Subject: Schemes Context: As per Rural Health Statistics-2019, as on 31.03.2019, a total of 1,57,411 Sub-centres, 24,855 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) and 5,335 Community Health Centres (CHCs) have been functional in the rural areas of the country. Concept: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched on 12th April 2005, to provide accessible, affordable and […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) have signed a “Statement of Intent to establish YuWaah, Generation Unlimited (GenU), a global multi-stakeholder platform in India. Concept: As per the Statement of Intent, the objectives of this project are: Support young people by providing entrepreneurship classes (online and […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Kerala will soon house one of the first medical device parks in the country, focusing on the high-risk medical device sector to provide full range of services for the medical devices industry like R&D support, testing, and evaluation. Concept: MedSpark, the medical devices park envisaged as a joint initiative of SreeChitraTirunal Institute […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Pradhan MantriAnnadataAaySanraksHanAbhiyan’ (PM-AASHA) is an umbrella scheme to ensure Minimum Support Price (MSP) to farmers. This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Lok Sabha. Concept: The new Umbrella Scheme includes the mechanism of ensuring remunerative prices to […]
Subject: Schemes Context: The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has formulated and is implementing a National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR) for 2018-2025. This information was given by Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Rattan Lal Kataria in a written reply in Lok Sabha Concept: The Ministry of Social […]
Subject: Schemes Context: The Government is implementing various sector/group specific schemes for bridging the gap between demand and supply of skilled workers. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has been implementing the following schemes/programmes Concept: Pradhan MantriKaushalVikasYojana (PMKVY) imparts short term skill training to youth and recognition of prior learning of informally trained labour […]
Subject: Schemes Context: NABARD chairman said women’s self-help groups in the four districts of Tamil Nadu are on its e-Shakthi platform Concept: The project e-Shakthi aims at digitisation of all the SHG accounts to bring SHG members under the fold of Financial Inclusion thereby helping them access wider range of financial services together with increasing […]
Subject: Schemes Context: On the occasion of the World Bamboo Day, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) said that government plans to promote domestic Bamboo Industry, which is going to play a critical role in shaping the post-COVID economy of India. Concept: It is centrally Sponsored Scheme under National […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Government has taken various initiatives to improve the global ranking of Indian education institutions said Education Minister in Rajya sabha Concept: Indian government is committed to the nation to empower Higher Educational Institutions to help them become world class teaching and research institutions. Institutions of Eminence (IoE) scheme It has been launched […]
Subject: Schemes Context: Six banks, led by State Bank of India (SBI), collectively mobilised 68 per cent more gold year-on-year (yoy) from households and temple trusts, among others, at 4,643.25 kg in 2019-20 against 2,763.12 kg the previous year under the Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS). Concept: Indians families keep a lot of gold lying idle […]