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Complete List of Schemes Launched by Narendra Modi Government
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY)
Launched: 28 August 2014
Main Objective: Financial inclusion and access to financial services for all households in the country.
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is a national mission to bring comprehensive financial
inclusion of all the households in the country. Under the PMJDY, any individual above the age of 10
years and does not ave a bank account can open a bank account without depositing any money.
The scheme was to ensure the access to financial services such as banking / savings & deposit
Accounts, remittance, credit, debit cards, insurance and pension in affordable manner. The scheme
was mostly targeted to the people belonging to the Below Poverty Line but is beneficial to everyone
who does not have a bank account.
Jan Dhan Yojana has seen a great success, about 21 Crore accounts have been opened in just about
one and half year under the scheme. Out of the total 12.87 crore in rural area and 8.13 Crore accounts
have been opened in urban areas. Despite of zero minimum balance, there is 33074.89 crore rupees
balance in these accounts with 28.88% accounts opened with zero balance.
Official Website: http://www.pmjdy.gov.in
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Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented by the Ministry of Urban Development (M/o UD) and
by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (M/o DWS) for urban and rural areas respectively.
Official Website: http://swachhbharat.mygov.in
Digital India
Launched: 1 July 2015
Main Objective: To deliver Government services to citizens electronically by improving online
infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity.
The Digital India programme is a flagship programme of the Government of India with a vision to
transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. The vision of Digital
India programme is to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
Official Website: http://www.digitalindia.gov.in
Skill India
Launched: 16 July 2015
Main Objective: Train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022.
The main goal of Skill India Program is to create opportunities, space and scope for the development
of talents of the Indian youth. The scheme also targeted to identify new sectors for skill development
and develop more of those sectors which have already been put under skill development for the last so
many years.
Official Website: http://skillindia.gov.in
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Main Objective: To immunize all children as well as pregnant women against seven vaccine
preventable diseases namely diphtheria, whooping cough (Pertussis), tetanus, polio, tuberculosis,
measles and hepatitis B by 2020.
The aim of Mission Indradhanush is to achieve full immunization in 352 districts which includes 279
mid priority districts, 33 districts from the North East states and 40 districts from phase one where
huge number of missed out children were detected.
Official Website: http://www.missionindradhanush.in
Udaan Scheme
Launched: 14 November 2014
Main Objective: Encouraging girls for higher technical education and aims to provide a platform that
empowers girl students and provides them with better learning opportunities.
It is a mentoring and scholarship scheme to enable meritorious girl students to transit from schools to
technical education without much difficulty and also aims to enrich and enhance teaching and learning
of mathematics and science at senior secondary school level by providing free online resources for all.
Official Website: http://mhrd.gov.in
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Smart City Mission
Launched: 25 June 2015
Main Objective: To develop 100 cities all over the country making them citizen friendly and
sustainable
Under the mission, the NDA Government aims to develop smart cities equipped with basic
infrastructure and offer a good quality of life through smart solutions. Assured water and power
supply, sanitation and solid waste management, efficient urban mobility and public transport, robust
IT connectivity, e-governance and citizen participation along with safety of its citizens are some of the
likely attributes of these smart cities.
Official Website: http://smartcities.gov.in
DigiLocker
Launched: 01 July 2015
Main Objective: To provide a secure dedicated personal electronic space for storing the documents of
resident Indian citizens.
It is a part of Digital India programme, Digital Locker has been designed to reduce the administrative
overhead of government departments and agencies created due to paper work.
It will also make it easy for the residents to receive services by saving time and effort as their
documents will now be available anytime, anywhere and can be shared electronically.
Official Website: https://digilocker.gov.in
Vikalp Scheme
Launched: 01 November 2015
Main Objective: For confirmed accommodation in next alternative train for the waitlisted passengers.
Vikalp scheme is available only for the tickets booked through internet for six months and option will
be limited to mail and express trains running on Delhi-Lucknow and Delhi-Jammu sectors.
Official Website: http://powermin.nic.in
Clean My Coach
On board housekeeping service (OBHS) is provided to facilitate cleaning of coaches during run of
train itself. The OBHS includes scheduled cleaning of coaches twice in a day and unscheduled
cleaning at any time on demand of passenger.
Passengers may demand cleaning staff by entering PNR in the form given above. Passengers may also
send their requests as SMS to 58888 by typing CLEAN< Space ><10-digit PNR number>< Space
>SERVICE TYPE CODE, CleanMyCoach Application will forward the request to mobile phone of
the onboard staff or the concerned control office of the particular train directly. The Railway
Administration will also simultaneously receive an intimation of such requests for follow up.
