Economic & Social Issues Schemes For Rbi Grade B - Sebi Grade A - Nabard 2020

ECONOMIC & SOCIAL ISSUES
SCHEMES FOR
RBI GRADE B|SEBI GRADE A|NABARD
2020
PART 2
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Contents
1 Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI) .......................................................................... 8
2 Kartavya Portal .............................................................................................................................................. 8
3 Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully (SAANS) ................................................. 8
4 Shala Darpan Portal ....................................................................................................................................... 9
5 Arogya Manthan ............................................................................................................................................ 9
6 Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme – DHRUV ............................................................................ 9
7 E-Vidyabharti & E-ArogyaBharti ................................................................................................................... 10
8 Food Safety Mitra (FSM) Scheme ................................................................................................................. 10
9 SUMAN (Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan) Scheme ......................................................................................... 11
10 Eat Right India Movement ........................................................................................................................ 11
11 National Animal Disease Control Programme ........................................................................................... 12
12 Margadarshan and Margdarshak Scheme ................................................................................................. 12
13 Ayushman Bharat Pakhwara..................................................................................................................... 13
14 TB Harega Desh Jeetega Campaign ........................................................................................................... 13
15 UMMID (Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders) Initiative ................... 14
16 National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) Scheme .................................................................. 14
17 STRIDE Scheme ........................................................................................................................................ 15
18 Model Education Loan Scheme ................................................................................................................ 16
19 Deeksharambh - A Guide to Student Induction Programme...................................................................... 17
20 STARS (Scheme for Translational and Advanced Research in Science) Scheme .......................................... 17
21 Yuva Vigyani Karyakram (YUVIKA) ............................................................................................................ 17
22 UNNATI (Unispace Nanosatellite Assembly & Training Programme) ......................................................... 18
23 Jan Jagrukta Abhiyan ................................................................................................................................ 19
24 Paramarsh Scheme................................................................................................................................... 19
25 SUPRA Scheme ......................................................................................................................................... 20
26 NISHTHA Scheme ..................................................................................................................................... 21
• It is the world's biggest project for teacher training called NISHTHA (National Initiative on School Teachers
Head Holistic Advancement). ........................................................................................................................... 21
• It is an initiative to build capacities of teachers and school principals at the elementary stage. ................ 21
• The initiative is an Integrated Teacher Training Programme of the Department of School Education and
Literacy, Ministry of HRD as part of its National Mission to improve learning outcomes at the Elementary level
under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha during 2019-20. ................................................... 21
Scope of Coverage ........................................................................................................................................... 21
• It aims to build the capacities of participants covering all teachers and Heads of Schools at the elementary
level in- ............................................................................................................................................................ 21
I. all Government schools ............................................................................................................................ 21
II. faculty members of State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs) ................................... 21

III. District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) .............................................................................. 21
IV. Block Resource Coordinators and Cluster Resource Coordinators in all States and UT. .......................... 21
Implementation ............................................................................................................................................... 21
• 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. .............. 21
• 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.......... 21
27 Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP) ........................................................... 21
28 National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) ........................................................................................ 22
29 Ayushman Bharat (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) ............................................................................ 23
Components of PMJAY ..................................................................................................................................... 24
30 AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research) Scheme ..................................................... 25
31 National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme ............................................................................................. 26
32 LaQshya Programme ................................................................................................................................ 27
33 Nikshay Poshan Yojana............................................................................................................................. 27
34 National Deworming Initiative .................................................................................................................. 27
35 Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan ......................................................................................................................... 28
36 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.............................................................................................................................. 29
36..1 Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat .......................................................................................................... 29
36..2 Shagun Portal ............................................................................................................................... 29
36..3 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalya Scheme ...................................................................................... 29
36..4 Vidyanjali ...................................................................................................................................... 30
36..5 Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan ........................................................................................................... 30
37 Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan..................................................................................................... 30
37..1 Shaala Siddhi (National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation Framework) .................. 31
37..2 Shaala Darpan............................................................................................................................... 31
37..3 e-Pathshala................................................................................................................................... 31
37..4 Kala Utsav..................................................................................................................................... 31
38 Teacher Education Scheme ...................................................................................................................... 31
39 Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) ................................................ 32
40 IMPRESS (Impactful Policy Research in Social Science).............................................................................. 32
41 Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship ...................................................................................................... 33
42 RISE (Revitalising Infrastructure and Education Systems in Education) ...................................................... 33
43 National Digital Library of India (NDLI)...................................................................................................... 34
44 ARPIT (Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching) ................................................................................... 35
45 Leadership for Academicians Programme................................................................................................. 35
46 National Health Resource Repository (NHRR) ........................................................................................... 36
47 TARE (Teacher Associates for Research Excellence) Scheme ..................................................................... 36
48 Study in India Programme ........................................................................................................................ 37
49 SWAYAM Platform ................................................................................................................................... 37
50 National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN ABHIYAAN)...................................................................................... 38
51 Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana ................................................................................................... 39
52 Diksha (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) Portal .................................................................... 40
53 UDAAN-Giving Wings to Girl Students ...................................................................................................... 40
54 National Strategic Plan (2017-24) ............................................................................................................. 41
55 National Testing Agency (NTA) ................................................................................................................. 42
56 Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital (SATH) Programme .................................................. 43
57 Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhayay Vigyan Gram Sankul Pariyojana ...................................................................... 43
58 Deen Dayal SPARSH (Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude & Research in Stamps as a Hobby) Yojana .... 44
59 PMGDISHA (Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan) ............................................................... 44
60 SAMEEP (Students and MEA Engagement Programme) ............................................................................ 45
61 Mission Parivar Vikas................................................................................................................................ 45
62 Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan ............................................................................................. 45
63 Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat ...................................................................................................................... 46
64 Mission Madhumeha................................................................................................................................ 47
65 E-RaktKosh Initiative ................................................................................................................................ 47
66 Mera Aspatal/My Hospital Initiative ......................................................................................................... 47
67 Kilkari Initiative ........................................................................................................................................ 48
68 Mobile Academy Initiative ........................................................................................................................ 48
69 M-Cessation initiative............................................................................................................................... 48
70 Mothers Absolute Affection ..................................................................................................................... 48
71 Prashikshak Portal .................................................................................................................................... 49
72 Shala Ashmita Yojana ............................................................................................................................... 49
73 Uchchatar Avishkar Abhiyan..................................................................................................................... 50
74 SWAYAM Prabha ...................................................................................................................................... 50
75 Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme ..................................................................................................... 51
76 National Academic Depository ................................................................................................................. 52
77 Vittiya Saksharata Abhiyan (VISAKA) ........................................................................................................ 52
78 SARAANSH ............................................................................................................................................... 52
79 GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks) ......................................................................................... 53
80 Sugam Portal ............................................................................................................................................ 53
81 E-BASTA scheme ...................................................................................................................................... 54
82 Vidya Lakshmi Portal Education Loan Scheme .......................................................................................... 54
83 AMRIT (Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment) Programme ..................................... 55

84 Swasthya Raksha Programme................................................................................................................... 55
85 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Yojana (PMBJY) ............................................................................. 55
86 Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (e-VIN) ....................................................................................... 56
87 National Health Portal .............................................................................................................................. 56
88 Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Training (PMMMNMTT) ...................... 57
89 National Ayush Mission (NAM) ................................................................................................................. 57
90 Mission Indradhanush .............................................................................................................................. 58
91 ISHAN VIKAS Scheme ............................................................................................................................... 59
92 ISHAN UDAY Scheme ................................................................................................................................ 59
93 UNNAT Bharat Abhiyan ............................................................................................................................ 60
94 Padho Pardesh Scheme (Scheme of Interest Subsidy on Educational Loans for Overseas Studies for the
Students belonging to the Minority Communities) ............................................................................................... 60
95 Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) ........................................................................................... 61
96 Revised National TB control programme (RNTCP) ..................................................................................... 62
97 Saakshar Bharat ....................................................................................................................................... 63
98 INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) Scheme ..................................................... 63
99 National Health Mission ........................................................................................................................... 65
99..1 Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) ....................................................................................... 67
99..2 Auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) ..................................................................................................... 67
99..3 Anganwadi Centres ....................................................................................................................... 68
99..4 Janani Suraksha Yojana ................................................................................................................. 68
99..5 Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana ...................................................................................................... 68
99..6 Kayakalp Initiative......................................................................................................................... 68
99..7 Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram ................................................................................................ 69
99..8 Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakram ......................................................................................... 69
100 Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana .............................................................................................. 69
101 Guru Shishya Parampara Scheme ............................................................................................................. 70
102 Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP)................................................................ 70
103 Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi ............................................................................................................................. 71
104 EKLAVYA MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL (EMRS) ....................................................................................... 71
105 Mid-Day Meal Scheme ............................................................................................................................. 71
106 Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) ................................................................................................ 72

Budget Estimates 2020-21 (In Crores) for schemes mentioned in the passage:
Scheme Budget Estimates 2020-21 (In Crores)

Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS)
Core of the Core Schemes
National Social Assistance Program 9197
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural 61500
Employment Guarantee Program
Umbrella Scheme for Development of 6242
Schedule Castes
Umbrella Programme for Development of 4191
Scheduled Tribes
Minorities
Other Vulnerable Groups
Core Schemes
Green Revolution 13320
White Revolution 1805
Blue Revolution 570
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojna (PMKSY) 11127
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) 19500
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) 27500
Jal Jeevan Mission 11500
Swachh Bharat Mission 12294
National Health Mission 34115
National Education Mission 39161
National Programme of Mid-Day Meal in 11000
Schools
Umbrella ICDS 28557
Mission for Protection and Empowerment 1163
for Women
National Livelihood Mission - Ajeevika 10005
Jobs and Skill Development 5372
Environment, Forestry and Wildlife 926
Urban Rejuvenation Mission: AMRUT and 13750
Smart Cities Mission
Modernization of Police Forces 3162
Infrastructure Facilities for Judiciary 762
Border Area Development Programme 784
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission 600
Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA) 858
PMJAY – Ayushman Bharat 6429

