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Government Of India Scheme Notes – On State Government Schemes – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
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1. One Family One Job Scheme
• Sikkim has announced the One family one job scheme to provide employment to the youth of Sikkim.Continue Reading Government Of India Scheme Notes – On State Government Schemes – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
• About the Scheme:
o One family one job scheme entitles one government job for every
family in the state.
o Eligibility: Only members of those families which do not have a
government job at present are eligible for government employment
under the scheme.
o The government has announced that the nature of the job is not
temporary and would be regularised after five years.
• Significance:
o Sikkim is the first state in the country to launch an exclusive
programme which entitles every family in the state with a government
job and Sikkim earmarks 70% of its revenues towards salaries for state
government employees.
2. Ama Ghare LED Scheme
• Odisha has launched the ‘Ama Ghare LED’ scheme, under which about 95 lakh families in the State will each get four LED bulbs free of cost.
• Key features of the scheme:
o Under the scheme, 9-watt LED bulbs will be distributed to the
beneficiaries registered under the National Food Security Act (NFSA)
and the State Food Security Scheme (SFSC).
o Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (OPTCL) will implement
the scheme and the bulbs will be distributed through camps and PDS
outlets across the State.
o Biometric authentication: The beneficiaries will have to produce
biometric authentication to get the benefits of the scheme.
3. Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation or KALIA
Scheme
• KALIA scheme, launched by Odisha state government, has completed its first phase of registration.
• Key features of Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation
or KALIA Scheme:
o Involves payments to encourage cultivation and associated activities.
o Primary targets are small farmers, cultivators and landless agricultural
labourers.
o All farmers will be provided Rs 10,000 per family as assistance for
cultivation.
o Each family will get Rs 5,000 separately in the kharif and rabi seasons,
for five cropping seasons between 2018-19 and 2021-22.
o Targets 10 lakh landless households, and specifically SC and ST families.
They will be supported with a unit cost of Rs 12,500 for activities like
goat rearing, mushroom cultivation, beekeeping, poultry farming and
fishery.
o A critical trade, dairy production, has deliberately been kept
out because keeping a cow is more expensive, while milk production
needs to have a collection route or agency that processes and refines
this low shelf-life product.
o It will assist the elderly, sick and differently-abled population who are
unable to take up cultivation, by providing Rs 10,000 per household per
year.
o The scheme includes a life insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh and additional
personal accident coverage of the same amount for 57 lakh households.
Crop loans up to Rs 50,000 are interest-free.
o This is also going to be an area-specific scheme in the sense that an
input support for a particular trade, say mushroom cultivation, will be
provided if it is prevalent throughout that locality so that there is
aggregation of produce.
• How different will KALIA be from a loan waiver?
o Unlike a loan waiver, (through which) banks appease a few farmers,
KALIA’s main targets are rural activities as a whole.
o It will support farming on a small scale, sharecropping, fishing, animal
herding, which are not covered under bank loans, but are caught in debt
traps set up by local moneylenders.
o Also, a farm loan waiver will reduce credit available to farmers in the
long term, while income support can be used to make a repayment or at
least activate a bank account which can then receive a loan.”
4. Rythu Bandhu Scheme
• Telangana government launched ‘Rythu Bandhu’ investment support scheme for farmers.
• The Rythu Bandhu (Agriculture Investment Support Scheme) takes care
of initial investment needs of every farmer.
• Aimed at relieving farmers of debt burden and cease them from falling into the debt trap again, the scheme provides a grant of Rs 4,000 per acre per farmer
each season for the purchase of inputs like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, labour and other investments in the field operations of farmer’s choice for the crop
season.
5. Jiban Sampark Project
• Odisha has launched Jiban Sampark project for the welfare of the Particularly
Vulnerable Tribal Groups.
• The Project is being undertaken in association with UNICEF.
• It aims to generate awareness among Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) in Odisha on various development and welfare initiatives of State
Government, especially on women and child welfare.
• The focus areas of the Project are skill development, empowering communities, cooperation and innovation among the groups.
• About ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)’:
o PVTGs are more vulnerable among the tribal groups.
o NOTES In 1975, the Government of India initiated to identify the most
vulnerable tribal groups as a separate category called PVTGs and
declared 52 such groups, while in 1993 an additional 23 groups were
added to the category, making it a total of 75 PVTGs out of 705
Scheduled Tribes, spread over 17 states and one Union Territory (UT), in
the country (2011 census).
o Among the 75 listed PVTG’s the highest number are found in Odisha
(13), followed by Andhra Pradesh (12).
6. Atal Solar Krishi Pump Yojana
• To reduce losses due to non-payment of electricity bills and also promote solar energy, Maharashtra state government has launched Atal Solar Krishi Pump
Yojana.