Aadhar Bill
Aadhaar Bill Explained in PDF The government passed the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial
and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 in the Parliament recently. The legislation
seeks to provide statutory backing to the scheme of issuing unique identification numbers to every
Indian resident thereby enabling targeted (direct) delivery of subsidies, services and other benefits to
the intended beneficiaries under welfare schemes.
The Aadhaar Bill was introduced as a Money Bill in the Parliament by Union Finance Minister, Arun
Jaitley. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on 11th March 2016 amidst growing concerns of data
safety and mass surveillance.
What is the Aadhaar Bill?
The Aadhaar Bill seeks to cut out middlemen when it comes to handing over subsidies. The Aadhaar
Card is a tool by which each individual is handed a unique identification number. This Bill seeks to
use this unique number to identify and disburse subsidies to those who need it. This will ensure that
subsidies are not lost to the pockets of corrupt middlemen.
Provisions of Aadhaar Bill Explained
The bill needs to be understood in its parts to understand the issues surrounding it. So without further
ado, here is the Aadhaar Bill explained. Why is the Aadhaar Bill important? The Aadhaar Bill rests on
3 pillars. The JAM trinity will provide a strong foundation for social programmes and welfare
schemes of government. It will develop a social security platform to accurately target beneficiaries. It
will promote a cashless economy with digital initiatives such as the Jan-Dhan Yojana, pension
payments, digital certificates, biometric attendance. Also it will provide end-to-end transparency and
traceability of various subsidies and benefits. The bill tries to address privacy concerns by
establishment of Central Data Identity Repository. By Aadhaar, government can save thousands of
crores of rupees by reducing leakages and corruption. The overall benefits of Aadhaar will be:
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Real Estate Bill
The Rajya Sabha passed the Real Estate Regulator Bill, which will help regulate the sector and bring
in clarity for both buyers and developers. Here are 10 things you should know about this bill, touted as
a key reform measure in the vast real estate sector.
1) It establishes the State Real Estate Regulatory Authority for that particular state as the government
body to be approached for redressal of grievances against any builder. This will happen once every
state ratifies this Act and establishes a state authority on the lines set up in the law.
2) This law vests authority on the real estate regulator to govern both residential and commercial real
estate transactions.
3) This Act obliges the developer to park 70% of the project funds in a dedicated bank account. This
will ensure that developers are not able to invest in numerous new projects with the proceeds of the
booking money for one project, thus delaying completion and handover to consumers.
4) This law makes it mandatory for developers to post all information on issues such as project plan,
layout, government approvals, land title status, sub contractors to the project, schedule for completion
with the State Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) and then in effect pass this information on to
the consumers.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin (Renamed from Indira Awas Yojana)
What is Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna?
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna(PMAY) is a mission started with an aim Housing For All(HFA)
scheme by NDA Government to be achieved by the year 2022, that is when India will be completing
its 75 years of Independence. The mission started in 2015 and will be attained in seven years i.e.,
during 2015 2022.
This Housing for All (HFA) scheme is envisioned by our Honorable Prime Mister Mr. Narendra Modi.
By the time the Nation completes 75 years of its Independence, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna will
bring a Pucca house for every family in urban cities with water connection, toilet facilities, 24x7
electricity supply and complete access. As addressed by our Prime Minister in the joint session of
parliament on 9th June, 2014.
Objective of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) Housing for All
A comprehensive mission of PMAY Housing Scheme aims to create:
Affordable homes with water connection, toilet facilities, 24x7 electricity supply and complete
access.
2 crore houses to be built across nations length and breadth
Targeting the Lower Income Groups (LIG) and Economically Weaker Section of our society
(EWS), basically the urban poor by the year 2022.
2 million non-slum urban poor households are proposed to be covered under the Mission
TB Mission 2020
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Underlining the plans of the Indian government to eliminate Tuberculosis from the country, Union
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan announced 'TB-Mission 2020'. The Health Minister was joined by his
South African counterpart Aaron Motsoaledi who addressed the 45th Union World Conference on
Lung Health.
Dhanlakshmi Yojana
Purpose: This is a conditional cash transfer scheme for the girl child with insurance cover which
would go a long way towards ensuring the survival of the girl child and assuring a better life for her.
The direct and tangible objective of the scheme is to provide a set of financial incentives for families
to encourage them to retain a girl child, educate her and prevent child marriage.