Note: In this document, we shall be covering the Government schemes which are related to the
sectors forming a part of the ESI Syllabus. We shall also cover those schemes which might be not
directly linked to the syllabus but stand a chance to appear in the examination.
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.
We shall be covering the schemes grouped into 5 parts:
Part 1- Schemes related to Employment Generation (including social security schemes), Skill
Development, Financial Inclusion and Information Technology (IT)
Part 2- Schemes related to Health and Education
Part 3- Women, Child Development and Social Justice (SC, ST, Senior Citizens, Divyang and Minority)
Part 4- Drinking Water & Sanitation, Urbanization and Poverty Alleviation
Part 5- Schemes launched by different state/UTs in 2019 and 2020

Part 2
1 Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI)

Launch Year: 2020
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Science and Technology
Primary objective - To extend help to academic institutes.
Key Features:
• The DST has already set up 3 such centres in the country, one each at IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi
and BHU.
• It is planned to set up 5 SATHI Centres every year for the next four years.
• These Centres have major analytical instruments and advanced manufacturing facilities to
provide common services of high-end analytical testing, thus avoiding duplication and reduced
dependency on foreign sources.
• It will help in avoiding duplication and reduce dependency on foreign sources.
2 Kartavya Portal
Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development
Key Features:
• The portal was launched as part of year-long ‘Nagrik Kartavya Paalan Abhiyan’ being
observed throughout the country.
• The portal will be used primarily for holding monthly essay competitions for students as well
as other activities including quizzes, poster making, debates pertaining to Nagrik Kartavya
Paalan Abhiyan.
• The Department of Higher Education under HRD Ministry will be holding 11 rounds of National
Essay Competitions during the year.
• The topics of the essay will be based on one Fundamental Duty every month.
3 Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully (SAANS)

Launch Year: 2019
• It has been launched in Gujarat.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Aim:
• to achieve a target of reducing pneumonia deaths among children to less than three per 1000
live births by 2025.
• To mobilise people to protect children from pneumonia, and train health personnel and
other stakeholders to provide prioritised treatment to control the disease.
Key Features:

• Under the campaign, a child suffering from pneumonia can be treated with pre-referral dose
of anti-biotic amoxicillin by ASHA workers.
• Health and Wellness centres can use pulse oximeter (device to monitor oxygen saturation) to
identify low oxygen levels in the blood of a child, and if required, treat him by use of oxygen
cylinders.
• A mass awareness campaign will be launched about the effective solutions for pneumonia
prevention like breastfeeding, age-appropriate complementary feeding and immunization
etc.
4 Shala Darpan Portal

Launch Year: 2019
• It has been launched for Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti
Key Features:
• It is an end to end E-Governance school automation and management system for Navodaya
Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS).
• It has been developed for information sharing and knowledge dissemination for the 22,000
employees and over 2 lakh students across schools and offices of Navodaya Vidyalaya
Samiti.
• The portal will integrate all Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas with a common standard which
includes around 636 schools.
• It has been designed from OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY.
• It will contain information relating to the service record, transfer/posting, disciplinary action,
ACR tracking and the portal will improve mess management and hostel conditions.
5 Arogya Manthan
Launch Year: 2019
• It is a 2-day national workshop organised by National Health Authority (NHA) to mark the first
year anniversary of Ayushman Bharat PMJAY, which was launched on 23rd September 2019.
Aim:
• To provide a platform to meet all important stakeholders of PM-JAY and discuss challenges
faced in the implementation of the scheme in 2018.
• To forge a new understanding and create pathways towards improving implementation.
6 Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme – DHRUV

Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource and Development
Aim: To encourage talented students to realize their full potential and contribute to society.
Components: The programme will cover two areas mainly:

• Science
• Performing Arts
Key Features:
• The programme is named DHRUV after the Pole Star with the same name.
• Every student selected under this programme will be called as ‘Dhruv Tara’.
• Overall 60 students will be selected (30 from each area) from across the country.
• The students will be broadly from classes 9 to 12 from all schools including government and
private.
7 E-Vidyabharti & E-ArogyaBharti

Launch Year: 2019
• It has been launched by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar at the 55th Indian Technical and
Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of External Affairs
Aim: It aims at providing quality tele-education and tele-medicine facility by linking select Indian
Universities, Institutions and Super Specialty Hospitals to African educational institutions and
hospital.
Key Features:
• The e-VidyaBharati (Tele-education) and e-ArogyaBharati (Tele-medicine) Network Project,
will serve as yet another bridge - a digital bridge – between India and Africa.
• This project will enable African students to access premier Indian education through the
comforts of their homes and offer Indian medical expertise to Africa doctors and patients alike.
8 Food Safety Mitra (FSM) Scheme

Launch Year: 2019
• It was launched by Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan on the
occasion of World Food Day (16th October).
Launched By: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
Aim: It aims to support small and medium-scale food businesses so as to comply with the food safety
laws and facilitate them with the licensing and registration process, hygiene ratings and training
programme.
Key Features:
• The Food Safety Mitra (FSM) would undergo training and certification by FSSAI to do their work
and get paid by food businesses for their services.
• Through FSM, FSSAI plans to engage motivated individuals with the food safety ecosystem at
ground level.
• FSSAI has partnered with the Domestic Workers Sector Skill Council (DWSSC) under the
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to launch a training course.
World Food Day
• It is celebrated every year on 16th October worldwide.
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• Theme for 2019 is “Healthy Diets for a Zero Hunger World”.
On the occasion of World Food Day other initiatives were also launched.
• Eat Right Smart Jacket and Eat Right Jhola were also launched to strengthen the food safety
administration and to scale up Eat Right India movement.
• The Eat Right Jacket is a jacket that has a smart design to hold technological devices like
tablets/smartphones, a QR code and a Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag for
identification and tracking, which will be used by the field staff.
• The use of technology would bring in the efficiency, professionalism, and transparency in food
safety administration.
• The Eat Right Jhola is a reusable cloth bag that is expected to replace plastic bags for shopping
purpose in various retail chains.
9 SUMAN (Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan) Scheme

Launch Year: 2019
Aim:
• To provide dignified and quality healthcare at no cost to every woman and newborn visiting a
public health facility.
• To bring down the maternal and infant mortality rates in the nation and to stop all preventable
maternal and newborn deaths.
Eligibility: All pregnant women, all sick newborns and mothers up to 6 months of delivery are eligible
under the scheme.
Key Features:
• Under the scheme, the beneficiaries visiting public health facilities are entitled to several free
services.
• These include at least four ante natal check-ups that also includes one checkup during the 1st
trimester, at least one checkup under Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan, Iron Folic
Acid supplementation, Tetanus diphtheria injection.
• The scheme will enable zero expense access to the identification and management of
complications during and after the pregnancy.
• The government will also provide free transport to pregnant women from home to the health
facility and drop back after discharge (minimum 48 hrs).
• The pregnant women will be able to avail a zero expense delivery and C-section facility in case
of complications at public health facilities.
• The scheme will ensure that there is zero-tolerance for denial of services to such patients.
10 Eat Right India Movement

Launch Year: 2019
Launched By: Food Safety and Standards Authority in India (FSSAI)
Tagline: Sahi Bhojan, Behtar Jeevan

Aim:
• It aims to cut down salt/sugar and oil consumption by 30% in 3 years.
• It also aims to engage and enable citizens to improve their health and well-being by making
the right food choices.
• To improve public health in India and combat negative nutritional trends to fight lifestyle
diseases.
Pillars: It has 3 major pillars –

• Eat Safe
• Eat Health
• Eat Sustainably
Key Features:
• It is the new healthy eating approach which places citizens at the centre of a Health Revolution
through food and fitness.
• FSSAI has prescribed a limit for Total Polar Compounds (TPC) at 25% in cooking oil to avoid the
harmful effects of reused cooking oil.
• FSSAI has trained about 1.7 lakh food safety supervisors for capacity building under the Food
Safety Training and Certification (FoSTaC) initiative. They will sensitize people and food
vendors on food safety.
• This movement is aligned with the government’s flagship public health programmes such as
POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anemia Mukt Bharat, Ayushman Bharat Yojana and Swachh Bharat Mission
as well as the ‘Fit India' Movement', recently launched by PM Modi.
11 National Animal Disease Control Programme

Launch Year: 2019
• It was launched on 11th September from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.
Aim:
• For eradicating the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis in the livestock.
• It aims to control livestock diseases by 2025 and eradicate these by 2030.
• It also aims at vaccinating 36 Million Female Bovine Calves annually in its fight against the
Brucellosis disease.
• It also aims at vaccinating over 500 million livestock including cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats and
pigs against the FMD.
Key Feature:
• The project, which will cost ₹12,652 crores for a period of five years till 2024, will be funded
entirely by the government.
12 Margadarshan and Margdarshak Scheme

Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD)
Selection of Mentee Institutes:

