Mahad Satyagraha

Mahad Satyagraha

March 20 is being observed as Social Empowerment Day to commorate Mahad Satyagrah undertaken by Dr. Baba Sahib Ambedkar in Kolaba District in Maharashtra 76 years ago. The Satyagrah was launched to end untouchability and press for implementation of the order by Mahad Municipality allowing the ‘untouchables’ to collect water from Chavdar Tank. The Municipality has passed order since 1924 to this effect but it could not be implemented.The Bombay Council had on the proposal of veteran social reformer of Maharashtra Shri S K Bhole passed a resolution on August 4, 1923. The resolution ordered all government departments and local boards to allow the ‘Untouchables’ access to public places as they were not allowed to collect water from public tanks nor allowed any facility in school and dharamshals. The resolution of the Bombay Council was not implemented by Municipal Boards. Dr. Ambedkar decided to launch Satyagrah to get the rights to the deprived sections. He launched Water Satyagrah in Mahad and Dharm Satyagrah in Nasik for this purpose. Dr. Ambedkar set up Mahad Satyagrah Samiti and launched a new Satyagrah in December 1927. On reaching Mahad he was told that a case has been filed in a court as Chavdar Lake happened to be the private property. He postponed the Satyagrah in order not to break the law.

Dr. Ambedkar filed a writ in the Court seeking water rights for the Dalits in Chavdar Tank. Bombay High Court gave a verdict in favour of Dalits in 1936.

Chitradurga Aeronautical Test Range

Chitradurga Aeronautical Test Range

Chitradurga Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) is an out-door testing and evaluating facility being set up by DRDO exclusively for unmanned and manned aircraft. Chitradurga ATR is located at Voru Kaval in Challakere taluka of Chitradurga district on a 4,290 acre plot. The project envisages a runway beside other tracking and control equipments and a rail link to the facility have also been planned. Chitradurga ATR is intended to conduct the trials of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), air-to-ground weapons, parachutes and aerostats. It is expected to be inaugurated mid-2016. It is not meant to utilize Chitradurga ATR for test flight of ballistic missiles which is done in Chandipur-on-sea, the location of the Indian Army's Integrated Test Range (ITR).

Iron Fist

Iron Fist

Pokhran firing range in Rajasthan become famous after India's nuclear tests, code-named 'Smiling Buddha' in 1974 and the 'Shakti" series in 1998. It is the largest practices and test firing range in India. On march 18, Indian Air Force (IAF) put up its greatest ever show of air power. The event earlier called 'vayu shakti' got its current name 'Iron Fist ' when last held in 2013. the exercise logo shows an Iron Fist was aimed at showcasing the operational strength of a transforming IAF and assuring the nation that the safety of its sovereign skies lies in very capable hands.

Setu Bharatam

Setu Bharatam

Government has decided to give a new to the scheme for building bridges and rail over bridges and rail over bridges (ROBs) on national highways. Under the "Setu Bharatam" scheme the road transport and highways ministry will undertake constrution of ROBs and bridges for seamless connectivity. Setu Bharatam project aims to make all national highways free of railway crossing by 2019. The Union Road, Transport and highways Ministry plans To develop road over bridges and underpasses would be built in the first phase.

Self-employment and Talent Utilization(SETU)

Self-employment and Talent Utilization(SETU)

  The government has establised a mechanism to be known as SETU under NITI Aayog. SETU will be a Techno-Financial, Incubation and Facilitation programme to support all aspects of start-up businesses, and other self- employment activities, Particularly in technology -driven areas.

UNION BUDGET-2016-17

UNION BUDGET-2016-17

In the union budgetr 20216-17, 850 crore was set aside for four dairy projects -'Pashudan Sanjivani', 'Nakul Swathya Patra','E-Pashudhan Haat' and National Genomic Centre for Indigenious Breeds.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is a nonprofit organization that is responsible for coordinating the maintenance and methodologies of several databases, with unique identifiers, related to the namespaces of the Internet - and thereby, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.ICANN was created in 1998, and incorporated 1998 in the State of California. It is headquartered in the Playa Vista section of Los Angeles, California.

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana

Under the Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank is a new institution being set up by Government of India for development and refinancing activities relating to micro units. It was announced by the Finance Minister while presenting the Union Budget for FY 2015-16. The purpose of MUDRA is to provide funding to the non corporate small business sector.Loans worth about Rs 1 lakh crore have been sanctioned to small entrepreneurs under the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana.MUDRA was built up as an auxiliary of SIDBI bearing an introductory amount of Rupees 5,000 crores to give funding to all nationalized banks looking for financing small businesses under PMMY (Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana).In 2016, GOI approved conversion of Mudra Ltd (Pradhan Mantri Micro Units Development Refinance Agency), into a bank.

Jan Aushadhi

Jan Aushadhi

They are retail drug stores, fair-price medical shops. It is a plan to promote quality unbranded generic medicines through Jan Aushadhi stores. Centre and states co-operate. The central government is responsible for the supply of quality medicines, while the state governments or government-appointed NGOs were to run the shops on a not-for-profit basis. 3,000 Stores under Prime Minister’s Jan Aushadhi Yojana will be opened during 2016-17.

Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan

Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan

It is a new proposed scheme announced in the union financial budget 2016-17 by the Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley. Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan has been proposed with allocation of Rs. 655 crore. The scheme will help Panchayat Raj Institutions deliver Sustainable Development Goals.

Rashtriya Uchchattar Shiksha Abhiyan

Rashtriya Uchchattar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA)(“National Higher Education Mission”) 

         It is a holistic scheme of development for higher education in Indiainitiated in 2013 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. It aims at providing strategic funding to higher educational institutions throughout the country. Funding is provided by the central ministry through the state governments and union territories (UT). A total of 316 state public universities and 13,024 colleges will be covered under it. RUSA aims to provide equal development to all higher institutions and rectify weaknesses in the higher education system. Its target achievement is to raise the gross enrolment ratio to 32% by the end of XII Plan in 2017.

The major objectives are to:

1. improve the overall quality of existing state institutions by ensuring that all institutions conform to
prescribed norms and standards and adopt accreditation as a mandatory quality assurance framework.

2. usher trans-formative reforms in the state higher education system by creating a facilitating institutional structure for planning and monitoring at the state level, promoting autonomy in state universities and improving governance in institutions.

3. ensure academic and examination reforms in the higher educational institutions.

4. enable conversion of some of the universities into research universities at par with the best in the
world.

5. create opportunities for states to undertake reforms in the affiliation system in order to ensure that the reforms and resource requirements of affiliated colleges are adequately met.

6. ensure adequate availability of quality faculty in all higher educational institutions and ensure
capacity building at all levels of employment.

7. create an enabling atmosphere in the higher educational institutions to devote themselves to research and innovations.

8. expand the institutional base by creating additional capacity in existing institutions and establishing new institutions, in order to achieve enrolment targets.

9. correct regional imbalances in access to higher education by facilitating access to high quality  institutions in urban and semi-urban areas, creating opportunities for students from rural areas to get access to better quality institutions and setting up institutions in un-served and underserved areas.

10. improve equity in higher education by providing adequate opportunities of higher education to SC/STs and socially and educationally backward classes; promote inclusion of women, minorities, and differently abled persons.

Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana & Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana

Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana:

This insurance scheme says that a person will be given Rs 2 lakh for accidental death. In case of partial disability a person will be given Rs 1 lakh. This scheme is available for people whose age is between 18 to 70 years.

Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana:

It is available to people between 18 and 50 years of age with bank accounts. It has an annual premium of ₹330 excluding service tax. In case of death due to any cause, the payment to the nominee will be ₹2 lakh. This scheme will be linked to the bank accounts opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana scheme.

Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana

Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana – (DAY) National Urban Livelihood Mission

It is a Government of India scheme for the helping the poor by providing skill training. Government of India has provisioned ₹500 crore (US$74 million) for the scheme. It replace Aajevika. The targets is training 0.5 million people in urban area per annum from 2016 and in rural area it is training 1 million people by 2017. Further, in urban areas services like SHG promotion, training centres, vendors markets, permanent shelters for homeless will be provided for. The aim of scheme is skill development of both rural and urban India as per requisite international standards

Highlights:

1. Imparting skills with an expenditure of Rs.15,000 – Rs.18,000 on each urban poor;

2. Promotion of self-employment through setting up individual micro-enterprises and group enterprises with interest subsidy for individual projects costing Rs.2.00 lakhs and Rs.10.00 lakhs for group enterprises. Subsidized interest rate will be 7%;

3. Training urban poor to meet the huge demand from urban citizens by imparting market oriented skills through City Livelihood Centres. Each Centre would be given a capital grant of Rs.10.00 lakhs.

4. Enabling urban poor form Self-Help Groups for meeting financial and social needs with a support of Rs.10,000/- per each group who would in turn would be helped with bank linkages;

5. Development of vendor markets besides promotion of skills of vendors; and

6. Construction of permanent shelters for urban homeless and provision of other essential services.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

It is a Government of India scheme designed toprovide continuous power supply to rural India. The initiative is named in honor of Indian political philosopher Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. The government plans to invest for rural electrification under this scheme. The scheme replaces the existing Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY). The DDUGJY scheme focuses on feeder separation (rural households & agricultural) and strengthening of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure including metering at all levels in rural areas. This will help in providing round the clock power to rural households and adequate power to agricultural consumers.

National Food Security Mission

National Food Security Mission

The National Development Council (NDC) in 2007 adopted a resolution to launch a Food Security Mission comprising rice, wheat and pulses to increase the production of rice by 10 million tons, wheat by 8 million tons and pulses by 2 million tons by the end of the Eleventh Plan (2011-12). Accordingly, a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, 'National Food Security Mission' (NFSM), was launched in 2007. The Mission is being continued during 12th Five Year Plan with new targets of additional production of food grains of 25 million tons of food grains comprising of 10 million tons rice, 8 million tons of wheat, 4 million tons of pulses and 3 million tons of coarse cereals by the end of 12th Five Year Plan. The National Food Security Mission (NFSM) during the 12th Five Year Plan has five components (i) NFSM- Rice; (ii) NFSM-Wheat; (iii) NFSM-Pulses, (iv) NFSM-Coarse cereals and (v) NFSM-Commercial Crops.

Union Railway Budget -2016