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Monthly Government Schemes Capsule
March 2019
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Monthly Government Schemes Capsule
March 2019
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
MONTHLY CAPSULES
MARCH 2019
Andhra Pradesh announces New Railway Zone. • AIM is the Government of India’s flagship initiative to
promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in
• Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announced a new India.
railway zone for Andhra Pradesh, that is the Southern
Coast Railway and it will be headquartered in MSP For Minor Forest Produces Issued By Ministry Of Tribal
Visakhapatnam. Affairs.
• It will be the 18th zone in the country. The new zone will
comprise the existing Guntakal, Guntur and Vijayawada • Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Jual Oram launched the
divisions that currently fall under the South Central ambitious scheme of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs named
Railway. Van Dhan.
• The cost of creating infrastructure for a new zone is • The scheme is for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Minor
around Rs. 205 crore. Forest Produce (MFP) and Development of Value Chain of
• Governor : ESL Narasimhan & CM : Chandrababu Naidu. MFPs at a National Workshop organized by TRIFED.
IRCTC Launches Its Own Digital Payment Gateway 'IRCTC iPay'.
Brunei and India signed agreement to exchange information
on Tax and Banking matters. • IRCTC launched its own digital payment aggregator called
'IRCTC iPay'. With iPay, passengers will not need any third-
• India and Brunei signed a pact for the exchange of party platforms as it will provide payment options like
Information and Assistance in Collection with respect to credit card, debit card, unified payment interface and
taxes in order to curb tax evasion and tax avoidance in international card.
New Delhi. • This will help reduce the gap between IRCTC and banks
• This agreement will facilitate both the countries to which will eventually lead to a substantial reduction in
exchange information, including banking and ownership payment failures.
information for tax purposes and will also avail mutual
assistance in collection of tax revenue claims.
• Brunei Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan, Currency: Brunei Rice Knowledge Bank- Assam’ Launched Under APART.
dollar.
• Rice Knowledge Bank-Assam, is an agriculture web portal.
Adobe partners with NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission. It is dedicated to magnifying knowledge on rice
production technologies and techniques, best production
• NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Adobe practices and state agriculture facts.
signed a Statement of Intent (SOI) to collectively drive the • It was launched under the World Bank funded project –
charter of developing creative skills and spreading digital Agri-business and Rural Transformation (APART).
literacy across all Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) in India. • This portal is the repercussion of efforts of Assam Rural
• 100 schools will be adopted by Adobe under the ATL Infrastructure and Agricultural Services Society (ARIAS),
initiative and will be implementing its Digital Disha Assam Agricultural University (AAU) with technical
Program in ATLs, under which free licenses of Adobe Spark assistance from the International Rice Research Institute
premium shall be offered to ATLs. (IRRI).
• The Adobe Digital Disha Programme, launched in 2018, is
aimed at driving synergies in creative thinking and Jal Amrutha’ Scheme Launched By Karnataka Government.
technology-based learning.
• ATL is based on the philosophy to identify and nurture • A water conservation scheme ‘Jal Amrutha’ was launched
innovation in young students across India. by Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, in
Bengaluru. A function was organized by the Rural
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Development and Panchayat Raj department at Dr. B R
Ambedkar Bhavan in Bengaluru. • Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani launched a
• The scheme plans to make people aware of the comprehensive scheme for the development of knitting
importance of conserving water and to prompt them to and knitwear sector under PowerTex India in New Delhi.
come up with ways to avoid wastage of water. • Apart from financial incentives, the two key elements are
• The state government has declared 2019 as the Year of Yarn Bank and financial assistance for the solar energy
Water. scheme.
Haryana Government Announces Mukhyamantri Parivar
Samman Nidhi Scheme.
• 'Mukhyamantri Parivar Samman Nidhi' scheme was
launched by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar
in Chandigarh.
• It is primarily meant for farmers of the state who cultivate
on land with areas up to 5 acres and the families with an
income of less than Rs. 15,000 per month.