• In the 1st phase, institutes having student enrolment of 70% or more and willing to get
mentoring through AICTE’s Margadarshaks but are not yet accredited are
provided Margadarshaks.
• Remaining institutes can be covered in the subsequent phases. Willingness of mentee
institutes is taken.
• However, response giving willingness to be a Mentee institute has been received from 400
institutes only to date.
Key Features:
• Under the initiative, the topmost institutions will mentor institutions that need support for
improving their rankings.
• Under the Margadarshan scheme, highly performing institutions with good accreditation
record are supposed to mentor relatively newer 10 – 12 potential institutions.
• These institutions are also provided funding up to Rs. 50 lakhs per institution over a period of
3 years in instalments for carrying out various activities like training, workshops, conferences
and travel.
• Under the Margdarshak Scheme, mentors/teachers (Margdarshaks) who are serving or
superannuated and willing to devote adequate time to make required visits to these
Institutions are identified.
• These Margdarshaks will regularly visit to the mentee institutions, stay on their campus and
guide them for their improvement in quality so that institutions are able to get accreditation
by the NBA.
13 Ayushman Bharat Pakhwara

• It is celebrated from 15th – 30th September 2019 after the completion of one year of launch of
Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).
• It is a fortnight-long national campaign to enhance awareness around the preventive,
promotive and curative aspects of health care, nutrition, yoga and healthy lifestyle through
Ayushman Bharat and other related initiatives such as Poshan Abhiyaan and Swachhta
Abhiyaan.
14 TB Harega Desh Jeetega Campaign

Launch Year: 2019
Aim: It aims to improve and expand the reach of TB care services across the country by 2022.
Three Pillars:
• Clinical Approach
• Public Health Component
• Active Community Participation
Other Supporting Elements of the Campaign:

• Patient Support
• Private Sector Engagement

• Political and Administrative commitment at all levels
Key Feature:
• Government is committed to ensure all patients, irrespective of where they seek care (private
sector included), receive free-of-cost, high quality TB care.
15 UMMID (Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited

Disorders) Initiative
Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Department of Bio-Technology under Ministry of Science and Technology
Aim:
• To establish NIDAN (National Inherited Diseases Administration) Kendras to provide counselling,
prenatal testing and diagnosis, management, and multidisciplinary care in Government Hospitals
wherein the influx of patients is more,
• To produce skilled clinicians in Human Genetics, and
• To undertake screening of pregnant women and newborn babies for inherited genetic diseases in
hospitals at aspirational districts.
Key Features:
• UMMID initiative will work under the National Health Policy 2017, which aims to shift focus from
“sick care” to wellness.
• UMMID initiative shall work towards achieving wellness by promoting prevention of genetic
diseases.
List of NIDAN Kendras established: Initially 5 NIDAN (National Inherited Diseases Administration)
Kendras have been established for providing clinical care.
• Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), Delhi

• Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur
• Army Hospital Research & Referral, Delhi
• Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata
16 National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) Scheme

Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD)
Implementing Agency: All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Aim: It aims to use Artificial Intelligence to make learning more personalized and customized as per
the requirements of the learner.
Key Features:
• MHRD would act as a facilitator to ensure that the solutions are freely available to a large
number of economically backward students.
• MHRD would create and maintain a National NEAT platform that would provide one-stop
access to these technological solutions.

• NEAT is aimed at taking the concept of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform a step
ahead.
• MHRD proposes to create a National Alliance with such technology developing EdTech
Companies through a PPP (Public Private Partnership) model.
• EdTech companies would be responsible for developing solutions and manage registration of
learners through the NEAT portal.
• They would be free to charge fees as per their policy.
• As their contribution towards the National cause, they would have to offer free coupons to
the extent of 25% of the total registrations for their solution through NEAT portal.
• MHRD would distribute the free coupons for learning to the most socially/economically
backward students.
17 STRIDE Scheme
Launch Year: 2019
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources and Development
Launched by: University Grants Commission (UGC)
Aim: It aims at strengthening research culture and innovation in universities and colleges of the
country.
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.
Thrust Areas Identified for Funding:

1) Philosophy
2) History, Archaeology and Anthropology
3) Psychology, Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences
4) Literature, Linguistics and Digital Humanities
5) Indology, Indian Languages
6) Indian Knowledge Systems
7) Liberal Arts, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies
8) Law
9) Education, Continuing Education, Technology-enabled Education
10) Journalism and Mass Communication
11) Management and Commerce
12) Environment and Sustainable Development
Components: The scheme has three components:

1. To identify young talent and providing research capacity building in diverse disciplines by
mentoring, nurturing and supporting young talents to innovate solutions for local,
regional, national and global problems. This component is open to all disciplines for a grant
up to Rs 1 crore.
2. To enhance problem-solving skills with the help of social innovation and action research to
improve wellbeing of people and contribute to India's developing economy. Collaborations
between universities, government, voluntary organizations, and industries are encouraged
under this scheme. This component is also open to all disciplines for grant up to 50 lakh-1
crore.
3. It involves funding high impact research projects in the field of identified thrust areas in
humanities and human sciences through a national network of eminent scientists from
leading institutions. This component is only open to specific disciplines with a possible
grant of up to Rs 2 lakhs to developing a proposal.
Key Features:
• Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for India's Developing Economy (STRIDE) scheme
will strengthen research culture and innovation in colleges and universities and help students
and faculty to contribute towards India's developing economy with help of collaborative
research.
• The scheme also seeks to fund high impact research projects in Humanities and Social
Sciences.
• To oversee the entire scheme, an advisory committee has been set up by the UGC under the
chairmanship of Professor Bhushan Patwardhan.
18 Model Education Loan Scheme

Launch Year: 2019
Formulated by: Indian Bank Association (IBA)
Aim: It aims at providing financial support from the banking system to deserving/meritorious students
for pursuing higher education in lndia and abroad.
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.
19 Deeksharambh - A Guide to Student Induction Programme

Launch Year: 2019
Aim:
• To help new students adjust and feel comfortable in the new environment.
• Inculcate in them the ethos and culture of the institution
• Help them build bonds with other students and faculty members
• Expose them to a sense of larger purpose and self-exploration.
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.
20 STARS (Scheme for Translational and Advanced Research in Science)

Scheme
Launch Year: 2019.
• The scheme was launched on the occasion of National Science Day (28th February).
Coordinator: Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Aim: To fund science projects
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.
21 Yuva Vigyani Karyakram (YUVIKA)

• This scheme is also known as Young Scientist Programme.
Launch Year: 2019.
• It was launched at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

Launched by: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Aim: Program is primarily aimed at imparting basic knowledge on Space Technology, Space Science
and Space Applications to the younger ones with the intent of arousing their interest in the emerging
areas of Space activities.
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.
Training Centres: It will be conducted across 4 centres of ISRO:

• Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad
• North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC), Shillong
• Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram
• U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Bengaluru
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.
22 UNNATI (Unispace Nanosatellite Assembly & Training Programme)

Launch Year: 2019
• The programme was launched at the U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.
• The programme was launched following an announcement made by ISRO Chairman K Sivan
during a symposium in Vienna on June 18, 2018.
Launched by: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
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.
23 Jan Jagrukta Abhiyan

Launch Year: 2019
Aim:
• The aim of this special campaign is to sensitize and mobilize the community on measures for
prevention and control of Vector Borne Diseases (VBDs) like Malaria, Dengue and Chikungunya.
• This 3-day campaign is aimed at making the community a partner for checking vector/mosquito
breeding across Delhi.
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.
24 Paramarsh Scheme
Launch Year: 2019
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.
Key Features:
• Paramarsh scheme has been launched for Mentoring National Accreditation and Assessment
Council (NAAC) Accreditation Aspirant Institutions to promote Quality Assurance in Higher
Education.
• Under the scheme, it is expected that all Higher Education Institutions shall get National
Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) accreditation with a minimum score of 2.5
by 2022.
• The Scheme will be operationalized through a “Hub & Spoke” model wherein the Mentor
Institution, called the “Hub” is centralized and will have the responsibility of guiding the
Mentee institution through the secondary branches the “Spoke” through the services provided
to the mentee for self-improvement.
• The scheme will lead to enhancement of overall quality of the Mentee Institutions and
enhance its profile as a result of improved quality of research, teaching and learning
methodologies.
• The scheme will also facilitate sharing of knowledge, information and opportunities for
research collaboration and faculty development in Mentee Institutions.
25 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.
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.
26 NISHTHA Scheme
Launch Year: 2019
Aim: To train over 42 lakh teachers across the country
What is it?
• It is the world's biggest project for teacher training called NISHTHA (National Initiative on
School Teachers Head Holistic Advancement).
• It is an initiative to build capacities of teachers and school principals at the elementary stage.
• The initiative is an Integrated Teacher Training Programme of the Department of School
Education and Literacy, Ministry of HRD as part of its National Mission to improve learning
outcomes at the Elementary level under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha
during 2019-20.
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.
27 Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP)

Launch Year: 2019
Vision: It is an ambitious five-year vision plan to transform the higher education sector in the country.
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
9. Internationalization
10. Financing higher education
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.
28 National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF)

Launch Year: 2015
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.

