Government Schemes Part-4

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PRASAD 

    • Ministry – Ministry of Tourism.
    • Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation
  • To improve the infrastructure at pilgrimage places. 
  • Aims at integrated development of pilgrimage destinations in a prioritised, planned, and sustainable manner in order to provide a complete religious tourism experience.
  • The focus of PRASAD is on the development and beautification of the identified pilgrimage destinations under HRIDAY Scheme.

Objectives 

  • Enhancing tourism attractiveness in a sustainable manner
  • Promoting local art and culture, handicraft and cuisines etc.
  • World-class infrastructure in religious destinations
  • Harnessing pilgrimage tourism such that it helps in directly affects and multiplies the employment generation and economic development.

PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJANA 

  • Ministry – Ministry of Agriculture
  • Launched on 18 February 2016.
  • The PMFBY will replace the existing two schemes National Agricultural Insurance Scheme as well as the Modified NAIS.
  • An insurance service for farmers for their yields.
  • It aims to reduce the premium burden on farmers and ensure early settlement of crop assurance claim for the full insured sum.

Objectives

  • To provide insurance coverage and financial support to the farmers in the event of failure of any of the notified crop as a result of natural calamities, pests & diseases.
  • To stabilise the income of farmers to ensure their continuance in farming.
  • To encourage farmers to adopt innovative and modern agricultural practices.
  • To ensure flow of credit to the agriculture sector.

 

ATAL INNOVATION MISSION AND SETU 

  • Government of India has established Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) including Self Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU) in NITI Aayog. 
  • The overarching purpose of this Mission is to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in India and to find ultra-low cost solutions to India’s pressing and intractable problems.

Its objective is to serve as a platform for promotion of world-class Innovation Hubs, Grand Challenges, Start-up businesses and other self-employment activities, particularly in technology driven areas.

The Atal Innovation Mission shall have two core functions:

  • Entrepreneurship promotion through Self-Employment and Talent Utilization, wherein innovators would be supported and mentored to become successful entrepreneurs

Innovation promotion: to provide a platform where innovative ideas are generated.

Objectives 

  • Enhancing tourism attractiveness in a sustainable manner
  • Promoting local art and culture, handicraft and cuisines etc.
  • World-class infrastructure in religious destinations
  • Harnessing pilgrimage tourism such that it helps in directly affects and multiplies the employment generation and economic development.

 

PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJANA 

  • Ministry – Ministry of Agriculture
  • Launched on 18 February 2016.
  • The PMFBY will replace the existing two schemes National Agricultural Insurance Scheme as well as the Modified NAIS.
  • An insurance service for farmers for their yields.
  • It aims to reduce the premium burden on farmers and ensure early settlement of crop assurance claim for the full insured sum.

Objectives

  • To provide insurance coverage and financial support to the farmers in the event of failure of any of the notified crop as a result of natural calamities, pests & diseases.
  • To stabilise the income of farmers to ensure their continuance in farming.
  • To encourage farmers to adopt innovative and modern agricultural practices.
  • To ensure flow of credit to the agriculture sector.

ATAL INNOVATION MISSION AND SETU 

  • Government of India has established Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) including Self Employment and Talent Utilization (SETU) in NITI Aayog. 
  • The overarching purpose of this Mission is to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in India and to find ultra-low cost solutions to India’s pressing and intractable problems.

Its objective is to serve as a platform for promotion of world-class Innovation Hubs, Grand Challenges, Start-up businesses and other self-employment activities, particularly in technology driven areas.

The Atal Innovation Mission shall have two core functions:

  • Entrepreneurship promotion through Self-Employment and Talent Utilization, wherein innovators would be supported and mentored to become successful entrepreneurs

Innovation promotion: to provide a platform where innovative ideas are generated.

PAHAL 

  • Ministry – Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry 
  • Pratyaksha Hastaantarit Laabh (PAHAL) scheme has been acknowledged as the world’s largest cash transfer programme (households) by the Guinness Book of World Records. 
  • Scheme was earlier launched on 1st June 2013 and finally covered 291 districts. 
  • The modified scheme has been re-launched in 54 districts on 15.11.2014 in the 1st Phase and to be launched in rest of the country on 1.1.2015.

Under the scheme, subsidized liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders are sold at market rates and consumers are entitled to receive LPG subsidy direct.

