Sunday, March 20, 2016
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.Thursday, March 10, 2016
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.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Accessible India Campaign or Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan
Accessible India Campaign or Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan
AIC or SBA is a program to serve the
differently-able community of the country. The program comes with an index to
measure the design of disabled-friendly buildings and human resource policies.
The flagship program was launched by the Prime Minister on 3 December 2015, the
International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The initiative also in line
with the Article 9 of UNCRPD (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities) to which India is a signatory from 2007. The scheme also comes
under Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 under section 44, 45, 46 for equal
Opportunities and protection of rights which provides non-discrimination in
Transport to Persons with Disabilities. According to the census 2011, 2.21 per
cent or approx. 21M Indians of the population suffers from disability. The
target is to make at least fifty government buildings disabled friendly under
the campaign in each of the state till end of 2016 and make 25 per cent of the
public transport vehicles under government as disabled friendly till mid 2017.
A website will also be made where the people can put their views on the
accessibility of any building. By July 2016, the international airports in the
country and railway stations which come under A1, A and B categories will be
made fully disabled-friendly.
Special set-top boxes will be made available to make
watching TV more convenient for the visually impaired. In the next 5 years,
almost 200 persons will be trained to speak in sign languages on government TV
channels. Government websites will also be made more friendly by using text to
speech option. The initiative involves retrofitting buildings, framing such
standards for new buildings and transport that they are friendly to the
differently-abled, auditing private companies on 'accessibility index' standard
and making all government websites friendly to the differently-able.
A ''Sugamya Bharat'' mobile app which can provide
information on disabled-friendly public facilities in a city, will be launched
under the scheme
Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan
Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan
Maharashtra government launched a programme named ‘Jalyukta
Shivar Abhiyan’ to make Maharashtra a drought-free state by 2019. The project
involves deepening and widening of streams, construction of cement and earthen
stop dams, work on nullahs and digging of farm ponds. The programme aims to
make 5000 villages free of water scarcity every year. Under the programme,
micro-irrigation systems would be encouraged for efficient use of water. It
aims at increasing the irrigated area. Existing water conservation schemes will
be now brought under this scheme. With several parts of Maharashtra still reeling
under the drought, the state government launched the scheme to combat
increasing number of suicide by the farmers of the state, among other things.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Higher broadband penetration in the country with having level playing field on the internet
Higher broadband penetration in the country with having level playing field on the internet
While the debate on Net Neutrality has been on at the global
level for a long time, in India it was triggered when country’s largest
operator Airtel in December 2014 announced plans to start charging customers
for VoIP services, such as Skype and Viber. The debate gained national momentum
when telecom regulator TRAI, in a first step towards making regulating the
issue, came out with consultation paper inviting user comments on the subject.
Recently, Airtel announced another initiative Airtel Zero, for which it
received a lot of flak as this too is seen as violating Net Neutrality.
A neutral Internet means a level playing field. The service providers also warned that if they were to offer unlimited VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) the mobile data prices will need to be increased by atleast six times for operators to sustain business.
A neutral Internet means a level playing field. The service providers also warned that if they were to offer unlimited VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) the mobile data prices will need to be increased by atleast six times for operators to sustain business.
Penetration rate is the percentage (%) of a country's
population that are subscribers. The industry body also stressed on the need to
understand the guiding principles of net neutrality, which is about unfettered
user right of making an informed choice in deciding access to legal
content/services on the Internet.
Net neutrality creates an open and level-playing field to
facilitate innovation, adoption and inclusion. For starters, in a country like
India, Net Neutrality has vast implications, especially for start-ups many of
whom are dependent on the medium for the success of their business.
Noting that Internet, mobile telephony, social media, big data,
analytics, cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) have created a perfect confluence
for economic development, the former telecom secretary said the startup and
innovation ecosystem and the government's Digital India initiative would
transform social and economic spheres, including education, healthcare and
financial inclusion.
Highlights of the GDP growth details released by CSO
Highlights of the GDP growth details released by CSO
The Indian economy is going to grow by 7.6 per cent during
2015-16, according to the Advance Estimates released by the Central Statistics
Office (CSO) yesterday. The CSO has pegged the growth for the December 2015
quarter at 7.3 per cent, while revising the growth estimates for the June 2015
quarter upwards to 7.6 per cent from 7 per cent and for the September 2015
quarter to 7.7 per cent from 7.4 per cent earlier. The growth in cumulative GDP
for the period April-December 2015 has been estimated at 7.5 per cent. This
means that the economy will have to grow by 7.7 per cent in the last quarter if
it has to achieve the CSO’s growth target for 2015-16.
The government has been striving to push growth in Asia’s
third-largest economy since it took office in May last year, promising a
spending boost and moving to clear up a regulatory logjam that has held up
large infrastructure projects. The latest data released by the statistics
department on Monday showed India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed
to 7% in the April-June quarter from 7.5% in the January-March quarter as
measured at market prices. Another measure—gross value added (GVA) at basic
prices—showed that economic growth accelerated to 7.1% in April-June against
6.1% in January-March.
Private final consumption expenditure (PFCE), according to
the CSO, will drive the growth of the economy in the last quarter. PFCE has
grown by 6.1 per cent till December 2015. The CSO expects the fiscal year
2015-16 to end with a 7.6 per cent growth in PFCE. This means that it has
assumed an 11.7 per cent growth in PFCE for the last quarter.
http://www.jagranjosh.com/current-affairs/cso-released-estimates-of-gdp-for-apriljune-quarter-of-201516-1441099934-1
Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment
Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment
With the aim to
reduce the expenditure incurred by patients on treatment of cancer and heart
diseases, GOI launched the Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for
Treatment (AMRIT) outlet at AIIMs in 2015. The retail outlet will sell drugs
for the two ailments at highly discounted rates at the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to begin with. AMRIT will be launched in all Central Govt
hospitals soon. AMRIT pharmacy reflects commitment to reduce the cost of
treatment for the patients. Lakhs of patients will benefit from this
initiative. 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.The project has been floated in a
tie-up with government-owned HLL Lifecare Ltd (HLL) which is deputed to
establish and run the AMRIT chain of pharmacies across the country.
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