a terminal assessment which can be either online or a
written examination.
Other Features
• It is a unique initiative of online professional development of 15 lakh higher education faculty
using the SWAYAM platform.
• 75 discipline-specific institutions have been identified and notified as National Resource
Centres (NRCs) in the first phase, which are tasked to prepare online training material.
• The focus will be on latest developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical
improvements and methodologies for transacting revised curriculum.
• All faculties who will successfully complete the online refresher course will be certified.
• NRCs are located in a mixed range of institutions such as, Central Universities, IISc., IUCAA
(Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics), IITs, IISERs, NITs, State Universities
under the Ministry’s Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and
Teaching (PMMMNMTT).
• ARPIT will be an ongoing exercise so that every year NRCs will continuously develop new
refresher module in their earmarked discipline each year.
Objective: To prepare second tier academic heads who are potentially likely to assume leadership
roles in the future.
Its Features
• LEAP is a three weeks flagship leadership development training programme for second level
academic functionaries in public funded higher education institutions.
• It would include both domestic and foreign training in managerial skills such as problem-
solving, handling stress, team building work, conflict management, developing
communication skills etc.
• The implementation of LEAP Programme will be through 15 NIRF top ranked Indian
institutions.
• The foreign universities identified for the training are also within the top 100 in the world global
rankings.
Eligibility:
• Candidate must be an Indian citizen residing in India.
• Candidate must hold a Ph.D. degree in Science or MS / MD in Medicine or M.E. / M.Tech in
Engineering / Technology.
• Candidates must hold a regular academic / research position in State Universities/ Colleges
and private Academic Institutions.
• Candidates should not hold any ongoing research projects or any fellowship at the time of
submission of application.
• The age of the candidate must not be more than 45 years at the time of the submission of
application.
• 5 years age relaxation will be given to candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/Physically
Challenged & Women candidates.
• A mentor should be preferably at the level of Associate Professor / Scientist E.
Features of SIP
• This programme does not offer any Scholarships, however, fee waivers to meritorious foreign
students ranging from 100% to 25% are offered. Criteria for fee waiver:
✓ 100% waiver of tuition fees only for the top 25% students.
✓ 50% waiver of tuition fees only for the next 25% students.
✓ 25% waiver of tuition fees only for the next 25% students.
✓ No waiver of tuition fee for remaining 25% of students.
• About 150 select educational institutes from public, private and deemed universities are
offering an array of options including courses ranging from engineering, management,
commerce, photonics to yoga, Ayurveda, athletics and languages.
• Top ranked institutions as per National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) have been selected.
33 SWAYAM Platform
Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development
Developed By: SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) Platform is
developed by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and National Programme on
Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), IIT Madras with the help of Google Inc. and Persistent
Systems Ltd.
Objective:
• Its objective is to take the best learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged.
• It seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the
digital revolution.
Key Features
• It facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation
to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time.
Target Beneficiaries:
• All Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers, excluding PW&LM who are in regular employment
with the Central Government or the State Governments or PSUs or those who are in receipt of
similar benefits under any law for the time being in force.
• All eligible Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers who have their pregnancy on or after
01.01.2017 for first child in family.
• Case of Miscarriage/Still Birth:
(i) A beneficiary is eligible to receive benefits under the scheme only once.
(ii) In case of miscarriage/still birth, the beneficiary would be eligible to claim the remaining
instalment(s) in event of any future pregnancy.
• Case of Infant Mortality: A beneficiary is eligible to receive benefits under the scheme only once.
That is, in case of infant mortality, she will not be eligible for claiming benefits under the scheme,
if she has already received all the instalments of the maternity benefit under PMMVY earlier.
• Pregnant and Lactating AWWs/ AWHs/ ASHA may also avail the benefits under the PMMVY
subject to fulfilment of scheme conditionalities.
Key Features:
• It has been launched for providing digital platform to teacher to make their lifestyle more digital.
• It will serve as National Digital Infrastructures for teachers.
• It will accelerate and amplify solutions, experiments and innovations that are underway, and is
being attempted in the areas of teacher training and professional development.
• It will equip teachers across the nation with advanced digital technology and aid them to learn
and train themselves.
• States and Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs) have the autonomy and choice to repurpose and
extend DIKSHA to suit their own needs and purposes.
Key Features:
• It is designed to provide a comprehensive platform to deserving girl students who aspire to
pursue higher education in engineering and assist them to prepare for the IIT JEE while studying
in Classes XI and XII.
