YUVA- Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors: Ministry of Education has launched “YUVA- Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors”. YUVA is an Author Mentorship program that will train young and budding authors aged below 30 years in order to promote reading, writing, and book culture in India. It will also project India and […]
Category: Important Scheme
DBT Of The Cooking Cost Component Of The Mid-Day-Meal Scheme
DBT Of The Cooking Cost Component Of The Mid-Day-Meal Scheme: The Ministry of Education has approved the proposal to provide monetary assistance to students through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of the cooking cost component of the Mid-Day-Meal (MDM) Scheme, to all eligible children. Implications of DBT for MDM Scheme: With schools closed for months due […]
SeHAT OPD Portal
SeHAT OPD Portal: Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh launched ‘Services e-Health Assistance & Tele-consultation (SeHAT) OPD portal through video conferencing on May 27, 2021. The portal provides telemedicine services to the serving Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and their families. The services can be availed by registering on the website. This is the final version of the […]
MPLADS : MP Local Area Development Scheme
MP Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS):: MPs have written to Speaker Om Birla to restart the Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS). The Union government had resorted to Disaster Management Act to suspend the member of Parliament local area development (MPLAD) scheme in April 2020. About MPLAD scheme: Launched in December 1993. Seeks […]
One Stop Centres for Gender-Based Violence
One-Stop Centres: The Ministry of Women and Child Development will set up One Stop Centres (OSCs) across 10 countries to provide assistance to Indian women who are survivors of gender-based violence. The missions where the OSCs will come up are Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, UAE, Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Canada and Singapore. […]
Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana: New AIIMS started under Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana are providing advanced COVID Care in States. Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), a Central Sector Scheme, was announced in 2003 to address imbalances in the availability of tertiary care hospitals and improve medical education in the country. The scheme received […]
ELDERLINE
ELDERLINE: The Ministry of Social Justice has started state-wise call centers in five major states to address the problems faced by elderly people in the wake of the covid pandemic. The toll-free helpline for elderly persons called ELDERLINE is expected to become operational in all states by the end of May 2021. The states covered […]
SAMVEDNA
SAMVEDNA: With the objective of providing psychological first-aid and emotional support to children affected during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)is providing Tele-Counselling to children through SAMVEDNA. SAMVEDNA stands for Sensitizing Action on Mental Health Vulnerability through Emotional Development and Necessary Acceptance. It is a Toll-Free Helpline launched to […]
SWAMIH Scheme
SWAMIH: Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs handed over possession to homebuyers as the Government of India’s Special Window for Affordable & Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) completes its first residential project. The residential project – Rivali Park, located in suburban Mumbai, was the first housing project in India to have received funding under the SWAMIH […]
MLA-LAD Scheme : Important Points
MLA-LAD Scheme: Rajasthan Government has approved a proposal to provide Rs. 3 crore each from the MLA Local Area Development (LAD) Fund to mobilize resources for Covid-19 Vaccination of the people in the age group of 18 to 44 years. For meeting the expenses, the fund for each legislator has been increased from Rs. 2.25 […]