NIRF Rankings 2019:
• Indian Institute of Madras (IIT Madras) has topped the list in ‘overall category’.
• 7 IITs are among the first ten position holders whereas JNU, Delhi has secured the seventh rank.
• Seven Institutes from Karnataka have made it to the top 100.
Category Institute
Overall Category Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
Universities Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
Management Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
Medical All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
Colleges Miranda House, New Delhi
Law Universities National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
Architecture Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
Pharmacy Jamia Hamdard, Delhi
29 Ayushman Bharat (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana)

Launch Year: Ayushman Bharat Yojana which has now been renamed as Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya
Yojana (PMJAY) was launched by PM Narendra Modi on 23 September 2018 to cover about 50 crore
citizens in India.
Aim: To fulfil the vision of Health for All and Universal Health Coverage, enshrined in the National
Health Policy 2017.
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.
Eligibility Criteria under PMJAY

For Rural Areas:
• Families living in only one room with kachcha walls and kachcha roof
• Families with no adult members aged between 16 and 59
• Female-headed family with no adult male member in the 16-59 age group
• Families having at least one disabled member and no able-bodied adult member

• SC/ST households
• Landless households deriving a major part of their income from manual casual labour
• Destitutes and those surviving on alms
• Manual scavenger families
• Tribal groups
• Legally-released bonded labourers
For Urban Areas:

The following 11 occupational categories of workers are included in the list by the government:
• Ragpicker
• Beggar
• Domestic worker
• Street vendor/cobbler/hawker/ other service providers working on the streets
• Construction worker/ plumber/ mason/ labour/ painter/ welder/ security guard/ coolie and other
head-load workers
• Sweeper/ sanitation worker/ gardener
• Home-based worker/ artisan/ handicrafts worker / tailor
• Transport worker/ driver/ conductor/ helper to drivers and conductors/ cart-puller/ rickshaw
puller
• Shop worker/ assistant/ peon in small establishment/ helper/ delivery assistant / attendant/
waiter
• Electrician/ mechanic/ assembler/ repair worker
• Washerman / chowkidar
Components of PMJAY
The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) consists of two components.
1) National Health Protection Scheme:

• This component will cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore
beneficiaries) providing coverage up to 5 lakh rupees per family per year for secondary and
tertiary care hospitalization.
• Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country and a beneficiary covered under the
scheme will be allowed to take cashless benefits from any public or private empanelled hospitals
across the country.
• It will be an entitlement based scheme with entitlement decided on the basis of deprivation
criteria in the SECC database.
• One of the core principles of National Health Protection Mission is to provide co-operative
federalism and flexibility to states.
• For giving policy directions and fostering coordination between Centre and States, it is proposed
to set up Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission Council (AB-NHPMC) at apex level
Chaired by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister. States would need to have State Health
Agency (SHA) to implement the scheme.

2) Health and Wellness Centres
• It is the second component under Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY).
• Under this, 1.5 lakh centres will be setup to provide comprehensive health care, including for
non-communicable diseases and maternal and child health services, apart from free essential
drugs and diagnostic services.
• These centers will provide Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC), covering both maternal
and child health services and non-communicable diseases, including free essential drugs and
diagnostic services.
• The first Health and Wellness Centre was launched by the Prime Minister at Jangla, Bijapur,
Chhattisgarh on 14th April 2018.
Pradhan Mantri Arogya Mitra (PMAM)

Launch Year: 2018
Key Features:
• Arogya Mitras are cadre of certified frontline health service professionals being created under
Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY).
• They will be the primary point of facilitation for beneficiaries to avail treatment at the hospital
and thus, act as a support system to streamline health service delivery.
• Arogya Mitras training is being conducted in collaboration with National Skill Development
Corporation (NSDC) and Ministry of Skill Development to strengthen implementation and
operational preparedness.
National Health Authority (NHA)

What is it?
• National Health Agency is an autonomous entity established as a Society on 11th May 2018
under the Society Registration Act, 1860.
• The status of NHA was upgraded to National Health Authority in Jan 2019 as an attached office
of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with full functional autonomy.
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.
30 AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research) Scheme

Launch Year: 2018
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Science & Technology
Coordination Agency: Vigyan Prasar

Aim/Purpose: To disseminate Indian research stories among the masses in an easy to understand and
interesting format to a common man.
Objectives:
• Encourage youth pursuing higher studies to submit at least one story/article based on their
research work.
• 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.
31 National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme

Launch: On the occasion of the World Hepatitis Day, 28th July 2018
Aims:
• Combat hepatitis and achieve country wide elimination of Hepatitis C by 2030.
• Achieve significant reduction in the infected population, morbidity and mortality associated
with Hepatitis B and C viz. Cirrhosis and Hepato-cellular carcinoma (liver cancer).
• Reduce the risk, morbidity and mortality due to Hepatitis A and E.
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.
32 LaQshya Programme
Launch Year: 2018
Aim: Reduce preventable maternal and newborn mortality, morbidity and stillbirths associated with
the care around delivery in Labour room and Maternity OT and ensure respectful maternity care.
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.
Process and Mechanism:

• Reorganizing/aligning Labour room & Maternity Operation Theatre layout and workflow as per
‘Labour Room Standardization Guidelines’ and ‘Maternal & Newborn Health Toolkit’ issued by
the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.
• Ensuring that at least all government medical college hospitals and high caseload district
hospitals have dedicated obstetric units for managing complicated pregnancies that require life-
saving critical care.
• Ensuring strict adherence to clinical protocols for management and stabilization of the
complications before referral to higher centres
33 Nikshay Poshan Yojana

Launch Year: 2018
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
34 National Deworming Initiative

Launch Year: 2018
Aim: To deworm all preschool and school-age children (enrolled and non-enrolled) between the ages
of 1-19 years through the platform of schools and Anganwadi Centers in order to improve their overall
health, nutritional status, access to education and quality of life.
• The programme is being implemented through the combined efforts of Department of School
Education and Literacy under Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Ministry of
Women and Child Development and Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
35 Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan

Launch Year: Government has launched an Integrated Scheme for School Education – Samagra
Shiksha from 2018.
It subsumes the three erstwhile centrally sponsored schemes:
• Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
• Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
• Teacher Education (TE)
Nodal ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Aim: It is aimed at ensuring the following across all levels of school education:
• Universal access and retention.
• Bridging of gender and social category gaps.
• Enhancing the learning levels of children.
Objectives: The major objectives of the Scheme are:

• Provision of quality education and enhancing learning outcomes of students
• Bridging Social and Gender Gaps in School Education
• Ensuring equity and inclusion at all levels of school education
• Ensuring minimum standards in schooling provisions
• Promoting Vocationalisation of education
• Support States in implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE)
Act, 2009
• Strengthening and up-gradation of SCERTs/State Institutes of Education and DIET as a nodal
agencies for teacher training
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.

36 Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Launch Year: 2001
Aim: It is aimed at ensuring the following in elementary education:
• Universal access and retention.
• Bridging of gender and social category gaps.
• Enhancing the learning levels of children.
• Children between the age of 6-14 years.
Initiatives under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
36..1 Padhe Bharat Badhe Bharat

Launch Year: 2014
Aim: The programme aims at making children keen and self-sufficient readers and writers. It also
enables them to possess comprehension skills that last for a lifetime.
Target Beneficiary:
• Ensure that students of classes I & II are able to read with comprehension as well as basic
numeracy skills
36..2 Shagun Portal

Launch Year: 2017
Developed by: It was developed by World Bank in collaboration with Union Ministry of Human
Resource Development.
Aim: It aims to capture and showcase innovations and progress in Elementary Education sector of
India by continuous monitoring of the flagship scheme - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
Twin Track Approach

• Repository with an engaging interface that focuses on positive stories and developments in the
field of School Education. Best practices will be documented in the form of videos, testimonials,
case studies, and images.
• Online monitoring module to measure state-level performance and progress against key
educational indicators. Track the efficiency with which SSA funds are being utilized and results
are being delivered
36..3 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalya Scheme

Launch Year: 2004
Aim: to ensure that quality education is feasible and accessible to the girls of disadvantaged groups
of society by setting up residential schools with boarding facilities at elementary level.

Note: The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme was merged with Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in the
XIth Plan with effect from 2008.
36..4 Vidyanjali
Launch Year: 2016
Aim: To boost community and private sector participation in government schools and to strengthen
implementation of co-scholastic activities through the services of volunteers.
Key Features:
• Volunteers under the programme will offer their services to Government schools through an
online portal developed by MyGov.in.
• The Vidyanjali programme is voluntary in nature and States/UTs that are willing may join the
programme.
36..5 Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan

Launch Year: 2015
Aim: To inculcate a spirit of inquiry, creativity and love for Science and Mathematics in school
children.
Target: Students in the age-group of 6-18 years.
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.
37 Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan

Launch Year: 2009
Aim: To enhance access to secondary education and to improve its quality.
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.

Initiatives under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
37..1 Shaala Siddhi (National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation

Framework)
Launch Year: 2009
Developed by: National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA)
Aim: To enable schools to evaluate their performance in a more focused and strategic manner
What is it?
It is a web portal which serves as a comprehensive instrument for school evaluation leading to
school improvement.
37..2 Shaala Darpan

Launch Year: 2015
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.
37..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.
37..4 Kala Utsav

Launch Year: 2015
Objective: To promote Arts (Music, Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts and Crafts) in education by nurturing
and showcasing the artistic talent of school students at secondary stage in the country in an inclusive
environment.
38 Teacher Education Scheme

Launch Year:
• A Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Restructuring and Reorganization of Teacher Education that
was launched in 1987.
• The Central Government entrusted the National Council for Educational Research & Training
(NCERT) to evaluate the Teacher Education Scheme. As a result, Teacher Education Scheme was
revised under 10th Five Year Plan.