• UDAAN not only mentors the girl students to compete in JEE, it also ensures a means for making
payments towards their fee for engineering courses.
• The girls will accrue points on doing well in weekly assessments. Financial assistance
proportionate to their accrued points will be given by the CBSE when the girl students get
admission in IITs/NIITs/CFTIs.
Mission:
• Attain universal coverage of HIV prevention, testing, treatment to care in continuum that is
effective, inclusive, equitable and adapted to population and local needs.
Target/Goal:
Objectives:
The NSP proposes six objectives towards fulfilling its vision of an AIDS free India. These are:
1. Reduce 80% new infections by 2024 (Baseline 2010)
2. Ensure 95% of estimated PLHIV (People Living with HIV) know their status by 2024
3. Ensure 95% PLHIV have ART initiation and retention by 2024, for sustained viral suppression
4. Eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis by 2020
5. Eliminate HIV/AIDS related stigma and discrimination by 2020
6. Facilitate sustainable NACP service delivery by 2024
Project Sunrise
Launch Year: 2016. It was launched for prevention of AIDS specially among people injecting drugs
in the 8 North-Eastern states.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Implemented by: National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)
Aim: It aims to diagnose 90 per cent of such drug addicts with HIV and put them under treatment
by 2020.
What is it?
• It is an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance
examinations for higher educational institutions.
• It has been set up as a Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860.
• NTA will be given a one-time grant of Rs.25 crore from the Government of India to start its
operation in the first year. Thereafter, it will be financially self-sustainable.
Key Features
• It would initially conduct those entrance examinations which are currently being conducted by
the CBSE.
• Other examinations will be taken up gradually after NTA is fully geared up.
• Entrance examinations will be conducted in online mode at least twice a year, thereby giving
adequate opportunity to candidates to bring out their best.
• All the tests will be conducted in multiple sittings and a candidate will have an option of dates
to choose from.
• Scores of different candidates in multiple sittings will also be equated using standardisation
techniques.
• It will establish a network of test practice centres for students of rural areas so that everyone
will have an opportunity to practice before the exam. This facility would be free of cost.
Vision: The vision of the program is to initiate transformation in the education and health sectors.
Key Features:
• NITI Aayog will work in close collaboration with their state machinery to design a robust
roadmap of intervention, develop a program governance structure, set up monitoring and
tracking mechanisms, hand-hold state institutions through the execution stage and provide
support on a range of institutional measures to achieve the end objectives.
• To select the three model states, NITI Aayog defined a three-stage process – expression of
interest, presentations by the states and assessment of commitment to health sector reforms.
• After an elaborate selection process based on the Challenge Method, three States namely,
Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, were selected for the project.
• The program is being implemented in these States along with knowledge partners Boston
Consulting Group (BCG) & Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership (PFEL) consortium
with NITI Aayog as a facilitator and coordinator in the process.
• The project is being implemented in three phases over a period of 30 months, coming to an
end in 2020. The two phases of the project have been completed. It is now in the third phase
of implementation, which will last for 18 months.
Key Features:
• The Department of Science and Technology (DST) conceived to adopt a few clusters of villages in
Uttarakhand and transform them to become self-sustainable in a time bound manner through the
tools of S&T.
• The key deliverable in this approach is to utilise local resources and locally available skill sets and
convert them in a manner using science and technology, that substantial value addition takes
place in their local produce and services which can sustain the rural population locally.
Eligibility:
• To avail this scholarship, child must be student of recognized school within India and concerned
school should have Philately Club and candidate should be member of Club.
Key Features:
• Under the scheme, annual scholarships will be awarded to children of Standard VI to IX having
good academic record and also pursuing Philately as hobby through competitive selection process
in all postal circles.
• Government will award 920 scholarships to students pursuing Philately as hobby.
• The amount of Scholarship will be Rs. 6000/- per annum @ Rs. 500/- per month.
• Every Postal Circle will select a maximum of 40 scholarships representing 10 students each from
Standard VI to IX.
• The selections will be made based on evaluation of Project work on philately & performance in
Philately Quiz conducted by Circles.
Key Features:
• This scheme aims at imparting digital literacy to citizens in rural areas free of cost
• Under it, people in rural area will be trained to operate a computer, tablet, smartphones, etc and
how to access the Internet, government services, undertake digital payment, compose e-mails,
etc.
