Important Government Schemes – January 2019
1. Beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana register a refill
rate of 80%.
• Pradhan
Mantri Ujjwala Yojana that provides LPG connections to the women member of the
BPL households with a support of Rs 1600 per connection has registered a
refill rate of 80% as per the current data.
• The data
provided by the Ministry of Petroleum states that around 6 crore connections
were disbursed, and 23 crore refills were done under the Ujjwala Scheme.
Almost 80% of the recipients opted for the refill of LPG (Liquified PetroleumvGas)
cylinders.
• Pradhan
Mantri Ujjwala Yojana launched in the year 2016, intends to safeguard
the health of women and children by providing them with a clean cooking fuel so
that their health doesn’t get
compromised.
• The
identification of the BPL (Below Poverty Line) families is done through 2011
Socio-Economic Caste Census.
2. Government of Maharashtra introduces Atal Solar Krishi Pump
Yojana
•
Government of Maharashtra has introduced the Atal Solar Krishi Pump
Yojana to reduce losses due to non-payment of electricity bills and
promote solar energy.
• Under
the provisions of the scheme the government of Maharashtra has decided to give 2
LED bulbs, a DC fan and mobile charging socket as freebies to farmers of
the state.
• The
above scheme also provides a subsidy of 95% to the farmers on solar pump
sets.
•
Eligibility: Farmers with less than 5 acres of land will have to pay 5% of the
cost of a 3 HP solar pump set while farmers with more than 5 acres of land will
get a 5 HP solar pump for Rs 30,000.
• The
implementing agency for the scheme is Maharashtra State Electricity
Distribution
Company
Ltd (MSEDCL).
3. Three New AIIMs to be set up by the Government
• The
union cabinet headed by Prime Minister approved the setting up of 3 new AIIMS institutions
under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana at Vijaynagar in
Samba of Jammu Region, Awantipora in Pulwama of Kashmir Region and Rajkot in
Gujarat.
• The two
new AIIMS for Jammu region and Kashmir region were announced by the Prime Minister under the Prime Minister’s Development
Package and the AIIMS in Rajkot, Gujarat was announced by the Finance Minister
in his budget speech.
• Each new
AIIMS will add 100 UG MBBS seats and 60 BSc nursing seats, and the new AIIMS
will have 15-20 super speciality departments.
• Setting
up new AIIMS will serve the dual purpose of providing super-speciality healthcare
centres to the population closer to their homes and help in creating a large pool
of doctors and other health workers in these regions to strengthen the primary and
secondary level institutions and facilities being created under the National
Health
Mission
(NHM).
4. Government of Odisha announced a hike in pension under the
Madhu Babu Pension Yojana
• The
government of Odisha announced a hike of Rs 200 per month for the
beneficiaries of the social security pension scheme Madhu Babu Pension Yojana.
• The
Madhu Babu Pension Yojana is a pension scheme in Odisha under the Department of
Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities for the disabled,
old age persons.
• Beneficiaries
of the scheme are:
(i)
Persons with age of 60 years and above.
(ii) A
Widow irrespective of age
(iii) A
Widow patient with AIDS
(iv) A
Leprosy patient with visible deformity
(v) A
person of age 5 years and above and unable to do normal work due to
deformity
or disability.
(vi) An
AIDS patient identified by identified by the district/state AIDS control
society or
AIDS prevention control unit.
(vii) An
unmarried woman of age 30 years or above from the BPL family
• Conditions
for the Beneficiary:
(i)
Individual Income from all sources should not exceed Rs 24,000 per annum.
(ii)
Family Income not exceeding Rs 24,000 per annum.
(iii) Is a
permanent resident of Odisha.
(iv) Not
been convicted of any criminal offence.
(v)
Increased pension would benefit nearly 48 Lakh beneficiaries.
5. Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana announced 3
implementation models.
• Three
models have been announced under which the states can implement the
Pradhan
Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
• The
three models are:
• Insurance
Model – Under
this model, the premiums paid for the health insurance
scheme are paid to the insurance company
which pays the health claim.
• Truth-Based
Model – Under
this model, each state is supposed to form its own trust
to manage
the scheme and health claims are supposed to be disbursed from the
corpus
created from centre and state government contributions.
• Hybrid
Model – Under
this model, a part of the health claim comes under insurance
model
while the remaining part comes under the state and central government trust.
• Under
the PM-JAY scheme about 10.74 crore poor, deprived rural families and
identified occupational categories of urban workers’ families as per the latest
Socio-
Economic
Caste Census (SECC) data (approx. 50 crore beneficiaries) will have health
benefit
cover of Rs Five Lakhs per family per year at free of cost.
6. Madhya Pradesh Government announced Yuva Swabhimaan
Yojana
• The
government of Madhya Pradesh announced the Yuva Swabhimaan Yojana to
provide
employment to the unemployed youth from the economically
weaker section
in the
state.
• The
scheme intends to provide employment to the unemployed youth mainly in the
urban
areas of the state.
• The
scheme aims to provide employment to the weaker sections for nearly 100 days
of the
year.
• The
youth will also be given skill training by the government of the state.
• With
this scheme the government of the state intends to cover the people who are
not
covered under MGNREGA.
7. Prime Minister Launches Pravasi Teerth Darshan Yojana
• Under
this scheme, a group of Indian origin people will be taken on a statesponsored
tour of
religious places in India twice a year.
•
Indian-origin people in the age group 45 to 65 can apply for the scheme.
• The
government will bear all the expenses including the airfare from their country
of
residence.
• The
Scheme accords first preference to people from Girmitiya countries such as
Mauritius,
Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica.
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