Aim: The aim of this scheme was to create a sound institutional infrastructure for pre-service and in-
service training of elementary and secondary school teachers and for provision of academic resource
support to elementary and secondary schools.
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).
• Strengthening of State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs).
39 Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC)

Launch Year: 2018
Implementing Agency: IIT Kharagpur has been designated as the national coordinating institute to
implement the SPARC programme
Aim: It aims at improving the research ecosystem of India’s higher educational institutions
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.
Process and Mechanism

• Indian institutions will be selected from overall top-100 or category-wise top-100 in NIRF
including such Private Institutions which are recognized under 12(B) of UGC Act).
• Foreign institutions will be selected from top-500 overall and top-200 subject-wise institutions
listed in QS World University Ranking from 28 selected nations.
40 IMPRESS (Impactful Policy Research in Social Science)

Launch Year: 2018
Implementing Agency: Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR)
Aims
• To encourage social science research in policy relevant areas.
• To provide vital inputs in policy-formulation, implementation and evaluation.
• To understand and solve problems facing the society.
• To achieve this objective 1500 research projects will be awarded for 2 years.
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.
41 Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship

Launch Year: 2018
Aim: It is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to doctoral (Ph.D.) programmes of Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) and Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs) for carrying out research in cutting edge Science and Technology
domains, with focus on national priorities.
Duration: It will be implemented for 7 years beginning from 2018.
Eligibility: The applicants for the PMRF should:

• Have completed or be pursuing the final year of four (or five) year undergraduate or five year
integrated M.Tech or five year integrated M.Sc. or five year undergraduate-postgraduate dual
degree programs in Science and Technology streams from IIEST/IISc/IITs/NITs/IISERs and
centrally funded IIITs.
• Have secured at least CGPA/CPI of 8.0 (in scale of 10.0). For applicants in five year integrated or
dual degree programs if separate CGPAs/CPIs are awarded for UG and PG parts of the program
then the CGPA/CPI of UG part (first four year) will be considered.
• Have completed the required academic qualification in the last 5 years.
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.
42 RISE (Revitalising Infrastructure and Education Systems in Education)

Launch Year: 2018
Aim: Lend low-cost funds to government higher educational institutions to expand and build new
infrastructure.
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.
Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA)

• It is a joint venture of Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and Canara Bank
with an agreed equity participation in the ratio of 91% and 9% respectively.
• It was set up by as a Section 8 company under the Companies Act, 2013 in 2017.
• It was set up to finance creation of capital assets in premier government educational
institutions in India.
• Aim is to mobilize Rs. 1 lakh crore to fund research and academic infrastructure in higher
educational institutions by 2022.
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.
43 National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

Launch Year: 2018
• It is a project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the aegis of National
Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT).
Developed by: IIT Kharagpur
Aim: To make digital educational resources available to all citizens of the country to empower, inspire
and encourage learning
Key Features:
• It is a single window platform that collects and collates data from premier learning
institutions in India and abroad, as well as other relevant sources.
• It is a digital repository containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures,
simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media.
• 24x7 ubiquitous knowledge resource that is accessible to anyone with internet access.
NDLI Mobile App

• It enables access to rich digital content of libraries across the country and foreign repositories
to users even in the remotest of areas.
• The app is currently available for both iPhone and Android users.
• At present the app is available in three languages – English, Hindi and Bengali.

44 ARPIT (Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching)
Launch Year: 2018
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.
• 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.
45 Leadership for Academicians Programme

Launch Year: 2018
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.
46 National Health Resource Repository (NHRR)

Launch Year: 2018
Aim: To strengthen evidence-based decision making and develop platform for citizen and provider-
centric services by creating robust, standardized and secured IT-enabled repository of India’s
healthcare resources.
Key Features:
• NHRR is the first ever healthcare establishment census (registry) in the country to collect data
of all public and private healthcare.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the project technology partner for providing
data security.
• For this census, Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) has been actively engaging with
key stakeholders including leading associations, allied ministries and several private healthcare
service providers.
47 TARE (Teacher Associates for Research Excellence) Scheme

Launch Year: 2018
Aim:
• It aims to tap latent potential of faculty working in state universities, colleges and private
academic institutions who are well trained but having difficulty in pursuing their research due
to varied reasons including lack of facilities, funding and guidance.
• It also aims to facilitate mobility of faculty members working in State Universities / Colleges
and in private Academic Institutions to carry out research work in an established publicly
funded institution such as IITs, IISc, IISERS, National Institutions and Central Universities.
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.

48 Study in India Programme
Launch Year: 2018
Coordinator: Educational Consultants of India (EdCIL), a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under
the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
Aim: It is aimed at facilitating internationalization of higher education in India. The programme

focuses on international students from select 30 countries across South-East Asia, Middle East and
Africa for a period of two years i.e. for the academic years 2018-19 and 2019-20.
Objectives:
• To improve the soft power of India with focus on the neighbouring countries and use it as a
tool in diplomacy.
• To boost the number of inbound international students in India.
• To double India’s market share of global education exports from less than 1 percent to 2
percent.
• Increase in contribution of international student in the form of direct spends, indirect spends,
spillover effects.
• Improvement in overall quality of higher education.
• Increase in global ranking of India as educational destination.
• To reduce the export – import imbalance in the number of International students.
• Growth of India’s global market share of International students.
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.
49 SWAYAM Platform
Launch Year: 2017
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.
• All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available,
free of cost to the residents in India.
• It covers diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences
and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture etc.
• It shall also cover skill based courses as well as industrial skills certified by the sector skill
councils.
50 National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN ABHIYAAN)

Launch Year: National Nutrition Mission set up in 2017. It was renamed as Poshan Abhiyan and
launched by PM on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 8th March, 2018 from
Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development
Aim: To improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
Vision: To address malnutrition with a targeted approach by 2022.

Coverage of the scheme:
• More than 10 crore people will be benefitted by this programme.
• All the States and districts will be covered in a phased manner i.e. 315 districts in 2017-18, 235
districts in 2018-19 and remaining districts in 2019-20.
4 Point Strategy/Pillars of the Mission

• Inter-sectoral convergence for better service delivery
• Use of technology (ICT) for real time growth monitoring and tracking of women and children
• Intensified health and nutrition services for the first 1000 days
• Jan Andolan
Implementation strategy and targets:

• POSHAN Abhiyaan aims to ensure service delivery and interventions by use of technology,
behavioural change through convergence and lays-down specific targets to be achieved across
different monitoring parameters over the next few years
• To ensure a holistic approach, all 36 States/UTs and 718 districts will be covered in a phased
manner by the year 2020. Never before has nutrition been given such prominence at the highest
level in the country.
• NNM has been rolled out in three phases from 2017-18 to 2019-20.
• NNM targets to reduce stunting, under-nutrition, anemia (among young children, women and
adolescent girls) and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.

• Although the target to reduce Stunting is atleast 2% p.a., Mission would strive to achieve
reduction in Stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022 (Mission 25 by 2022).
Rashtriya Poshan Maah

• The entire month of September 2019 will be celebrated as Rashtriya Poshan Abhiyan.
• Theme for 2019: Complementary Feeding
'Bharatiya Poshan Anthem'

• Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has launched the "Bharatiya Poshan Anthem" , which aims
at taking the message of making India malnutrition free to all corners of the country.
• The anthem was conceptualised by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
• It has been written by noted lyricist Prasoon Joshi and sung by Shankar Mahadevan.
51 Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana

• This scheme was originally known as Indra Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana which was launched
in 2010.
• In 2014, the scheme was renamed as Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana (PMMVY).
• Further, in 2017 the scheme was restructured as Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana with
some modification.
• From 01.01.2017, the Maternity Benefit Programme would be implemented in all the districts of
the country in accordance with the provision of the National Food Security Act, 2013.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objectives:
• Providing partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of cash incentives so that the woman
can take adequate rest before and after delivery of the first living child.
• The cash incentive provided would lead to improved health seeking behaviour amongst the
Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PW&LM).
• 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.
Conditionalities and Instalments:

• PW&LM shall receive a cash benefit of 5000/- in three instalments at the following stages as
specified in the table given below:
• The eligible beneficiaries would receive the remaining cash incentive as per approved norms
towards the Maternity Benefit under Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) after institutional delivery so
that on an average, a woman will get 6000/-.
52 Diksha (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) Portal

Launch Year: 2017
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.
53 UDAAN-Giving Wings to Girl Students

Launch Year: 2017
Launched by: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
Aim: The aim is to lessen the gap between school education and Engineering Entrance Examination.
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.
54 National Strategic Plan (2017-24)

Launch Year: 2017
Developed by: National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)
Aim: An AIDS Free India
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:
• Achieving zero new infections, zero AIDS-related deaths and zero AIDS related stigma &
discrimination
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

• 90-90-90 Strategy: 90% of those who are HIV positive in the country know their status, 90% of
those who know their status are on treatment and 90% of those who are on treatment
experience effective viral load suppression
• It has to be achieved by 2020

Mission Sampark
Launch Year: 2017
Implemented by: National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO)
Aim/Objective: It has been launched to trace those who are left to follow up and need to be
brought under Antiretroviral (ART) services.
Project Sunrise
Launch Year: 2016. It was launched for prevention of AIDS specially among people injecting drugs
in the 8 North-Eastern states.
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.
55 National Testing Agency (NTA)

Launch Year: 2017
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.
Composition of NTA
• NTA will be chaired by an eminent educationist appointed by MHRD.
• The CEO will be the Director General to be appointed by the Government.
• There will be a Board of Governors comprising members from user institutions.
• The Director General will be assisted by 9 verticals headed by academicians/ experts.
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.
56 Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital (SATH) Programme

Launch Year: 2017
Launched by: NITI Aayog
Aim: It aims to identify and build three future ‘role model’ states for health systems.
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.
• Progress of the project is being monitored through a National Steering Group (NSG) and
Central Project Monitoring Unit (CPMU) at national level and State Project Monitoring Unit
(SPMU) at State level.
57 Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhayay Vigyan Gram Sankul Pariyojana

Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Science & Technology
Aim/Objective: Formulating and Implementing appropriate Science and Technology (S&T)
interventions for sustainable development through cluster approach in Uttarakhand.
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.