• The scheme would provide a sum of Rs. 6,000 yearly and
each family has to nominate a member who will be
provided with this amount.
Gram Samridhi Yojana: New Scheme To Help Unorganised
Food Processing Sector.
• Gram Samridhi Yojana, a Rs 3,000 crore scheme funded by
the World Bank and the Government of India, is being
worked upon by the Ministry of Food Processing
Industries in order to strengthen the unorganised food
processing sector concentrated in rural areas.
• NITI Aayog has given its approval to the scheme.
• World Bank will be giving Rs 1,500 crore, Rs 1,000 crore
will be borne by the Centre while state governments will
put in Rs 500 crore.
India’s First Policy To Protect Bank Locker Launched.
Cabinet Approves ‘Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana’.
• IFFCO Tokio General Insurance has launched ‘bank locker
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by protector policy’, the first stand-alone bank locker cover
Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ‘Pradhan offered by any insurance company with a plan to protect
Mantri Jaiv Indhan- Vatavaran Anukool fasal awashesh the contents of a bank locker such as jewelry, title
Nivaran (JI-VAN) Yojana’ for providing financial support to documents, and other valuables.
the Integrated Bioethanol Projects. • The policy offers a cover against various risks including
• The scheme aims to incentivise the Second Generation fire, earthquake, burglary, holdup or any act of terrorism.
(2G) Ethanol sector and support the industry by creating a It offers 7 options of sum insured ranging from Rs 3 lakh
suitable ecosystem for setting up commercial projects and to Rs 40 lakh and above and the premium rate is
increasing R&D in this area. affordable with a cover of Rs 3 lakh available at just Rs
• The PM JI-VAN Yojana will be supported with the total 300.
financial outlay of Rs 1969.50 crore for the period 2018- • IFFCO Tokio is a joint venture between the Indian Farmers
19 to 2023-24. Fertilizer Co-operative (IFFCO) and its associates and
Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Group which is also the
largest listed insurance group in Japan.
Textiles Minister Launches Scheme For Development of
Knitwear Sector. PM Launches 'One Nation One Card'.
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• The government has introduced a scheme for
• PM Narendra Modi launched the indigenously-developed providing financial assistance for transport and
National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) to enable people marketing of agriculture products with a view to
to pay multiple kinds of transport charges, including boosting export of farm commodities to certain
metro services and toll tax, across the country. countries in Europe and North America.
• Dubbed as 'One Nation One Card', the inter-operable • Under the Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA)
transport card would allow the holders to pay for their bus scheme, the government would reimburse a certain
travel, toll taxes, parking charges, retail shopping and portion of freight charges and provide assistance for
even withdraw money. marketing of agricultural produce.
• The scheme covers freight and marketing assistance
for export by air as well as by sea (both normal and
Notun Disha' Initiated By Tripura Government. refrigerated cargo).
• The government of Tripura announced
President presents Swachh Survekhshan-2019 Awards.
‘Notun Disha’ (New Direction) for assessing
the academic level of students in classes III-
• President Ram Nath Kovind has presented Swachh
VIII and then improving their current level. Survekhshan-2019 Awards in New Delhi. Indore
It was launched by state Education Minister bagged award for the cleanest city for the third
Ratan Lal Nath. straight year in Swachh Survekshan.
• Training will be provided by NGOs and • New Delhi Municipal Council area gets cleanest small
educational institutions to 800 teachers. city award while Uttarakhand’s Gauchar was
• The duration of the project is 1 month. Rs. 28 adjudged Best Ganga Town in the survey.
crores have been allocated to the project. • Top-ranked cities received a statue of Father of the
Nation Mahatma Gandhi as the award for their work
towards cleanliness.
• Swachh Survekshan 2019 covered all Urban Local
Bodies in the country, making it the largest such
cleanliness survey in the world.
Women To Get Permanent Commission In 10 Army Branches.
• Women officers can now get permanent
commissions in 10 branches of the Indian Army, the
government announced.