• The scheme will be implemented under the supervision of Ministry of Electronics and IT in
collaboration with States/UTs through their designated State Implementing Agencies, District e-
Governance Society (DeGS), etc.
Key Features:
• Under this programme, all the ministry officers - under-secretary and above - will be asked to go
to their hometowns and interact with the students about the way the MEA works, basic elements
of its policies, how diplomacy is conducted, and generally give students an idea of what a career
in the MEA would look like.
• The officials will be provided a basic standardised presentation by the ministry but will be free to
add their own improvisations and experiences.
• The agenda of the programme is not only to make students interested and aware of India's place
in the world and its global ambitions, but also to drive interest in diplomacy as a career option.
Target Beneficiaries:
• 145 districts in the seven-high focus, high TFR states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Assam with TFR of 3 and above that constitute 44% of the
country’s population.
Objectives:
• Ensure at least one antenatal check-up for all pregnant women in their second or third trimester
by a physician/specialist.
• Improve the quality of care during ante-natal visits.
• Identification and line-listing of high-risk pregnancies based on obstetric/ medical history and
existing clinical conditions.
• Appropriate birth planning and complication readiness for each pregnant woman especially
those identified with any risk factor or comorbid condition.
• Special emphasis on early diagnosis, adequate and appropriate management of women with
malnutrition.
• Special focus on adolescent and early pregnancies as these pregnancies need extra and
specialized care.
Target Beneficiary:
• All pregnant women. Special efforts would be made to reach out to women who have not
registered for ANC (left out/missed ANC) as well as high risk pregnant women.
Key Features:
• It will provide assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care, free of cost, universally to all
pregnant women on the 9th of every month.
• It guarantees a minimum package of antenatal care services to women in their 2nd / 3rd
trimesters of pregnancy at designated government health facilities.
Objectives
• To CELEBRATE the unity in diversity of our nation and to maintain and strengthen the fabric of
traditionally existing emotional bonds between the people of our Country.
• To SHOWCASE the rich heritage and culture, customs and traditions of each State for enabling
people to understand and appreciate the diversity that is India.
• To ESTABLISH long-term engagements between states
• To CREATE an environment which promotes learning between States by sharing best practices
and experiences.
• PROMOTE the spirit of national integration through a deep and structured engagement
between all Indian States and Union Territories through a year-long planned engagement
between States.
48 Mission Madumeha
Launch Year: 2016 (Launched on the ocassion of 1st National Ayurveda Day)
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of AYUSH
Implementation: It will be implemented through a specially designed National Treatment Protocol
for effective management of Diabetes through Ayurveda.
Aim: Prevention and Control of Diabetes through Ayurveda
Other Facts:
• National Ayurveda Day is celebrated every year on the occasion of Dhanwantari Jayanti. This day
marks birth date of Lord Dhanvantari, which occurs before two days before Diwali on Dhanteras.
49 E-RaktKosh Initiative
Launch Year: 2016
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Key Features
• It is an integrated Blood Bank Management Information System that has been conceptualized
and developed after multiple consultations with all stakeholders.
51 Kilkari Initiative
Launch Year: 2016
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Aim: Deliver free, weekly, time-appropriate 72 audio messages about pregnancy, childbirth and
childcare directly to families’ mobile phones from the second trimester of pregnancy until the child is
one year old.
What is it?
• It is the largest maternal messaging service in the world designed to help new and expectant
mothers in India have safer pregnancies and give newborn babies the best possible start in life.
53 M-Cessation initiative
Launch Year: 2016
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Aim: Reach out to those willing to quit tobacco use and support them towards successful quitting
through text messages sent via mobile phones.
What is it?
• It is an m-health initiative to help those who want to quit tobacco use.
Goal:
• To enhance optimal breastfeeding practices, which includes early initiation of breastfeeding
within one hour of birth, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, and continued
breastfeeding for at least two years, along with feeding of safe and appropriate nutritious food
on completion of six months.
Objective:
• Build an enabling environment for breastfeeding through awareness generation activities,
targeting pregnant and lactating mothers, family members and society in order to promote
optimal breastfeeding practices. Breastfeeding to be positioned as an important intervention for
child survival and development.
• Reinforce lactation support services at public health facilities through trained healthcare providers
and through skilled community health workers.
• To incentivize and recognize those health facilities that show high rates of breastfeeding along
with processes in place for lactation management.