• Under the scheme, the government of Maharashtra has decided to give two LED bulbs, a DC fan and a mobile charging socket as freebies to farmers.
• The scheme provides a subsidy of up to 95% on solar pumpsets. The State
plans to install one lakh solar pumps.
• Eligibility: Under the Scheme, farmers with less than five acres will have to pay 5% of the cost of a 3 HP solar pump while farmers with more than five acres will get a 5 HP solar pump for Rs 30000.
• The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (Msedcl) is the
implementing agency.
• The scheme would be beneficial to farmers who reside in remote areas where the agricultural feeder is not possible.
7. Mukhyamantri Tirth Yatra Yojana
• Delhi state government has launched the ‘Mukhyamantri Tirth Yatra
Yojana’ which offers free travel packages for senior citizens from Delhi to five religious circuits.
• Who can avail this offer?
o 1,100 senior citizens from every constituency of Delhi will be able to
avail this facility at one go.
o Under this free pilgrimage scheme, a Delhi resident above 60 years will
be eligible to take free pilgrimage along with his or her spouse.
o There is no income criterion but preference will be given to those from
economically weaker sections on first-come-first-serve basis.
o Employees of central, state and local government or autonomous bodies
are not eligible for the scheme.
• Benefits:
o The applicant can also take along an attendant above the age of 20
years, if he or his spouse is above 70 years. The expenditure of the
attendant will also be borne by the Delhi government.
o Those selected for pilgrimage will be covered with an insurance of Rs 1
lakh each.
o The applicant will have to give a self-certificate that all information
being given by them is correct and they have not availed the scheme in
the past.
• Selection of pilgrims:The selection of pilgrims will be done through draw of lots and respective area MLAs will certify whether the intended beneficiaries
belong to Delhi or not.
8. State of Maharashtra’s Agribusiness and Rural Transformation
(SMART) Project
• Maharashtra Government has launched World Bank assisted State of
Maharashtra’s Agribusiness and Rural Transformation (SMART) Project to
transform rural Maharashtra.
• Aim: to revamp agricultural value chains, with special focus on marginal farmers across 1,000 villages.
• State of Maharashtra’s Agribusiness and Rural Transformation (SMART)
Project:
o The objective of project is to create and support value chains in postharvest segments of agriculture, facilitate agribusiness investment,
stimulate SMEs within the value chain.
o Focus: It will also support resilient agriculture production systems,
expand access to new and organised markets for producers and
enhance private sector participation in the agribusiness.
• Coverage:
o It will cover almost one-fourth of Maharashtra. Its focus is on villages
which are reeling under worst agriculture crisis compounded by lack of
infrastructure and assured value chains to channelize farm produce.
• Significance:
o The project is giant step towards transformation of rural economy and
empowerment of farmers and also sustainable agriculture through
public-private partnership (PPP) model.
o It seeks to ensure higher production of crops and create robust market
mechanism to enable farmers to reap higher remunerations for the
yield. It unites agriculture-oriented corporates and farmers by providing
them common platform.
9. Saura Jalnidhi Scheme
• Odisha Government has launched Saura Jalnidhi scheme to encourage use of solar energy in irrigation by farmers.
• Key features of the scheme:
o The beneficiary of this scheme will be farmers who have valid farmer
identity cards and haveminimum 0.5 acres of agricultural land.
o Under thisscheme, farmers will be given 90% subsidy and 5,000 solar
pumps. This will provide irrigation benefits in 2,500 acres of the state.
o In the first phase, this scheme will be available in those areas where
electricity is not available for running the pump set.
• Significance of the scheme:
o The scheme will generate 1.52 lakh human day employments annually
and provided livelihood to around 5,000 families and also reduce carbon
footprints.
o Under this scheme, farmers will be provided with a well-equipped solar
pump irrigation system in convergence mode.
It will help to reduce burden of input cost on farmers and also increase
agricultural income. It will promote the use of green energy and reduce
pollution. 10.Samruddhi scheme
• Karnataka has launched Samruddhi scheme for aspiring SC/ST rural
entrepreneurs.
• It is a rural entrepreneurship programme for Scheduled Castes (ST) and
Scheduled Tribes (SC) in Karnataka.
• Through this rural employment and skill development programme, the
government will partner with private organisations to provide training free of cost.
• The industry partners would invest up to 10 percent or more in retail
management, taxation policies and GST, inventory management, soft skills,
logistics, etc.”
• The government has also set up a seed grant of up to Rs 10 lakh to help the
beneficiaries set up their own franchises or retail outlets. It hopes to create
10,000 SC/ST rural entrepreneurs over the next three years.
• As part of the Samruddhi scheme, the government will also provide a seed
grant to deserving youth to start their own franchises or retail outlets after they receive the required training and certification.
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