ISRO Launches 'Yuva Vigyani Karyakram' For School Children. • The Defence Ministry stated that it has taken
necessary steps to ensure that women, who were
earlier inducted for short service commission (SSC),
• Indian Space Research Organisation has launched
get the permanent commission in the armed forces.
'Yuva VIgyani Karyakram', a 'Young Scientist
• The permanent commission will be granted to
Programme' for the School Children to be studying in
women officers inducted in branches such as Signals,
the 9th standard.
Engineers, Army Aviation, Army Air Defence,
• ‘'Catch them young' residential training programme
Electronics and Mechanical Engineers, Army Service
will be of around two weeks duration during summer
Corps, Army Ordnance Corps and Intelligence.
holidays with a proposal to select 3 students from
each State and Union Territory, covering CBSE, ICSE
and State syllabus.
• ISRO Director: K. Sivan, Headquarters: Bengaluru. ‘Azaadi Ke Diwane’ museum inaugurated at Red Fort.
• Union Minister Mahesh Sharma has inaugurated
Government brings transport scheme to boost agriculture ‘Azaadi Ke Diwane’ museum, dedicated to the unsung
exports. heroes of the country’s freedom struggle, on the Red
Fort premises in New Delhi.
• Built by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the
museum is the fifth in a series of recently inaugurated
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ones — the others being the Subhash Chandra Bose • Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri has
and INA museum, the Yaad-e-Jallian museum, the launched e-Dharti app where all the three modules-
Museum on 1857 (on the country’s first war of Conversion, Substitution and Mutation related to
Independence) the Drishyakala (a museum on Indian properties have been made online.
Art) on the sacrifices of India’s freedom fighters. • The payment system in Land and Development
Office, L&DO has also been completely digitized.
• The public can now submit their applications online
Bharat Electronics launches SWAGAT- Automatic Fare by visiting the L&DO website and are not required to
Collection Gating System. visit this office for submission of them and for follow
up of their applications.
• Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a defence public
sector undertaking, presented SWAGAT – the
Automatic Fare Collection Gating System.
• PM Narendra Modi launched the system as part of
the inaugural of Phase-I of the Ahmedabad Metro.
• SWAGAT is an initiative steered by the Ministry of
Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in collaboration
with BEL and Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (CDAC) with the support of Delhi Metro
Rail Corporation (DMRC), National Payment
Corporation of India (NPCI) and State Bank of India
(SBI).
UK CM Rawat lays foundation stone for Doon-Mussoorie
ropeway project.
• Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat
has laid the foundation stone for the Dehradun-
Mussoorie ropeway project which is considered to be
a tourist novelty.
• The Rs 300-crore ropeway project is expected to be
completed in three years.
• Poma, a French company which manufactures cable-
driven projects, will provide the technical support to
the ropeway which will be built on the PPP mode.
CCEA approves Rs 2,790 cr interest subvention on loans to
Labour Ministry Signs MoU with Simtars, Australia for
sugar mills.
Cooperation In Occupational Safety.
• The CCEA has approved Rs 2,790 crore interest
• The Union Cabinet approved a pact with Germany for
subvention for extending loans by banks to sugar
cooperation in the field of occupational safety and
mills.
health.
• This is in addition to Rs 1,332 crore already approved
• The cabinet has approved the MoU between India
by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
and Germany on cooperation in the field of
(CCEA) in June 2018.
Occupational Safety and Health (OSH).
• The interest subvention is for extending loans of Rs
• Under the MoU, German Social Accident Insurance
12,900 crore by banks to sugar mills under the
(DGUV) through the International Social Security
scheme for extending financial assistance to sugar
Association (ISSA) is bringing in know-how to meet
mills for enhancement and augmentation of ethanol
the OSH challenges, especially in the construction and
production capacity.
manufacturing sector.
Hardeep S Puri launches e-Dharti App.
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Google Launches Reading Tutor App 'Bolo' For Kids in India.