58 Deen Dayal SPARSH (Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude & Research in
Stamps as a Hobby) Yojana
Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Communications
Objective: Promote Philately among children at a young age in a sustainable manner that can
reinforce and supplement the academic curriculum in addition to providing a hobby that can help
them relax and de-stress.
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.
59 PMGDISHA (Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan)

Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Aim: To make 6 crore rural households digitally literate by March 2019
Eligibility:
• The Scheme is applicable only for rural areas of the country.
• All such households where none of the family member is digitally literate will be considered as
eligible household under the Scheme.
• Only one person per eligible household would be considered for training
• Age Group: 14 - 60 years
Priority would be given to

• Non-smartphone users, Antyodaya households, college drop-outs, Participants of the adult
literacy mission
• Digitally illiterate school students from class 9th to 12th, provided facility of Computer/ICT
Training is not available in their schools
• Preference would be given to SC, ST, BPL, women, differently-abled persons and minorities.
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.
60 SAMEEP (Students and MEA Engagement Programme)

Launch Year: 2017
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of External Affairs
Aim: to take Indian foreign policy and its global engagements to students across the country
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.
61 Mission Parivar Vikas

Launch Year: 2016
Aim: To accelerate access to high quality family planning choices based on information, reliable
services and supplies within a rights-based framework.
Target:
• Focus on 7 States with highest Total Fertility Rate (TFR), to reach the replacement level fertility
goals of 2.1 by 2025.
• 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.
62 Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan

Launch Year: 2016
Aim: To improve the quality and coverage of Antenatal Care (ANC) including diagnostics and
counselling services as part of the Reproductive Maternal Neonatal Child and Adolescent Health
(RMNCH+A) Strategy.
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.
63 Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat

Launch Year: 2016
Aim:
• To promote engagement amongst the people of State/ UTs in the country so as to enhance
mutual understanding and bonding between people of diverse cultures, thereby securing
stronger unity & integrity of India.
• To foster national integration by a co‐ordinated mutual engagement process between States,
Union Territories, Central Ministries, Educational Institutions and general public through
linguistic, literary, cultural, sports, tourism and other forms of people‐to‐people exchanges.
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.

64 Mission Madhumeha
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.
65 E-RaktKosh Initiative
Launch Year: 2016
Objectives: Some of the broad objectives are:

• Availability of safe and adequate blood supplies
• Augmenting voluntary blood donation
• Real time blood stock availability
• Preventing wastage of blood
Key Features
• It is an integrated Blood Bank Management Information System that has been conceptualized
and developed after multiple consultations with all stakeholders.
• This web-based mechanism interconnects all the Blood Banks of the State into a single
network.
66 Mera Aspatal/My Hospital Initiative

Launch Year: 2016
Aim: Capture patient feedback on the services received from both public and empanelled private
health facilities

• It works through multiple communication channels, including Short Message Service (SMS), a
mobile application, and a web portal.
• The application allows feedback to be consolidated, analysed and disseminated on a frequently
updated dashboard.
• Analysed data will be used to improve quality of services in healthcare facilities.
• My Hospital aligns with the citizen-centric MyGov platform of GOI which allows patients to
connect with the healthcare providers and policymakers and to have their opinion heard and
acted upon.

67 Kilkari Initiative
Launch Year: 2016
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.

• The service covers the critical time period–where the most maternal/infant deaths occur from
the 4th month of pregnancy until the child is one year old.
• Families which subscribe to the service receive one pre-recorded system generated call per week.
• Each call will be 2 minutes in length and serve as reminders for what the family should be doing
that week depending on woman’s stage of pregnancy or the child’s age.
• Kilkari services will be available to states in regional dialect too.
68 Mobile Academy Initiative

Launch Year: 2016
What is it?
It is an anytime, anywhere audio training course on interpersonal communication skills that the ASHA
can access from her mobile phone.
Features:
• It gives ASHAs tips on how to convince families to adopt priority RMNCH behaviors, while
refreshing her existing knowledge.
• The course is 240 minutes long and consists of 11 chapters with 4 lessons each.
• The ANM/ASHAs who pass the course will be provided with a certificate.
69 M-Cessation initiative
Launch Year: 2016
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.
70 Mothers Absolute Affection

Launch Year: 2016

Aim: To ensure that mothers, husbands and families receive adequate information and support for
promotion of breastfeeding.
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.
71 Prashikshak Portal
Launch Year: 2016
• 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.
Objectives
• Define quality benchmarks and help DIETs to make informed decisions about their institutes.
• Compare the performance of their institute against other DIETs in the state/country.
• Help aspiring teachers in informed decision making.
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.
72 Shala Ashmita Yojana

Launch Year: 2016
Aim: It aims to track the educational journey of school students (all government and private schools)
from Class I to Class XII across the 15 lakhs private and government schools in the country.

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.
73 Uchchatar Avishkar Abhiyan

Launch Year: 2016
Coordinator: IIT Madras
Aim: It is aimed at promoting industry-specific need-based research so as to keep up the
competitiveness of the Indian industry in the global market.
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.
Key Features:
• At least 25% of the project cost should be committed by the industry/industries prior to the
project being considered.
74 SWAYAM Prabha
Launch Year: 2016
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.
75 Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme

Launch Year: It was announced by Finance Minister in the budget speech of 2016.
• The scheme of IoE was rolled out by University Grants Commission (UGC).
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.
Key Features:
• Selected institutions shall be provided with greater autonomy:
✓ To admit foreign students up to 30% of admitted students.
✓ To recruit foreign faculty up to 25% of faculty strength.
✓ To offer online courses up to 20% of its programmes.
✓ To enter into academic collaboration with top 500 in the world ranking institutions without
permission of UGC.
✓ Free to fix and charge fees from foreign students without restriction.
✓ Flexibility of course structure in terms of number of credit hours and years to take a degree.
✓ Complete flexibility in fixing of curriculum and syllabus.
• Each selected public institution will get financial assistance up to Rs. 1000 Crore over the period
of five years under this scheme.
• Till now, 20 higher education (10 public and 10 private) institution has been nominated by
University Grants Commission (UGC).
• These nominations are based on the recommendations of Empowered Expert Committee
(EEC) headed by N Gopalaswami.

• This Empowered Expert Committee was constituted by University Grants Commission
(UGC). The committee had been entrusted to conduct the appraisal of applications for
shortlisting 20 Institutions of Eminence (10 public and 10 private institutions).
76 National Academic Depository

Launch Year: 2016
Operationalized by: NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML) and CDSL Ventures Limited (CVL) -
two of the wholly owned subsidiaries of the Depositories registered under Securities Exchange Board
of India (SEBI) Act, 1992.
Key Features: National Academic Depository will –

• Operate in fully online mode
• Allow lodging of Academic awards in a digital format, maintaining the integrity of access to the
database and of the awards lodged in the database.
• Allow students to retrieve their lodged academic awards at any time.
• Allow employers and other person with prior approval of the concerned student to verify the
authenticity of any academic award.
• Maintain the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the database.
77 Vittiya Saksharata Abhiyan (VISAKA)

Launch Year: 2016
Aim: To actively engage the youth/ students of Higher Education Institutions to encourage and
motivate all payers and payees to use a digitally enabled cashless economic system for transfer of
funds.
78 SARAANSH
Launch Year: 2015
• It is an initiative of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
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.
Beneficiaries: Students under CBSE schools in class IX, X, XI or XII.
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.
79 GIAN (Global Initiative of Academic Networks)

Launch Year: 2015
Aim: It is aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs to engage with the institutes
of higher education in India to augment the country’s existing academic resources, accelerate the
pace of quality reforms, and further strengthen India’s scientific and technological capabilities.
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.
80 Sugam Portal
Launch Year: 2015
What is it?
• It is a portal for implementation of e-governance at Central Drug Standard Control Organization
(CDSCO) to bring about simplicity, transparency, reliability, accountability and simplify ease of
business.
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.
81 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.
• eBasta is also beneficial for the publishers. It will be easier for them to penetrate into schools
and students in every nook and corner of India and sell books in the digital format. All they
need to do is register on to the eBasta portal.
82 Vidya Lakshmi Portal Education Loan Scheme

Launch Year: 2015
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Finance
Developed by: NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited in collaboration with the Department of
Financial Services, Department of Higher Education, Indian Banks Association and the Ministry of
Human Resource Development.
Aim: To provide easy and effective system to for students regarding educational loans.
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.
83 AMRIT (Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment)

Programme
Launch Year: 2015
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Implementing Agency: HLL Lifecare Ltd
Aim: To reduce the expenditure incurred by patients on treatment of cancer and heart diseases
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.
84 Swasthya Raksha Programme

Launch Year: 2015
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of AYUSH
Implementing Agencies:
• The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS)
• The Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM)
• The Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH)
• The Central Council for Research in Siddha (CCRS)
Aim: To promote health and health education in rural villages.
Budget Allocation:
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.
85 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Yojana (PMBJY)

Launch Year: 2015
Nodal Ministry: Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Implementing Agency: Bureau of Pharma Public Sector Undertakings of India

Aim: To bring down the healthcare budget of every citizen of India by providing Quality generic
Medicines at Affordable Prices through special Kendra’s known as Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan
Aushadhi Kendra.
Target: Product basket to contain 800 Drugs and 154 surgical items by March 2019 and to include
stents and replacements.
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.
Monitoring of the scheme:

• Progress of implementation of the project and the target achieved shall be monitored by the
steering committee comprising members of BPPI.
86 Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (e-VIN)

Launch Year: 2015
Aims:
• To support the Government of India’s Universal Immunization Programme by providing real-
time information on vaccine stocks and flows, and storage temperatures across all cold chain
points in these states.
• To strengthen the evidence base for improved policy-making in vaccine delivery, procurement
and planning for new antigens in India.
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.
87 National Health Portal

Launch Year: 2014

Developed by: The National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW) has established Centre
for Health Informatics to be the Secretariat for managing the activities of the National Health Portal.
Aim: To create a single point access for authentic health information for citizens, students,
healthcare professionals and researchers.
Goal: Gateway to authentic health information for all.