55 Prashikshak Portal
Launch Year: 2016
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource and Development
• It was established through a joint collaboration between Ministry of Human Resource
Development and Central Square Foundation (a policy think tank focused on improving quality
of school education).
Aim: The aim is to strengthen District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) and bring quality
teachers into the Indian school education system.
Key Features:
• It is a unique IT initiative which will contain a comprehensive database of all DIETs in the
country with all relevant performance indicators.
• It will give the opportunity to Central and State Governments to do real time monitoring of the
institutions.
Key Features:
• ASMITA (All School Monitoring and Individual Tracking Analysis) will be an online database
which will carry information of student attendance and enrolment, learning outcomes, mid-
day meal service and infrastructural facilities.
• Students will be tracked through their Aadhaar numbers and incase those not having unique
number will be provided with it.
Objectives:
• To promote innovation in areas that are directly of relevance to the manufacturing and design
industry.
• To spur innovative mindset in the students and faculty in premier technological institutes.
• To bring a coordinated action between academia and the industry
• To strengthen the laboratories and research facilities in the premier technological institutions.
• To have outcome-based research funding
Applicability:
• The scheme would be applicable to the projects proposed by the Indian Institutes of
Technologies initially.
• The projects should have collaboration between the academia and industry - within or outside
India.
58 SWAYAM Prabha
Launch Year: 2016
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development
Objective: To provide 32 High Quality Educational Channels through DTH (Direct to Home) across the
length and breadth of the country on 24X7 basis with an aim to bring uniformity in standards of
education.
Key Features:
• Curriculum based course content covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce,
performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law,
medicine, agriculture etc.
• Covers all level of education: School education, undergraduate, postgraduate, engineering, out
of school children, vocational courses and teacher training.
• The Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) centre maintains the web portal, which is an
Autonomous Inter-University Centre (IUC) of University Grants Commission (UGC) of India with
its Head Quarters at Gujarat University campus, Ahmedabad.
Aim: It aims to help 20 higher education (10 public and 10 private) institutions from country break
into top 500 global rankings in 10 years, and then eventually break into top 100 over time.
Objectives:
• To provide for higher education leading to excellence and innovations in such branches of
knowledge as may be deemed fit at post-graduate, graduate and research degree levels.
• To engage in areas of specialization to make distinctive contributions to the objectives of the
university education system.
• To aim to be rated internationally for its teaching and research as a top hundred Institution in
the world over time.
• To provide for high quality teaching and research and for the advancement of knowledge and
its dissemination
Eligibility:
• Only higher education institutions, currently placed in the top 500 of global rankings or top 50
of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), are eligible to apply for eminence tag.
• The private IoE can also come up as greenfield ventures provided sponsoring organisation
submits convincing perspective plan for 15 years.
Objective: It allows the schools to identify areas of improvement in students, teachers and curriculum
to take remedial measures and monitor the progress of student.
Salient features
• Self-Review: a tool for comprehensive self-review and analysis for CBSE affiliated schools and
parents.
• Performance and take decisions: It helps the schools to look at their performance in scholastic
and co-scholastic areas at an aggregate level, and at the level of each student in the school.
• Communication with parents: All the performance metrics are presented through numbers as
well as in charts/ graphs for easy understanding.
• Saransh helps schools compare their performance vis-à-vis other schools under various
categories i.e., All India, Regional, State and within their school category.
Objectives:
• To increase the footfalls of reputed international faculty in the Indian academic institutes.
• Provide opportunity to our faculty to learn and share knowledge and teaching skills in cutting
edge areas.
• To provide opportunity to our students to seek knowledge and experience from reputed
International faculty.
• To create avenue for possible collaborative research with the international faculty.
• Develop high quality course material in niche areas, both through video and print that can be
used by a larger body of students and teachers.
• To document and develop new pedagogic methods in emerging topics of national and
international interest.
Key Features:
• The lectures delivered under the programme would be made available later to the students
across the country through the SWAYAM, the MOOCs platform and the National Digital Library.
• A web portal (gian.iitkgp.ac.in) has been designed by IIT Kharagpur to allow electronic
registration and online assessment.
Objectives:
• To establish a single window for multiple stakeholders involved in the processes of CDSCO.
• To consolidate the Indian Drug Regulatory Framework by streamlining the CDSCO processes.
• To enable paperless grant of various clearances by CDSCO.
• To enable higher level of transparency in Drug regulatory processes.
• To enable ease of business for Pharmaceutical Industry & regulatory agency.