NAI MANZIL 

  • Ministry – Ministry of Minority Affairs 
  •  It was launched on 8th August, 2015 at Patna, Bihar.
  • The scheme aims to benefit the minority youths in the age group of 17 to 35 years. 
  • The Scheme aims to benefit the minority youths who do not have a formal school leaving certificate, i.e those in the category of school- dropouts or educated in community education institutions like Madarsas, in order to provide them formal education and skills, and enable them to seek better employment and livelihoods in the organised sector.
  • Minimum 30% seats are earmarked for minority girls. 
  • It includes a Non-residential programme of 9-12 months duration involving a Basic Bridge Programme (For Class VIII or Class X) for their education, along with training in trade based skills for sustained livelihood/gainful employment.

 

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

  • It is the vision of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi of making India a self-reliant nation. 
  • The first mention of this came in the form of the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ or ‘Self-Reliant India Mission’ during the announcement of the coronavirus pandemic related economic package on 12 May 2020.

Numerous government decisions have taken place such as changing the definition of MSMEs,  boosting scope for private participation in numerous sectors,  increasing FDI in the defence sector; and the vision has found support in many sectors such as the solar manufacturers sector.

  • Atmanirbhar Bharat has been called by some as a re-packaged version of the Make in India movement using new taglines such as ‘Vocal for Local’.
  • The Prime Minister announced that an Atmanirbhar Bharat or a self-reliant India should stand on the following five pillars: 
  • Economy
  • Infrastructure 
  • 21st century technology driven arrangements and system 
  • Demand 
  • Vibrant Demography

 

PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi) Scheme

  • Ministry – Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
  • Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a Central Sector scheme with 100% funding from Government of India.
  • It was announced by Piyush Goyal during the 2019 Interim Union Budget of India on 1 February 2019.
  • The Scheme is effective from 1.12.2018.
  • Under the Scheme an income support of Rs.6000/- per year is provided to all farmer families across the country in three equal installments of Rs.2000/- each every four months.
  • The fund is directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
  • Aims to supplement the financial needs of the SMFs in procuring various inputs to ensure proper crop health and appropriate yields, commensurate with the anticipated farm income at the end of the each crop cycle.

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maandhan Yojana

  • Ministry – Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
  • It is a government scheme meant for old age protection and social security of Small and Marginal Farmers (SMF).
  • All Small and Marginal Farmers having cultivable land holding up to 2 hectares falling in the age group of 18 to 40 years, whose names appear in the land records of States/UTs as on 01.08.2019 are eligible to get benefit under the Scheme.
  • Under this scheme, the farmers would receive a minimum assured pension of Rs 3000/- per month after attaining the age of 60 years and if the farmer dies, the spouse of the farmer shall be entitled to receive 50% of the pension as family pension.
  •  Family pension is applicable only to spouse.
  • On the maturity of the scheme, an individual will be entitled to obtain a monthly pension of Rs. 3000/-. The pension amount helps pension holders to aid their financial requirements.
  • The applicants between the age group of 18 to 40 years will have to make monthly contributions ranging between Rs 55 to Rs 200 per month till they attain the age of 60.
  • Once the applicant attains the age of 60, he/ she can claim the pension amount. Every month a fixed pension amount gets deposited in the pension account of the respective individual.

Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan

  • Prime Minister launches Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan on 20th June 2020.

The major objectives of the initiative include:

  • Provide livelihood opportunity to returning migrants and similarly affected rural citizens.
  • Saturate villages with public infrastructure and create livelihood opportunities viz. Roads, Housing, Anganwadis, Panchayat Bhavans, various livelihood assets and Community Complexes among others.

The basket of a wide variety of works will ensure that each migrant worker is able to get an opportunity of employment according to his skill, in the coming 125 days. The Program will also prepare for expansion and development of livelihoods over a longer term.

  • 25 work areas have been identified for employment in villages, for development of various works. 
  • These 25 works or projects are related to meet the needs of the villages like rural housing for the poor, Plantations, provision of drinking water through Jal Jeevan mission, Panchayat Bhavans, community toilets, rural mandis, rural roads, other infrastructure like Cattle Sheds, Anganwadi Bhavans etc.

The Abhiyaan will be a convergent effort between 12 different Ministries/Departments, namely; Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Road Transport & Highways, Mines, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Environment, Railways, Petroleum & Natural Gas, New & Renewable Energy, Border Roads, Telecom and Agriculture, to expedite implementation of 25 public infrastructure works and works relating to augmentation of livelihood opportunities.

  • Prime Minister launches Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan on 20th June 2020 to boost employment and livelihood opportunities for migrant workers returning to villages, in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak.
  • Abhiyaan focuses on durable rural infrastructure and providing modern facilities like internet in the villages.
  • Skill Mapping of the rural migrant labour being done to help them work closer home.
  • Rs 50,000 Crore worth project to be implemented in a mission mode campaign in 125 days in 116 Districts of 6 States.
  • The Ministry of Rural Development is the nodal Ministry.