Mission: The National Health Portal will achieve the above vision by collecting, verifying and
disseminating health and health care delivery services related information for all citizens of India.
88 Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Training

(PMMMNMTT)
Launch year: 2014
Aim:
• To provide quality teachers in schools and colleges, attract talented people in the education
sector and improve quality in teaching.
• To set the teaching standard so that an organized cadre of professional teachers can be created.
Objective: The objective of this mission is to develop innovative teaching method and high level
institutional facilities in all the constituent areas of education.
Components of the mission

• Schools of Education in Central, State and Deemed Universities (SoE)
• Centres of Excellence for Curriculum and Pedagogy
1. Centres of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education (CESME)
2. Teaching Learning Centres (TLC)
3. Faculty Development Centres (FDC)
• Inter-University Centre for Teachers Education (IUCTE)
• National Resource Centre for Education (NRCE) (ARPIT)
• Centres of Academic Leadership and Education Management (CALEM)
• Innovations, Awards, and Teaching Resource Grant, including workshops and seminars (IATRG)
• Subject Networks for Curricular Renewal and Reforms (SBN)
• Leadership Development for senior functionaries in higher education institutions
• Induction training of newly recruited faculty
• National Resource Center
• Leadership for Academicians Programme (LEAP)
89 National Ayush Mission (NAM)

Launch year: 2014
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Ayush
Vision:
• To provide cost effective and equitable AYUSH health care throughout the country by improving
access to the services.
• To revitalize and strengthen the AYUSH systems making them as prominent medical streams in
addressing the health care of the society.
• To improve educational institutions capable of imparting quality AYUSH education
• To promote the adoption of Quality standards of AYUSH drugs and making available the
sustained supply of AYUSH raw-materials.
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).
• To strengthen institutional capacity at the state level through upgrading AYUSH educational
institutions, State Govt. ASU&H Pharmacies, Drug Testing Laboratories and ASU & H
enforcement mechanism.
• Support cultivation of medicinal plants by adopting Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) so as to
provide sustained supply of quality raw-materials and support certification mechanism for
quality standards, Good Agricultural/Collection/Storage Practices.
• Support setting up of clusters through convergence of cultivation, warehousing, value addition
and marketing and development of infrastructure for entrepreneurs.
Features of the scheme:

• The National AYUSH Mission intends to build on India’s unmatched heritage represented by its
ancient systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Sidhha, Unani & Homeopathy (ASU&H) which are
a treasure house of knowledge for preventive and promotive healthcare.
• The positive features of the Indian systems of medicine namely their diversity and flexibility;
accessibility; affordability, a broad acceptance by a large section of the general public;
comparatively lesser cost and growing economic value, have great potential to make them
providers of healthcare that the large sections of our people need.
90 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:
• Injectable Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV): Participating in Global polio Endgame strategy,
government introduced Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) in addition to oral polio drops in regular
immunization in last quarter of 2015.
• Rubella vaccine: To be initiated as Measles Rubella (MR) campaign targeting 9 months to 15
years of age in a phased manner over a period of three years.
• Rota virus vaccine: To be given under UIP as a 3 dose vaccine along with DPT 1st, 2nd and 3rd
dose in a phased manner in few states as per NTAGI recommendation and vaccine availability.
Subsequently, the vaccine will be scaled up in the entire country.
• Adult Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine: to be used in identified affected areas.
Intensified Mission Indradhanush
• To further intensify the immunization programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched
the Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) on October 8, 2017.
• It will focus on improving immunization coverage in select districts and cities to ensure full
immunization to more than 90% by December 2018.
91 ISHAN VIKAS Scheme

Launch Year: 2014
Coordinator: IIT Guwahati
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.
92 ISHAN UDAY Scheme

Launch Year: 2014
Administered by: University Grants Commission (UGC)
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.
93 UNNAT Bharat Abhiyan

Launch Year: 2014
Coordinating Institute: IIT-Delhi is the coordinating institute for the participating institutes at the
national level
Aim
• To connect institutions of higher education, including Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs),
National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research
(IISERs) etc. with local communities to address the development challenges through
appropriate technologies.
• Transformational change in rural development processes by leveraging knowledge institutions
to help build the architecture of an inclusive India.
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.
94 Padho Pardesh Scheme (Scheme of Interest Subsidy on Educational Loans for

Overseas Studies for the Students belonging to the Minority Communities)
Launch Year: 2013-14
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Minority Affairs

Aim/Purpose: To award interest subsidy to meritorious students belonging to economically weaker
sections of notified minority communities so as to provide them better opportunities for higher
education abroad and enhance their employability.
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).
• Students can take Educational Loan from any Private Bank, Public Sector Bank, Scheduled
Commercial Bank and Co-operative Banks etc. which is a member of 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.
95 Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)

Launch Year: 2013
Aim: It aims at providing strategic funding to eligible state higher educational institutions.
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.
• Faculty recruitment support, faculty improvements programmes and leadership development of
educational administrators are also an important part of the scheme.
• During the second phase (2017-20) of RUSA, the focus is on opening new Model Degree Colleges
in ‘Aspirational Districts’ identified by NITI Aayog and in unserved & underserved districts in
North Eastern and Himalayan States.
96 Revised National TB control programme (RNTCP)

History:
• The National TB Programme (NTP) was launched by the GOI in 1962 in the form of District TB
Centre model involved with BCG vaccination and TB treatment.
• GOI revitalized NTP as Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) in 1993. DOTS (Directly
Observed Treatment-Short course) was officially launched as the RNTCP strategy in 1997.
Aim/Target:
• To eliminate TB in India by 2025, five years ahead of the global target

• RNTCP has formulated a National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis Elimination 2017-2025

National Strategic Plan for TB elimination (2017-25)
Launch Year: 2017
Aim/Vision:
• TB-free India with zero deaths, disease and poverty due to tuberculosis
Goal:
• To achieve a rapid decline in burden of TB, morbidity and mortality while working towards
elimination of TB in India by 2025.

• TB elimination has been integrated into the four strategic pillars of “Detect – Treat – Prevent
– Build” (DTPB).
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.
97 Saakshar Bharat
Launch Year: 2009
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.
Targets: It has four broader objectives:

• Imparting functional literacy and numeracy to non-literates;
• Acquiring equivalency to formal educational system;
• Imparting relevant skill development programme; and
• Promote a leaning society by providing opportunities for continuing education.
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.
98 INSPIRE (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research) Scheme

Launch Year: 2008

Aim: To attract talent to the excitement and study of science at an early age, and to help the country
build the required critical resource pool for strengthening and expanding the S&T system and R&D
base.
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.
Components: It has three components:

1. Scheme for Early Attraction of Talent (SEATS)
2. Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE)
3. Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC)
A) Scheme for Early Attraction of Talents

• It aims at attracting talented youth to study science by providing INSPIRE Award, to
experience the joy of innovations, of Rs.5,000/- to one million young learners in the age
group 10-15 years.
• There shall be annual Summer/Winter Camps for about 50,000 youth at more than 100
locations, for toppers in Class X board examinations for exposure with global leaders in
Science, through INSPIRE Internship.
(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.
Basic Guidelines for INSPIRE Awards – MANAK

✓ The Award for the students in the class of 6th to 10th Standards.
✓ No examination in the identification process. Names of the Students will be nominated by
the Principal/Headmaster/Headmistress.
✓ Each student will get an amount of Rs 5000 for making a Project and transportation cost for
displaying the exhibits/ project in the exhibition.

✓ There will exhibitions at the District Level, State Level, Regional level and National level for
displaying the best exhibit/project of each level.
✓ Awardees at District & State level.
✓ Award money will be released directly to the Awardees by an arrangement with SBI.
✓ The concerned State will provide the list of all Middle & Secondary level Schools including in
Government/Government aided/Private etc.
(ii) INSPIRE Internship:

• "Motivating talented youth to take-up research as a personal undertaking" by rubbing
shoulders with global icons of science including Nobel Prize Winners, is the objective of
INSPIRE Internship.
• This component of the programme aims at working as a life-long catalysing experience for
the 11th graders in science stream.
B) Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE)

• It aims at attracting talented youth into undertaking higher education in science intensive
programmes, by providing scholarships and mentoring through 'summer attachment' to
performing researchers.
• The scheme offers 10,000 scholarships every year @ Rs 0.80 lakh per year to talented youth in
the age group 17-22 years, for undertaking Bachelor and Masters level education in Natural
and Basic sciences.
C) Assured Opportunity for Research Careers (AORC)

• It aims at attracting, attaching, retaining and nourishing talented young scientific Human
Resource to strengthened the R&D foundation and base by offering doctoral INSPIRE
Fellowship in the age group 22-27 years, in both Basic and Applied sciences (including
engineering and medicine).
99 National Health Mission

Launch Year: 2005
Aim: Attainment of universal access to equitable, affordable and quality health care services,
accountable and responsive to people’s needs, with effective inter-sectoral convergent action to
address the wider social determinants of health.
Process and Mechanism/Components:

• Health Systems Strengthening including infrastructure, human resource, drugs & equipment,
ambulances, MMUs, ASHAs etc.
• Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Services (RMNCH + A).
• Communicable Disease Control Programmes.
• Non-Communicable Diseases Control Programme interventions.