• To enable the greater outreach of citizen centric & consumer centric information related to
quality and standard of drugs in the country.
65 E-BASTA scheme
Launch Year: 2015
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Developed by: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Objective:
• eBasta is a framework to make schoolbooks accessible in digital form as e-books to be read
and used on tablets and laptops.
• The main idea is to bring various publishers (free as well as commercial) and schools together
on one platform.
Key Features:
• This programme will make all school-books available in the digital format and can be accessed
on laptops and tablets.
• Resources available in the digital form include text, simulation, animations, audio books, and
videos among many other features.
• Web based applications will be available to access and navigate the framework of eBasta.
• Teachers or the school can log on to the portal and customise the eBasta contents according to
the requirement, standard, and syllabus of their students.
• Students can access the content included by the teachers or the school on the same portal.
They can use eBasta application by downloading them on their computers or android phones.
• The android app is like an eBook reader. Once the student has access he/she will have the
content as required by the teachers.
• The content is easily transferable.
Goal: No students should miss out on higher education for lack of funds
Salient Features:
• Portal is especially launched for those Students who are looking for education loans.
• Five banks including SBI, IDBI and Bank of India have integrated their system with
the website.
• The Vidya Lakshmi Portal will provide help through single window for students to access
any information regarding educational loans as well as government scholarships.
Key Features:
• Under this programme, retail outlets will sell drugs for the cancer and heart diseases at highly
discounted rates.
• The AMRIT pharmacy would be selling 202 cancer and 186 cardio-vascular drugs, and 148 types
of cardiac implants at very affordable prices.
• Patients can buy medicines and implants at 50 to 60 percent cheaper prices than the open market
from AMRIT outlet.
• These outlets would be opened in all central government hospitals.
Key Objectives:
• To organize Swasthya Rakshan OPDs, Swasthya Parikshan Camps and hygiene awareness
programme.
• To create awareness about cleanliness of domestic surroundings and environment.
• To provide medical aid and incidental support in the adopted Colonies and villages.
• To document demographic information, food habits, hygiene conditions, seasons, lifestyle and
disease prevalence.
• To assess health status and propagation of ayurvedic concept of pathya-apathya and extension of
health care services.
Objective:
• Create awareness among public regarding generic medicines.
• Create demand for generic medicines through medical practioners.
• Create awareness through education and awareness program that high price need not be
synonymous with high quality.
• Provide all the commonly used generic medicines covering all the therapeutic groups.
• Provide all the related health care products too under the scheme.
Key Feature:
• The Jan Aushadhi Programme is a self-sustaining business model not dependent on government
subsidies or assistance. It is run on the principle of ‘Not for Profits but with Minimal Profits’.
• Operational expenditure is met from trade margins admissible for the medicines.
Key Features:
• It is an indigenously developed technology system in India that digitizes vaccine stocks and
monitors the temperature of the cold chain through a smartphone application.
• It is a powerful contribution to strengthening health systems and ensures equity through easy
and timely availability of vaccines to all children.
Objective:
• To provide cost effective AYUSH Services, with a universal access through upgrading AYUSH
Hospitals and Dispensaries, co-location of AYUSH facilities at Primary Health Centres (PHCs),
Community Health Centres (CHCs) and District Hospitals (DHs).
73 Mission Indradhanush
Launch Year: 2014
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Aim: To strengthen and re-energize the immunization programme and achieve full immunization
coverage for all children and pregnant women at a rapid pace.
Target:
• To ensure 90% full immunization with all available vaccines for children up to two years of age and
pregnant women by 2020.
Key Features:
• Children will be fully immunized against seven life threatening vaccine preventable diseases
which include diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles & hepatitis-B.
• In addition, vaccination against Japanese Encephalitis and Haemophilus influenza type B will be
provided in selected districts/states of the country. Pregnant women will also be immunized
against tetanus.
Pentavalent Vaccine
• The Pentavalent vaccine contains five antigens i.e. Hepatitis B, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus
(DPT–current trivalent vaccine) and Haemophilus influenza b (Hib) vaccine.
• Pentavalent vaccination is provided to the children at the age of 6, 10 and 14 weeks as primary
dose.
New Vaccines
• Government of India is introducing four new vaccines as per recommendations of National
Technical Advisory Group of Immunization (NTAGI) and the strategy of introduction is as under:
Key Features:
• In the scheme, selected school children from North Eastern states are brought in close contact
with the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Science Education and
Research (IISERs) and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) during the vacation
period to motivate them to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
• It also facilitates internship opportunities for the engineering college students in various
institutes of national importance.
Key Features:
• It is a scholarship scheme for economically backward students of the North East Region for
pursuing general degree courses, technical and professional degree courses.
• The Scheme envisages grant of 10,000 scholarships to students from North East Region whose
parental income is below Rs. 4.5 lakh per annum.
Objectives
• Building institutional capacity in Institutes of higher education in research & training relevant
to the needs of rural India.
• Provide rural India with professional resource support from institutes of higher education,
especially those which have acquired academic excellence in the field of Science, Engineering
& Technology and Management.
Its implementation
• An empowered Steering Committee has been constituted by the Ministry of HRD for actual
implementation, continuous guidance and monitoring of the programme at the national level.
• It consists of eminent personalities and subject experts.
• The local district administration will provide the necessary support and guidance to
participating institutes so that they are able to identify and collaborate with appropriate rural
clusters.
• Participating institutions will involve local bodies of PRIs in the preparation and implementation
of Gram Panchayat Development Plans in the selected clusters.
• NGOs will play a crucial role in mobilizing the rural people through proper motivation,
education and training in participatory decision making process.
Key Features:
• It is a central sector scheme to provide interest subsidy on educational loans for overseas studies
for the students belonging to the minority communities viz. Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists,
Jains and Parsis and want to pursue higher studies like Masters, M.Phil & Ph.D level outside India.
• The interest subsidy will be given for the period of moratorium (i.e. course period plus one year
or six months after getting a job, whichever is earlier) as per the education loan scheme of the
Indian banks Association (IBA).
Eligibility:
• A candidate must have secured admission in University abroad to pursue Post Graduate Diploma,
Masters, Ph.D or M. Phil courses with overall family income exceedingly not more than 6 lakhs per
annum.
• Family income refers to gross income of parents of the candidate if he/she is unmarried or gross
income of the spouse in case the candidate is married.
Target:
• Address issues of equity, access and excellence in higher education.
• Achieve Gross Enrolment Ratio of 30% in higher education by the year 2019-20.
Objectives:
• Improve the overall quality of state institutions by ensuring conformity to prescribed norms and
standards.
• Promote autonomy in state universities and improving governance in institutions.
• Ensure reforms in affiliation, academic and examination systems
• Ensure adequate availability of quality faculty.
• Create an enabling atmosphere in the higher educational institutions to devote themselves to
research and innovations.
• Expand the institutional base by creating additional capacity in existing institutions and
establishing new institutions, in order to achieve enrolment targets.
• Correct regional imbalances in access to higher education by setting up institutions in unserved
& underserved areas.
• Improve equity in higher education.
Funding:
• The funding would flow from the central ministry through the state governments/union
territories to the State Higher Education Councils before reaching the identified institutions.
• The funding to states would be made on the basis of critical appraisal of State Higher Education
Plans.
Key Features:
• RUSA would create new universities through upgradation of existing autonomous colleges and
conversion of colleges in a cluster.
• It would create new model degree colleges, new professional colleges and provide
infrastructural support to universities and colleges.
Aim/Target:
• To eliminate TB in India by 2025, five years ahead of the global target
Goal:
• To achieve a rapid decline in burden of TB, morbidity and mortality while working towards
elimination of TB in India by 2025.
Key Feature:
• It is a framework to guide the activities of all stakeholders including the national and state
governments, development partners, civil society organizations, international agencies,
research institutions, private sector, and many others whose work is relevant to TB
elimination in India.
80 Saakshar Bharat
Launch Year: 2009
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development
Aim: To achieve 80% literacy level at national level, by focusing on adult women literacy seeking to
reduce the gap between male and female literacy to not more than 10 percentage points.
Target: The principal target of the programme is to impart functional literacy to 70 million non-literate
adults in the age group of 15 years and beyond.
Eligibility:
• A district that had adult female literacy rate of 50 per cent or below, as per 2001 census, were
considered eligible.
• In addition, all left wing extremism-affected districts, irrespective of their literacy rate, were
also eligible for coverage under the programme.
Objective: The objective of the scheme is to target one million original ideas/innovations rooted in
science and societal applications to foster a culture of creativity and innovative thinking among school
children.
(i) INSPIRE Awards – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge)
• In order to seed and experience the joy of innovation, every year two lakh school children in
the age-group of 10 to 15 years i.e., 6th to 10th standards are being identified for the
INSPIRE Award.
• Each INSPIRE Award envisions an investment of Rs.5,000/- per child.
Coverage:
• Cities and towns with population below 50,000 will be covered under NRHM
Target Beneficiary:
• NUHM would cover all State capitals, district headquarters and cities/towns with a population
of more than 50,000. It would primarily focus on slum dwellers and other marginalized groups
like rickshaw pullers, street vendors, railway and bus station coolies, homeless people, street
children, construction site workers.
Funding Pattern:
• The centre-state funding pattern will be 75:25 for all the States except the 8 North-Eastern
states and other special category states of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and
Uttarakhand, for whom the centre-state funding pattern will be 90:10.
Target Beneficiary:
Poor pregnant woman with special dispensation for states having low institutional delivery rates
namely the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,
Assam, Rajasthan, Odisha and Jammu and Kashmir.
Target Beneficiary: Pregnant women who access government health facilities for their delivery.
Target Beneficiary:
• All children of 0-6 years of age in rural areas and urban slums, in addition to older children upto
18 years of age enrolled in classes 1st to 12th in Government and Government aided schools.
Important Interventions:
• Adolescent Friendly Health Clinics (AFHCs): These act as the first level of contact of primary
health care services with adolescents. Adolescent Health Counselors are in place to provide
counseling services. Linkages have also been established with Integrated Counselling and Testing
Centres (ICTC) for management of HIV/AIDS.
Key Features:
• For the fulfilment of the scheme, Government of India has set up seven Zonal Cultural Centres
(ZCCs) with headquarters at Patiala, Nagpur, Udaipur, Allahabad, Kolkata, Dimapur and Thanjavur
and these Zonal Cultural Centres (ZCCs) organize various cultural activities, workshops,
exhibitions, craft fairs etc.
• To nurture the young talents and to acquire skills in their chosen field of art, the scheme preserves
and promote rare and vanishing art forms whether classical or folk/tribal through some financial
assistance by the Zonal Cultural Centre (ZCCs) in the form of scholarship under the guidance of
Experts and Masters in these field.
• This scheme also provides security to a large number of old and retired artists.
Focus States:
• Low Income States (7): Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar
Pradesh)
• Hill States (3): Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand
• North-Eastern States (8): Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland,
Sikkim and Tripura
• Union Territory: Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Target: As per the budget 2018-19, every block with more than 50% ST population and at least 20,000
tribal persons, will have an Eklavya Model Residential School by the year 2022.
Objectives:
• Comprehensive physical, mental and socially relevant development of all students enrolled in
each and every EMRS. Students will be empowered to be change agents, beginning in their
school, in their homes, in their village and finally in a larger context.
• Focus differentially on the educational support to be made available to those in Standards XI
and XII, and those in standards VI to X, so that their distinctive needs can be met,
Key Features:
• Admission to these schools will be through selection/competition with suitable provision for
preference to children belonging to Primitive Tribal Groups, first generation students, etc.
• Sufficient land would be given by the State Government for the school, playgrounds, hostels,
residential quarters, etc., free of cost.
• The number of seats for boys and girls will be equal.
• In these schools, education will be entirely free.
• Every class can have maximum 60 students preferably in 2 sections of 30 students each and
the total sanctioned strength of the school will be 480 students.
Beneficiaries:
• Children studying in class (I to VIII) in Government, Government aided and local body schools,
Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and Alternative & Innovative Education (AIE) centres.
Key Features:
• This scheme is covered by National Food Security Act, 2013.
• Under this scheme, Hot cooked meal will be provided having nutritional standards of 450 calories
and 12 gm of protein for primary (I- V class) and 700 calories and 20 gm protein for upper primary
(VI-VIII class), free of charge every day except on school holidays.
• The meal is prepared in accordance with the Mid Day Meal guidelines issued by the Central
Government from time to time.
Funding:
• The government provides financial support to the eligible schools/implementing agencies in the
form of free food grains and by bearing cooking related costs.
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89 Universal Immunization Programme (UIP)
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
What is it?
• Immunization Programme in India was introduced in 1978 as ‘Expanded Programme of
Immunization’ (EPI).
• In 1985, the programme was modified as ‘Universal Immunization Programme’ (UIP) to be
implemented in phased manner to cover all districts in the country by 1989-90.
• Government of India provides several vaccines to infants, children and pregnant women through
this programme.