• Google launched a free app called "Bolo" that parents Delhi Government Sets-Up High-level Committee To Reform
can download to help primary grade children improve Higher Education.
their Hindi and English reading skills.
• Launched in India first, the app is designed to work • The Delhi government’s Dialogue and Development
offline and comes with a built-in reading buddy, Commission (DDC), a think-tank that advises the
"Diya", who encourages, aids, explains, and corrects government on key issues, has set up a 17-member
the child, as they read aloud. high-level committee to “reform higher education” in
the capital.
• The committee will be chaired by DDC vice-
Madhya Pradesh Government Increases Reservation Quota of chairperson Jasmine Shah. Nalanda 2.0, a non-profit
OBCs to 27%. policy think tank is collaborating with the DDC as the
knowledge partner in the initiative.
• The Madhya Pradesh government issued an
ordinance increasing reservation quota for the Other
Backward Classes (OBC) to 27% from the current 14%. Aviva Life Insurance launches Special Mentorship Programme
• The announcement was made by the state’s Law and ‘Wings’.
Legal Affairs Minister PC Sharma.
• The ordinance was issued and notified after it • Aviva Life Insurance announced the launch of ‘Wings’,
received the assent from the state’s Governor a specially designed mentorship program to
Anandiben Patel. empower the female workforce.
• Wings program is an initiative of the SHE division of
Aviva Life Insurance for mentoring all the women
New Visa Agreement Between India, Maldives Comes Into employees in Aviva.
Effect. • SHE was started in 2016 by Aviva India’s Women
Network.
• The new visa agreement between India and Maldives • Aviva Life Insurance Headquarters: Gurgaon,
came into force. Haryana, MD and CEO: Trevor Bull.
• The new policy provides a liberal visa policy for
Maldivian citizens seeking medical treatment as well
as education and business opportunities in India. Microsoft Launched Project ‘Sangam’ To Boost India’s Swachh
• The agreement has come into effect after all Bharat Mission.
formalities including information being provided to
all immigration offices, border points and customs • Microsoft has announced that it has partnered with
authorities have been completed. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)
to promote its Project ‘Sangam’ which is developed
to accelerate Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in India.
India-Bangladesh Jointly Inaugurated 4 Development • It is one of the world’s largest Cleanliness
Projects. Programme.
• Project Sangam is a cloud-hosted, mobile-first
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh community learning platform.
counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly unveiled e-plaques
for development projects in Bangladesh through
video conferencing. i-help' Initiative Launched In Assam.
• ii. This was the sixth such video conference between
PM Modi and Prime Minister Hasina. Both the leaders • The 'i-help' initiative to promote digital electoral
launched the e-plaques for these projects in literacy in Assam has been launched in view of the
Bangladesh: forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
• Supply of buses and trucks, • It is a joint initiative of the Office of the Chief Electoral
• Inauguration of 36 community clinics, Officer(CEO) and Common Service Centres (CSC) in
• Inauguration of 11 water treatment plants, Assam.
• Extension of National Knowledge Network to
Bangladesh. Mobile App ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ Developed By IIPHG.
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• Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, (IIPHG)
in collaboration with National Mental Health
Program, Department of Health and Family Welfare,
Government of Gujarat has developed a mobile
application called as ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ for
students to reduce the exam pressure.
• Gujarat Capital: Gandhinagar CM: Vijay Rupani,
Governor: Om Prakash Kohli.
CBSE Launches Shiksha Vani App.
• The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
launched a new podcast app 'Shiksha Vani' that will
disseminate crucial information to students and
parents in a timely manner.
• CBSE Chairperson- Anita Karwal, Headquarters- New
Delhi.
Indian Navy Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Training Facility
Launched.
• The Indian Navy's state of the art Nuclear, Biological,
and Chemical Training Facility (NBCTF) was
inaugurated by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil
Lanba at INS Shivaji, Lonavala.
• The training facility has been named ABHEDYA, which
means impenetrable in Sanskrit.
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