Eligibility Criteria:
The scheme provides for cash transfers to the family of the girl child (preferably to the mother) on
fulfilling certain specific conditions:
All girls born after 19 November 2008 are eligible, after registration of birth
Girls who are on immunization
On enrolment in school and retention in school till Standard 8
An insurance maturity cover will be taken for the girl child born after 19 November 2008 and if
the girl child remains unmarried till the age of 18 years, she will get Rs. 1 lakh.
Each condition like registration of birth, immunization, school enrolment and retention, insurance
(maturity) cover are independent of each other and cannot be applied for retrospective fulfilment of
conditionality. For example, if a girl is in Standard 2, she will be eligible for cash transfer from
Standard 2 onwards and will not be eligible for cash transfers related to her birth and registration of
birth, immunization, enrolment and retention in Standard 1.
The scheme will apply to all girl children irrespective of their socio-economic status and the
number of girl children in the family.
The scheme will apply only to those girls who have domicile status in the selected blocks
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The holy water can also be ordered through some e-commerce website at a price of Rs. 299 for a litre
of bottle sources from Gomukh.
Vidyanjali Yojana
Vidyanjali Yojana is a School Volunteer Programme. Vidyanjali Scheme has initiated by the
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Department of School Education and Literacy to
enhance community and private sector involvement in Government-run primary schools across the
country under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). This program has been visualizing to bring together
people willing to volunteer their services at schools which need them. The volunteers will act as
mentors, confidantes, and communicators with students.
Swayam Prabha
The scheme, once launched will allow students from across the country to access classroom lectures
on their TV sets. The telecast of classroom lectures from different institutions on different subjects
will be provided on 32 channels.
How Swayam Prabha will Help Students
The interactive study content including pictures, videos and diagrams will be delivered by the subject
experts appointed by the ministry. After watching the content, students can call on toll free helpline
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number to clear their doubts. The subject experts appointed by the government will be paid on an
hourly basis to produce the good quality content.
There is a plan of live broadcasting of classroom lectures from IIT Mumbai, Delhi, Kharagpur, and
Kanpur to the DTH channels
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for Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik or helping the average Indian fly) has been devised to increase
connectivity. So far, two options have been discussed yet:
i) Government will charge 2% cess from passengers flying on profitable routes, or
ii) It will ask airlines to pay Rs. 8,000 every time they land at an airport in a major city or metro.
Digital Villages
What is Digital Village Programme
Digital village Programme is a part of Digital Indian Scheme.This is another move towards digital
inclusion of Indias hinterland, the National Democratic Alliance government plans to unveil a
programme, Digital Villages, with an initial outlay of Rs.500 crore.
Objectives of Digital Village Scheme-
Under this scheme
Minimum of 100 villages will be shortlisted under this scheme.
Government will offer services including e-medicine, e-education, Internet connectivity services
and light-emitting diode lights to those selected villages.
Expenditure for Digital Village Scheme-
The government has trained its focus to digitally connect rural areas of the country and spend around
Rs.10,000crore from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) in the current financial year in
building rural digital infrastructure
Urja Ganga
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of Urja Ganga, the highly ambitious gas
pipeline project in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The gas pipeline project aims to provide piped cooking
(PNG) gas to residents of the eastern region of the country and CNG gas for the vehicles.
Key Facts
-The project is being implemented by state-run gas utility GAIL. It envisages laying a 2,050-km
pipeline connecting Jagdishpur (UP) to Haldia (West Bengal) by 2018.
-From Varanasis perspective, 50,000 households and 20,000 vehicles will get cleaner and cheaper
fuel PNG and CNG gas respectively.
-The project is considered as a major step towards collective growth and development of the Eastern
region of India. Under it, overall 20 lakh households will get PNG connections.
-The Urja Ganga project also augments existing GAILs network of trunk pipelines covering the
length of around 11,000 km by 2540 km.
-Besides, under this project work on 2540-km long Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra Natural
Gas pipeline project will begin and will be completed between 2018 and 2020.
-Seven East India cities Varanasi, Jamshedpur, Patna, Ranchi, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack will
be the major beneficiary of this network development. Besides, LNG terminal at Dhamra will provide
clean fuel to the Industrial Development of the Eastern states of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, West
Bengal and Odisha.
-25 industrial clusters in these 5 states will be developed using gas from this pipeline. Besides, 40
districts and 2600 villages will benefit from this project.
-It will also help in revival of defunct fertilizer plants in Barauni in Bihar, Gorakhpur in UP, Sindri in
Jharkhand and Durgapur in West Bengal by supplying gas.
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