• Infrastructure Maintenance- to support salary of ANMs and LHVs etc.
Sub Schemes under it:

✓ National Rural Health Mission
✓ National Urban Health Mission
✓ National Rural Health Mission

Launch Year: 2005
Objectives:
• Reduction in child and maternal mortality.
• Universal access to public services for food and nutrition, sanitation and hygiene and universal
access to public health care services with emphasis on services addressing women’s and
children’s health and universal immunization.
• Prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, including locally
endemic diseases.
• Access to integrated comprehensive primary health care.
• Population stabilization, gender and demographic balance.
• Revitalize local health traditions & mainstream AYUSH.
• Promotion of healthy lifestyles.
Coverage:
• Cities and towns with population below 50,000 will be covered under NRHM
✓ National Urban Health Mission
Launch Year: 2013
Aim: To meet health care needs of the urban population with the focus on urban poor, by making
available to them essential primary health care services and reducing their out of pocket expenses for
treatment.
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.
Major initiatives under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)

99..1 Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA)
• One of the key components of all the government health schemes in rural India is to provide
every village in the country with a trained female community health activist ASHA or Accredited
Social Health Activist (presently, about 1 million of them are in service)
• Selected from the village itself and accountable to it, the ASHA is trained to work as an interface
between the community and the public health system.
Following are the key components of ASHA:

• Eligibility: ASHA must primarily be a woman resident of the village married/ widowed/ divorced,
preferably in the age group of 25 to 45 years. (Minimum education required is 10th standard,
which is relaxed only if no woman with the required qualification is available in the village).
• The ASHAs receive performance-based incentives for promoting universal immunization,
referral and escort services for Reproductive & Child Health (RCH) and other healthcare
programmes, and construction of household toilets.
• ASHA will be the first port of call for any health related demands of deprived sections of the
population, especially women and children, who find it difficult to access health services.
• She will counsel women on birth preparedness, importance of safe delivery, breast-feeding and
complementary feeding, immunization, contraception and prevention of common infections
including Reproductive Tract Infection/Sexually Transmitted Infections (RTIs/STIs) and care of
the young child.
• ASHA will mobilise the community and facilitate them in accessing health and health related
services available at the Anganwadi/sub-centre/primary health centers, such as immunisation,
Ante Natal Check-up (ANC), Post Natal Check-up supplementary nutrition, sanitation and other
services being provided by the government.
99..2 Auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM)

• Auxiliary nurse midwife, commonly known as ANM, is a village-level female health worker, who
is known as the first contact person between the community and the health services.
• ANMs are regarded as the grass-roots workers in the health organization pyramid.
• Their services are considered important to provide safe and effective care to village
communities.
• ANMs works at health sub-centres. The sub-centre is a small village-level institution that provides
primary health care to the community. The sub-centre works under the Primary Health Centre
(PHC). Each PHC usually has around six such sub-centres.
• In 2005 NRHM made provision of two ANMs (one permanent and one contractual) for each sub-
centre. The ANM is usually selected from the local village to increase accountability.
• ANMs are expected to be multi-purpose health workers and their work includes maternal and
child health along with family planning services, health and nutrition education, efforts for
maintaining environmental sanitation, immunisation for the control of communicable
diseases, treatment of minor injuries, and first aid in emergencies and disasters.
• In remote areas, such as hilly and tribal areas where transport facility is likely to be poor, ANMs
are required to conduct home deliveries for women.

99..3 Anganwadi Centres
• Anganwadi is a government sponsored child-care and mother-care center in India. It caters to
children in the 0-6 age group
• They were started by the Indian government in 1975 as part of the Integrated Child Development
Services program to combat child hunger and malnutrition.
• The Anganwadi system is mainly managed by the Anganwadi worker.
• She is a health worker chosen from the community and given 4 months training in health,
nutrition and child-care. She is in charge of an Anganwadi which covers a population of 1000.
• They provide outreach services to poor families in need of immunization, healthy food, clean
water, clean toilets and a learning environment for infants, toddlers and pre-schoolers.
99..4 Janani Suraksha Yojana

Launch Year: 2005
Aim: Reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among the poor
pregnant women
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.
99..5 Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana

Launch Year: 2011
Aim: To provide completely free and cashless services to pregnant women including normal deliveries
and caesarean operations and sick newborn (up to 30 days after birth) in Government health
institutions in both rural & urban areas.
Target Beneficiary: Pregnant women who access government health facilities for their delivery.
99..6 Kayakalp Initiative

Launch Year: 2015
Objective:
• To promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection control practices in public health facilities.
• To incentivize and recognize such public healthcare facilities that show exemplary performance
in adhering to standard protocols of cleanliness and infection control.
• To inculcate a culture of ongoing assessment and peer review of performance related to hygiene,
cleanliness and sanitation.
• To create and share sustainable practices related to improved cleanliness in public health
facilities linked to positive health outcomes.

99..7 Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram
Launch Year: 2013
Aim: To screen and manage children from birth to 18 years of age for defects at birth, deficiencies,
diseases and developmental delays including disabilities.
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.
99..8 Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakram

Launch year: 2014
Objectives:
• Improve Nutrition
• Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Enhance Mental Health
• Prevent Injuries and violence
• Prevent substance misuse
Target Beneficiary: Adolescents in the age group of 10-19 years
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.
• Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) Programme: It entails provision of weekly
supervised IFA tablets to in-school boys and girls and out-of-school girls and biannual
albendazole tablets, besides Nutrition & Health Education.
• Menstrual Hygiene Scheme: The scheme is being implemented for adolescent girls in the rural
areas. From 2014 procurement of sanitary napkins has been decentralized. States are in the
process of implementing MHS.
• Peer Education Programme: Under the programme four peer educators (Saathiya) - two male
and two female are selected per 1000 population to orient the adolescents on health issues.
100 Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana

Launch Year: 2003
Aim: Correct the imbalances in the availability of affordable tertiary healthcare facilities in different
parts of the country in general, and augmenting facilities for quality medical education in the under-
served States in particular.

Process and Mechanism/Components:
• Setting up of AIIMS-like institutions.
• Up-gradation of existing State Government Medical College (GMCs).
101 Guru Shishya Parampara Scheme

Launch Year: 2003-04
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Culture
Aim: To promote development of new talents in the field of music and dance, folk and tribal art forms,
under the able guidance of Gurus.
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.
102 Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP)

Launch Year: 2002
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Human Resources Development
Aim/Purpose: To overhaul the quality of technical education in the Low Income States and Special
Category States (SCS) in India.
Key Features:
• It is a joint effort between the central government and the World Bank for improving the quality
of education in engineering colleges.
• It has been designed as a long term project to be implemented in 3 phases:
1st Phase: 2003-2009
2nd Phase: 2010-2016
3rd Phase: 2016-2020
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.

103 Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi
Launch Year: 1997. It was earlier known as National Illness Assistance Fund.
Aim: To provide financial assistance to patients, living below poverty line and who are suffering from
major life-threatening diseases, to receive medical treatment at any of the super specialty
hospitals/institutes or other Government hospitals.

• Under RAN Revolving Funds have been set up in 13 Central Government Hospitals located all
over India for providing financial assistance for treatment up to Rs. 2 lakh.
• In addition, financial assistance is provided for individual cases referred by Government
hospitals, which do not have a Revolving Fund and for cases referred by 13 Government hospitals
with Revolving Funds for assistance exceeding Rs. 2 lakh.
104 EKLAVYA MODEL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL (EMRS)

Launch Year: 1997
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Aim: It aims to ensure that tribal students get access to quality education in the remote tribal areas.
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,
• Support the annual running expenses in a manner that offers reasonable remuneration to the
staff and upkeep of the facilities.
• Support the construction of infrastructure that provides education, physical, environmental
and cultural needs of student life.
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.
105 Mid-Day Meal Scheme

Launch Year: 1995
Nodal Ministry: Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource
Development
Aim: To enhance, retention and attendance and simultaneously improving nutritional levels among
children.
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.
Monitoring of the scheme:

• The State Steering-cum Monitoring Committee (SSMC) oversee the implementation of the scheme
including establishment of a mechanism for maintenance of nutritional standards and quality of
meals.
• The School Management Committee mandated under Right to free and Compulsory Education
Act, 2009 also monitor implementation of the Mid-day meal Scheme.
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.
106 Universal Immunization Programme (UIP)

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.
Which diseases are covered?

• Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Polio, Tuberculosis, Measles, Hepatitis B, Japanese Encephalitis
(brain fever), Meningitis and Pneumonia caused by Haemophilus Influenzae type B.

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ECONOMIC & SOCIAL ISSUES

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Scheme Budget Estimates 2020-21 (In Crores)

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We shall be covering the schemes grouped into 5 parts:

Part 2- Schemes related to Health and Education

Part 4- Drinking Water & Sanitation, Urbanization and Poverty Alleviation

Part 5- Schemes launched by different state/UTs in 2019 and 2020

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1 Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI)

3 Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully (SAANS)

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4 Shala Darpan Portal

6 Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme – DHRUV

Components: The programme will cover two areas mainly:

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7 E-Vidyabharti & E-ArogyaBharti

8 Food Safety Mitra (FSM) Scheme

9 SUMAN (Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan) Scheme

10 Eat Right India Movement

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Pillars: It has 3 major pillars –

11 National Animal Disease Control Programme

12 Margadarshan and Margdarshak Scheme

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13 Ayushman Bharat Pakhwara

14 TB Harega Desh Jeetega Campaign

Other Supporting Elements of the Campaign:

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15 UMMID (Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited

• Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), Delhi

16 National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) Scheme

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Thrust Areas Identified for Funding:

Components: The scheme has three components:

18 Model Education Loan Scheme

19 Deeksharambh - A Guide to Student Induction Programme

20 STARS (Scheme for Translational and Advanced Research in Science)

21 Yuva Vigyani Karyakram (YUVIKA)

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Training Centres: It will be conducted across 4 centres of ISRO:

22 UNNATI (Unispace Nanosatellite Assembly & Training Programme)

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23 Jan Jagrukta Abhiyan

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27 Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP)

28 National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF)

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29 Ayushman Bharat (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana)

Eligibility Criteria under PMJAY

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For Urban Areas:

1) National Health Protection Scheme:

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Pradhan Mantri Arogya Mitra (PMAM)

National Health Authority (NHA)

30 AWSAR (Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research) Scheme

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31 National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme