Ministry of Agriculture & Allied
Activities
Ř
Budget allocation for the agriculture ministry increased by
13 per cent to Rs 58,080 crore for 2018 -19 fiscal, from Rs 51,576 crore in
2017-18.
Ř 74.5% hike in budgetary allocation during
2014-19 compared to 2009 to 2014. Up from Rs. 1,21,082 crores to Rs. 2,11,694
crore
Ř
Farm credit target raised to Rs 11 lakh crore for 2018-19
from Rs 10 lakh crore in 2017-18.
Rashtriya Gokul Mission
Launch Date: 16.12.14
Objective: To conserve and develop
indigenous bovine breeds for enhancing milk production and productivity.
Launched in December 2014 with an allocation of Rs 2025 crores
Achievements:
·
Rs. 190 crores allotted during 2017-18
·
20 Gokul Grams are being established and 41 Bull Mother Farms
modernized.
·
1404 High Genetic Merit Artificial Inseminator Bulls have been
inducted for natural service.
Soil Health
Card Scheme
Launch Date: 17.2.2015
Objective: To help
farmers improve productivity by issuing them soil health card
completely free of cost, this can be renewed every two years. Soil Health
Cards to be issued to all farmers by 2019.
Achievements:
· 10.64 crore Soil
Health Cards distributed in Phase-I during 2015-17.
· 2.04 crore soil
Health Cards distributed in phase -2 during 2017-18.
· Under Soil Health
Management Scheme, Rs. 243.82 crores released to the States during 2014-17
against Rs.27.76 crores during 20011-14
· Under Soil Health
Cards Scheme, Rs.401.65 crores released to the states during 2014-17
· 9243 Soil Testing
Laboratories including 8752 Mini Labs sanctioned to the
States between 2014-17 against 15 during 2011-14.
·
Funds
amounting to ₹ 925.36 lakh have been
released to ICAR under RKVY Scheme, for setting up 1076 new Mini labs and 100%
coverage of all 648 KVKs.
·
Scheme
for setting up village level soil testing labs Labs by local entrepreneurs
approved by EFC on 29.11.2017. and 95 labs approved by finance (Rs.108
lakh), funds not to be released.
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
Launch Date: 1.7.2015
Objective:
·
To achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at the field
level.
·
To Enhance the physical access of water on the farm and expand cultivable
area under assured irrigation (Har Khet ko pani)
·
To enhance the adoption of precision - irrigation and other water
saving technologies and Improve on - farm water use efficiency to reduce
wastage and increase availability both in duration and extent. (Per Drop More
Crop).
·
PMKSY to cover 28.5 Lakh hectare area under irrigation
Achievements:
·
PMKSY
to cover 28.5 Lakh hectare area under irrigation
·
Rs. 50,000 crores to be invested in five years to achieve ‘Water
to Every Field / HarKhetKoPaani’
·
Long Term Irrigation Fund
with Rs 40,000 Crore (Budget 2016-17 and 2017-18) established for
completion of 99 priority projects.
·
Dedicated
Micro Irrigation fund with a sum of Rs. 5000 crores is being set up for enhancing coverage of micro irrigation.
·
Under
‘Per Drop More Crop’ for micro irrigation 26.87 lakh hectares brought under
micro irrigation from 2014-18( as on 25.03.2018)
·
The
work of completing 99 Irrigation projects that were held up for decades is in
progress.
·
Under Har
Khet ko Pani, 96 deprived irrigation districts will be taken up with an
allocation of Rs 2600 crore.
·
Centre
will work with the state governments to facilitate farmers for installing solar
water pumps to irrigate their fields.
·
Budget
allocation of PMKSY IN 2018-19: Rs. 9429 crores.
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
Launch Date: 13.1.2016
Objective:
·
To provide comprehensive insurance coverage to farmers in the
event of failure of any of the notified crop as a result of natural calamities,
pests & diseases
·
To encourage adoption of innovative practices
·
To increase the number of insured farmers gross cropped area (GCA)
from present 20% to 50% by 2018-19.
·
Biggest financial support till date by the Central Government in
crop insurance. Plan to increase crop insurance coverage from 20% to 50% by
2018-19.
·
Implemented by 23 States during Kharif 2016; 405.76 lakh farmers
covered and 379.06 lakh hectares insured over the sum insured of Rs.1, 31,5 1988.16 lakh.
·
During
Rabi 2016-17, 169.11 lakh farmers covered and more than 192.47 lakh hectares
insured over the sum insured of Rs. 6,95,0386 lakh.
·
During
2017-18, under Rabi & Kharif crops, 4.79 lakh farmers were provided
protective coverage under this scheme.
Budget Allocations:
·
2018-19-
Rs. 13000cr. Hike of 21%
·
2017-18-
Rs. 10701 cr
·
2016-17 - Rs. 5500 cr (actual expenditure Rs. 11,054.63 crore )
·
2015-16 - Rs. 3185 cr (actual expenditure Rs. 2,982.47 crore)
E-National Agriculture Market
Launch Date: 14.4.2016
Objective:
Achievements:
Target
to double farmers’ income by 2022
Seven Point Strategy
1.
Special
focus on irrigation with sufficient budget, with the aim of “Per Drop More
Crop”.
2.
Provision
of quality seeds and nutrients based on soil health of each field.
3.
Large
investments in Warehousing and Cold Chains to prevent post-harvest crop losses.
4.
Promotion
of value addition through food processing.
5.
Creation
of a National Farm Market, removing distortions and e-platform across 585
Stations.
6.
Introduction
of a New Crop Insurance Scheme to mitigate risks at an affordable cost.
7.
Promotion
of ancillary activities like poultry, beekeeping, and fisheries.
ENHANCED
CROP YIELD (2017-18 Estimates)
MSP & PROCUREMENT
·
Pulses
production went up by more than 3.5 percent during 2017-18 (as per 2nd
Advance estimates) as compared to last year’s production, of 231.3 lakh, which
is a record.
·
Launch
of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana” to modernise supply chain
infrastructure in the agricultural sector.
·
Budget allocation doubled under the Krishi Sampada Yojana to
push the Food processing industry
FERTLIZER
SUBSIDIES
·
Fertilizer subsidies: Urea and Nutrient bases subsidies up by
almost 8 percent to Rs 70000 crore
PARAMPARAGAT KRISHI VIKAS YOJANA
Dept of
Animal Husbandry Dairy & Fisheries
BLUE
REVOLUTION
·
A revolution” in the fisheries sector; Restructured the scheme by merging
all the ongoing schemes under an umbrella of Blue Revolution
·
Integration of all fisheries projects, Blue Revolution Scheme gets
approval
ANIMAL
REARING AND DAIRY:
BUDGET 2018:
INFRASTRUCTURE IN FISHERY, AQUACULTURE AND
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SECTORS
·
A corpus of Rs 10,000 crore to create infrastructure in
fishery, aquaculture and animal husbandry sectors
·
A corpus of Rs. 2,000 crore as Agri-market
infrastructure fund
·
Rs 1,290 crore announced for the National Bamboo Mission to
help setting up of small industries and create new employments opportunities in
bamboo sector.
·
Tax
incentives to promote post-harvest agricultural activities.
·
Launch
of Operation Greens on the lines of Operation Flood with budgetary outlay of
Rs. 500 crores. To address the challenge of price volatility of perishable
commodities like tomato, onion and potato with the satisfaction of both the
farmers and consumers.
·
To
develop and upgrade existing 22,000 rural haats into Gramin Agricultural
Markets (GrAMs) to take care of the interests of more than 86% small and
marginal farmers. These GrAMs, electronically linked to e-NAM will provide
farmers facility to make direct sale to consumers and bulk purchasers.
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MINISTRY OF AYUSH
·
New Ministry of AYUSH was set up on 9th November
2014 to ensure the optimal development and propagation of AYUSH systems of
health care.
·
Celebration of International Day of Yoga
Ministry
of AYUSH successfully organized the International Day of Yoga consecutively for
3 years. 21st June was declared unanimously as
International Day of Yoga by the United
Nations General Assembly on
11th December, 2014 following relentless efforts of Prime Minister Narendra
Modi. IDY on 21st June 2015 established two Guinness World
Records for the largest yoga class, featuring 35,985 people and for the largest
number of participating nationalities (84 nations). IDY 2015 in New Delhi, 2016
in Chandigarh and 2017 in Lucknow.
·
The Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy conducted
one- month Yoga Training Camp from 21st May to 21st June
in last 3 years. During 2017 alone, more than 10 lakhs people got benefitted
from this programme.
·
Celebration of Ayurveda Day
Ř
1st
National Ayurveda Day- Was celebrated on Dhanvantari Jayanti on
28th October, 2016. On this occasion, The Ministry of AYUSH instituted
“National Dhanwantari Ayurveda Award” to be conferred to
eminent Vaidyas and Ayurveda experts and motivate them to adopt best
practices of Ayurveda in the pursuit of excellence. The Ministry of AYUSH
launched “Mission Madhumeha through Ayurveda” on the
occasion of first National Ayurveda Day. A protocol on Madhumeh has
also been prepared by the Ministry of AYUSH.
Ř
2nd National
Ayurveda Day- Ministry
celebrated on 17th October, 2017. On this occasion, Hon’ble Prime Minister
dedicated All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), to the Nation on 17th October,
2017. On this occasion Ministry also organized Conference at India Habitat
Centre, New Delhi to bring all Stake holders of Ayurveda Sector and create a
platform for constructive discussion on the road map to triple the Industry’s
potential in just five-year time. It Organized the Ayurveda Conclave Vision
2022- Taking of Ayurveda Sector from $2.5 Billion to $ 8 Billion Industry.
·
Celebration of Ayurveda Day
The
First Siddha Day was celebrated on 4th January, 2018 observing the
birthday of Siddhar Agathiyar at Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai.
·
Celebration of Unani Day
The
Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine organized an International
Conference on Unani Medicine on the occasion of Unani Day during 10th and
11th February 2018 in New Delhi. The subject of the conference was
‘Integration of Unani System of Medicine in Mainstream Healthcare’. Around 440
professionals participated in the Conference. International delegates from 12
countries attended the conference. A total of 10 AYUSH Awards were
distributed in different categories of Unani Medicine.
·
First All India Institute of Ayurveda established
Ř
The first ever All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) is set up
along the lines of AIIMS on the 2nd Ayurveda Day (17thOctober,
2017). The total campus area of Institute is 10.015 acres with a budget of
Rs.157 Crore. It has an NABH Accredited Hospital and an Academic Block. Out
Patient Services are being provided in the hospital block of the AIIA and
medicines are given free of cost. The indoor patient department has provision
for 200 beds.
·
International
AROGYA 2017
Ř
Ministry
of AYUSH in collaboration with Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and
Industry; Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and
Pharmexcil organized the ‘International AROGYA 2017’ – First Edition of
International Exhibition and Conference on AYUSH and Wellness on the theme
‘Enhancing the export potential of AYUSH’ during 4-7 Dec. 2017. The event was
attended by International Ayurveda Experts/ Academicians/ Scientists/
Regulators/ Manufacturers. During the International Conference and Regulators
Meet, important topics relating to standardization and quality control in AYUSH
sector; enhancing the export potential of AYUSH and business opportunities; and
integrative healthcare, etc. were extensively deliberated
·
AYUSH Health Care Services
National AYUSH Mission (NAM)
Ř
Launched on September 2014 for promotion
of AYUSH healthcare and for supporting the efforts of State/UT Governments for
the development of AYUSH sector including Ayurveda.
Ř
The Union
Cabinet has approved the continuation of National AYUSH Mission (NAM) as a
Centrally Sponsored Scheme from 1st April, 2017 to 31st March, 2020
with financial outlay of Rs.2400.00 Crore.
Ř
Under
Mainstreaming of AYUSH component- As on 29 December 2017- 8994 PHCs, 2871 CHCs and 506 District
Hospitals have been co-located with AYUSH facilities.
Ř
Under
NAM, Ministry intends to set up fifty bedded hospitals in all the
districts in next 10 years. So far sixty-six 50 bedded integrated
AYUSH hospitals and 992 yoga wellness centres have been assisted.
Ř
National
Health Policy, 2017 ensures access to AYUSH remedies through co-location in
public facilities. Policy also recognizes the need to nurture AYUSH system of
medicine, through development of infrastructural facilities of teaching
institutions, improving quality control of drugs, capacity building of
institutions and professionals.
Ř
Training
in AYUSH is being provided to ASHA/ANMs workers.
Ř
Swasthya Rakshan Programme
(SRP) has been launched through all AYUSH institutions for promotion of health.
·
Insurance
Coverage
Ř
With
the efforts of Ministry, Insurance coverage is being extended to AYUSH
treatment and a notification in this regard has been issued by IRDA.
·
Quality
Assurance
Ř
Quality
Council of India (QCI) at the behest of Ministry of AYUSH has developed a
Scheme for Voluntary Certification of Yoga Professionals.
Ř
Upgradation
of drug testing laboratories has been supported under NAM in most of the
States. In addition, 55 Drug Testing Laboratories have been approved for the
purpose of quality assurance.
Ř
Good
clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines for clinical trials on Ayurveda, Siddha and
Unani Medicines and guidelines for inspection of GMP compliance by ASU&H
drugs industry issued.
Ř
During
the financial year 2017-18 seven Pharmacies and nine Drugs Testing Laboratories
have been financial supported under National AYUSH Mission (NAM).
Ř
27
Drug Testing Laboratories under Central Government and 47 State Pharmacies have
been supported for strengthening of their infrastructural and functional
capacity. As on date 55 laboratories are approved or licensed under the
provisions of Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 for quality testing of Ayurvedic,
Siddha and Unani drugs and raw materials.
·
International
Cooperation
Ř Memorandums of Understanding
(MoUs)- Federal level MoU signed with 11 countries and
Institute level MoUs signed with 24 Countries.
Ř 28 AYUSH Information Cells have been
set up in 25 countries so far.
Ř Signed Agreement with WHO for promotion
of AYUSH systems.
Ř 1st Meeting of BIMSTEC Task Force on
Traditional Medicine in India was organised by the Ministry of AYUSH during
24-25 October, 2017 at New Delhi, wherein delegations from the People’s
Republic of Bangladesh, the Kingdom of Bhutan, the Republic of India, the
Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Kingdom of Thailand along
with the BIMSTEC Secretariat participated.
Ř A
project Collaboration Agreement (PCA) has been signed between Ministry of AYUSH
and WHO, Geneva for developing WHO Terminologies in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha.
Ř The Second Training program for
Traditional Medicine regulator/practitioner of Africa was held on 08 – 14
February, 2018 in New Delhi as a part of proposal approved by the Cabinet and
announced by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India during Third India Africa
Forum Summit (IAFS III). This was conducted under one of the three areas for
the cooperation in social development and capacity building with African
nations. 31 participants from 11 African countries attended the training
programme.
·
Apex
Institutions in Northeast
Ř
North
Eastern Institute of Ayurveda & Homoeopathy, Shillong has been
inaugurated in 2016. It is a state-of-the-art institute, consisting of Ayurveda
College and Homoeopathy College, along with attached hospital of Ayurveda and
Homoeopathy of 100 beds and 50 beds respectively. North Eastern Institute of
Folk Medicine (NEIFM), Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh is the centre of
Excellence and Apex Research Centre for all aspects of Folk Medicine knowledge.
·
National
Medicinal Plant Board (NMPB)
Ř
Launched
an online virtual platform ‘www.e-charak.in’
and a mobile application ‘e-charak’, In the collaboration with Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)- Hyderabad.
Ř
Monthly Mandi price of
high demand medicinal plants is being provided in collaboration with Federation
of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Stakeholders (EFDMAPS).
Ř
365 days campaign
on Medicinal Plants “to spread awareness” has been launched by NMPB at Jaipur
on 20th and 21st August 2016.
Ř
To
implement Space Based tools in the monitoring and strategic decision making in
the field of Medicinal Plants, National Medicinal Plants Board has signed an MoU
with National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), India n Space Research Organization
(ISRO).
Ř
NMPB
with Quality Council of India (QCI) has finalized the guidelines for voluntary
certification of raw material for Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good
Field Collection Practices (GFCP).
Ř
NMPB
has supported a project on “Development on Training Modules and facilitation
guides for Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) and Good Field Collection Practices
(GFCP) for Medicinal Plants to ICAR – DMAPR for an amount of Rs.102.294 lakhs.
In this regard, ICAR, DMAPR, Gujarat has developed a training module and
organized first training program from 18th to 22nd September 2017.
·
AYUSH
Education Reforms
Ř
In
order to raise the levels of the AYUSH education, Ministry is planning a
country-wide collective of AYUSH students which will serve as a platform for
students for organizing various activities.
Ř
National
Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for all AYUSH Educational Institutions
for admission of undergraduate Course through designated Authority. For all
system of AYUSH, minimum 50% marks should be obtained by the candidates to be
eligible for admission in Under Graduate Course.
Ř
National
Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for all AYUSH Educational Institutions
for admission of Post graduate Course / Exit Exam through designated Authority.
For all system of AYUSH, minimum 50% marks should be obtained by the candidates
to qualify the test. By assessing the percentage of qualifying students
in PG NEET / Exit examination of a particular AYSUH Institution, the due
benefits should be given to that particular college and the same will be
incorporated in MSR of both ASU & H system. Colleges shall be
exempted from obtaining permission from Central Government for one year, if 70%
of the students of the previous batch qualify the PG-NEET / Exit exam.
Ř
AYUSH
National Teachers Eligibility Test shall be conducted for appointment of
all teachers in AYUSH Institutions, and a unique verification code
for such teachers shall be allotted by CCH / CCIM before their appointment.
Ř
The
attendance of Teaching Staffs in all AYUSH Medical Colleges shall be through
geo location based system, which shall be made accessible by the relevant
Council (CCIM / CCH) as well as the Ministry.
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Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers
D/o
Fertilizers
Neem Coated
Urea
· An
increase in yield of paddy to an extent of 5.79 per cent
· An
increase in yield of sugarcane to extent of 17.5 per cent
· An
increase in yield of maize to the extent of 7.14 per cent
· An
increase in yield of Soya bean to the extent of 7.4 per cent
· An
increase in yield Tur/ Red Gram to the extent of 16.88 per cent.
Record
Production of Urea
Introduction of 45 Kg. Urea
Bags replacing the existing 50 Kg. Bags
Vide Notification dated
4.9.2017, it has been decided by the Govt., to introduce 45 Kg Bag of urea
replacing the existing 50 Kg bag.
New Urea policy 2015
Reduction in the rates of P&K Fertilizers
·
The Department had encouraged the Fertilizer companies to reduce
the rates of P&K fertilizers which resulted in reduction in the MRP of
DAP, MOP and Complex fertilizers by Rs. 125/, Rs.250/- and Rs. 50/-
respectively per 50 kg bag from June 2016.
·
The prices of DAP again reduced by Rs. 65/- per 50 kg during
December, 2016.
New Investment Policy (NIP) – 2012
·
Based on NIP – 2012 (amendment
on 7th October 2014), any interested company can establish urea
plants in the country. Matix Fertilisers & Chemicals Limited (Matix) has
set up a Coal Bed Methane (CBM) based Greenfield Ammonia-Urea complex at Panagarh,
West Bengal with the installed capacity of 1.3 MMT per annum. The
commercial production of Matix has started on 1st October, 2017.
·
Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (CFCL) has also proposed to set up
a brownfield project with capacity of 1.34 MMT at Gadepan, Rajasthan,
which is likely to start commercial production in January, 2019.
Revival of defunct Fertilizer Units
In
addition, Government has also decided to set up a new urea plant at the
location of the existing urea unit of M/s Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer
Corporation Limited at Namrup with a capacity of 8.4 LMT per annum. In view
of these developments, the present production of about 25 million MT is
expected to increase to 28 million MT in the year 2019-20 and to about 34
million MT in the year 2021-22.
Model Fertilizer Retails Shops across the country
·
2000 Model Fertilizer Retail Shops to be opened in next 3 years
from 2016-19 for
abundant availability of Urea
·
2044 model fertilizer retail shops made operational till 19th
March 2018
City Compost Scheme
·
During
the year 2017-18 (upto Jan., 2018), 1,01,718.37 MT of City Compost has
been co-marketed by fertilizer marketing companies.
Direct Benefit Transfer in Fertilizer Subsidy
·
All
States/UTs have been brought under the framework of DBT in Fertilizers from 1st
March 2018. Implementation of the DBT Scheme requires
deployment of PoS devices at every retailer shop, training of retailers &
wholesalers for operating PoS device.
·
Across the country, Lead Fertilizer Supplier (LFS) has conducted 4630
training sessions, as a part of ongoing PoS deployment and as a precursor
to nation-wide rollout of DBT. Approximately 1.8 lakh retailers were
sensitized during the introductory training sessions conducted by LFS and 89% of
PoS devices have been deployed across the country.
Savings
in subsidy as per the following information received from the pilot
district of Krishna, Andhra Pradesh:
·
Despite increase of 15,576 Ha (Net Sown Area) in 2016-17 as compared to 2015-16,
Consumption of fertilizers was reduced by 25,931 MTs resulting in saving
of subsidy of Rs.44.83 Crores)
·
Reduction in Per Capita consumption of Fertilizers (Farmer can save Rs.1750 on fertilizers/acre i.e, 41% of farmer investment saved due to balanced use of
fertilizer)
·
Retailers and farmers in all districts reported “nil shortage” of urea in last 2 years owing to neem coating.
·
Overcharging reduced post introduction of Point of Sale (PoS) machines
· Increased tracking and reduced diversion
of Subsidized Fertilizers
D/o
PHARMACEUTICALS
Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)
·
36
Products - 90-99% savings
·
130
Products - 80-90% savings
·
73
Products - 70-80% savings
·
80
Products - 60-70% savings
·
383
Products - 50-60% savings
‘Affordable
& Quality HealthCare for All’ - Availability of Cheaper Medicines
·
1084 essential medicines, including lifesaving drugs,
brought under Price Control regime after May 2014, giving the consumer
total benefit Rs. 9144 crores (As on 21st February, 2018).
Affordable & Accessible Healthcare for Cardiac Patients
·
Capping
of Prices of Cardiac Stents and Knee implants: Total
estimated saving of Rs. 5,950 crores to general public: The
capping of prices of Coronary Stents resulted into estimated savings of Rs. 4450
crores and that of Knee Implants into estimated savings of Rs. 1500
crores.
Cardiac Stents to cost 85% lesser
·
The
ceiling price of the Coronary Stents, was revised with effect
from 12th February, 2018. All types of
cardiac stents are now available in the price range of Rs. 7,660
to Rs. 27,
890.
Knee Implants to cost
69% lesser (16th August
2017)
·
Knee
Implant ceiling
prices are fixed with effect from 16th August, 2017. Various
types of knee implants are now available in the price range of Rs. 54,720
to 1,13,950.
·
Cobalt Chromium (most widely used), capped at Rs. 54,720; earlier average price Rs. 1,58,324
·
Special Metal like Titanium & Oxidized Zirconium, capped at Rs. 76,600; earlier average price Rs. 2,49,251
·
High Flexibility Implant, capped at Rs. 56,490; earlier average price Rs. 1,81,728
·
Revision Implants, capped at Rs. 1,13,950; earlier average price Rs. 2,76,869
·
Specialized Implants for Cancer & Tumour, capped at Rs. 1,13,950
·
Total estimated Savings to Consumers around Rs. 1500 crores
D/o
CHEMICALS & PETROCHEMICALS
Assam Gas Cracker Project
Assam Gas Cracker
Project (AGCP) is being implemented by Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited
(BCPL). Launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5th February
2016 at BCPL Complex, Lepetkata, Dibrugarh.
BCPL has a production
capacity of 2,20,000 tons per annum (TPA) of Polyethylene and 60,000 TPA of
Polypropylene, along with other by-products. Natural Gas and Naphtha are the feed
stocks.
The
project has generated direct employment for around 700 persons in the
Plant and indirect employment for around1,500 inside the project complex.
‘Skill India’
·
Around 1.5 lakh underprivileged and unemployed
youth trained under Skill Development Programme by Central Institute for
Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET)
·
50% higher number of
beneficiaries as compared to previous Government
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Ministry of Coal
COAL PRODUCTION:
·
Coal
Production increased from 565.77MT in 2013-14 to 662.79MT in 2016-17.
·
CIL
has increased its production from 462.41 MT in 2013-2014 to 554.14 MT in
2016-17. The increase of 91.73 MT in actual production achieved by CIL in the
last three years took more than six years to achieve before 2013-14.
COAL BLOCK ALLOCATION-
·
89
Coal Mines successfully allocated- 31
through e-auction and 58 to Government Companies.
·
50
coal mines allocated to the regulated sector i.e. power, 26 coal mines to the
non -regulated sector (NRS) i.e. iron & steel, cement and captive power as
well as 13 coal mines for sale of coal.
·
Estimated
Proceeds from auction and allotment: Rs. 3.20lakh crores+
·
Status:
Rs. 4577.11/ crores generated form coal mines on account of auction/allotment
proceeds from allocation of mines. 40.57 MT coal has already been produced till
January 2018 from the operational coal mines after allocation.
Power Sector Linkage Policy- SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing and
Allocating Koyala Transparently in India)
New
More Transparent Coal Allocation Policy for Power Sector, 2017- Shakti put in
place from 22.05.2017.
Coal Projects Monitoring Portal (e-CPMP)
Set up in the Coal Ministry to fast track clearances and pending
issues of coal projects at State Government as well as Central Ministries.
It
has facilitated the resolution of all pending issues in 76 coal projects
worth Rs. 52,600 crores till date.
Mining Surveillance System
(MSS):
Satellite- based monitoring system to establish
a regime of responsive mineral administration, through public participation, by
curbing instances of illegal mining activity through automatic remote sensing
detection technology.
Online Coal Clearances
System:
Coal Allocation Monitoring System (CAMS to
monitor the allocation of coal by Coal India Limited (CIL) to states, States to
State Nominated Agencies (SNA) and SNA to consumers in a transparent manner.
Contract Labour Payment
Management System: Contract
Labour Payment Management System, also known as CLIP has been launched on 4th
May 2016. CLIP portal has been adopted by CIL and all its subsidiaries.
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Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Startup India
Launch Date: 16.1.2016
Objective: To foster entrepreneurship
and nurture innovation by creating an ecosystem that is conducive for growth of
Start-ups to drive sustainable economic growth and generate large scale
employment opportunities
Achievements:
·
Startup India Movement launched on 16th January
2016 for promotion of Entrepreneurship among youth.
·
Action plan unveiled for encouraging startups.
·
Tax relief for three consecutive years out of a block of
seven year for startups.
·
Start-up Fund of Rs. 10,000 Crore to be released over two
Finance Commission cycles, that is, by 2025.
·
Startups are allowed to issue ESOPs to promoters working as
employees
·
8,829 Start-ups have been recognised as on 5th
April, 2018
·
99 Startups have
been funded (as on 5th April, 2018)
MAKE
IN INDIA (DIPP)
·
Launched by PM on 25th September 2014 - To make India the hub of
manufacturing.
·
Partnership between the Government & Industry has increased.
·
Since the launch of Make in India initiative, India has emerged as
one of the fastest growing major economies.
·
India has been ranked 3rd in the list of top prospective host
economies for 2016-18 in the World Investment Report (WIR) 2016 of UNCTAD. India ranks 9th position on foreign
direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2016, as per World Investment Report 2017.
·
India’s
ranking in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index has made giant leap of 30
positions – from 130 in 2016 to 100 in 2017 (as per World Bank’s Ease of Doing
Business Report, 2018)
·
India has established itself as one of the top 10 inbound
investment destinations in the world. One of the key reasons is India opening
up its sectors for FDI.
·
India is one of the most open economies of the world when it comes
to sectors opened up for FDI
·
Due to its investment friendly policies and opening up of FDI sectors,
India for the first time received FDI of more than USD 50 billion in FY
2015-16; the exact figure being USD 55.45 billion and highest ever FDI inflow
of USD 60.08 billion in 2016-17.
·
FDI has shown an extremely positive trend since the launch
of Make in India Week with growth of 56 percent on FDI inflow and 68 percent on
FDI Equity inflows, since the launch of the initiative over the corresponding
period previous to it.
·
Highest FDI inflow for the last 3 financial years (USD 160.7
billion) – 32% of cumulative FDI inflow over past 17 financial years (USD 484
billion)
|
Particular |
October 2010 –March 2014 (USD Bn.) |
April 2014 – September 2017 (USD Bn.) |
Growth |
|
FDI Equity Inflow |
92.22 |
139.76 |
52% |
• FDI has also increased constantly over
the past three financial years i.e. FY 2014-15, FY 2015-16, FY 2016-17
|
Particular |
FY 2014-15 (USD Bn.) |
FY 2015-16 (USD Bn.) |
FY 2016-17 (USD Bn.) |
FY
2017-18 (Upto Dec, 2017) (USD Bn.) |
|
FDI Inflow |
45.15 |
55.45 |
60 |
48.2 |
|
FDI Equity Inflow |
31 |
40 |
43.5 |
35.94 |
• The Govt. of India has also
increased autonomy in the FDI inflows. The key measure for this is the increase
in FDI via the Automatic Route (for which one does not require Govt. permission
to invest) vis-a-vis the Govt. Route.
|
Period |
FDI inflow via automatic route (share in %) |
FDI inflow via Govt. route (share in %) |
|
2000 – 01 |
20 |
80 |
|
2001 – 02 |
20 |
80 |
|
2002 – 03 |
28 |
72 |
|
2003 – 04 |
24 |
86 |
|
2004 – 05 |
41 |
59 |
|
2005 – 06 |
59 |
41 |
|
2006 – 07 |
82 |
18 |
|
2007 – 08 |
87 |
13 |
|
2008 – 09 |
85 |
15 |
|
2009 – 2010 |
87 |
13 |
|
2010 – 2011 |
91 |
9 |
|
2011 – 2012 |
91 |
9 |
|
2012 – 2013 |
87 |
13 |
|
2013 – 2014 |
95 |
5 |
|
2014 – 2015 |
93 |
7 |
|
2015 – 2016 |
91 |
9 |
• FDI in India has been opened in
many key sectors such as - Defence Manufacturing, Food Processing, Telecommunications,
Agriculture, Pharmaceuticals, Civil Aviation, Space, Private Security Agencies,
Railways, Insurance and Pensions, Medical Devices and Pensions.
• Most of the above mentioned sectors
have 100 percent FDI via the automatic route barring Defence Manufacturing
sector (FDI upto 49 percent applicable via automatic route and 100
percent FDI allowed via Government Route)
Indigenous
Defence Production (Defence)
· Indigenous built
ballistic missiles
·
Indigenous Defence technologies built by India
FDI (COMMERCE)
FDI Equity Inflow went up
by 47% since NDA Govt. took over
|
Year |
Amount of FDI (US$ Billion) |
|
2013-14 |
36.05 |
|
2014-15 |
45.15 |
|
2015-16 |
55.56 |
|
2016-17 |
60.08 |
|
2017-18
(upto Dec 2017) |
48.20 |
Updated FDI statistics is
placed on the DIPP website quarterly.
The web link is
http://dipp.nic.in/publication/fdi-statistics
Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) Initiatives
I World
Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Ranking
·
World Bank Doing Business (DB) Report, 2018 has ranked India at
100 among 190 countries. India has leapt 30 ranks over its rank of 130 in Doing
Business Report 2017.
·
DB report acknowledges India as a top improver, with an
improvement of 30 ranks compared to last year’s report, the highest jump in
rank of any country in DB Report, 2018. India is the only country in South Asia
and BRICS economies to feature among most improved economies of the DB Report
this year.
·
The World Bank’s DB Report is an assessment of 190 economies and
covers 10 indicators which span the entire lifecycle of a business.
·
India has improved its rank in 6 out of 10 indicators and
has moved closer to international best practices (Distance to Frontier score).
·
This is credited to the mantra of “Reform,
Perform, Transform” given by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, wherein a strong
leadership has provided the political will to carry out comprehensive and
complex reforms, supported by a bureaucracy committed to perform.
·
Government has undertaken an extensive exercise of
stakeholder consultations, identification of user needs, government process
re-engineering to match Government rules and procedures with user expectations
and streamline them to create a more conducive business environment.
·
An extensive exercise is also undertaken to increase awareness
among users about reforms to ensure extensive use of newly created systems.
II Major
achievements in the World Bank in the Doing Business Report
The
important highlights of India’s performance are:
1. Resolving
Insolvency -
Ř
Rank improved from 136 to 103
Ř
Distance to Frontier (DTF) score improved from 32.75
to 40.75
Ř
Strength of insolvency framework index increased from 6 to 8.5
Ř
Insolvency& Bankruptcy Code created for efficient handling of
restructuring & insolvency proceedings
Ř
Professional institutes set up for handling restructuring &
insolvency proceedings
2. Paying
Taxes -
Ř
Rank improved from 172 to 119
Ř
DTF score improved from 46.58 to 66.06
Ř
Payments reduced from 25 to 13 in a year
Ř
Time reduced from 241 to 214 hours
Ř
Total tax rate reduced from 60.6% to 55.3% (% of profit)
Ř
Post filing index improved from 4.3 to 49.31
Ř
Enabled electronic registration, return & payment of ESI
& EPF contributions
3. Getting
Credit –
Ř
Rank improved from 44 to 29
Ř
DTF score improved from 65 to 75
Ř
Strength of legal rights index improved from 6 to 8
Ř
Credit bureau coverage increased from 21.4% to 43.5% (% of adults)
Ř
Increased coverage of security interest registration under
SARFAESI Act
Ř
Secured creditors prioritized over Government dues for purposes of
recovery
4. Enforcing
Contracts -
Ř
Rank improved from 172 to 164
Ř
DTF score improved from 35.19 to 40.76
Ř
Cost reduced from 39.6% to 31% (% of claim)
Ř
Quality of judicial process index improved from 9 to 10.3
Ř
Dedicated commercial courts established
Ř
National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) to monitor and manage court
cases.
5. Protecting
Minority Investors –
Ř
Rank improved from 13 to 4
Ř
DTF score improved from 73.33 to 80
Ř
Strength of minority investor protection index increased from 7.3
to 8
Ř
Extent of conflict of interest regulation index increased from 6.7
to 7.3
Ř
Extent of shareholder governance index increased from 8 to 8.7
Ř
Greater transparency requirements for
interested parties transactions
Ř
Greater shareholder protection through action against directors
&claims for damages
6. Construction
Permits -
Ř
Rank improved from 185 to 181
Ř
DTF score improved from 32.83 to 38.80
Ř
Procedures to obtain construction permits reduced from 35.1 to
30.1
Ř
Time reduced from 190.0 to 143.9 days
Ř
Cost reduced from 25.9 per cent to 23.2 per cent of warehouse
value
III. DIPP’s Business
Reform Action Plan (BRAP)
·
DIPP has taken a series of measures to simplify and rationalize
the regulatory processes to improve the business environment in the country.
With an objective, to make it easier to invest or to do business in India
various reforms initiatives have been taken to implement the Business Reform
Action Plan (BRAP) to improve business regulatory environment in India.
·
DIPP has been closely working with the State/UT Governments to
help them identify constraints in doing business and improving overall business
environment in their respective State/UT.
·
In 2015, DIPP launched the 285-point Business
Reform Action Plan (BRAP) – the new measure of competitiveness
between States/UTs.
·
DIPP launched the online portal (eodb.dipp.gov.in) in April 2016
for real-time ranking of States/UTs on the basis of number of reforms
implemented by them. It is the first platform in India for knowledge on
regulatory compliance requirements across States.
·
In 2016, DIPP released the 340-point Business Reform Action Plan
which includes recommendations for reforms on 58 regulatory processes,
policies, practices or procedures spread across 10 reform areas spanning the
lifecycle of a typical business. A total of 6,069 reforms were approved as
implemented or not applicable on the portal
·
States/UTs worked very hard and showed tremendous competition. 12
States scored more than 90% implementation score in 2016. viz. Andhra Pradesh
(98.78%), Telangana (98.78%), Gujarat (98.21%), Chhattisgarh (97.32%), Madhya
Pradesh (97.01%), Haryana (96.95%), Jharkhand (96.57%), Rajasthan
(96.43%), Uttarakhand (96.13%), Maharashtra (92.86%), Odisha (92.73%)
and Punjab (91.07%).
·
For 2017, DIPP has identified a total of 372 reforms across 12
broad parameters covering: Labour enablers, Contract
enforcement, Registering property, Inspection enablers, Single window
system, Land availability and allotment, Construction permit enablers,
Environment registration enablers, obtaining utility, paying taxes, access to
information and transparency, sector specific.
·
For the first time, sector specific reforms related to
healthcare and hospitality have been included. Apart from this, new reform
action points have been added which include: introduction of a central
inspection system, land allotment, tree transit permission, trade license,
registrations under legal metrology, registration of partnership firms and
societies, etc.
·
Another major change in BRAP 2017 is in the evaluation process
wherein feedback will be solicited from the actual users/ businesses through a
comprehensive B2G exercise on the reforms implemented by States/UTs. A score
will be given to each State/UT based on the feedback collected. Overall ranking
of the State/UT will be determined based on the combined score of
implementation score and feedback score. DIPP has also released a note on
Feedback Survey Methodology. It is also available on DIPP’s website.
·
To help the low scoring States, leader States have been requested
to help and guide them in the implementation the reforms and share the best
practices across reforms. List of States/ UTs is as follows:-
|
S.NO. |
States |
Partner
States |
|
1. |
Tripura |
Telangana |
|
2. |
Kerala
and Puducherry |
Andhra
Pradesh |
|
3. |
Dadra
and Nagar Haveli and Andaman and Nicobar Island |
Gujarat |
|
4. |
Mizoram |
Chhattisgarh |
|
5. |
Daman
and Diu |
Madhya
Pradesh |
|
6. |
Meghalaya |
Haryana |
|
7. |
Sikkim |
Jharkhand |
|
8. |
Lakshadweep |
Rajasthan |
|
9. |
Assam |
Uttarakhand |
|
10. |
Nagaland |
West
Bengal |
|
11. |
Manipur |
Odisha |
|
12. |
Arunachal
Pradesh |
Bihar |
|
13. |
Jammu
and Kashmir and Chandigarh |
Punjab |
|
14. |
Goa |
Maharashtra |
Assistance is also being
provided to States/UTs through workshops/Video Conferences, which are being
conducted in collaboration with the World Bank, to enable a clear understanding
of the BRAP process. It also helps States/UTs in clarifying any doubts related
to implementation of reforms.
·
Till now, DIPP has conducted workshop in the State of Punjab,
Haryana, Tripura, Goa and Union Territory of Daman & Diu and Andaman &
Nicobar Islands.
·
For 8-NE States, VC’s have been conducted from Aug 21, 2017 - Sep
1, 2017
A nationwide workshop on
Business Reforms Action Plan was also held on 29th July 2017 at India Habitat
Centre, New Delhi to discuss the relevance and importance of implementing
reforms. Few States/UTs also shared their best practices, for the benefit of
other States/UTs. The all-day conference had representatives from
the World Bank Group (The Bank) and saw an active involvement by the States and
UTs with almost 100 participants from 26 States and Union Territories
(UT’s).
Ranking of States/UTs
|
Rank, 2016 |
State |
2016 Score(%) |
Rank, 2015 |
2015 Score(%) |
|
1. |
ANDHRA PRADESH |
98.78 |
2 |
70.12% |
|
1. |
TELANGANA |
98.78 |
13 |
42.45% |
|
3. |
GUJARAT |
98.21 |
1 |
71.14% |
|
4. |
CHHATTISGARH |
97.32 |
4 |
62.45% |
|
5. |
MADHYA PRADESH |
97.01 |
5 |
62.00% |
|
6 |
HARYANA |
96.95 |
14 |
40.66% |
|
7. |
JHARKHAND |
96.57 |
3 |
63.09% |
|
8. |
RAJASTHAN |
96.43 |
6 |
61.04% |
|
9. |
UTTARAKHAND |
96.13 |
23 |
13.36% |
|
10. |
MAHARASHTRA |
92.86 |
8 |
49.43% |
|
11. |
ODISHA |
92.73 |
7 |
52.12% |
|
12. |
PUNJAB |
91.07 |
16 |
36.73% |
|
13. |
KARNATAKA |
88.39 |
9 |
48.50% |
|
14. |
UTTAR PRADESH |
84.52 |
10 |
47.37% |
|
15. |
WEST BENGAL |
84.23 |
11 |
46.90% |
|
16. |
BIHAR |
75.82 |
21 |
16.41% |
|
17. |
HIMACHAL PRADESH |
65.48 |
17 |
23.95% |
|
18. |
TAMIL NADU |
62.80 |
12 |
44.58% |
|
19. |
DELHI |
47.62 |
15 |
37.35% |
|
20. |
KERALA |
26.97 |
18 |
22.87% |
|
21. |
GOA |
18.15 |
19 |
21.74% |
|
22. |
TRIPURA |
16.67 |
26 |
9.29% |
|
23. |
DAMAN & DIU |
14.58 |
- |
- |
|
24. |
ASSAM |
14.29 |
22 |
14.48% |
|
25. |
DADRA & NAGAR
HAVELI |
1.79 |
- |
- |
|
26. |
PUDUCHERRY |
1.49 |
20 |
17.72% |
|
26. |
NAGALAND |
1.49 |
31 |
3.41% |
|
28. |
MANIPUR |
1.19 |
- |
- |
|
29. |
MIZORAM |
0.89 |
28 |
6.37% |
|
30. |
SIKKIM |
0.60 |
27 |
7.23% |
|
31. |
ARUNACHAL PRADESH |
0.30 |
32 |
1.23% |
|
31. |
JAMMU & KASHMIR |
0.30 |
29 |
5.93% |
|
31. |
CHANDIGARH |
0.30 |
24 |
10.04% |
|
31. |
MEGHALAYA |
0.30 |
30 |
4.38% |
|
31. |
ANDAMAN &
NICOBAR ISLANDS |
0.30 |
25 |
9.73% |
|
31. |
LAKSHADWEEP |
0.30 |
- |
- |
SETTING UP OF GOVERNMENT E
MARKET PLACE- GEM FOR PROCUREMENT OF GOODS AND SERVICES
Launch
Date: 9th August 2016
Objective:
·
Allows Government departments and agencies to make direct
purchases of up to Rs. 50,000
·
To reduce corruption and increase transparency in Government
procurement
Achievements:
·
19,497
Buyers organisation listed on GeM Platform (as on 6th
April, 2018)
·
80,243
Sellers and service providers enrolled (as on 6th April, 2018)
*****
Ministry of
Communications
Department of Telecommunications
BHARAT NET:
BHARAT NET PROJECT PHASE-1
·
Over One
lakh Gram Panchayats (GP) across the country connected with high speed
optical fibre network as per the declared deadline of 31 Dec 2017.
·
Delivery
of high-speed broadband services in over 2.5 lakh villages benefitting more
than 200 million rural Indians.
·
As
on 31st Dec 2017, 2,54,895 km OFC has been laid covering 1,09,926 GPs out of
which 1,01,370 GPs have been made Service Ready.
TELECOM SECTOR
(i)
Number of Telecom Connections up from 898.02
million in 2012-13 to 1194.99 million in 2016-17, registering a growth of
33.07%.
(ii)
Total No. of Telecom Connections: 1207.04 million.
(September,2017), out of which 501.99 million connections were in the rural
areas and 705.05 million were in the urban areas.
(iii)
Wireless telephony now constitutes 98.04% of
all subscriptions.
(iv)
Tele-density: 93.42%. Rural areas: 56.78%
& Urban areas: 172.86%.
(v)
Number of Internet Connections went up to
431.21 million by the end of June'17.
(vi)
FDI equity inflow in the telecom sector
touched US $ 6.08 billion during April to September, 2017 which is more than
four times that the sector witnessed during financial year 2015-16 and around
10% more than that during 2016-17.
Department of Posts
LEVERAGING POST OFFICES AS PASSPORT SEVA
KENDRA:
·
235 Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSK)
to be set up in two phases across the country to make available passport
related services in all the states.
·
First POPSK at 25.1.2017 at Metagalli Post
Office, Mysuru, Karnataka and Dahod Head Post Office, Gujarat.
·
59 POPSKs functioning in camp mode and
remaining 27 are various phase of readiness. Around 3.75 lakh passport appointments
have been processed through these POPSKs.
IMPLEMENTATION OF CORE
BANKING SOLUTIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POSTS:
·
23,424
out of a total of 25,353 (92%) Post Offices are on the CORE Banking Services,
CBS platform as on 11/10/2017.
·
Post
Office Savings Bank, POSB is the largest entity in the country on the CBS
platform surpassing all the banks. This feat was achieved in less than four
years.
·
37.62
Crore accounts and 31.79 Crore savings certificates are on the CBS platform for
anywhere banking as of 11/10/2017.
*****
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
FOOD SECURITY FOR POOR
· National Food Security Act, NFSA extended all over the country.
·
80.72
crore (as on 27.03.2018) persons covered now get coarse grains at Rs. 1/kg, wheat
at Rs. 2/ kg and rice at Rs. 3/ kg.
·
NFSA Act
is being implemented in all the 36 States/UTs
as against only in 11 states in May 2014.
PRICE MONITORING CELL (PMC)
A) Price
Stabilization Fund (PSF)
·
Buffer
stock of upto 20 lakh tonnes of pulses has been built through domestic
procurement and import for effective market intervention to stabilize
their prices
·
Procurement
and import of Onions undertaken through NAFED, SFAC and MMTC for
stabilizing prices.
·
Pulses
from the buffer are being utilized for supply to States for distribution
through their schemes.
B) Strengthening
of Price Monitoring Cell (PMC)
· Grants released to States to strengthen the Price Monitoring Cell which facilitates price stabilization through appropriate policy recommendation and market intervention.
LEGAL
METROLOGY
(1) Amendment in Packaged
Commodities) Rules, 2011 to safeguard the interest of consumers and ease
of doing business - (came
into force from 1.1.2018):
Ř Goods displayed by the seller on e-commerce
platform shall contain declarations required under the Rules.
§ Specific mention is made in the rules
that no person shall declare different MRPs on an identical
pre-packaged commodity.
§ Bar Code/ QR Coding is allowed on
voluntarily basis.
§ Provisions regarding declarations on Food
Products have been harmonized with regulation under the Food Safety &
Standards Act.
§ Medical devices which are declared as
drugs, are brought into the purview of declarations to be made under the
rules.
(3) Advisories
issued:
Ř For ease of doing business, an advisory
was issued to all stakeholders that loose readymade garments are not covered
under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.
Ř To safeguard the interest of consumers,
advisory has been issued to all State Governments to ensure all declarations
including MRP on all medical devices.
Ř Advisory in the interest of consumers was
also issued to all State Governments to ensure the correct quantity of petrol/
diesel and LPG Cylinders.
BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS
(BIS) ACT 2016
A new Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) Act 2016 came into force from 12th October, 2017. The Act establishes the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as the National Standards Body of India. The new Act has enabling provisions for the Government to bring under compulsory certification regime any goods or article of any scheduled industry, process, system or service which it considers necessary in the public interest or for the protection of human, animal or plant health, safety of the environment, or prevention of unfair trade practices, or national security.
CONSUMER PROTECTION BILL, 2018
The
Government introduced new Consumer Protection Bill, 2018 in the Lok Sabha on
5.1.2018.The salient features of the bill include: Establishment of an
executive agency to be known as the Central Consumer Protection Authority
(CCPA) to promote, protect and enforce the rights of the consumers, provision
for mediation, provision for product liability action, simplification of
adjudication process in the Consumer Fora, Enabling the Central Government to
make rules to regulate e-commerce and direct selling.
*****
Ministry of Culture
NATIONAL MISSION ON CULTURAL MAPPING OF INDIA:
Launch Date: 29th March, 2017
Objective:
·
To preserve
rich Indian Art and Cultural Heritage and develop an objective Cultural
Mapping.
·
To
collect database of artists, artisans and various art forms across the country
by organizing various activities.
·
Fund
allocation: Rs.469.404 Crores during 2017-2020.
Achievements:
1. Profiles of about 6000
artistes have been recorded in the database of Cultural Mapping of India
Project (As on January1,2018)
2. Pilot Projects successfully
conducted in five blocks viz.Govardhan &ChauriChaura: in Uttar Pradesh,
Seraikella in Jharkhand, Thanesar in Haryana and Shimoga in Karnataka.
AADARSH SMAARAK:
Launch Date: 26th December, 2014
Objective:
Archaeological
Survey of India has identified 100 monuments as “Adarsh Smarak” for upgradation
of existing facilities/amenities like Wi-Fi, cafeteria, interpretation centre,
brail signage, modern toilets etc. on the basis of actual requirement and
feasibility on case to case basis.
Significant
progress made in Tajmahal, Qutub Complex and Red Fort.
DEDICATED TOURIST TRAINS:
Jyotirling
circuit, Sukhmangal circuit
(Bengaluru-Madurai)
& DakshinDham Circuit
E-TICKETING
·
116 ticketed monuments and 32 museums under the protection of ASI
(Archaeological Survey of India). E-ticketing facility has been launched
with the aim of providing online booking facility for visitors.
·
Moreover, the facility is proving to be less expensive when
compared to manual ticketing system which was prevalent earlier.
·
Portal: http://asi.payumoney.com/#/
EK BHARAT
SHRESHTHA BHARAT’ SCHEME:
To
promote inter cultural aspects among various states.
Engagement
Matrix of States :
|
S.No. |
State |
Pairing |
|
1. |
Jammu &Kashmir |
Tamilnadu |
|
2. |
Punjab |
Andhra Pradesh |
|
3. |
Himachal Pradesh |
Kerala |
|
4. |
Uttarakhand |
Karnataka |
|
5. |
Haryana |
Telangana |
|
6. |
Rajasthan |
Assam |
|
7. |
Gujarat |
Chattisgarh |
|
8. |
Maharashtra |
Odisha |
|
9. |
Goa |
Jharkhand |
|
10. |
Delhi |
Sikkim |
|
11. |
Madhya Pradesh |
Manipur &Nagaland |
|
12. |
Uttar Pradesh |
Arunachal Pradesh and
Meghalaya |
|
13. |
Bihar |
Tripura &Mizoram |
|
14. |
Chandigarh |
Dadra &Nagar Haveli |
|
15. |
Puducherry |
Daman & Diu |
|
16. |
Lakshadweep |
Andaman &Nicobar |
Madhavpur
Fair:
Gujarat engaging with
NE States during 25-28th March 2018.
INCREDIBLE INDIA
2.0:
To
promote tourism in India
Achievements:
·
150th
Birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi: National Implementation Committee (NIC)
for this commemoration has been constituted.
Rs 150 Cr has been earmarked for 2018-19 for activities leading to the commemoration.
*****
Department of Atomic Energy
Ř
Transformational Boost to Nuclear Energy
·
Cabinet approved fleet-mode
construction of 10 indigenous nuclear reactors for addition of 7000 MW (700 MWX10)
to the installed capacity; a major boost to domestic nuclear industry.
·
Approval for construction of 2 more
reactors, KKNPP 5&6, at Kudankulam in cooperation with Russia
Ř
Cooperation and Laying New
Foundations
·
Second reactor of KKNPP Unit 2, dedicated
to the Indo-Russian Friendship and Co-operation. Achieved 100% power in Jan
2017.
·
Laid foundation concrete for two
reactors, Unit 3&4 of KKNPP, each of 1000MW.
Ř
Highest Ever Operational
Reactors
·
22 Nuclear Reactors operational with
total installed capacity of 6780 MW
·
2000 MW added by the two reactors of
KKNPP, currently the biggest ones in the country.
·
Additional 6700 MW in the offing with 9
new nuclear reactors.
Ř
Opening Doors to
International Technologies
·
Indian Nuclear Insurance Pool (INIP) for
Rs. 1500 Crore operationalised in August 2016.
·
IAEA’s Convention on Supplementary
Compensation (CSC) for nuclear damage ratified in February 2016
Ř
India’s largest Radioactive
Waste Management Plant
·
India’s largest Radioactive Waste
Management Plant operationalised at Kalpakkam
Ř
Progressing towards the
Second Stage
·
Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor
undergoing commissioning
·
First criticality of 500 MWe reactor at
Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu expected in 2018.
Ř
Record Breaking Nuclear Fuel
Production
·
World Record Production of fuel for
indigenous nuclear reactors for 3 consecutive years 2014-15, 2015-2016 and
2016-17.
·
Feat achieved by production units at
Hyderabad, Telangana and Pazhayakayal in Tamil Nadu
Ř
Isotope Production A New
Record
·
Over 75 radioisotopes produced for
various applications.
·
10 Lakh+ patients benefitted annually
across 120 Nuclear Medicine Centres and 400+ radioimmunoassay labs.
·
DHRUVA Reactor at BARV for medical
isotope production ran at highest capacity in 2016-17
Ř
Innovations in HealthCare Technologies-
·
Developed Process to extract Caesium
isotope from liquid nuclear waste for making glass pencils used in blood
purification devices,
·
First of its kind in the world, India
the only country to have this technology in commercial domain.
·
7 Blood Irradiators have been supplied
to hospitals.
Ř Affordable cancer care for one and all
·
National cancer grid now links 137
locations across India; one of the largest cancer networks in the world
connects cancer centres, research institutes, patient groups and NGOs
·
New hospitals operationalized at
Sangrur and Visakhapatnam
·
New hospitals coming up at Varanasi and
Mohali
·
Two hospitals at Guwahati and Varanasi
taken over for upgradation
·
Work started for radiation Medicine
Research Centre at Kolkata
Ř Advancements in cancer Drug Production
·
Human trials for radionuclide based
drugs for diagnostic, therapeutic and palliative treatment for cancer
·
17 drugs already deployed and 10 more
are in the pipeline
Ř Stronger scientific collaborations
·
Signed agreement for mega science
project on LIGO
·
Stronger collaboration with IAEA
Ř
New Beginnings and
international cooperation
·
India has partnered with the leading
nuclear nations of the world
Ř Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership
·
Vision to promote safe, secure and
sustainable nuclear energy through global partnership
·
Campus at Bahadurgarh, Haryana
operationalized in April 2017
·
6 courses, both national and
international, conducted in the new campus
·
1,100 + participants, 300+faculty members
from international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and 15+ countries
Ř Agreements & MoUs for Technical Exchange
·
Global centre for Nuclear Energy
Partnership (GCNEP) MoU with Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (Vinatom)
·
MoU with Department of Natural Resources
of Canada for cooperation in science, technology and innovation
·
Industrial Way Forward Agreement
between NPCIL and Electricite De France S.A France
Ř Neighbourhood Competence Building
·
Intergovernmental Agreement with
People’s Republic of Bangladesh
·
Interagency Agreement between Global
Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership and Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
(BAEC)
·
Interagency Agreement between AERB and
BAEC
·
Trilateral Cooperation MoU with Russia
and Bangladesh on Rooppur Nuclear power Project in Bangladesh
Ř
Extending Cancer Care
Technology
·
BHABHATRON, the indigenous
cancer-therapy machine
Ř
ASTROSAT Astronomy Satellite
·
ASTROSAT, the first Indian Astronomy
satellite launched in Sept 2015
·
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
developed 3 of the 5 major instruments
§
Large Area X-ray Proportional Counters
(SAXPC)
§
Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT)
§
Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager (CZTI)
Ř
Antenna and Guidance Systems
·
4.6 metre Ship-borne Antenna system
developed for tracking Satellites, Re-Entry Capsules etc.
·
Deployed and Used successfully for PSLV
mission
·
Successful trial of Seeker for BharMos
Missile
Ř
Breakthrough Discovery on
Superconductivity
·
Breakthrough study by Scientists of
TIFR on superconductivity in pure Bismuth
·
The discovery challenges the 1972 Nobel
Prize winning theory of superconductivity
Ř
Technologies for water
purification
·
Kit for visual detection of Chromium
contamination developed and transferred for commercial production
·
The kit addresses concerns related to
chromium contamination as per WHO standards
Ř
Technologies for water
Purification
·
Low cost, Nano-composite
ultrafiltration membrane based combo-device for water purification developed
and transferred for commercial production
·
Doesn’t require electricity or tap water;
extremely useful in rural and slum areas
Ř
Technologies for water
Purification
·
Technology for preparation of thin-film
composite based sea water reverse osmosis membrane developed and transferred
for commercial production
Ř
Technologies for Food &
Agriculture
·
Developed technology to preserve Litchi
up to 60 days at low temperature while retaining its nutritional, sensory
(taste), functional and colour qualities
·
Opens up trade avenues and minimizes
economic loss
·
Technology transferred to several
entrepreneurs
Ř Technologies for Food & Agriculture
·
Developed advanced varieties of mustard
seed with higher yields than national check varieties. After successful field
trials at Rajasthan, TM108-1pre-released in 2016
·
Developed advanced semi-dwarf variety
of Doobraj rice with 35% higher yield, earlier maturity and better aroma.
Ř Technology for Bio-degradable Polymers
·
Developed a new bio-degradable
clay-polythene nano-composite film using gamma irradiation along with chemical treatment.
It can used for food irradiation applications.
Ř Technology for Bio-Pesticides
·
Novel Bio-Pesticides formulations
developed and evaluated under field conditions.
Ř Innovative New Bullet-Proof Material
·
Bhabha Kavach, a light weight bullet-
proof Jacket which gives personal protection against bullets of different
threat levels has been developed and ready for production.
Ř Indigenous Gold Standard
·
BARC and CSIR co-developed India’s
first gold standard.
·
BND 4021 enables jewellers to check the
purity of gold jewellery and bullion.
***
Ministry
of Defence
ONE RANK
ONE PENSION
·
Resolved after four decades & announced by PM
·
Status Report on implementation of OROP benefits as on 30.09.2017 and
compiled up to 31.12.2017 As per the reports received from the CGDA, a sum of
Rs. 4,161.45 crores, Rs. 2,397.22 crores, Rs. 2,320.7 crores and Rs. 1,859.72
crores have been paid towards first, second, third and fourth instalment of
OROP arrears respectively. 20,43,354 Ex-Servicemen/family pensioners, 15,94,063
Ex Service men, 15,71,744 Ex-Servicemen and 13,28,313 Ex-Servicemen are the
beneficiaries during these four instalments respectively. Total arrears paid
Rs. 10,739.09 crores.
OTHER
MEASURES FOR EX-SERVICEMEN
·
Number of scholarships under Prime Minister Scholarship Scheme has
been enhanced from 4000 to 5500 from academic year 2015-16.
·
Marriage Grant for daughter has been enhanced from Rs. 16,000/- to
Rs. 50,000/- from April 2016.
·
Web portal has been launched
by Kendriya Sainik Board on March 11, 2016 for online process of
applications.
ACHIEVEMENTS
IN 2017:
·
INS
Kalvari- Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi dedicated the naval submarine INS Kalvari to the nation on
14 December 2017.
·
Brahmos,
the World’s fastest supersonic cruise missile created history in November 2017
when it was successfully flight-tested first time from the Indian Air Force’s
frontline fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30MKI.
·
The
surface-to-air missile Akash was successfully launched.
·
The
first ever tri-services exercise INDIRA between India and Russia was conducted
in October, 2017.
·
Special
campaign to celebrate Armed Forces Flag Day to honour the martyrs and the men
in uniform.
·
The
first ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by all-women crew on Indian
Navy sailing vessel INSV Tarini. The Tarini was flagged off on 10th September
2017 and is expected to return to Goa in April 2018. The expedition titled
‘Navika Sagar Parikarma’ is in consensus with the national policy to give women
power to attain their full potential.
Other Initiatives:
·
Defence
Travel System has been rolled out wherein defence units can book tickets
online. The project has been implemented by Railways. Both rail and air travel
modules have been developed. As on 28th December 2017, 5759 defence units have
been covered under the system out of the existing 10675 units. A total of
12,19,969 beneficiaries have been enrolled on the system till date. On an
average, 5.1 lakh rail tickets are being booked through the system with an
average expenditure of ₹70 crores per month. The system is continuously
under up-gradation based on new IT developments, new requirements and feedback.
·
A
comprehensive web based interactive Pension Disbursement System for Defence
Pensioners will be established. This system will receive pension proposals and
make payments centrally. This will reduce the grievances of defence pensioners.
SIMPLIFIED
‘MAKE-II’:
Major Steps Towards
‘Make in India’ in Defence Production
Defence Acquisition
Council, chaired by Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman, in its meeting on 16
January 2018, cleared a simplified ‘Make-II’ procedure to enable greater
participation of industry in acquisition of defence equipment.
This process will
greatly help import substitution and promote innovative solutions.
This simplified
‘Make-II’ procedure will amend the existing ‘Make Procedure’ in Defence
Procurement Procedure (DPP)-2016.
SURGICAL
STRIKES
In order
to protect Indian borders and put an end to cross border terrorism Indian Army
conducted surgical strikes in PoK on 29th September, 2016
Surgical Strikes reflect zero tolerance for terror
·
On 18th September 2016, terrorists struck at an army
camp at Uri and martyred our Jawans. In response:
·
Indian Army conducted surgical strikes at several terrorist launch
pads to pre-empt infiltration by terrorists.
·
Significant casualties were caused to terrorists and those
providing support to them.
·
Indian army struck a blow to terrorist infrastructure and designs.
·
International community reacted overwhelmingly in India’s favour.
RAFALE DEAL
FOR BETTER SECURITY
Signing of agreement for purchase of 36 Rafale Aircraft:
The Government of India signed an Inter-Government Agreement (IGA)
with Government of France for procurement of 36 Rafale aircraft on
September 23, 2016. The delivery of the aircraft would commence in September
2019 and would be completed by April 2022. The IGA includes initial consignment
of weapons, maintenance support through Performance Based Logistical (PBL),
simulators and associated equipment. The IGA also includes discharge of
50 percent offsets by the French Industrial Suppliers.
Rafale is an omni-role fighter, which will provide long
range capability to engage targets in depth and will provide a strong weapons
and systems capability edge over our adversaries. The weapons include
air-to-air Beyond Visual Range (BVR) METEOR missile which is superior to the
proposed MICA BVR Missile for MMRCA package. For ground
targets, Rafale is equipped with long range SCALP precision guided
air-to-ground weapon which will provide a strong attack capability for striking
precision targets. In addition, the Rafale for IAF has certain Indian
specific enhancements which will provide the aircraft with better capabilities
including engine start from high altitude airfields.
AGNI-V
·
Test flight on 26th December, 2016.
·
The test flight further boosted India’s
indigenous defence capabilities and deterrence levels.
*****
Department of Space
Mangalyaan
Mission
·
Mangalyaan spacecraft has successfully completed 1000 Earth
days in its orbit on June 19, 2017.
India sends
104 Satellites into Space
·
India scripted a new chapter in the history of space domain on
15 February 2017 with the successful launch of a record number of 104
Satellites by ISRO’s Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 in a single mission. The primary satellite carried were
the Cartosat-2 series satellite along with two Indian nano satellites.
·
Out of these 101 co-passenger satellites carried were international
customer satellites from USA (96), Netherlands (1), Switzerland (1), Israel
(1), Kazakhstan (1) and UAE (1).
Communication Satellites:
·
“South Asia Satellite” – A gift from India to the South Asian
countries, was successfully launched and dedicated to neighboring countries by
Honorable Prime Minister of India. “South Asia Satellite” was
successfully launched by GSLV-F09 on May 05, 2017.
·
GSLV-MkIII in its first developmental flight, successfully launchesd GSAT-19,
India’s high throughput communication satellite on June 05, 2017
·
GSAT-17 communication satellite was launched on June 29, 2017 from
Kourou using procured launch services from M/s Arianespace. It carries C-band
& Ext C-band payloads, payloads for mobile communication, search &
rescue payload and Data Relay Transponder payload for providing continuity of
services and in-orbit back up.
NavIC
·
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)
with an operational name of NavIC
("sailor" or "navigator" which also stands for Navigation
with Indian Constellation) an autonomous regional Satellite
Navigation System set up by India
·
To provide accurate real-time positioning and timing services over
India and the region extending to 1,500 kilometres (930 mi) around India
*****
Ministry
of DoNER
·
The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
attended the 65th Plenary Session of North Eastern Council
(NEC) on 27th May, 2016. This is the first time after 40 years that the
Prime Minister had attended the Plenary Meeting of North Eastern Council at
Shillong which is the headquarters of the Council.
·
The Prime Minister, on Jan.18, 2016
inaugurated the Sikkim Organic Festival 2016, and addressed the Plenary Session
of the National Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, at
Gangtok in Sikkim.
·
The Prime Minister on Jan.19, 2016 unveiled
the plaque for the foundation stone of the campus for Indian Institute of
Information Technology (IIT), Guwahati.
·
In a landmark decision, the President of
India in November promulgated the Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 to
exempt bamboo grown in non-forest areas from the definition “Tree”, thereby
dispensing with the requirement of obtaining a permit for felling of bamboo for
economic use. The decision following the approval by the Union Cabinet in a
meeting chaired by the Prime Minster Shri Narendra Modi has been hailed as
historic because the bamboo was legally defined as a "Tree" under the
Indian Forest Act, 1927 which proved to be a major impediment for bamboo
cultivation by non-farmers on non-forest land.
·
Dhola-Sadiya Bridge:
Prime Minister inaugurated the strategically crucial
and India’s longest 9.15-km river bridge connecting Assam and Arunachal Pradesh
near the China border. The
total length of the project, including the approach roads on each side, is
28.50 km.
·
A “NITI Forum for North East” has been set up
with Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog as Chairman and Minister of State (I/C), DoNER
as Co-Chairman with Chief Secretaries of North Eastern States, Secretaries of
concerned Central Ministries/ Departments, reputed academic institutes,
research institutions and prominent experts as Members. The Secretariat for the
Forum will be in the Ministry of DoNER.
·
In October, the Government constituted a
high-level committee for proper management of the water resources in the NER
under the Chairmanship of Vice-Chairman, Niti Aayog. This is a sequel to the
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s visit to Guwahati in August, 2017 to review
the flood situation and relief work in the North Eastern States. The Committee
will submit its report, including Plan of Action, by June, 2018.
·
In two historic moves by Indian Railways,
Railways Minister Shri Suresh Prabhu on July 30, 2016 laid the foundation stone
of the proposed Imphal railway station, and also announced the commencement of
work for the longest rail tunnel in India. The longest railway tunnel in India
will come up on the Jiribam–Tupul–Imphal new broad gauge railway line. It will
be 11.55 km long, more than the famous Pir Panjal tunnel on the
Banihal-Qazigund line. He, in the company of his Bangladeshi counterpart
Mohammed Mazibul Hoque, on July 31, 2016 laid the foundation stone for the
Agartala–Akhaura broad gauge line. The 15.06 kilometre line between India’s
Agartala and Bangladesh’s Akhaura is part of the Trans-Asian Railway Network.
The new line has the potential of substantially shortening the railway
connectivity distance between Tripura and Kolkata.
·
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA)
launched the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)-UDAN in October, 2016, to
promote regional air connectivity in the country including North Eastern region
and creating additional infrastructure by revival of unserved and underserved
airports/airstrips. To provide a major boost to air connectivity in the
North-east, 92 new routes will be opened in the region in the second round of
‘Udaan’ scheme.
·
Assam Chief Minister Shri Sarbananda Sonowal
on Oct. 3, 2016 announced in Guwahati, direct flights introduced by Spicejet
airline on the Guwahati-Silchar and Guwahati-Aizwal routes starting Oct. 4,
2016.
·
In the Financial Year 2015-16, the Ministry
of Development of North Eastern Region launched a scheme namely ‘North-East
Road Sector Development Scheme (NERSDS)’ for rehabilitation/up-gradation of
important but neglected inter-State roads of the region to be implemented by
National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL). The
scheme was transferred to North Eastern Council in 2016.
·
Work awarded in December, 2017 for
India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway for development of 1360 km highway
between India, Myanmar and Thailand connecting Moreh in India to Mae Sot in
Thailand through Myanmar.
·
Regarding railways,
970 km Gauge Conversion completed in NE region in last 3 years. Thus, all
operational MG sections have been converted to BG and there is no MG operation
in entire North East Region.
·
A New Greenfield Airport is constructed at
Pakyong (Gangtok) at a revised cost of Rs. 553 crores suitable for operation of
ATR-72 type of aircraft with Apron, Terminal Building of 100 pax, peak hour
capacity and other allied infrastructure.
The construction work is complete and the process of Airport Licensing
from DGCA is initiated. In 2nd
round of bidding under RCS-UDAN bids are received for operation of flights from
Pakyong to Delhi, Kolkata and Guwahati.
·
The 90 % funded NLCPR Scheme of the Ministry
was restructured and new scheme, “North East Special Infrastructure Development
Scheme (NESIDS)” was launched to meet the gaps in social and physical
infrastructure in the region. NESIDS will be 100% Central funded scheme with
outlay of Rs.1600 crore.
·
Tuirial Hydro Electric Power (60MW) in
Mizoram being implemented by North Eastern Electricity Power Corporation Ltd.
(NEEPCO). The project was approved at Rs.913.63 crore. Out of the sanctioned
amount, funds to the tune of Rs.300 crore were to be borne by Ministry of
DoNER. The project has been completed. The
project was dedicated to the Nation by Prime Minister on 16th December,
2017. This will meet the power requirement of Mizoram.
·
19 new National
Waterways have been declared in the North Eastern Region. River
Barak was declared as National Waterway-16 (NW-16) in the year 2016. It connects
Silchar, Karimganj and Badarpur in Cachar valley of Assam with Haldia and
Kolkata ports through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) Route. Dredging works in two stretches between
Bhanga and Silchar have been commenced. Work is expected to be completed by
January, 2019. Development of Silchar – Lakhipur (50 km) stretch with setting
up of new terminals at Silchar & Lakhipur is proposed.
·
In the Smart City list released on Sep.20,
2016 by then Union Minister of Urban Development, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, two
cities of Northeast namely Kohima in Nagaland and Namchi in Sikkim found a
place.
·
Central Monitoring Committee (CMC) on Non
Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) Central Scheme accorded in-principle
approval to fund Rs.15 crores to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
towards the Capital Assets Creation for the proposed ‘Arun Prabha Project’. The
proposed Channel, to provide a platform to the rich cultural and linguistic
identity of the North-Eastern parts of the country, was announced by the Finance
Minister in his Budget Speech for the FY 2014-15.
·
The two-day “North East Calling” festival was
inaugurated in New Delhi on September 9, 2017. On the occasion, The ‘North
East Venture Fund’ was also launched, which is a joint initiative of Ministry
of DoNER and North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd. The objective
of the fund is to promote entrepreneurship and Start up in the North Eastern
Region. It is the first dedicated Venture Fund for the region with a corpus of
Rs 100 crores. The Minister also launched North East Tourism Development
Council with objective to promote sustainable tourism in North East
India. Earlier, a 3-day (from March 06-08, 2017) 'Destination North
East-2017' festival was organized at Chandigarh. It was organized by Ministry
of DoNER with a focus on the use of appropriate technology for the development
of North East Region. The DoNER Ministry also organised a mega-event
“Destination North East-2016” from February 12-14, 2016 at Pragati Maidan,
ITPO, New Delhi to showcase the inherent economic, social and cultural
strength, potential and opportunities in the North East Region.
·
DoNER Ministry organised the Bamboo Summit on
September 27-28, 2016 in New Delhi where Bamboo strategy for NER and role of
DoNER were discussed.
·
Ministry of DoNER sanctioned Rs.207 crores in
December 2016 for protection of Majuli island from erosion. Majuli, the world’s
largest river island located in Brahmaputra river in Assam, is the nerve centre
of Vaishnavite Cultural Heritage Centre in Assam.
·
From the academic session 2016-17, one seat
each for cancer super-specialization in DM (Oncology) and MCh (Oncology) has
been introduced in Dr. B. Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati. These courses
will be conducted under the aegis of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of
India, through Tata Memorial Cancer Centre, Mumbai which is a constituent
institute of Homi Bhabha National Institute.
·
Dr Jitendra Singh laid the Foundation Stone
of a Hostel exclusively for Northeast girl students in Bengaluru on June 6,
2016. The hostel, which is the first of its kind in Bangalore University, will
have a capacity to accommodate 269 students and will be constructed at a cost
of around Rs. 14 crore. The foundation stone of Barak Hostel in
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in New Delhi was laid on July 24,
2017.
·
Bangladesh has
recently opened a consulate in Guwahati, becoming the first country to do so.
Bhutan has also opened its consulate in Guwahati on 2nd February, 2018, becoming
the second country in the Indian subcontinent, after Bangladesh, to do so.
·
The North East-ASEAN Business Summit was
organised during April 7-9, 2016 at Imphal, Manipur. The Summit was attended by
participants from North Eastern States, representatives from National and
Regional Institutions and concerned Ministries of the Government of India,
Ambassadors of ASEAN countries and Commerce & Industry Minister of
Bangladesh along with his business delegation. A meeting on “Economic
Cooperation Dialogue in Eastern South Asia: Transport Corridors and Border
Special Development Zones” was jointly organised by UNESCAP, Government of
Meghalaya and North Eastern Council at Shillong on April 25-26, 2016. The
programme was attended by representatives from neighbouring countries i.e.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam.
·
Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated the
‘Purbashree stall’ at Dilli Haat, INA on May 16, 2016. Later, the Union
Minister of Textiles Smt Smriti Irani and Dr. Jitendra Singh formally launched
the United Payments Interface (UPI) cashless payments at Purbashree stall at
Dilli Haat, INA on Nov.28, 2016. The Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Smt.
Rashmi Verma inaugurated the Purbashree Emporium in New Delhi on June 2, 2016,
in order to give a boost to the development and promotion of North-East
handicrafts and handlooms products.
·
Northeast is all set to get India’s
first-ever "Air Dispensary" based in a helicopter and the Union
Ministry of Development of Northeast (DONER) has already contributed Rs. 25
crore as part of the initial funding for this initiative.
·
An e-Office of North Eastern Council (NEC)
which has its headquarters at Shillong in Meghalaya, was launched through video
conferencing in New Delhi on May 03, 2017. The formal launching was ceremonised
by submission of a file from the NEC, Shillong to the DoNER Minister’s Office,
New Delhi, which was then duly approved for the holding of the next plenary
meeting of the NEC.
·
A Mobile App i.e. ‘My DoNER’ App has been
developed to increase transparency and effective surveillance of ongoing
projects with Instant and Easy Access
of Project Information, Crowd Sourcing, Geo-tagging of Projects and Close
Monitoring of Projects.
·
Under North East Rural Livelihood Project
(NERLP), formation of SHGs has been completed in all 11 project districts
across 1645 villages. As against the original target of forming 26,000 SHGs,
the total number of SHGs formed has gone up to 27,951. SHGs have further been
federated at village level, called village level SHG Federations. The total
number of SHG Federation formed so far being 1195 as against the target of
1200.
·
Four MoUs were signed on March 19, 2018 under
aegis of DoNER Ministry for promotion of tourism in the North-East, aim of
doubling tourist arrivals to the North East in the next three years. Out of
these, three MoUs were signed between AIRbnb, NEC
and NETDC. Fourth MoU was signed between
NERCORMP and HESCO (Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation
Organization) for leveraging of community resources and appropriate
local resources based technology for development.
·
As a step towards linking the NEC with
institutes of excellence to make it as a state-of-art resource centre, ‘Dr. APJ
Abdul Kalam Center for Policy Research and Analysis’ was formally launched in October,
2016 at the Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (RGIIM), Shillong. The
Centre will provide strategic policy support on livelihood, Act East Policy,
Biodiversity, Organic Food Basket, Bamboo Mission and Horticulture.
********
Ministry of Drinking Water and
Sanitation
SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN-GRAMIN
Launch Date: 2.10.2014
Objective: To fulfil Mahatma Gandhi’s dream
of a clean and hygienic India.
Achievements:
SWACHCH
BHARAT KOSH
·
To
improve the cleanliness levels in rural and urban areas, priority to girl
toilets in schools.
·
Rs
365 crore; used for school toilets & renovation of defunct toilets.
SWACHH
BHARAT CESS
RURAL
DRINKING WATER SUPPLY
SUB MISSION OF THE NATIONAL RURAL DRINKING WATER
PROGRAM (NRDWP):
Objective:
·
To
provide safe drinking water to over 28,000 arsenic and fluoride affected
habitations in the next four years.
·
Focus
on Arsenic/Fluoride affected habitations under the National Water Quality
Sub-Mission of NRDWP.
*****
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate
Change
INITIATIVE FOR ENVIRONMENT
PROTECTION
·
India
declared its INDCs in the run to COP-21 at Paris in December 2015.
·
The third countrywide
assessment of the status of tigers, co-predators and their prey, released in
January, 2015 using the refined methodology as recommended by the Tiger Task
Force.
·
The findings indicate a
countrywide 30% increase in tiger numbers in 2014 with an estimated number of
2,226 (range 1945-2491), as compared to 2010 estimation [1706] (range 1520-1909
tigers).
NATIONAL AIR QUALITY INDEX
·
Launched
on October 17, 2014 to monitor the quality of air in major urban centres across
the country on a real-time basis.
Waste
Management rules notified
|
·
Revised Hazardous Waste Management Rules were notified
on April 3, 2016 to ensure resource recovery and disposal of hazardous waste
in an environment-friendly way. For the first time, rules made to
distinguish between hazardous waste and other wastes. |
|
NATIONAL CLEAN AIR PROGRAM
(NCAP)
·
Air pollution has increasingly been
becoming a serious concern, predominantly for health of the people. The impact of air pollution is not limited to health,
but it gets extended to agriculture and general well-being of human, floral and
faunal population.
·
The government
has formulated National Clean Air Program (NCAP) as a long-term, time bound
national level strategy to tackle the increasing air pollution problem across
the country in a comprehensive manner at total tentative cost of Rs. 637
Crore.
·
Overall objective of the NCAP is
comprehensive management plan for prevention, control and abatement of air
pollution besides augmenting the air quality-monitoring network across the
country.
·
City specific
air pollution abatement action plan for 100 polluting cities of the country
similar to one for Delhi, under the NCAP.
·
Increasing
number of monitoring stations, data dissemination, public participation on
planning and implementation, setting up of Air Information Centre for data
analysis, resource apportionment studies, setting up of national inventory are key
components of NCAP.
·
Guidelines for
Indoor Air Pollution and setting up of Rural Monitoring stations not address
till date as some of the key components under NCAP
·
Focus on intensive awareness, training and capacity
building drive, with specific impetus on augmentation of manpower and
infrastructure facilities of CPCB and SPCB under the capacity building
component of NCAP.
·
Separate components with emphasis on three-tier mechanism for
review of monitoring, assessment and inspection for effective implementation
under NCAP. A credible, transparent, and accountable data collection and
monitoring system that is available for timely, swift action to be ensured.
·
Acknowledging the role
of science,
technology, engineering and innovation in addressing the environmental
challenges with focus on India’s strive towards sustainable development
Technologies with potential for air pollution mitigation will be supported
under the NCAP.
·
Setting up of an effective
multi-layered institutional framework for the successful implementation of targets towards
air pollution abatement under the NCAP.
·
Since air pollution mitigation necessitates collaborative
efforts, the success of NCAP is expected to be determined by stakeholder
participation and contribution. Accordingly, there is a need for consultation
with various stakeholders viz. state government, relevant ministries,
institutes, academic institutions, industries etc before launching the same.
·
The approved NCAP has already been shared with state
government and some additional stakeholder consultations are being planned
during ensuing weeks before WED, 2018 on 5th June for evolving NCAP
and related implementation strategy on the basis of experiences of state govt
and other stakeholders prior to its launch on 5th June 2018,
coinciding with the World Environment Day.
GREEN SKILL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM, GSDP
*****
Ministry of Finance
JANA DHAN
SE JAN SURAKSHA
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
Launch Date: 28.7.2014
Objective:
Banking
the Unbanked
A National
Mission to bring comprehensive financial inclusion of all the
households to ensure access of all households to financial services.
Achievements:
·
Launched by the Prime Minister on 28 August 2014 for financial
inclusion.
·
60% bank accounts opened in rural areas (As on 25.4.2018)
·
31.52 crore Jan Dhan accounts opened
(As on 25.4.2018)
·
Total balance in Jan Dhan accounts
= Rs. 80871.67 crores (As on 25.4.2018)
·
Over 23.71 Crore Rupay Cards issued
(As on 25.4.2018)
·
Share of zero-balance Jan Dhan accounts
dropped to 24% in December 2016 from 73% in December 2014.
·
Over 1.26 lakh bank-mitras appointed by
banks
·
2.5 lakh Gram-Dak-Sewaks will function as
banking correspondents
Pradhan Mantri Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
Launch Date: 22.1.2015
Objective:
A small
deposit savings scheme to promote the welfare of girl child and ensure them a
secure future.
Achievements:
·
More
than 1.26 crore accounts have been opened
·
Amount
of over Rs. 19,183 crores deposited till November 2017
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
Launch Date: 8.4.2015
Objective:
To
provide financial support for growth (development and refinancing) of micro
enterprises sector.
Achievements:
Easy, loans without guarantee under
three categories – Shishu, Kishore and Tarun by the banks. Loan of up to Rs. 50000 is given under
sub-scheme ‘Shishu’ between Rs. 50,000 to 5.0 Lakhs under sub-scheme ‘Kishore’
and between 5.0 Lakhs to 10.0 Lakhs under sub-scheme ‘Tarun’.
·
Number
of PMMY loans sanctioned in 2017-18: 4535109
·
Loans
disbursed in 2017-18; Rs. 220596.05 crore
·
Loans
disbursed in 2016-17: Rs. 175312.13 crore
·
Loans
disbursed in 2015-16: Rs.132954.73 crore
·
Budget
allocation for 2018-19 raised to Rs. 3lakh crore, a hike of 20% over the previous
year which was Rs.2.44 lakh crores against Rs. 1.22 lakh crores in 2016-17
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana
Launch Date: 9.5.2015
Objective:
To
provide a very affordable insurance scheme for the poor and underprivileged
people in the age group of 18 to 70 years with a bank account at a premium of
Rs.12 per annum;
risk
coverage of Rs.2 lakhs for accidental death and full disability and
Rs.1 lakh for partial disability.
Achievements:
·
As
on Feb 2018, 13 crore 25 lakh persons have been insured with personal accident
cover of Rs.2 lakh on payment of a premium of only Rs.12 per annum.
Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana
Launch Date: 9.5.2015
Objective: To create
a social security system for the poor and underprivileged in the age group of
18-50 years by providing a renewable life insurance cover of
Rs.2 lakhs with just a premium of Rs.330
Achievements:
·
As on February 2018, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan
Jyoti Beema Yojana (PMJJBY) has benefitted 5.22 crore families with a life
insurance cover of Rs. 2 lakh on payment of a premium of only Rs.330/- per
annum.
Atal Pension Yojana
Launch Date: 9.5.2015
Objective:
To
provide financial security in old age through guaranteed minimum monthly
pension for those working in informal sector or daily wagers in the age group
of 18 to 40 years.
Government contribution - 50 percent of
beneficiaries’ premium (up to Rs. 1000) for 5 years in new accounts opened
before December 31, 2015.
Achievements:
·
As on 5 January, 2018 about 80 lakh
subscribers have been enrolled under APY.
PRADHAN MANTRI VAYA VANDAN YOJANA
·
Announced by PM on New Year eve of 2017& launched by the
Finance Minister on 21.7.2017
·
To provide social security and protect elderly.
·
For citizens aged 60 years and above, it was opened for subscription
from May 4, 2017 to May 3, 2018
·
Now PMVVY Pension Investment Limit has been Doubled from Rs. 7.5
lakh to 15 lakh
·
Now Senior Citizens can get up to Rs. 10,000 pension per month.
·
Scheme has been extended by two years from May 4, 2018 to March
31, 2020.
·
The scheme provides an assured pension based on a guaranteed
rate of return of 8 per cent per annum for ten years.
·
As of March, 2018, 2.23 lakh senior citizens have subscribed to
PMVVY
Gold
Monetization Scheme, Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme, and India Gold Coins
Launch Date: 05.11.2015
Objective: To reduce the
country’s reliance on the imports of gold to meet the domestic demand and to
reduce the demand for physical gold
Achievements:
·
As on Mar 10, 2017 As much as 6,410 kg
gold has been mobilized under the Gold Monetization Scheme so far, according to
the reports received till February 18 this year.
SOVEREIGN GOLD BONDS
Gold Monetization Scheme, Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme, and
India Gold Coins
Objective:
To provide
a new financial instrument of investment to public at large and reduce the
demand for physical gold.
Achievements:
·
The target mobilization under the scheme
at Rs. 15,000 crore in 2015-16 and at Rs.10,000 crore in 2016-17.
·
Revision of guidelines of Sovereign Gold Bonds
Scheme approved by Cabinet on 26th July2017.
Stand- Up
India
Launch
Date: 5.4.2016
Objective:
To
support entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities by
facilitating bank loans between 10 lakh and 1 Crore to
them. To benefit at least 2.5 lakh entrepreneurs.
Achievements:
·
The number of loans given by Public Sector, Private and Regional
Banks under the Stand-up India Scheme are 51,888, 2,445, and 1,009 respectively
up to 07.03.2018 since inception of the Scheme.
·
Regional Rural Banks sanctioned 180 loans to borrowers of
Scheduled Castes (SC) category as on 07.03.2018 since inception of the Scheme.
·
56260 Self Unemployment Insurance, SUI applications sanctioned for
12194 crores
·
44460 SUI applications disbursed for 6641 crores
·
7424 online SUI loan applications submitted of which 2641 SUI
online loans have been sanctioned
Demonetization
and fight against black money
Launch
Date: 8.11.2016
Objective: A major
war against black money was unleashed on 8th November with demonetization
of Rs 500 and 1000 currency notes as the first step.
Achievements:
·
There is a major fillip in digital transactions and unearthing of
substantial amounts of black money.
·
50 lakh new bank accounts opened to enable cashless transaction of
wages.
·
26.6% increase in number of taxpayers added from FY 2015-16 to FY
2016-17
·
27.95% increase in number of e-returns filed.
·
Value of IMPS transactions increased almost 59% from August 2016
to August 2017, 2.24 Lakh shell companies were struck off, undisclosed income
worth Rs. 29,213 crores was detected and admitted and revenues of the ULBs
across the country increased.
·
Income Tax Department (ITD) launched Operation Clean Money (OCM)
on 31st January 2017 to leverage technology for e-verification of cash deposits
made during the demonetization period i.e. 9th November to 30th December 2016.
Formation of SIT &
curbing of black money
Special
Investigation Team, SIT set up at the First Cabinet Meeting after the NDA
Government assumed office
GST: One
Nation, One Tax; One Nation-One Market
·
Rolled out
on the midnight of 30 June 2017 and came into effect from 1 July 2017.
·
GST is
administered by both Centre and States and has subsumed several state and
central indirect taxes such as State VAT, Central Excise Duty, Purchase Tax and
Entry Tax.
·
4 Tax
Rates- 5%, 12%, 18%, 28%
·
Reduction
in overall taxes on goods, estimated to be 25-30%
·
National
Anti-Profiteering Authority: Constitution of the National Anti-Profiteering
Authority so that benefits of lower prices of goods and services are passed on
to the consumers.
·
Lead to
ease of doing business and increase in tax revenue collections.
Benefits
of GST
Decrease
in Inflation due to
Ease of Doing
Business due to
Decrease
in “Black” Transactions due to
More
informed consumer due to
Poorer
States to gain due to
Make
in India boost due to
ECONOMIC
INDICATORS
|
Macroeconomic Indicator |
For Year 2017-18 |
|
GDP Growth Rate (%) |
6.0 (Up to Q2) |
|
CPI |
3.6% (Q2) |
|
WPI |
3.6% (Q2) |
|
Current Account Deficit |
US$ 14.3 billion (Q1) |
|
Trade Deficit |
US$ 41.2 billion (Q1) |
|
External Debt to GDP
Ratio (%) |
20.2 |
|
FDI Inflows |
US$ 1,350.93 million (As on October, 2017) |
|
Foreign Exchange Reserves |
US$ 401,942.0 million (As on December 1, 2017) |
·
Increase
in Foreign Direct Investment from US Dollar 36 billion to US Dollar 60 billion
during the last three years.
GDP Growth
Rate
·
India’s
growth rate remained impressive despite global economic slow-down. During the
first quarter of 2016-17, the economy witnessed a temporary slowdown in GDP
growth. The second quarter of 2017-18, however, has seen a reversal of this
trend
|
Year |
Growth rate (%) |
|
2012-13 |
5.48 |
|
2013-14 |
6.54 |
|
2014-15 |
7.18 |
|
2015-16 |
7.93 |
|
2016-17 |
7.11 |
|
2017-18 |
6.5 (estimated) |
In terms of the Global
Competitiveness Index (GCI) prepared by World Economic Forum for 138 countries,
India ranked 39 in 2016-17, as compared to India’s rank in GCI of 60 (among 148
countries) in 2013-14.
Banking Reforms
Capital
for Public Sector Banks (PSBs)
·
Recapitalization of PSBs by infusion of Rs. 2,11,000 crore over the
next two years to support credit growth and job creation
·
Through Budgetary provisions of Rs. 18,139 crore +
Recapitalisation Bonds to the tune of Rs. 1,35,000 crore, and the balance
through raising of capital by banks from the market while diluting government
equity.
·
Parliament approved on 5th January, 2018 the proposal to issue Rs
80,000 Crore worth of Recap Bonds as Third batch of Supplementary Demands for
Grants for 2017-18 for capitalizing the state-run banks.
Setting
up of an Alternative Mechanism
·
Cabinet
gave in-principle approval for Public Sector Banks to amalgamate through an
Alternative Mechanism (AM) on 23rd August 2017.
·
It
would facilitate consolidation among the Nationalized Banks to create strong
and competitive banks.
·
Alternative
Mechanism Committee for Consolidation of the Public Sector Banks (PSBs) set up
on 1st Nov 2017.
Merger of
SBI Associates with State Bank of India (SBI)
·
Merger
of (i) State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur (SBBJ), (ii) State Bank of Hyderabad
(SBH), (iii) State Bank of Mysore (SBM), (iv) State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and
(v) State Bank of Travancore (SBT) with State Bank of India (SBI) come in
effect from 1st April, 2017.
·
It
will lead to better management of high-value credit exposures common to SBI and
Associate Banks, with more focused oversight and control over cash flows of
large corporate borrowing entities as NPAs.
·
Customers
of Subsidiary Banks will have access to SBI’s global network which spans across
all the time zones.
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana
Launch Date: 17.12.2016
Objective:
To
provide an opportunity to pay taxes with heavy penalty to come clean so that
the Government gets additional revenue which will be deposited
as Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Deposit for undertaking
activities for the welfare of the poor and the remaining part of the declared
income legitimately comes into the formal economy.
Achievements:
·
21000 persons disclosed Rs. 4,900 crore under the Prime Minister Garib
Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) on which Rs. 2,451 crore was collected as tax.
DBT
Objective:
Direct
Benefit Transfer (DBT) is Government’s major reform initiative to re-engineer
the existing delivery processes, ensuring better and timely delivery of benefits
using Information & Communication Technology (ICT).
Achievements:
·
As on date, 400 schemes from 56 Ministries/ Departments are being
implemented under DBT.
·
As on 15.12.2018, Rs. 2,64,113 crores have been transferred to the
beneficiaries in the Cash Schemes.
|
YEAR |
No. Of
Beneficiaries, |
Cash
Transferred to beneficiaries |
|
2014-2015 |
22.82 crore |
Rs. 46,294
crore |
|
2015-2016 |
31.25 crore |
Rs. 61,942
crore |
|
2016-17 |
35.7 crore |
Rs. 74,707
crore |
|
2017-18 |
41.14 crore |
Rs. 81,170
crore |
ENABLING
LEGISLATIONS & AMENDMENTS
·
DTAA
– Mauritius, Cyprus, Singapore
·
Bankruptcy
Act
·
The
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 : Considered as the biggest Economic
reforms next only to GST
·
The
law is for insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and
individuals in a time bound manner
·
The
law promotes entrepreneurship, availability of credit, and balances the
interests of all stakeholders
·
Benami
Property Act
·
Reshaping
of the laws relating to Benami property
·
Blocking
a major avenue for generation and holding of back money in the form of Benami
property, especially in real estate
·
Black
Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act 2015
·
Agreement
on Real Time Information with Switzerland
·
Income
Disclosure Scheme 2016
·
Amendments
in Whistle Blower’s Protection Act 2011
·
Action
for Amendments in the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
·
New
Direct Tax Code also initiated to re-write the Income Tax Act.
BUDGETARY
REFORMS
·
Budget
guided by mission to strengthen agriculture, rural development, health,
education, employment, MSME and infrastructure sectors
·
MSP
for all unannounced kharif crops raised to one and half times of their
production cost like majority of rabi crops:
·
Institutional
Farm Credit raised to 11 lakh crore in 2018-19 from 8.5 lakh crore in 2014-15.
·
Two
New Funds of Rs10,000 crore announced for Fisheries and Animal Husbandry
sectors; Re-structured National Bamboo Mission gets Rs.1290 crore.
·
Loans
to Women Self Help Groups will increase to Rs. 75,000 crore in 2019 from 42,500
crore last year
·
Outlay
on health, education and social protection enhanced to the tune of Rs.1.38 lakh
crore in Budget 18-19.
·
Tribal
students to get Ekalavya Residential School in each tribal block by 2022.
Welfare fund for SCs gets a boost.
·
World’s
largest Health Protection Scheme covering over 10 crore poor and vulnerable
families launched with a family limit upto 5 lakh rupees for secondary and
tertiary treatment.
·
Fiscal
Deficit pegged at 3.5 %, projected at 3.3 % for 2018-19
·
Rs.
5.97 lakh crore allocation for infrastructure
·
Disinvestment
crossed target of Rs 72,500 crore to reach Rs 1,00,000 crore
·
Hike
in deduction limit for health insurance premium and/ or medical expenditure
from Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 50,000 under section 80D.
·
Proposed
to extend Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana up to March, 2020. Current
investment limit proposed to be increased to Rs. 15 lakh from the existing
limit of Rs. 7.5 lakh per senior citizen.
·
Tax
on Long Term Capital Gains exceeding Rs. 1 lakh at the rate of 10 percent,
without allowing any indexation benefit. However, all gains up to 31st January,
2018 will be grandfathered
·
Proposal
to introduce tax on distributed income by equity oriented mutual funds at the
rate of 10 percent.
*****
Ministry of Food
Processing Industries
● Budget 2018-2019
Ř
Operation Greens:
Rs. 500 crore
allocated for ‘Operation Greens’ to address price volatility of perishable commodities
like Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP)
Ř
Allocation
for Ministry of Food Processing has been doubled in the Budget 2018-19 to Rs.
1400 Crores
Ř
Specialized
Agro Processing Financial Institutions to be established to ensure Timely,
Accessible and Affordable Credit to Food Processing sector
·
Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana: The Schemes of the Ministry have been restructured and new schemes
have been approved by Cabinet and launched as Pradhan Mantri Kisan
SAMPADA Yojana. The SAMPADA Scheme will target creation of Infrastructure
and increasing capacities of processing and preservation in entire supply chain
of food processing sector right from farm gate to retail outlets. The New
Scheme will help in integrating food processing units and food trade with the
farmers creating huge opportunities for employment of increasing income of the
farmers. PMKSY is an umbrella scheme incorporating ongoing schemes of the
Ministry like Mega Food Parks, Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition
Infrastructure, Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure, etc. and also
new schemes like Infrastructure for Agro-processing Clusters, Creation of
Backward and Forward Linkages, Creation / Expansion of Food Processing &
Preservation Capacities.
● World
Food India, 2017: Ministry organized World Food India 2017 in Delhi
and showcased investment potential of India in the food processing sector and
attracted investment worth $18.8 billion in the entire supply chain for
inclusive development. Food Street was the World food India’s
most attractive highlight. Food Street is an experiential platform that will
bring together culinary practices, flavours, fragrances from the world's
cuisines, and celebrate India's rich cultural heritage and diverse uniqueness
of its produce to create contemporary renditions and fusion food.
● Investor’s
Portal ‘Nivesh Bandhu’ Launched.
http://foodprocessingindia.co.in/ Information
on potential and opportunities for investment in the food processing sector and
incentives provided by the Central and State Governments were made available to
the prospective investors at a single point. The queries of the investors were
received and answered through the portal guiding them and making it easier for
them to take decision.
● Government
has allowed 100% FDI for trading including through e-commerce, in respect of
food products manufactured or produced in India. 100% FDI is already
permitted in manufacturing of food products through automatic route. This
will provide impetus to the foreign investment in food processing sector,
benefit farmers immensely and will create vast employment opportunities.
● Mega Food Parks: Setting up
of state of art testing facilities in all the 42 Mega Food Parks to encourage export of
agri-commodities realizing their full potential.
·
Creation of a Special Fund of Rs. 2000 crore in NABARD. Availability of
affordable credit to Mega Food Parks and food processing units set up therein
Rs. 540.62 crore sanctioned to 15 Projects and Rs. 255.78 crore disbursed.
● Grievance
Redressal System Strengthened. Under the infrastructure schemes of Mega
Food Parks and cold chain, a committee of three Independent Monitors was constituted
to address the grievances of applicants whose proposal for Mega Food Parks and
Cold Chains could not be selected. The committee also provides personal hearing
to the applicants before disposing of their grievances.
● Food
Map of India launched. The Food Map enables investor to take decision with
regard to locating their projects as the food map showed mapping of the
potential of food processing in surplus production areas.
● Project
Monitoring process streamlined. The close monitoring of the projects
regularly led to completion of three Mega Food Parks in comparison to two
projects in previous six years and completion of 14 cold chain
projects as against 12 in last six years. This has also lead to significant
improvement in utilization of plan fund allocation nearly 200% in all the
schemes.
● Food
and agro-based processing unit and cold chain infrastructure have been
classified under agriculture activities for Priority Sector Lending.
Availability of additional credit for food processing activities and
infrastructure.
● Service
Tax on pre-conditioning, pre-coding, ripening, waxing, retail packaging and
labelling of fruits and vegetables exempted in cold chain projects. This is a
big relief in terms of tax exemption to the cold chain operators as this
facility was only available to the farmers at farm gate but not to the cold
chain operators. This enhanced the viability of cold chain projects,
encouraging more investment in the sector.
● To
enhance the transparency and reduce human interface on-line software has been
developed and put in use for filing of claims for the infrastructure
development projects. This has also been expanded to other schemes.
● Investment
tracking and facilitation Desk of Invest India has been set up in the Ministry.
The desk will identify new potential investors and approach them in a focussed
and structured manner for investment and follow-up the investment cases by
providing hand holding services. The desk will also assist Ministry in
organising roadshows both in India and abroad and organizing investment meets.
● e-NAM
to be expanded from 250 to 585 APMCs.
e-NAM Market to have primary processing facilities e-NAM will be
provided assistance for creating primary processing to cleaning, grading,
packaging. This will encourage and make easier direct procuring of raw-material
by the processing units and retail traders resulting in increased income
to farmers. Primary Processing will increase value addition of the farmers
produce and fetch better price. This will also lead to quality consciousness.
● Model
Law on Contract Farming prepared to integrate farmers. The Contract Farming Law
will integrate backward integration of the food processors with the farmers and
attracting investment in post-harvest management activities leading to
increased benefit to the farmers and reduction in wastages.
● A
Dairy Processing and Development Fund of Rs. 8000 core set up in NABARD. The
Fund is used to modernize old and obsolete milk processing units particularly in
cooperative sector and will result in enhancing milk processing capacity
thereby adding more value to the produce of the farmers and increasing their
income
● Common
Food Processing Incubation Center for Shallots launched in Perambalur
Additional fiscal concessions:
Mega Food
Parks:
Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure:
1.
Ministry of Food
Processing Industries is assisting 238 integrated cold chain projects
(Including completed and ongoing projects) having capacity of 7.64 lakh
metric tonnes of cold storages, 231.75 metric tonnes per hour of individual
Quick Freezing(IQF), 104.99 lakh litres per day of Milk processing/storage and
1383 reefer vans
2.
A total of 119
integrated cold chain projects have been completed/operationalized as on 31.03.2018
and out of this, 82 integrated cold chain projects have been
completed/operationalized during 2014-2018. With the operationalization of
these 82 projects, Ministry has created an additional capacity of 2.65 lakh
metric tonnes of cold storages, 82.45 metric tonnes per hour of individual
Quick Freezing(IQF), 34.55 lakh litres per day of Milk processing/storage and
516 reefer vans during 2014-2018.
3.
The guidelines of
Scheme have been revised on the basis of feedback and experience of this
Ministry to make them investor friendly.
4.
On an average,
each cold chain project benefits to around 500 farmers in fruits and vegetables
sector and around 5000 farmers in dairy sector and creates employment for 100
persons.
● Under
the Scheme of Setting up/ Modernization of Abattoirs, one project at Panji
(Goa) has been operationalized.
● 10 Food Testing
Labs have been completed.
FSSAI has
simplified product approval:
● The
National Institute of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM)
at Kundli, Sonepat, Haryana and Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology
(IICPT) at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu are being developed by the Government as the
Centres of Excellence. The pass-outs of these institutes have got 100%
placements.
*****
Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
HEALTHY INDIA-STRONG INDIA
Swastha
Bharat-Sabal Bharat
Mission Indradhanush
Launch Date: 25.12. 2014
Objective:
Achievements:
o
2.55
crore children
vaccinated
o 66.57 lakh children fully immunized
o
68.78
lakh pregnant female
immunized
o
73.49 lakh
vitamin A doses administered
o
68.57
lakh ORS packets distributed
o
2.345
crore zinc tablets distributed
Maternal & Neonatal
Tetanus Elimination
NEW
VACCINES
Inactivated
Polio Vaccine (IPV):
In
concurrence with the World Polio End Game strategy, IPV was introduced in
November 2015 in six states and expanded throughout the country by June 2016. Till December’17, nearly 3.87 crore doses of IPV have been
administered to children across the country since its introduction.
Rotavirus Vaccine:
Measles Rubella (MR) vaccine:
Japanese Encephalitis vaccination in
India:
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV):
JANANI SURAKSHA YOJANA
·
Institutional
delivery in the country has risen to 78.9% (NFHS-4, 2015-16) from 47% (DLHS-3,
2007-08).
NEW
SCHEMES
PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHIT MATRITVA ABHIYAN-PMSMA
Launch Date: 4.11.2016
Objective:
Achievements:
Six Months Maternity Leave
Maternity Benefit Act
amended to enhance maternity leave period for working women
from 12 weeks to 26 weeks
Elimination of Diseases
Elimination of Communicable diseases – Action plans to eliminate
Leprosy by 2018, Measles by 2020 and Tuberculosis by 2025 being implemented.
‘Affordable & Quality HealthCare for All’ - Availability of Cheaper
Medicines
1054 essential medicines,
including lifesaving drugs, brought under Price Control regime after May 2014,
giving the consumer total benefit Rs. 9113 crores (As on 29th September,
2017).
Affordable & Accessible Healthcare for Cardiac Patients
· Cardiac
Stents to cost 85% lesser
· Knee
Implants to cost 69% lesser
Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana
(PMBJP)
Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri National Health Protection
Mission (AB-PMNHPM)
Launch Date:
February 1,2018:
Budget speech: Launch of Ayushman Bharat
– Pradhan Mantri National Health Protection Mission (AB-PMNHPM) in 2018-19
April
14,2018: Launch of First Health and Wellness Centre
at Bijapur, Chattisgarh by PM
Objective:
Features:
Health & Wellness
Centres (HWC)
Swachh Swasth Sarvatra
A joint initiative
with Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to leverage achievements of
complementary program-Swachh bharat Mission (SBM) and Kayakalp
Pradhan Mantri National
Dialysis Program (PM-NDP)
Kayakalp
Kayakalp awards
launched to promote cleanliness, hygiene and infection control practices in
public health facilities. Implemented in District Hospitals in 2015-16,
extended to CHCs and PHCs in 2016-17 and to urban areas in 2017-18.
International Yoga Day
MAJOR
POLICY INITIATIVES
NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY
MENTAL
HEALTHCARE ACT, 2017
·
The
Act adopts a rights-based statutory framework for mental health in India and
strengthens equality and equity in provision of mental healthcare services to
protect the rights of people with mental health problem to ensure that they are
able to receive optimum care and are able to live a life of dignity and
respect.
HIV & AIDS (PREVENTION
& CONTROL) ACT, 2017
·
It aims to end the epidemic by 2030 in accordance with the
Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations.
·
A person living with AIDS cannot be treated unfairly at
employment, educational establishments, renting a property, standing for public
or private office or providing healthcare and insurance services
Affordable Medicines And
Reliable Implants For Treatment (AMRIT)
The AMRIT
pharmacies provide drugs for cancer and cardiovascular diseases along with
cardiac implants at a 60 to 90 per cent discount on prevailing market
rates.
TERTIARY
HEALTH & MEDICAL EDUCATION
PRADHAN MANTRI SWASTHYA SURAKSHA YOJANA (PMSSY)
Objective:
It
aims at correcting regional imbalances in the availability of
affordable/reliable tertiary healthcare services and also augmenting facilities
for quality medical education in the country.
Components:
PMSSY has two
components
1.Setting up of new
AIIMS like institutes in underserved regions of the country: and
2.Up-gradation of
existing Govt Medical Colleges (GMCs).
Progress:
20 News
Super Speciality AIIMS –like Hospitals being set up
73
Government Medical Colleges being upgraded
Details:
MEDICAL EDUCATION:
NATIONAL Program for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes,
Cardiovascular Diseases & Stroke (NPCDCS)
NATIONAL Organ Transplant Program
REVISED NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS
CONTROL PROGRAM
NATIONAL AIDS CONTROL PROGRAM:
DRUG REGULATION:
NATIONAL Tobacco Control Program
NATIONAL VECTOR BORNE DISEASE CONTROL PROGRAMME
Malaria:
Dengue
& Chikungunya:
Japanese
Encephalitis (JE)/ Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES):
Kala-azar
(KA):
Lymphatic
Filariasis (LF)
*****
Ministry
of Housing & Urban Affairs
Pradhan
Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban)- Housing for All
Launch
Date: 25.6.2015
Objective:
To address the gap in housing demand and supply in urban
areas in respect of Economically Weaker Sections, Low and Middle Income
Groups and meet the target of “Housing for All” by 2022, with an aim
to provide a decent pucca home
Achievements:
REAL ESTATE ACT
·
Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act,2016 brought into force
from May 1, 2017 to protect interests of buyers and developers and bring more
transparency and accountability in the sector including both residential and
commercial real estate.
NEW METRO RAIL POLICY
Government has approved the new Metro Rail Policy on
18.08.2017. It
lays emphasis on ‘last mile connectivity’. Presently, Metro work is in progress
in 11 cities of the country.
MULTI MODAL LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORT POLICY
An effective multi modal logistics and transport sector will
make our economy more competitive. A specific program for development of
multi-modal logistics parks,
together with multi modal transport facilities, will be
drawn up and implemented.
The Ministry of Commerce has been entrusted with the
responsibility for finalizing the logistics policy and ensuring
inter-ministerial coordination for Multi Modal Logistic Parks
(MMLPs). Infrastructure Status has been bestowed on
Logistics on 21.11.2017.
ATAL MISSION FOR REJUVENATION AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION (AMRUT)
Launch
Date: 25.6.2015
Objective: To ensure water taps to over 2 cr urban
households in mission cities by 2019 besides expanding sewerage and drainage
networks, Non-motorised transport and providing open and green spaces
Achievement:
·
Service Level Improvement Plans (SLIPS) for all 500 mission cities
approved three years ahead of the mission period with a project investment of
Rs.77,640 cr.
Status of the implementation of AMRUT Projects
|
Status |
Number of projects |
Cost (INR crore) |
|
Work Completed |
332 |
232 |
|
Contracts awarded and under implementation |
1689 |
34,607 |
|
Tender Invited |
774 |
13,067 |
|
DPR Approved |
1153 |
10,725 |
·
About 22 cr urban population will benefit from this mission
SMART CITY MISSION
Launch Date: 25.6.2015
Objective: To ensure core infrastructure to improve quality of living
through area based development in and around 100 cities based on inclusive and
sustainable urban planning and development.
Achievements:
·
99 cities identified through competition.
·
Total cost of Projects (Rs Crores):201979.
·
Total Population impacted: 9.9 Cr.
SWACHCH BHARAT URBAN:
Launch Date: 2.10.2014
Objective: To make
4,041 cities and towns Open Defecation Free and clean by October, 2019
Achievements:
Milestones Achieved (as
of data received from the concerned division)
·
46,36,158 individual household toilets constructed so far.
·
3,06,064 Community and Public Toilet seats constructed so
far.
·
2477 cities have been so far declared Open Defecation Free.
·
61,846 urban wards covered under 100% Door to Door collection
of solid waste.
·
Waste to Compost total achievement 13.11 lakh TPA from 145
Plants.
·
Around 88 Mega Watts of energy is being produced from waste.
*****
Ministry
of Human Resource Development
UDAAN
Launch
Date: 14.11.2014
It is a
project launched by CBSE in November 2014 under the guidance of Ministry of
Human Resource Development; Government of India aims to address the low enrolment
of girl students in prestigious engineering institutions and the teaching gap
between school education and engineering entrance examinations by addressing
the three dimensions of education - curriculum design, transaction and
assessment. The project supports about 1000 selected meritorious girls from
economically weaker section to prepare for the Engineering Examination while
studying in class XI & XII. The aim is also to enrich and enhance teaching
and learning of Science and Mathematics at Senior Secondary Level. The
objective of this project is to provide a platform that empowers the girl
students and provides better learning opportunities to them. As a result they
are able to compete confidently in the entrance examinations of technical education
institutions and eventually become important stakeholders in the technical
growth of the nation. The programme UDAAN posed no financial burden on the
students as the entire program is free of cost. Students were guided and
assessed during online weekend classes held at 64 centers across the country on
Saturdays and Sundays. ln the year 2017, 632 girls out of 777 (session 2016-17,
class XII) appeared in JEE (Mains) and 135 qualified for JEE (Advanced). For
the session 2017-18,1019 girls were enrolled for class XI while 516 girls
continued from the previous year and were promoted to class XI.
National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS)
ü 3.81 lakh scholarshrps have
been sanctioned during 2014-15 to 2016-17.
ü 4.13 lakh scholarshrps have been
sanctioned during the current year 2017-18 (as on 28.02 2018)
National Scheme of lncentive to Girls for Secondary Scholarship
(NSIGSE)
ü
9.71 lakh incentive to girls have been sanctioned during 2014-15
to 2016-17.
ü
9.73 lakh incentives to girls have been sanctioned during the
current year 2017-18 (as on 28.02 2018).
SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN
ü
Rs.22,500 Crore earmarked for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
ü
Under SSA. the RE for 2016-17 was Rs 22500 crore out of which
96.35% was spent. The RE for 2017-18 was allocated at Rs 23500 crore out of
which 82.21% has been released as on 28 02.2018. The BE for 2018-19 has been
increased by 11.2% to Rs 26128.81 crore.
National Academic Depository
Launch Date: 9.9.2016
Objective: To develop a Digital Depository
for school learning certificates, degrees and other academic awards of Higher
Education Institutions, on the pattern of a Securities Depository in line with the vision
of Digital India.
ü
The National Academic Depository (NAD) was launched by the
President of India on 9th July, 2017.
The NAD is born out of an initiative to provide an online 24X7
store-house of all academic awards, viz. certificates, diplomas, degrees, mark
sheets etc. of School Education Boards and Higher Educational Institutions on
the pattern of a security depository in line with the vision of digital India
and help in safe storage, easy retrival and validating the authenticity of
academic awards.
ü
As on 16th February, 2018, around 91.03 lakhs academic awards have
been lodged on NAD. About 330 academic
institutions including School Boards have on-boarded NAD and about 30,000
students have already registered on NAD.
Swachch Vidyalaya:
ü
In response to the clarion call made by the Prime Minister on 15
August, 2014, the Department of School Education and Literacy launched the
Swachh Vidyalaya lnitiative (SVI) for the construction and repair of separate
toilets for girls and boys in every school within a year.
ü
The targets were fully achieved with 4,17,796 toilets added to
2,61,400 government elementary and secondary schools during the year from
15.8.2014 to 15.8.2015.
ü
This was achieved by a combination of effort from government,
public and corporate sectors and private contributions. This includes schools
in the most difficult to reach areas in the country such as districts facing
Left Wing Extremism (LWE), in forests, remote mountainous terrain and in
crowded slums. With this, all 13.77 crore children in 11.21 lakh government
schools all over the country now have access to toilet facilities.
Scholarships
As per
the record maintained by AICTE, a sum of Rs. 292.50 Crore (approx.) has been
released to 11,862 GATE qualified M. Tech. students. In addition, Rs. 2.61 Lakh
have been released under National Doctoral Fellowship Scheme. Overall, a sum of
Rs. 1076 Crore have been released to GATE qualified M. Tech. Students in the
last three year.
NEW IITs
6 New
IITs at Jammu, Bhilai, Goa, Dharwad, Tirupati and Palakkad are fully
functional. ISM Dhanbad converted into an IIT.
Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs)
ü
On the recommendation of the Scientific Advisory Council to the
then Prime Minister of India (SAC-PM), the Government of India initially established
five Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISERs) at Pune
(2006), Kolkata (2006), Mohali (2007), Bhopal (2008) and Thiruvanantha-puram
(2008). IISERs are declared as the Institutes of National Importance (INI)
under the National Institutes Technology, Science Education & Research
(NITSER) Act, 2007, as amended from time to time and are governed by their
respective Boards of Governors as per provisions of the Act.
ü
IISERs are envisaged to carry out research in frontier areas of
science and to provide quality science education at the undergraduate and
postgraduate level. The central theme of
the IISER is to integrate education with research so that under-graduate
teaching as well as doctoral and post-doctoral research work, carried out in
symbiosis. Students are encouraged to carry out research projects during the
vacation periods in the first four years of their Masters programme in various
research institutes outside IISER. In the fifth year the students are required
to participate in a research seminar and also carry out a research project on
which a thesis will have to be written
Achievements
ü
2015:
As a sequel
to the Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act, 2014, bifurcating the then State of Andhra
Pradesh to the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telengana, a new IISER was
established at Tirupati in the residual State of Andhra Pradesh. IISER Tirupati has been functioning from its
temporary / transit campus with effect from 10.08.2015.
ü
2016: Similarly, consequent upon
an announcement by the Union Finance Minister in his Budget speech (2015),
another IISER was established at Berhampur, Odisha. IISER Berhampur is function-ing from its
temporary / transit campus with effect from 01.08.2016. The Union Cabinet, it its meeting held on
27.10.2016, inter alia approved incorporation of the two IISERs Tirupati and
Berhampur in the NITSER Act, 2007.
ü
2017:
Consequently,
with the adoption of the NITSER (Amendment) Bill, 2017 in the Lok Sabha on 28.03.2017
and Rajya Sabha on 26.07.2017 and necessary notifications issued in the Gazette
of India, the two new IISERs at Tirupati and Berhampur stood incorporated at
Sl. Nos. 6 & 7 of the Second Schedule to the NITSER Act, 2007.
NEW IIMs:
ü
In the Budget speech 2014-15, six new IIMs were announced. Accordingly, during the year 2015-16, six
more IIMs have been established at Amritsar (Punjab), Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Nagpur
(Maharashtra), Sambalpur (Odisha), Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh) and
Vishakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and commenced their academic session from
2015-16 from temporary campuses. The
Ministry of HRD is providing funds to establish the IIMs for academic
activities and setting up of temporary campuses and construction of permanent
campuses. A total of Rs.79 crore per
institute has been approved for their establishment and operation from the
temporary campus during initial years.
ü
The Union Finance Minister, in his Budget Speech (2015) had inter
alia announced setting up of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the
State of Jammu & Kashmir. Mentored
by IIM Lucknow, IIM Jammu, has started its first academic session in 2016-17
with 54 students from Temporary / transit campus located at old Government
College of Engineering & Technology (GCE&T), Canal Road, Jammu. An
amount of Rs.61.9 crore per institute has been approved for its establishment
and operation from the temporary campus during initial years.
GIAN
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education
was launched on 30th November, 2015. The programme seeks to invite
distinguished academicians, entrepreneurs, scientists, experts from premier
institutions from across the world, to teach in the higher educational
institutions in India
ü
No. of Courses approved till date: 1417
ü
Courses already organized: 1037
ü
No of host Institutions: 138
SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds)
The Ministry of HRD has embarked on a major and new initiative called
'Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' (SWAYAM), which will
provide one integrated platform and portal for online courses, using
information and communication technology (ICT) and covering all higher
education subjects and skill sector courses. Till date, more than 28 Lakhs
learners have been enrolled in 1000+ MOOCs courses that have been run through
SWAYAM.
National Digital Library (NDL)
Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission
on Education through Information and Communication Technology initiated the
National Digital Library of India (NDL India) project to develop a framework of
virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility.
ü
1.5 Crore e-books and documents are available.
ü
Content is available in English, Hindi and some other languages.
ü
There are 160 Content contributor.
ü
There are 30 lakh users
ü
9 thousand educational institutions from where users registered.
NATIONAL RANKINGS FOR HIGHER INSTITUTIONS
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) launched to help
Indian Educational Institutions to participate in the world rankings with
greater confidence.
ü
National Institutional Ranking Framework-2018: 2809 institutions
have participated in nine categories. This includes 301 Universities, 906
Engineering Institutions, 487 Management Institutions, 286 Pharmacy
Institutions, 71 Law Institutions, 101 Medical Institutions, 59 Architecture
Institutions and 1087 General Degree Colleges.
ü
“India Rankings 2018” have ranked institutions in the
disciplines/categories mentioned above, and provided a common overall rank
across all disciplines for those institutions, which have more than 1000
enrolled students.
Smart India
Hackathon
A unique
IT Initiative under which students are encouraged to apply knowledge to the
real life situations and to find innovative solutions to the day to day
problems
Smart
India Hackathon 2018 (SIH 2018) was launched on 16th October 2017. It includes 2 sub-editions – Software as well
as Hardware:
ü
Software Edition- 36-hour software product development
competition, similar in concept to SIH 2017.
ü
In the new Hardware Edition of the Hackathon, the teams work for 5
consecutive days and build their hardware solutions for the proposed problem
statements.
ü
The Grand Finale of
Software Edition SIH 2018 was held on 30th & 31st March, 2018.
RESEARCH &QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION
Research
and Quality Higher Education: AICTE has released a sum of Rs. 11.77 Crore under
Research Promotional Scheme in the current Financial Year. The scheme aims at
promoting research in engineering sciences and innovations in established and
newer technologies; and to generate Master’s and Doctoral degree candidates to
augment the quality of faculty and research. Under Modernisation and Removal of
Obsolescence (MODROBS), AICTE has granted a sum of Rs. 16 Crore in the present
financial year to the institutes for removing obsolescence in laboratories,
workshops, etc.
ü
5 New Research Parks at IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT
Hyderabad and IISc Bangalore @ Rs.75 crore each approved.
IMPRINT
Launch
date: Nov, 2015
ü
IMPRINT initiative was launched by the Hon’ble President, Hon’ble Prime
Minister and the Hon’ble Human Resource Development Minister in November, 2015
to channelize the research in premier institutions into areas that can have
largest social and economic good for the country. Under this initiative, research projects under
10 selected domains are jointly funded by MHRD and other participating
Ministries/Departments. These domains
are: health care, energy, sustainable habitat, nano technology hardware,
water resources and river systems, advanced materials, information and
communication technology, manufacturing, security and defence, and
environmental science and climate change. 142 research projects with an outlay
of Rs. 323.16 crore for 3 years with joint funding from MHRD and participating
Ministries in he ratio of 50:50 have been approved and currently under
execution.
Uchhatar Avishkar Yojana (UAY)
Launch
date: 06.10.2015
ü
Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Development announced in the
IIT Council meeting on October 6, 2015 an annual investment of Rs. 250.00 crore
with a view to promoting innovation of a higher order that directly impacts the
needs of the Industry and thereby improves the competitive edge of Indian
manufacturing. The projects envisages
collaboration between the academia and industry – within or outside India. The overall annual investment would be
limited to Rs. 250.00 crore each year.
The funding pattern of the projects selected would be 25% by Industry;
25% by participating Department/Ministry; and 50% by MHRD. 87 projects at a
cost of Rs.265.59 crore with joint funding from MHRD, participating Ministries
and Industry in the ratio of 50:25:25 have been approved and currently under
execution. Under UAY Phase-II, 65 projects with a total cost of Rs.139.48 Cr
for a period of 3 years have been approved by the Apex Committee.
New Initiatives:
1. National Testing Agency: In pursuance of the Budget
Announcement 2017-18, the Union Cabinet in its meeting held on 10.11.2017
approved creation of the National Testing Agency (NTA) as an autonomous and
self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct all entrance
examinations for higher education institutions in the country.
2. Improving Gender Balance: With a view to improving
female enrolment in the B.Tech Programmes in IITs, a Committee under the chairmanship
of Director, IIT-Mandi was constituted by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) to
suggest suitable measures. The recommendations of the Committee were considered
by the IIT Council in its 51st meeting held on 28.04.2017 and decided to
increase female enrolment from the current 8% to 14% in 2018-19, 17% in 2019-20
and 20% in 2020-21 by creating supernumerary seats.
3. Project Monitoring Unit
(PMU): In
order to effectively monitor construction of campuses of all higher educational
institutions under MHRD, a Project Monitoring Unit comprising experts in the
field of construction has been set up.
This will monitor the quality of the construction at the one hand and
ensure that there is no time and cost overruns in these high value projects.
*****
Ministry
of Information & Broadcasting
Ease of Doing Business
1)
Film Facilitation Office (FFO)
·
Single window clearance to facilitate film shootings by foreign
film makers in India.
·
FFO units set up under NFDC premises in November 2015 at Mumbai, Delhi,
Chennai and Kolkata.
·
Shooting Permissions for 41 foreign films/projects given in 2016.
35% increase to film permissions in 2016 over 2015
2)
E-Cinepramaan
·
The Online Film Certification System of Central Board of Film
Certification (CBFC) was launched on 27th March, 2017.
·
To facilitate the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of Ease of Doing
Business and Digital India.
·
The complete automation of the Film Certification Process would enable
Good Governance making the entire process transparent and efficient.
3)
Most Film Friendly State
Award to promote India as a Filming destination.
·
A cash component of Rs. 1 Crore to the winning state.
4) Visa for Foreign Filmmakers
· A new category of visa for foreign filmmakers was created to ease issues related to their entry into the country.
·
Both ‘Film Visa’ and the Film Facilitation Office (FFO) have
been aimed to promote India as an attractive filming destination to the world.
5)
Simplification of Annual Renewal process for existing TV channels
· Online payment through Bharat Kosh
Portal of Ministry of Finance from 1 st January, 2017
· Permitted Broadcasters can continue
their operations by paying annual fee upto 60 days before the due date for continuation
of the channel for a further period of 1year.
Increased reach of Radio across India
FM Phase III Auctions
· Batch 1
successfully completed in 2015 after a gap of 9 years
Ř
96 new FM channels in 55 cities were started
Ř
Government received Rs. 1103 Cr as auction proceeded and Rs.1600
Cr as migration fee from FM Channel owners
· 2nd
batch of Phase III Auctions concluded in 2017
Ř
66 FM channels for 48 cities allotted
Ř
Government realized Rs 200.24 cr through auction
Community Radio
· 201 CR
Stations operational across India.
· Subsidy
increased for setting up of CRS from 50 % to 90% in the North Eastern States
&75% in other States, subject to a maximum limit of Rs. 7.5 lakhs
Akashvani Maitree
· Exclusive
service for Bangladesh and Bengali Diaspora launched by All India Radio
Films as new Medium of Communication
·
Exhibition of Children’s Film in Schools - 5 Lakhs children
audience covered through 1400 shows during April 2016 to December 2016
·
Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival organized for 1 st time. Over
4000 entries received in different languages through Crowd sourcing.
The Best Film was awarded a cash prize of Rupees 10
lakhs, Three Second Best Films were awarded Rupees 5 lakhs each and six
Third Best Films were awarded Rupees 2 lakhs each.
·
Patriotic Film Festival being organized for the first time across
India
·
First ever BRICS Film Festival held in Delhi – Twenty movies, four
each from the five participating countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China
& South Africa) was selected for the screening competition.
Skill Development
·
FTII new SKIFT ( Skilling
India In Film and Television) initiative to conduct short- term courses in Tier 2 cities
·
MoU signed between FTII and Canon. Canon to contribute as
Technology Partner in SKIFT, providing cameras and accessories free of cost for
the courses.
·
Diploma course in Urdu Journalism at IIMC upgraded to the level of
PG Diploma in Urdu Journalism of nine months duration from academic session
2016-17
·
A first of its kind 5 month course on writing for TV fiction and
web series in the country was launched by Film and Television Institute of
India (FTII) to cater to industry’s growing need for long-format storytelling.
·
Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) and Shri Lal Bahadur
Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (SLBSRSV) entered into a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) for conducting a joint three months Advanced Certificate
Programme in Sanskrit Journalism. Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)
launched a Post Graduate Diploma Course
in Marathi Journalism from its Western Regional Campus at Amravati in
Maharashtra on 1st August,2017.
Prasar Bharati
Doordarshan
·
Kisan Channel: It was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri
Narendra Modi on 26 th May, 2015. The 24x7 Kisan Channel telecasts updated
information on agriculture and related subjects.
·
A separate 24x7 DD Channel for Jharkhand was announced. DD Bihar
will telecast DD Ranchi programmes till the launch of 24x7 channels. 2 new
Shortwave. Solid State digital transmitters of 100 KW to broadcast across the
border for Afghanistan-Pakistan region were also announced.
·
Swachhta Samachar: Special 5 minutes Bulletin on Swachhta has been
started on all weekdays. The Bulletin includes important news stories, people’s
initiative and feature stories related to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan along with a
Swachhta Tip.
·
Doordarshan Sports organized Doordarshan Sports Conclave 2017, the
first ever televised conclave of its kind, under the theme “Celebrating Sports
in India”, to discuss future of Indian Sports.
·
Innovative news
format has been brought out by DD News
§ Special 5 minute bulletin daily for Hearing Impaired
§ Khabar Jaldi Jaldi - 4-minute news covering major
national, international, business and sports news.
§ 5 Minutes Flash 15: This 5-minute news
show has 15 important news items in a news capsule form, covering major
national, international, business and sports news.
§ Vaarta Sanskrit Samachar: This daily news bulletin of
10 minutes duration in Sanskrit covers all the important news.
§ Good News India: A new weekly half-an- hour show
covering national and international happenings of positive
nature.
· Tejaswini: A
special half-an- hour programme on women achievers in interview format has been
started. It delves into the life, challenges and successes of inspirational
women.
·
A new Doordarshan channel ArunPrabha would be launched
soon, which would show richness, variety and diversity of local
culture and would seamlessly integrate North East with the entire country.
All India Radio
·
Union Cabinet approved the way for conducting the auction of 683
channels in 236 cities in subsequent batches.
§
The auction will usher in new/enhanced experience of FM radio in
more cities. With the complete roll- out of FM Phase- III auctions, all the 29
States and 6 out of the 7 UTs (except Dadra & Nagar Haveli) will be covered
by private FM radio broadcasting.
§
Likely to generate direct and indirect employment to more than
10,000 persons on a pan India basis.
§
These auctions will yield estimated revenue more than Rs. 1,100
crore.
· Akashvani Maitree: An exclusive
service for Bangladesh and Bengali diaspora launched by All India Radio.
Baluchi Multimedia website and Mobile App for greater people to people contact
also launched.
·
All India Radio (AIR) Resources signed 221 fresh Agreement with
Private FM broadcasters for migration of 229 channels from Phase-II to
Phase-III
· Digitisation
Drive
Ř
Live streaming on multimedia website and mobile app of Baluchi
service of ESD launched expanding its reach to Baluchi Diaspora world
over.
Ř
Airworldservice – mobile platform for foreign and Indian language
services of ESD on Android and IOS launched.
Ř
Multimedia websites for 16 language services of ESD enhancing its
global
Ř
outreach has been launched supplementing the terrestrial
transmission.
Ř
AIR, Fazilka (Punjab) has been started to make Urdu Service
available in FM mode in Pakistan
Ř
24X7 niche ‘RAAGAM’ channel dedicated to Indian classical music
launched.
· FMisation
of entire Vividh Bharati:
All India
Radio has completed FMisation of entire Vividh Bharati by replacing 4 Medium
Wave transmitters of Vividh Bharati at 4 metros viz. Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi
& Chennai.
The
Initiatives of Ministry in different sectors are mentioned below:
Information
Sector
·
MoU signed
between Publications Division and Sasta Sahitya Mandal for Joint Publication of
books, to sensitise the young generation about India’s rich and diverse culture
and history. It would promote availability of good literature for the people on
diverse topics.
·
Agreement
on “Cooperation in the field of Information, Communication and Media” was
signed between India and Ethiopia. The Agreement will encourage cooperation
between mass media tools such as radio, print media, TV, social media etc. to
provide more opportunities to the people of both the nations and create public
accountability.
·
360-degree
Multimedia Campaigns such as International Yoga Day, Swachh Bharat, Make in
India, Skill India, Digital India, Rashtriya Ekta Diwas were launched by the
Government. It entailed Multimedia Exhibitions, social media campaigns using
Infographics, animations, graphic plates, short videos, live streaming of
events /conferences etc.
·
6th
National Photography Awards organized. Shri Raghu Rai conferred Lifetime
Achievement Award. Professional Photographer of the year award to Shri K.K.
Mustafah and Amateur Photographer of the year award to Shri Ravinder Kumar.
·
Three
Heritage Books on the occasion of Centenary Celebrations of Champaran
Satyagraha released.
·
Set
of books titled ‘Swachh Jungle ki kahani – Dadi ki Zubani’ Books published in
15 Indian languages by Publications Division to enable development of
cleanliness habit amongst children released.
·
“Saath
Hai Vishwaas Hai, Ho Raha Vikas Hai” Exhibition organized and was put up across
state capitals for duration of 5-7 days showcasing the achievements of the
Government in the last 3 years in various sectors.
·
100
Volumes of Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi released. The Collected Works of
Mahatma Gandhi’(CWMG) is a monumental document of Gandhiji’s thoughts which he
spoke and wrote from 1884, when Mahatma was a 15 year old boy, till his assassination on
January 30, 1948.
·
Special
Webpage on Goods and Services Tax (GST) http://pib.nic.in/gst was created on
PIB Website and is a one stop platform for all information on the new tax
regime.
·
RNI
Annual Report - Press in India, an Important Index of Print Media was released.
The report gave a comprehensive analysis of the contours of the growth for the
industry specially the growth amongst regional language publications.
·
A
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on “Cooperation in the field of Mass Media”
and an “Audio-Visual Co-Production Agreement” has been signed between the
Government of the Republic of India and Government of the Peoples Republic of
Bangladesh on 8th April, 2017. The MoU would facilitate training/study tour of
personnel in the field of mass media and public relations and the Audio-Visual
Co-Production Agreement would cover co-production of films, documentaries, and
animations films.
Broadcast
Sector
·
Analog
signals in Phase III Urban Areas switched off. "Authorized officers"
under Sec 11 of the Cable TV Networks (Regulation) Act can seize the equipment
of the MSOs/Cable Operators, if they continue to carry analogue signal in Phase
III urban areas after 31st January, 2017.
·
Digital
Radio Round Table Conference organized. Digital Radio technology would provide
listeners with significantly improved audio quality and service reliability at
an affordable price. All India Radio has already completed the technical
installation and upgradation of 37 powerful transmitters in the first phase of
Digitization of Radio Broadcast.
·
14
short films produced by Doordarshan on success stories of various Flagship
schemes of the Government which had positively impacted people’s lives and had
brought a transformational change in the country.
·
A
separate 24x7 DD Channel for Jharkhand announced. DD Bihar to telecast DD
Ranchi programmes till the launch of 24x7 channel.
·
2
new Shortwave Solid State digital transmitters of 100 KW to broadcast across
the border for Afghanistan- Pakistan region announced.
·
New
website of DD News launched.
·
Sardar
Patel Memorial Lecture 2017 was organised.
Film
Sector
·
Indian
Panorama Film Festival organized in Delhi.
·
Film
Condition Assessment Project under National Film Heritage Mission launched.
This one-of-its-kind project in the world, for film preservation, will make
rich filmic heritage available for the future generations to come.
·
The
condition of about 1,32,000 film reels at NFAI would be assessed and each film
reel will be tracked and monitored through RFID tagging, during the first
phase.
·
North East Film Festival – Fragrances from the
North East organized at National Film Archives of India, Pune. 10 film makers
from the North East sponsored for the first time to attend the IFFI in Goa.
·
Bhojpuri
Film Festival organized in Delhi. The festival includes a National Award
winning film “Kab Hoi Gavana Hamaar” and screening of two films selected in
Indian Panorama section of IFFI - Nitin Chandra’s Deswa, and Mangesh Joshi’s
film “He”.
·
India
& Ukraine to strengthen bilateral cooperation through the medium of Film
Festivals and utilizing the Film Facilitation Office platform established by
India.
·
MoU
signed between FTII and Canon to promote short courses in Film &
Television. Canon to support skill-oriented courses as Technology Partner.
These short courses will be held in collaboration with State Governments,
Universities and Educational institutions.
·
New
category of visa for foreign filmmakers created to ease issues related to their
entry into the country. Both the Film Visa and the Film Facilitation Office
(FFO) have been aimed to promote India as an attractive filming destination to
the world.
·
64th
National Film Awards organized in Delhi. Kassav awarded Best Feature Film.
·
Renowned
Film Director & Actor Shri Kasinadhuni Viswanath to be conferred Dadasaheb
Phalke Award for the year 2016
·
The
48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), 2017 was organised in Goa. A
Total of 196 Films from 82 Countries, over 64 India Premieres of International
films, 3 world Premieres, over 28 Oscar submissions were screened, for the
first-time ever Retrospective of James Bond film screened. A special section of
Restored Classics, a special Focus on Canada curated by the Toronto
International Film Festival showcased.
·
Mumbai
International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Film (MIFF)
2018 got overwhelming response, 792 films in fray for Golden & Silver Conch
Awards. It will be inaugurated on 28 January, 2018 at the National Centre for
Performing Arts, Mumbai.
***
Ministry of Labour &
Employment
LABOUR REFORMS
ShramevJayate
·
Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017: To increase paid
maternity leave from 12 weeks to 26 weeks. For the first time, a provision for
12 weeks paid maternity leave has been made for both Commissioning and Adopting
mothers. The act has approximately benefited 18 Lakh women employees.
·
Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2017: Complete ban on the employment of a child
below 14 years and prohibition on employment of adolescent (14-18) in hazardous
occupation & profession.
·
Implementation of Revamped Bonded Labour Rehabilitation Scheme
·
The Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act 2017: Employers to pay the wages to employees
in cash or by cheque or by crediting the wages in bank accounts of the
employee.
·
Digital
Jeevan Praman Patra introduced for convenience of Pensioners
·
Instead
of only one bank i.e. SBI, the establishments have the option of making
directed payments through 13 banks now.
Ministry of Labour & Employment
Comprehensive document
The Code of Wages
Bill has been introduced in the Lok Sabha on 10.08.2017 and the Bill has been
referred to Standing Committee on Labour.
A proposal to create a
national platform to facilitate issue of a Unique ID i.e. Unorganised Workers
Identification Number (UWIN) has been approved by the Central Government with
an estimated cost of Rs.402.7 crores to be implemented in two years during
2017-18 and 2018-19.
In order to provide
social security benefits to contract workers/labourers and to regulate
employment of contract labour, the Central Government is implementing the
Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970. The Act applies to every
establishment in which 20 or more workmen are employed.
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Yojana
(PDUSJY)
Launch
Date: 16.10. 2014
Objective: To consolidate
information of Labour Inspection and its enforcement through a unified web
portal, this will lead to transparency and accountability in inspections.
Achievements:
The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill,
2016
Launch Date: Parliament
passed the bill on 9th March, 2017
Objective:
The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act 2017
has come into force form April 01, 2017 to increase paid maternity leave from
12 weeks to 26 weeks. It also has mandatory provision for crčche in respect of
establishments having 50 or more workers and enabling provision for work from
home. For the first time, a provision for 12 weeks paid maternity leave has
been made for both Commissioning and Adopting mothers. The act has
approximately benefited 18 Lakh women employees.
Target Beneficiary:
Women employees of organized sector
Physical Targets:
Organized work force in the
country is around 2.8 crores, of which 18 lakhs are women, who will be
benefited.
Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2017
Launch Date: Notified
on 2nd-6th June, 2017.
·
The
amendment provides for complete ban on the employment of a child below 14 years
and prohibition on employment of adolescent (14-18) in hazardous occupation
& profession, as notified in Schedule of Hazardous occupation &
profession dated 30.08.2017.
·
Following
the amendment, Ministry of Labour & Employment has framed the Child Labour
(Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2017 and notified in the Gazette
of India on 02.06.2017. Further, India has now ratified two Core ILO
conventions 138 and 182 on child labour.
PENCIL:
·
An online
portal was launched on 26.09.2017 for better monitoring & reporting system
to ensure effective implementation of the provisions of the amended Child
Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 and National Child Labour
Project (NCLP) Scheme.
·
As
on date District Nodal Officers from 431 districts out of 710 districts of the
country have registered on the portal.
·
Further
all operational Project Societies of NCLP are registered on the portal for
better implementation of NCLP scheme aimed at educational rehabilitation of
child and adolescent labour.
WELFARE OF UNORGANISED WORKERS
·
Housing
Subsidy to Beedi, Cine and Non-Coal Mine Workers has been increased from Rs.
40,000/- to Rs. 1,50,000. This year 15,705 Houses have been sanctioned at
an expenditure of Rs. 25.5 crore.
·
Implementation
of Revamped Bonded Labour rehabilitation Scheme: As on December
15, 2017 an amount of Rs. 664.50 Lakhs has been released for the
rehabilitation of 6413 bonded labourers. Additionally, an amount of Rs. 107.25
Lakhs has been released in 2017-18 for the purpose of conducting Survey,
Awareness Generation and Evaluation Studies.
The
Payment of Wages (Amendment) Act 2017:
·
The
Act now in force enables the employers to pay the wages to their employees in
cash or by Cheque or by crediting the wages in the bank account of the employee
with provision that the appropriate Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, specify that an industrial or other establishment shall pay
the wages only by Cheque or by crediting the wages in his bank account.
·
Notification
to this effect in respect of Railways, air transport services, mines and oil
field sectors covered under central sphere has been issued on 25th April 2017.
This will help in transition towards formalisation of Labour force.
Payment
of Wages Act, 1936:
·
In
exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (6) of Section 1 of the Act, the
Central Government has enhanced the wage ceiling from Rs.18,000/- to
Rs.24,000/- per month vide Gazette Notification dated 29th August,2017.
Major Steps Taken by EPFO:
Employees
Enrolment Campaign(EEC) of EPFO:
·
EEC
was launched by the Government in January, 2017 to enroll left out employees
and provide incentives to employers in the form of waiver of administrative
charges, nominal damages @ Rupee 1/- annum and waiver of employees share if not
deducted.
·
In
this drive, close to 1.01 crore additional employees have been enrolled with
EPFO between January, 2017 to June, 2017.
Universal
Account Number (UAN)
As
on 12.12.2017, allotted to organized sector workers making their EPF Accounts
portable, benefiting more than 12 crore Workers and Aadhar Seeding completed
for 3 Crore UAN Subscribers.
UMANG app
Access to online and
mobile services (through UMANG app) is also made available.
Multiple
Banking System:
·
Instead
of only one bank i.e. SBI, the establishments have the option of making
directed payments through 13 banks now.
·
These
include: SBI, Allahabad Bank, Indian Bank, PNB, UBI, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank,
HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, IDBI Bank.
Online
Claim Receipt & other Services
·
Online
facility launched for change in name, DOB, gender etc.
·
Digital
Jeevan Praman Patra introduced for convenience of Pensioners
·
Online
Filing of Returns of Exempted Establishments
·
Online
Processing of cases through E-Court Management System
*****
Ministry of Home Affairs
LWE DIVISION
A. NEW SCHEMES AND INITIATIVES
1. Road Connectivity Project For LWE Affected
Areas (MoRD) Government has approved in Dec 2016 a project named ‘Road
Connectivity Project for LWE Affected Areas’ for construction of 5412 km roads
in 44 districts of 9 LWE affected States at an estimated cost of Rs. 11725
crore. Sanction already conveyed to States for 3775.56 km of roads.
2. Special
Central Assistance (SCA) for 35 most LWE affected districts:
This is a new Scheme with an outlay of Rs. 3,000 crore (Rs. 1,000 crore
per annum). Under the scheme funds will be provided to 35 most affected LWE
districts to fill the critical gaps in public infrastructure and services,
which are of emergent nature. Rs.175 crore has been released under the scheme
in 2017-18.
3. Constitution of Empowered Committee under
AS (LWE). An Empowered Committee was constituted under Additional Secretary
(LWE) to monitor and guide developmental initiatives through co-ordination with
various Central Ministries.
4. Formation of Committees. Two committees
have been formed in May 2017 for improving operational performance of forces in
LWE areas. These are:-
(a) Committee for use of Cutting Edge
technologies in LWE Theatre.
(b) Committee
for fixing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for LWE Theatre.
The committees have already submitted
the reports. Technologies have been identified & KPIs are finalized.
B. Major Achievements (Security Related Issues)
5. (a) Reduction
in Violence (Comparative Analysis of LWE Scenario: 2010 to 2013 & 2014 to
2017). A comparison of various
statistics of LWE violence over last four years (2014 to 2017) with preceding
three years (2010- 2013) indicates a significant improvement in the LWE
scenario in the country. Important parameters are as under:-
·
Incidents of violence reduced by 36.6%
from 6524 to 4136.
·
LWE related deaths decreased by 55.5%
from 2428 to 1081.
·
Elimination of LWE cadres increased by
14.6% from 445 to 510.
·
Surrenders by LWE cadres increased by
143% from 1387 to 3373.
(b) Geographical
Spread reduced.
·
States reporting violence reduced from
10 (2013) to 9 (2017).
·
Districts reporting violence reduced
from 76 (2013) to 58 (2017).
·
Police Stations reporting violence
reduced from 330 (2013) to 291 (2017).
6. Raising of CRPF Bastariya Battalion. In order to enhance local representation in SF
and also provide employment to local youth, a Bastariya Battalion has been
raised. 743 Scheduled Tribes candidates from four most affected LWE districts
of Chhattisgarh, Bijapur, Dantewada, Narayanpur and Sukma have been recruited.
This figure includes 242 female candidates. All recruitment formalities have
been completed and training is in progress.
7. Assistance under Security Related
Expenditure (SRE) Scheme. Under this scheme assistance is provided to 106
LWE affected districts for operational needs of Security Forces. Rs 1120.73
crore was disbursed over last four financial years (2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17
& 2017-18) as compared to Rs 875 Cr in the preceding four financial years
(2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14).
8. Fortified Police Stations Scheme. The scheme was approved in 2010. 386 Police
Stations out of 400 have been completed. 320 Police Stations constructed in the
last four years.
C. MAJOR
ACHIEVEMENTS (DEVELOPMENT RELATED ISSUES)
9. Road
Requirement Plan Phase–I (RRP-I) (MORTH).
RRP-I is under implementation for improving road connectivity in 34 LWE
affected districts of 8 States i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. It envisages
construction 5,422 km road length with an estimated cost of ₹ 8,585
crores, of which, 4537 km roads have been completed of which 1608 km roads
constructed in last four years in most difficult areas.
10. LWE Mobile Towers Project (DoT). The scheme was approved in 2014. 2329 towers have been installed to improve
connectivity in LWE affected areas. Further 4072 mobile towers are under
consideration in Phase-II.
11. Skill Development (MOSDE). Launched in 2011 in 34 LWE affected
districts. The scheme has been extended
to 47 LWE affected districts in 2016 in which 47 ITIs and 68 Skill Development
Centre would be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs. 407.85 crores. Of these
15 ITIs and 43 SDCs have been established.
12. Financial
Inclusion. The Department of Posts is opening 1789 Post
Offices in 32 most LWE affected districts, where, there is no Post Office
within 03 km of distance. Of these 565 Post offices are opened. Besides, the
Department of Financial Services has opened 428 new Bank branches and installed
1045 ATMs in 35 most affected LWE districts in 33 months ( from 01.04.2015 to
31.12.2017).
13. Government on 27.09.2017 has approved
continuation of existing schemes till 2020 with increased outlays and
additional features.
D. SCHEMES OF MHA
The main schemes implemented by the MHA in LWE affected
areas are as under:
(i) Security Related Expenditure (SRE) Scheme:
The Government of India reimburses the LWE affected State Governments the
security related expenditure incurred on; ex-gratia payment to the family of
civilian/security forces killed in LWE violence. training and operational needs of security
forces, rehabilitation of surrendered Left Wing Extremist cadres, security
related infrastructure for village defense committees and publicity material.
The scheme has been strengthened with substantial increase in the rate of
reimbursement. In addition, new items like compensation for incapacitation of
security forces and property damage have been included for the first time.
(ii) Special Infrastructure Scheme (SIS) including
construction of 250 Fortified Police Stations in LWE affected states:
The Scheme has been revived for strengthening of the Special Intelligence
Branches (SIBs) & Special Forces of the States and construction of 250
Fortified Police Stations in LWE areas. The next phase of fortification of
police stations has been subsumed in Special Infrastructure Scheme.
UNDER SRE SCHEME
A. The immediate grant to the surrendered
LWE cadres increased from
(i) Rs.
2.5 Lakh to Rs. 5.00 Lakh - For Higher Rank LWE cadres
(ii) Rs.
1.5 Lakh to 2.5 Lakh - For Middle/Lower Ranks
B.
The monthly stipend increased from
Rs. 4000 to Rs. 6000/- per month
C.
Ex-Gratia
payment increased from:
i)
Rs. 1
Lakh to Rs. 2 Lakh- To the family of a civilian killed
ii)
Rs. 3
Lakh to Rs. 20 Lakh- To the family of a security personnel killed.
D.
Honorarium to SPOs increased from Rs.
3000/- to Rs. 6000/- per month.
II. New items included for the first time
-
Rs. 5 Lakh
- to the security personnel permanently incapacitated during LWE attack.
B.
Compensation to property Damage
-
Rs. 3
Lakh- For security personnel
-
Rs. 1
lakh- for civilians.
*****
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
DIGITAL SAKSHARTA ABHIYAN (DISHA) OR NATIONAL
DIGITAL LITERACY MISSION (NDLM)
·
2 lakh 50 thousands gram panchayats to be connected with WiFi, Hotspot
enabled broadband connection.
Lakh candidates, which was achieved in June 2016.
AADHAR
·
Aadhaar
enrolment has increased to 120.7 Crore (As on 31 march 2018) from
63.22 cr (as on 31stMay, 2014)
DIGIDHAN MISSION: Dedicated mission
under the ministry of Electronics & IT was established to achieve the
target of 2500 crore digital payment transactions in FY 2017-18 through digital
payment modes including UPI, USSD, IMPS, Aadhar Pay and Debit cards.
COMMON
SERVICE CENTRES:
·
As
on December 2017, around 2.92 lakh CSCs are active and
offering digital services like Aadhaar enrolment, Ticket booking, of utilities
and other e Governance services to citizens from 2.15 Lakh Gram
Panchayats, which was only 2.29 Lakh 2016.
·
This has developed digital entrepreneurs among poor,
marginalised, Dalits and women of India.
·
More than 52,000 women are working in these
Centres that provide digital services like ticket booking, tele medicines, Jan
Aushadhi, Aadhaar service to people.
Electronics Manufacturing
|
Investment in Electronic Manufacturing |
2016 |
2017 |
%
Growth |
|
MSIPS: Number of proposals |
217 |
242 |
11.5% |
|
MSIPS: Investment involved |
1.23 lakh crore |
1.57 Lakh crore |
27% |
*****
Ministry of Minority Affairs
Empowerment
·
Largest increase in a
union budget for minority
development: 62% increase in funding
for minority affairs in 2018-19 budget to Rs. 4,700 crore.
|
Financial
Year |
Budget
Allocation |
|
2014-15 |
Rs.3734.01 crore |
|
2015-16 |
Rs.3738.11 crore |
|
2016-17 |
Rs.3827.25 crore |
|
2017-18 |
Rs.4197 crore |
|
2018-19 |
Rs.4,700
crore |
·
More
than 45 lakh minority community students have benefitted from scholarships,
fellowships, skill development and coaching schemes during the last one year
Haj without
Mehram
·
Muslim
women can go for Haj Pilgrimage without male guardian, if their school of
thought permits.
·
Keeping
in mind the objective of womens’ empowerment, the restriction on women above 45
years of age to perform Haj pilgrimage unaccompanied by their male relatives
has been removed.
·
This
year, more than 1300 women are going on Haj pilgrimage without Mehram.
Educational Empowerment
·
Scholarship
Schemes
·
Maulana
Azad National Fellowship
·
Padho
Pardes
·
Free
Coaching and Allied scheme
·
Nai
Udaan
Haj Subsidy abolished
Government
in January 2016 abolished Haj subsidy. Savings worth Rs. 700 crores from this
head to be used to finance the education of Muslim girls.
Economic Empowerment
·
Learn
and Earn- Seekho aur Kaam Karo
·
USTAAD
·
Nai
Manzil
·
Maulana
Azad National Academy of Skills- MANAS
USTTAD (Upgrading the Skills and Training in
Traditional Arts/ Crafts for Development)
Launch Date: 14 May 2015.
Objective: To preserve the rich heritage of
traditional arts/crafts of minorities. The scheme aims at capacity building and
updating the traditional skills of master craftsmen/artisans; documentation of
identified traditional arts/crafts of minorities; set standards for traditional
skills; training of minority youths in various identified traditional
arts/crafts through master craftsmen; and develop national and international
market linkages.
Achievements:
·
Ministry
has selected 38 Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) for training of 16200 trainees
in 11 States during 2016-17. Accordingly, Rs. 19.77 Crore has been released to
38 PIAs.
·
Rs.
21.80 Crore has been released to PIAs during 2017-18 for the 2nd Instalment of
2016-17.
·
Total
3504 trainees have been allocated to the 216 PIAs during 2017-18.
MANAS
Maulana Azad National
Academy for Skills set up to address skill development needs of minority
communities.
Hamari Dharohar
Aims at preservation
of rich heritage and culture of minorities, by supporting curation of
iconic exhibitions, calligraphy, preservation of old documents, research and
development, etc.
Nai Manzil
Launch Date: 08.8.2015
Objective:
·
To
benefit the minority youths in the age group of 17 to 35 years who are school-dropouts
or those educated in the community education institutions like Madarsas, by
providing formal education and skill training along with certification.
Achievements:
·
69,840
trainees have been allocated for education and skill training in 22 States in
2016-17.
·
30,160
trainees have been allocated during 2017-18.
Computerisation of Waqf
Boards
Increased revenue & transparency in
functioning of the endowments.
Garib Nawaz
Skill Development Centres:
Launch Date: 8.7.2017
Objective:
·
Maulana
Azad Education Foundation (MAEF) under “Gharib Nawaz Skill Development Training
for Minority” scheme has started training programmes to meet skill development/
skill up-gradation needs of minority communities viz; Muslims, Christians,
Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains in the country to achieve Government’s goal
of “Skilling India” by providing meaningful and sustainable livelihood options,
in terms of wage employment/ self-employment opportunities to all minority
youths.
·
The
objective of the scheme is to enable a large number of minority youths of India
to take-up relevant skill sets which are in demand. Under the scheme MAEF will
use the cutting-edge of information technology to ensure quality, transparency
and credibility to its skill training programmes. All training programmes will
be covered by real time CCTV footage for the purpose of monitoring and GPRS
enabled bio-metric attendance machines will be used for capturing attendance of
trainers and trainees.
Achievement:
·
Under
this flagship scheme, Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF) has allocated
1,06,600 beneficiaries to 108 Program Implementing Agencies (PIAs). 212 centres
have already commenced training programmes.
GST Facilitator
·
Union
Minister for Minority Affairs, Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announced that a
certificate course for GST Facilitator was launched in Hyderabad. The course is
being run at the Gharib Nawaz Kaushal Vikas Kendra, Vijay Nagar, Hyderabad
through empanelled PIAs of MAEF.
·
Apart
from this, a similar course “Accounts Assistant using Tally with GST” is also
being run at the various Centres established by PIAs under the Gharib Nawaz
Skill Development Training Programme of MAEF.
Other Initiatives
·
The
allocation for Minority Affairs has been increased to ₹. 4700 Crore in
2018-19 from ₹4,195 crore in 2017-18.
·
Ministry
of Minority Affairs received more than 1.16 crore applications for various
scholarships during 2017-18.
·
During
2017-18, 04 (four) “Hunar Haats”, were held at (i) Puducherry from 24th to 30th
September, 2017, wherein about 54 artisans and 14 culinary experts participated
(ii) India International Trade Fair (IITF) from November 14-27, 2017, wherein
136 artisans participated (iii) Mumbai from 3rd to 10th January, 2018, wherein
117 artisans participated and (iv) Baba Kharak Singh Marg from 10th to 18th
February, 2018, wherein 160 artisans participated.
·
Qaumi
Waqf Board Taraqqiati Scheme (QWBTS) has been launched this year after merging
and modifying two ongoing schemes namely, Computerization of Records of State
Waqf Boards and Strengthening of State Waqf Boards. Central Waqf Council is the
Implementing Agency. In this scheme 100% Central Grant is provided for
deployment of manpower for doing data entry in WAMSI Modules, GIS Mapping of
waqf property, maintenance of Centralized Computing Facility (CCF), ERP
Solution for better administration of SWBs, setting up of Video Conferencing
facility in SWBs, Cash Award to Muttawalli/Management Committee, to strengthen
their legal & accounting section as well as for training & administrative
cost of SWBs. Under the scheme, GIA is also provided for appointment of Survey
Assistant, Accountant and Legal Assistant, setting up of Zonal Office in those
Waqf Boards having more number of Waqf Properties and Financial Assistance @
Rs.3.00 lakh per SWB having more than 6000 Waqf Properties and Rs.2.00 lakh per
SWB having less than 6000 Waqf Property to be provided for capacity building of
Muttawalli/Management Committee.
·
Erstwhile
scheme of Grants in Aid to Waqf has been modified and continued for another 3
years and renamed as Shahari Waqf
Sampatti Vikas Yojana with a view to protect vacant urban Waqf land from
encroachers and to develop it on commercial lines for generating more income in
order to widen welfare activities. Central Waqf Council is implementing Agency
of the scheme. GIA under the scheme is provided to CWC for further disbursement
of interest free loan to Waqf Institutions/Waqf Boards. Under the Scheme interest free loan is
extended to various Waqf Institutions in the country for taking up economically
viable buildings on the urban Waqf land for development such as commercial
complexes, marriage halls, hospitals, cold storages etc.
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Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
The Government has up-scaled
the target for overall renewable energy capacity by more than 5 times to 175
GW by the year 2022 which includes 100 GW from solar, 60 GW from wind,
10 GW from bio-power and 5 GW from small hydro-power.
Initiatives/Achievements
1) National Solar Mission: National
Solar Mission (JNNSM) was launched on 11th January, 2010. The
Mission targets include
·
Deployment of 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022
·
2,000 MW of off-grid solar applications including 20 million solar
lights by 2022,
·
20 million sq. m. solar thermal collector area.
·
A capacity of 19.5 GW has already been achieved upto February
2018,
a) Defence Scheme:
Objective: To set up
over 300 MW of Grid-Connected Solar PV Power Projects by Defence establishments
and Para Military Forces with viability gap funding.
Achievements: Against a target of 300 MW,
357.50 MW projects have been sanctioned under the scheme. (As on 27 Dec,
2017)
b) Central
Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) scheme
Objective: To Set up
1000 MW of Grid Connected Solar PV Power projects by CPSUs and GOI
organizations with Viability Gap Funding in three years period till 2017-18.
Achievements: Entire
1000 MW have been allocated to various CPSUs under the scheme. (As on 27 Dec,
2017)
c) Bundling
scheme
Objective:
To
facilitate the scale up of solar capacity addition under NSM Phase-II and
achieve economies of scale, to supplement grid power, to facilitate fulfilment
of RPO requirement of the obligated entities,
To
facilitate speedier implementation of the new projects to be selected to meet
the Phase-II target of NSM and providing long term visibility and road map for
solar power development enabling creation of India as manufacturing hub in the
Solar PV.
Achievements: Tranche-I:
3000 MW has been tendered (As on 27 Dec, 2017)
d) Canal
Bank/ Canal Top scheme
Objective:
Development of Grid
Connected Solar PV Power Plants on Canal Banks and Canal Tops in the country.
Achievements:
Solar PV Power Plants on
Canal Banks and Canal Tops with 50 MW capacities under each category (total 100
MW) have been approved to 8 States
e) VGF
Scheme
Objective:
To set up
solar photovoltaic power projects on build, own and operate (BOO) basis by the
Solar Power Developers (SPDs)
Achievements:
Under
VGF scheme, 750 MW, 2000 MW and 5000 MW of grid connected solar power projects
have been taken up.
f) Solar Park scheme
Objective:
To set up
of Solar Parks, each with the capacity of 500 MW and above and Ultra Mega Solar
Power Projects to be developed in next 5 years in various States
Achievements:
35 Solar parks have been approved in 21
States with aggregate capacity of 20,514 MW. (As on
27 Dec, 2017)
Solar Schemes Launched by the
Ministry
|
Sr. No. |
Scheme |
Central Financial Assistance/Subsidy |
|
|
Scheme for Development of
Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects |
·
Rs.20
lakhs/MW or 30% of the project cost including Grid-connectivity
cost, whichever is lower ·
CFA @
Rs 25.00 lakh per park for DPR preparation of solar parks, conducting
surveys, etc. |
|
|
Operationalization of 300
MW Solar PV Projects by defence establishment and para military forces |
·
The
bidders selected on the basis of bids for minimum VGF requirement for the
project with commitment to supply solar power at Rs. 5.50/KWh
for 25 years. ·
The
upper limits of the VGF are as follows:
i.
Category-I: Rs.2.5
crore/MW for project capacity up to 5 MW or 30% of the
project cost whichever is lower;
ii.
Category-II: Rs. 2
crore/MW for project capacity greater than 5 MW up to 25 MW or 30% of
the project cost whichever is lower; and
iii.
Category-III: Rs. 1.5
crore /MW for project capacity greater than 25 MW or 30% of
the project cost whichever is lower. Keeping in view the technology
upgradation and economies of scales, the upper limit of VGF was revised on 17.02.2017
to @ Rs. 1.10 Cr./MW for all projects irrespective
of sizes for which tenders were not brought out. |
|
|
Scheme for Setting up of
750 MW Grid-connected Solar PV Power Projects under Batch-1 of
Phase-II of JNNSM with Viability Gap Funding Support |
The selection of the
bidders has been based on the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) required
for the project in an ascending order upto the full capacity. Viability
Gap Funding (VGF) is limited to 30% of
the project cost or 2.5 crore per MW, whichever is lower. Solar
Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has signed PPA
with such project developers for purchasing entire power from the project for
25 years at 5.45 Rs. per unit (4.75 Rs. per
unit for projects availing accelerated depreciation). |
|
|
Scheme for Setting up of
2000 MW Grid-connected Solar PV Power Projects under Batch-III
of Phase-II of JNNSM with Viability Gap Funding Support |
The Project developer is provided
a viability gap funding based on his bid. The upper limit for VGF
is kept at Rs.1.0 Crore/MW for open category (Rs. 1.31 Crore/MW
for projects in DCR category). |
|
|
Scheme for Setting up of
5000 MW Grid-connected Solar PV Power Projects under Batch-IV
of Phase-II of JNNSM with Viability Gap Funding Support |
The Project developer is
provided a Viability Gap Funding based on his bid. The
upper limit for VGF is kept at Rs. 1.0 crore/MW
for open category and Rs. 1.25 crore/MW for
projects in DCR category. SECI will select projects
through competitive e-bidding based on minimum VGF
sought (quoted in INR/MW), or there may be a
provision for quoting a discounted tariff (quoted in
INR/kWh). |
|
|
Grid Connected Rooftop |
CFA is 30% of
the benchmark cost for general and 70% CFA for North Eastern and
Special Category States for residential, social and institutional sector. |
|
|
Pilot-cum-demonstration
project for development of grid connected solar PV power plants on canal
banks and canal tops |
·
Financial
support of Rs.3 crore/MW or 30% of the project
cost, whichever is lower, for Canal Top SPV projects and Rs. 1.5
crore/MW or 30% of the project cost, whichever is lower,
for Canal Bank SPV projects. ·
Total
CFA of upto Rs.225 crore for 100 MW (50 MW on
Canal Tops and 50 MW on Canal Banks) to be disbursed over a
period of maximum 2 years post sanctioning of the plants as under: ·
upto 40% on
sanctioning of the projects. ·
60% on
successful commissioning of the projects. ·
Service
charge to SECI @1% of project cost. |
|
|
Scheme for setting up of
1000 MW of Grid-Connected Solar PV Power projects by Central Public
Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) under Batch- V
of Phase II of JNNSM |
·
Viability
Gap Funding (VGF) provided through SECI at a fixed
rate of Rs. 1 Cr/ MW for projects where domestically
produced cells and modules are used and Rs. 50 lakh/ MW
in cases where domestically produced modules are used. ·
VGF
released in two tranches as follows:
i.
50% on
successful commissioning of the full capacity of project (COD).
ii.
Balance
50% after one year of successful operation of the project. |
2) Distribution of Solar Pumps
Scheme:
Achievement: 1.47
lakh Solar Pump have been installed in the Country as on
31.12.2017.
3) Surya Mitra Scheme:
Objective:
To create 50,000 trained personnel within
a period of 5 years (2015-16 to 2019-20).
Achievements:
Over
11,000 Surya Mitra’s have been trained as on 27.12.2017.
Surya Mitra Mobile App:
·
“Surya Mitra” mobile App launched on 07.06.2016.
·
The GPS based mobile app has been developed by National Institute
of Solar Energy (NISE) which is an autonomous institution of Ministry of New
& Renewable Energy (MNRE).
·
The Surya Mitra Mobile App is currently available in Google play
store, which can be downloaded and used across India. This App is a high end
technology platform which can handle thousands of calls simultaneously and can
efficiently monitor all visits of Suryamitra’s.
·
The trained Suryamitra’s who opts for entrepreneurship have joined
in the Mobile App in several states. These Suryamitras are once again
sensitized by NISE on soft skills Customer Relations Management, Punctuality
and are now ready to deliver the services.
Solar Powered Railway Stations
·
It is
proposed to feed about 7,000 stations with solar power in the medium term. A
beginning has already been made in 300 stations. Works will be taken up for
2,000 railway stations as part of 1000 MW solar mission.
·
28.75
Mega Watt (MW) solar roof top capacity has been installed on 350 stations
including major stations like Varanasi, Katra, New Delhi, Old Delhi, Jaipur,
Secunderabad and Kolkata. Order has been placed for 37 MW solar roof top
capacity by Zonal Railways/PUs (covering 250 stations). Another 93 MW solar
capacity has been finalized (covering950 stations). Further, work is under
progress at 200 stations of D & E category. Overall planning/execution has
already been made for 2750 stations and other buildings. Balance stations
(4250) are being planned in a phased manner by 2020-21.
·
With
Indian efforts, the International Solar Alliance has now become a legal entity.
Its’ headquarter has been set up in India.
Green Power Capacity Addition
A
total of 11788 MW of grid-connected power generation capacity from renewable
energy sources has been added so far this year (January 2017 to November 2017)
in the country.
Sector-wise highlights of achievements
·
Largest ever Wind Power capacity addition of
5502.39 MW in 2016-17 exceeding target by 38%. During 2017-18, a total 568.71
MW capacity has been added till 31.12.2017, making cumulative
achievement 32848.46 MW. Now, in terms of wind power installed capacity India
is globally placed at 4th position after China, USA and Germany.
·
During 2017-18, a total 4323.1 MW (including 207.92 MW Solar
Roof Top) capacity has been added till 30.11.2017, making cumulative
achievement 16611.73 MW (including 863.92 MW Solar Roof Top).
·
So far, 1.47 lakh Solar Pump have been
installed in the Country as on 31.12.2017.
·
Solar projects of capacity
23656 MW have been tendered and LoI for 19,340 MW issued.
·
A capacity addition of 0.59 GW has been added
under Grid Connected Renewable Power since last three and half years
from Small Hydro Power plants.
·
Biomass power includes
installations from biomass combustion, biomass gasification and bagasse
co-generation making a cumulative achievement to 8181.70 MW.
·
Family Type Biogas Plants mainly for rural and
semi-urban households are set up under the National Biogas and Manure
Management Programme (NBMMP). During 2017-18, against a target of 1.1 lakh
biogas plants, 0.15 lakh biogas plants installations has been
achieved making a cumulative achievement to 49.8 lakh biogas plants as on
30.11.2017.
Wind Power
·
During the year 2016-17, wind power capacity addition
of 5.5 GW was made, which is highest ever wind power capacity addition in the
country during a single year. The present wind power installed
capacity in the country is around 32.75 GW. Now, in terms of wind power
installed capacity India is globally placed at
4th position after China, USA and Germany.
·
India has a strong manufacturing base of wind power
equipment in the country. Presently, there are 20 approved manufacturers with
53 models of wind turbines in the country up to a capacity of 3.00 MW single
turbines. Wind turbines being manufactured in India are of international
quality standards and cost-wise amongst the lowest in the world being exported to
Europe, USA and other countries.
·
The wind power potential of the country has been
reassessed by the National Institute for Wind Energy (NIWE), it has been
estimated to be 302 GW at 100 meter hub-height. Online wind atlas is available
on NIWE website. This will create new dimension to the wind power development
in the country.
·
Signing of PPAs/ PSAs for first
SECI wind auction (1000 MW, tariff discovered was Rs. 3.46 in Feb 2017). Second
wind auction of 1000 MW which resulted in lowest tariffs of Rs.
2.64/ unit.
·
India has long coastline where there is a good
possibility for developing offshore wind power projects. The cabinet has
cleared the National Offshore Wind Energy Policy and the same has been notified
on 6th October 2015. Certain blocks near Gujarat and Tamil Nadu
coast line have been identified. First LiDAR installed and commissioned off
Gujarat coast for gathering wind resource data.
·
Wind Forecasting: Based on wind
forecasting experience of Tamil Nadu with NIWE, MoUs for forecasting done with
Gujarat and Rajasthan.
·
Meso scale map prepared
for wind resource at 120 meter height, as most of turbine hub heights being
installed are more than 100 meters. Total assessed wind resource of India would
go up from 302 GW at 100 m to about 600 GW at 120 m); MESO scale map also
prepared for Offshore wind. However for actual use these would have to be
correlated with actual site specific measurements.
·
Bidding guidelines for wind
auction under Section 63 of Electricity Act have been notified in December to
Ministry of Power.
Small
Hydro Power
A capacity
addition of 27.07GW of renewable energy has been reported during the last two
and half years under Grid Connected Renewable Power, 0.59 GW from Small
Hydro Power.
Biomass
Power
Biomass power
includes installations from biomass combustion, biomass gasification and
bagasse co-generation. A cumulative achievement to 8181.70 MW has been
reported as on 30.11. 2017.
Family
Size Biogas Plants
Family Size
Biogas Plants mainly for rural and semi-urban households are set up under the
National Biogas and Manure Management Program (NBMMP).
During 2017-18,
against a target of 1.10 lakh biogas plants, 0.15 lakh biogas plants
installations has been achieved making a cumulative achievement to 49.8 lakh
biogas plants.
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Ministry of Statistics &
Programme Implementation
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has two wings,
namely, Statistics and Programme Implementation. The Statistics Wing called the
National Statistical Organisation (NSO), consists of Central Statistics Office
(CSO) and National Sample Survey Office (NSSO).The Statistics Wing coordinates
the statistical work in respect of the Ministries/Departments of the Government
of India and State Directorates of Economics and Statistics (DESs) besides
conducting large scale surveys and compiling estimates relating to National
Income, etc. The Programme Implementation Wing monitors Twenty Point Programme
(TPP) and performance of all Central Sector Projects costing Rs 150 crore and
above. This Wing also implements Members of Parliament Local Area
Development Scheme (MPLADS).
MoSPI has taken a number of
initiatives to bring about improvements in the quality of its output, that are
used by policy makers, planners, academia, etc. These are described below:
1.
Adoption of the United Nations of Fundamental Principle of Official Statistics
(UNFPOS): Recognising that official statistics are public goods, the UN
General Assembly adopted a resolution, on 29th January, 2014, concerning
Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, which propagate professional
independence, impartiality, accountability and transparency about methods of
collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics. The MoSPI notified
formal adoption of the Principles by the Government on 15th June,
2016. The principles benefit statisticians, data providers, users and decision
makers in different ways and promote public trust in statistics. It will
facilitate informed debate and better assessment of the performance of the
Government by the general public.
2. Launching of Annual Periodic Labour Force Survey
(PLFS):
PLFS has been
launched by this Ministry from April, 2017 with the primary objective to
measure quarterly changes of various statistical indicators of the labour
market in urban areas as well as to generate the annual estimates of different
labour force indicators, both in rural and urban areas.
3. Use of New Technology for Data Collection and
Dissemination:
a. A web-based Survey
Data Catalogue/ Micro Data Archive of the unit-level data using International
Household Survey Network (IHSN) Tool Kit Software have been created covering
the data sets available with the Ministry. These include the data of Annual
Survey of Industries, Economic Census, and the National Sample Surveys. The
micro data archive is being accessed by various national and international
users to download metadata and various reports uploaded on the website.
b. A Computer
Assisted Personnel Interviewing (CAPI) Solution with technical
assistance from the World Bank has been developed for use in PLFS survey
launched by NSSO. It will replace the paper schedules of NSSO surveys with the
tablet based schedule for data collection and validation in the PLFS. This will
help in faster data processing and will further reduce the time gap between
completion of survey and release of results.
c. NSSO has initiated an
ambitious programme for updating the urban maps used in sample surveys
through digitisation of the urban frame survey (UFS). This is being
done in partnership with National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad.
d. NSSO has also initiated in
partnership with Mahalanobis Centre for Crop forecasting, PUSA and Ministry of
Agriculture, a programme for use of space technology in validating traditional
estimates of acreage and yield through crop cutting experiments.
4. Launching of new
website: The new website of the Ministry, launched in 25th October,
2016, is designed and developed as per the Guidelines for Indian Government
Websites (GIGW) to facilitate the users. It will bring an improvement in
overall usability quotient and technical competence thereby enhancing
Government-Citizen relationship.
5. Sustainable Development
Goals: The 70th Session of the UN General Assembly held on 25th September 2015 adopted
the document titled "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development" consisting of 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and associated 169 targets. The SDGs seek to address not only the
root causes of poverty but also the universal need for development to provide a
life of dignity to all. The SDGs are most comprehensive list of global goals
integrating the social, economic and environmental dimensions of development. A
draft National Indicators framework for Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs) has been prepared by MoSPI. Based on responses received from various
stakeholders, the list is being examined for finalisation.
6. Revision
of base year of National Accounts Statistics, Consumer Price Index (CPI) and
Index of Industrial Production (IIP):
(a) The
base year of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and related
macro-economic aggregates has been revised from 2004-05 to 2011-12 by this
Ministry in January 2015. As part of the base year revision exercise, a
comprehensive review of methodology and data sets was made. The new series
incorporates the latest available data sets along with the recommendations laid
down under the United Nation’s System of National Accounts, 2008.
(b) The
revised series of CPI (Rural/Urban/Combined) with new base
2012=100 is being released with effect from January 2015. In the revised
series, many methodological changes have been incorporated including
improvement in measurement of Index and consumer basket, to make the indices
more robust. It further gives an improved measure of inflation.
(c) The
new series of IIP with base 2011-12 was released in May 2017
incorporating improved methodology of drawing items/ weights and
factories. The structural changes in industrial sector over the years are
better captured in the revised series.
7. Standardisation of Procedures: National
Accounts Division of CSO and Survey Design & Research Division of NSSO have
been certified ISO-9001:2008 compliant for quality of performance during
January 2015 and September 2015, respectively.
8. Amendments in the
Collection of Statistics Act, 2008
The
Collection of Statistics Act 2008 (7 of 2009) was enacted to facilitate
collection of statistics on socio-economic aspects by the Central Ministries,
Departments in the States/ UTs and by the Local Governments. The Collection of
Statistics (Amendment) Act, 2017 extended the jurisdiction of the Act to the
State of Jammu & Kashmir in respect of statistical subjects falling in the
Union List and the Concurrent list as applicable to the State. The Amendment
will strengthen data collection mechanism in the State of Jammu & Kashmir.
9. General
Guidelines on Quality Assurance for Official Statistics
MoSPI has
notified General Guidelines on Quality Assurance for Official Statistics on 6th
April, 2018 for use and voluntary compliance by all officers dealing with
statistical matters including administrative statistics. These guidelines are
useful to producers of official statistics in designing any statistical
collection or product and are also helpful to user in making informed decisions
regarding the use of statistical products.
8. Amendments in the Guidelines of Members
of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS): A number of
amendments have been made in the Guidelines for Members of Parliament
Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) during the last three years to cater to
the welfare requirements of the general public, including convergence with
flagship schemes of the Government. Some of the major amendments in the
Guidelines are:
I.
Raising ceiling for contribution of Hon’ble MPs in case of
calamity of severe nature to Rs. 1 crore
II.
Purchasing of equipment for skill development allowed
III.
Financial assistance allowed for purchase of tricycle, artificial
limbs, visual and hearing aids for differently abled persons
IV.
Installation of fixed Wi-Fi systems allowed at places belonging to
Central/ UT or Local Self Government
V.
Provision of Solar Lighting systems under ‘AtalJyotiYojna’ etc.
A new website developed on the state-of-art Microsoft platform
with built in security features for MPLADS has been launched. It provides a
single point of reference for all stakeholders including Hon’ble MPs, District
authorities and general public at large. It brings transparency and
accountability in execution of works. All MPLADs fund releases are being made
only through this website.
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Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions
Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare
1.
Pension Policy improvements
·
Implementation of recommendations of 7th
CPC for pensioners: Orders were issued on 04.08.2016 for regulating pensionary benefits
of employees retired/retiring on or after 01.01.2016.
·
The minimum pension has been increased
from Rs. 3500/- p.m. to Rs. 9,000/- per month.
·
The minimum disability pension and family pension covered under
CCS(EOP)Rules of a Government servant/family of the deceased Government holding
a pensionable post has been enhanced to Rs. 18,000/- per month vide OM
No.1/4/2016-P&PW(F) dated 2-8-2017
·
The ceiling of Retirement and Death
gratuity has been increased from the existing Rs.10 lakh to Rs.20 lakhs.
·
With effect from 1.1.2016, the rates of
ex-gratia lump sum compensation being paid to the families of employees who die
in performance of duty has been increased from Rs. 10-15 lakhs to Rs.25-45
lakhs;
·
The Constant Attendant Allowance being paid to pensioners drawing
disability pension has been increased from the existing Rs.4500/- p.m to
Rs.6750/- p.m, vide OM No.1/4/2017-P&PW(F) dated 2/8/2017
·
Amount of Fixed Medical Allowance payable to the Central Government
Pensioners residing in areas not covered under CGHS has been increased from Rs.
500/- per month to Rs. 1000/- per month w.e.f. 01.07.2017.
·
Orders
have been issued on 26.08.2016 for extension of benefit of gratuity to NPS
employees, on the same terms as applicable to employees appointed before
01.01.2004.
·
Based
on 7th CPC recommendations separate order have been issued on
12.05.2017 for revision of pension of pre-2016 pensioners/family pensioners
w.e.f. 1.1.2016 by notional pay fixation. This has brought the pension of past
pensioners at par with that of the employees retiring on or after 1.1.2016.
·
Concordance
tables for fixation of notional pay and pension/family pension of employees who
retired/died in various grades during the 4th, 5th and 6th Pay Commission periods
have been issued vide this Department’s OM No. 38/37/2016-P&PW(A) dated 6th
July, 2017.
·
Earlier, only 1/3rd of
pension was being restored after 15 years in the case of employees who got
absorbed in PSUs, etc. and had taken 100% lump-sum amount in lieu of
pension. Orders have been issued on 23rd
June, 2017 and 21st July, 2017 allowing restoration of full pension
after expiry of commutation period of 15 years to all such absorbee pensioners.
2. Simplification
of pension claim procedure
·
Procedure for sanction of Pension has
been simplified. Time taken in processing of pension papers has been reduced
from two years to one year.
·
Earlier, a retired Government servant
had to approach his pension disbursing bank for collecting his Pension Payment Order.
The procedures have been simplified to enable handing over of the PPO on
retirement from the office where the Government servant last served.
·
Requirement of affidavits/attestations by
Gazetted officers has been dispensed with.
·
On death of a Government
employee/pensioner, dependent parents and disabled child/sibling are eligible
to receive family pension. Since a fresh PPO was required to be issued in their
favour, they had to face a lot of difficulty in getting family pension started.
The rules have been amended to allow co-authorization of disabled
children/siblings and dependent parents in the PPO issued to the retiring
employee. This would enable the Bank to start family pension to them without
the need for a fresh PPO from the pension sanctioning authority.
·
Earlier, divorced daughter was eligible
for family pension if the divorce took place during the lifetime of the parents
in receipt of pension/family pension. Orders have been issued on 19th July,
2017 stating that the Family Pension to divorced daughter would be allowed even
in such cases where divorce proceedings had been filed during the life time of
employee/pensioner or his/her spouse but divorce took place after their death.
·
In order to claim the Fixed Medical
Allowance, the retired Government employees residing in cities/areas not
covered under CGHS were required to submit a certificate from the CMO/CGHS to
the effect that their residence was not covered by CGHS. The requirement of
this certificate has now been dispensed with for sanctioning Fixed Medical
Allowance (FMA) to pensioners.
3.
Liberalization and simplification of GPF (CS) Rules, 1960
·
Provisions for grant of withdrawal and
advances have been simplified by allowing simple declaration by the
subscriber. No further documentary evidence will be required.
·
Limits for withdrawals have been raised and
procedures simplified especially for activities of house building and education
of children, where the costs have gone up manifold over the last two decades.
·
Scope has been widened to include
primary, secondary and higher education covering all streams and institutions,
advance can be taken for travel and tourism also.
·
Maximum time limit of 15 days
prescribed for sanction and payment of advance/withdrawal.
4.
Initiatives towards Digitization
& Reform
·
Pensioners’ Portal:
Pensioners’ Portal is a web-based single platform created in 2007 with the
objective to disseminate pension related information, as well as to provide
redressal of the pensioners' grievances at a single point. In the last four
years the Portal was strengthened by adding the facility of online pension
sanction process and experience sharing platform of central government
retirees. It also provides the facility
of self-assessment of Pensionary dues by the online pension calculator, latest
updated orders, personalized road-map for retirees. In September 2017, a mobile
app of the department was launched to reach out to a larger number of
pensioners and the services of the Pensioners Portal was made available through
this App.
·
Digital Life Certificate (DLC)
implementation initiative:
To ease the life certification process, DeitY has developed an on-line
life certificate submission system which is based on Aadhar number. In order to ensure smooth
implementation of the DLC method of submitting Life Certificate, this
Department organized a tripartite coordination between UIDAI, Jeevan Pramaan
team of MeitY and Banks. This Department
is also promoting use of submission of Digital Life Certificate among the
pensioners so that they can submit life certificate from anywhere without
waiting in long queue in banks. Till date 93% of pensioners accounts have been
seeded with Aadhar number which enables them to avail the digital life
certificate in future.
·
E-Office implementation: The
Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare went completely paperless and
100% files are now on e-office. These efforts were recognised in an Award
ceremony organised by the DARPG which is the coordinating department for
e-office .
·
CPENGRAMS:
is web-based grievance redressal
and monitoring system. It facilitates
pensioners to register their grievance online and view the progress till
disposal of their case through system. In the last four years the system
achieved rising popularity which indicates the building of confidence in the
system. The number of grievances
registered during the last three years and disposed of during the same period
are:
|
A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
|
Year |
B/F |
Received during the
year as on 31.3.18 |
Total (A+B) |
Disposed during the
year |
Pending at the close
of the year |
|
2014-15 |
6234 |
11787 |
18021 |
14349 (79.62%) |
3672 |
|
2015-16 |
3672 |
18509 |
22181 |
19885(89.64%) |
2296 |
|
2016-17 |
2296 |
31007 |
33303 |
30019(90.13%) |
3284 |
|
2017-18 |
3284 |
34491 |
37775 |
34865(92.29%) |
2910 |
The average time taken for disposal of grievances
in 2014 was 104 days which was brought down to 36 in 2017. The last four years average disposal time is
given below:
|
Year |
Average time in which grievance was disposed |
|
2014 |
104 |
|
2015 |
55 |
|
2016 |
44 |
|
2017 |
36 |
·
Deep Dive Analysis of grievances for delivering quality
disposal: Initiatives have also been introduced to strengthen the quality in
grievance disposal. The department
conducted a Root Cause Analysis of the grievances received and
identified Focus Ministries as well as kinds of grievances in order to target
the reforms in the right direction.
·
All Ministries combined Pension Adalats: Further, to strengthen
the grievances redressal mechanism this department launched the new initiative
of Pension Adalat wherein unresolved grievances in CPENGRAMS are listed and the
petitioner along with the concerned Ministry/Department, Banks, CPAO etc. are
brought at one common platform with an objective to provide on the spot
resolution of grievance.
a.
In the first Pension Adalat under the
auspices of the Hon’ble MoS(PP) was conducted in September 2017, out of 29
grievances, 26 cases were resolved on the spot.
b.
The second Pension Adalat was organized
on February 9, 2018, again under the auspices of MOS (PP) wherein 31 cases were
disposed of on-the-spot in a single sitting covering grievances of Pensioners
from 17 Ministries/Departments.
·
BHAVISHYA:
It was observed that 25% of the grievances are due to delay in initiation in
pension. To make the pension sanction
process transparent an online pension sanction module ‘Bhavishya’ was
developed. In the first phase Bhavishya was implemented in the main
secretariats of Ministries in 2015 and after its successful implementation it
was made mandatory for all the Central Govt. Ministries/Departments w.e.f.
01.01.2017. This digitization has gone a
long way in ensuring seamless and accurate Pension processing for all the
Central Govt Employees on the system. It has had the following results:
ü
There is complete transparency in
processing a Pension case and the retiree keeps getting regular updates about
the stage of his Pension processing;
ü
The system is capable of giving
real-time data of pension processing right up to the stage of first credit of
pension into the account of the Pensioner;
ü
The system has made the concept of
e-PPO possible and based on the Bhavishya e-PPO was launched on 1st
March, 2017. It is a landmark in digitization of Pension processing.
ü
As of now 35523 cases have been
processed through Bhavishya.
ü
As of now 458 offices with 6508 DDOs of
civil ministries/departments are on the board of Bhavishya processing 26,117
pension cases of government employees.
5.
Awareness campaigns for
Pensioners and Officials dealing with pension cases: To reduce the pensioners grievances, which
are approximately, 2500 per month, Department of Pension& PW organized the
following:
·
Pre-retirement Counselling:
It is observed that pension grievances arise due to ignorance of updated rule
position amongst dealing staff or unawareness of their entitlement procedures
for claim amongst the retirees/pensioners.
To address the above issue this department started conducting
Pre-Retirement Counselling for the retirees, specially those of CAPFs living in
far-flung areas, deployed at the frontiers including Shillong, Jaisalmer
etc.
·
Training of Trainers workshops: 11
Training of Trainers workshops were conducted and a pool of 670 Master trainers
was created.
·
Pensioners’ Awareness camps:
For the benefit of pensioners, awareness camps were organized at Shillong,
Aizwal, Kohima, Guwhati, Jodhpur, Jaipur and Agartala for creating awareness on
updated entitlements of pensioners/family pensioners.
·
Training to Dealing staff w.r.t.
pension cases of Ministries/ Department: A total number of 543 officials from all Ministries/Departments
were trained on latest Rules/Regulations for Pension settlement, specially
issues arising out of Family Pension and Disability Pension.
·
Awareness
through Print Media: To reach out
to the pensioners, especially family pensioners, in far flung regions of the
country, the Department brought out an Information bulletin in 159 newspapers
including national and regional newspapers covering all states and UTs. This
bulletin was on useful and updated provisions on pension related entitlements and
about CPENGRAM.
·
Awareness
through Visual Media: The
department made extensive use of Radio and Television to spread awareness among
Pensioners about Life Certificate and DLCs. Scroll messages and Video clips
were telecast on Door darshan (DD) and other private TV channels.
·
Awareness
through internet/ Social Media: Department
website has been revamped comprehensively and it became user friendly as well
as “Divyang friendly”. This Department also made its presence felt in Social Media
platforms like Facebook and twitter.
6.
SANKALP initiative: This
is a unique initiative launched in 2014 in order to reorient retired people
towards an active post-retired life. The
stake-holders in this scheme includes Pensioners & their Associations,
Employees approaching retirement age, organisations involved in social welfare
projects & companies both public and private conducting activities under
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility).
·
In order to gainfully utilize the skill
and experience of retired employees towards nation-building activities and
social work, a new initiative was undertaken, wherein certain NGOs listed on
the ‘Darpan’ website of Niti Aayog were called for an interactive session with
retiring government employees. These sessions were held in the month of January
2018 in Delhi and Mumbai.
·
Tamil Nadu Pensioners’ Association
helped some 500 people in restoration of their eyes through cataract surgeries;
·
Adoption of 11 MCD schools by 16
pensioners for improving the quality of education and environment in the
schools;
·
1224 Pensioners engaged by the Staff
Selection Commission (SSC) as Inspecting Officers/Members of the Flying Squad
during examinations in various cities etc.
7.
ANUBHAV initiative:
At the direction of Prime Minister,
the Department of Pensions has developed ANUBHAV, an online system of
experience haring by retiring government employees. ANUBHAV portal gives
retiring officials an opportunity to record their experiences in the government
and create a wealth of institutional memory for future generations for better
governance. To encourage retirees to submit quality write ups, an award scheme
has also been instituted. In 2017,
contributors of 16 write ups were awarded by the Hon’ble MOS(PP). As on
31.3.2018, 4941 write-ups have been published.
8.
Swachh Bharat initiative:
·
An abandoned store lying unused for the
last one decade was modernised and a Facilitation centre for the pensioners was
carved out on the ground floor of Lok Nayak Bhawan, in the Department of Pension
& PW.
·
Similarly, an unused dilapidated space,
measuring some 2000 sq.ft. in Janpath Bhawan was modernized for creating a
special CPENGRAM cell and call center for handling Pensioners’ grievances.
·
Pensioners Associations were motivated
to organize Swachh Bharat movement in their localities. Several cleaning
campaigns were organized by the associations in Guwahati, Bengaluru, Allahabad,
Vadodara, Assam and Bihar.
*****
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
PAHAL - Direct Benefits Transfer
for LPG (DBTL) Consumers Scheme
Launch Date: 15.11.2014
Objective: To send the subsidy amount of LPG cylinder directly
into the bank account of the beneficiaries and increase efficiency &
transparency in the whole system.
Achievements:
Give Up Subsidy
Launch Date: 27.3.2015
Objective: An appeal to the economically well-off people to voluntarily
surrender subsidy and the promise to give back LPG connections to poor households.
Achievements:
URJA GANGA:
·
To promote Gas based economy and development of eastern
India, 2650 km long Jagdishpur – Haldia & Bokaro – Dhamra Natural Gas
Pipeline Project, popularly known as Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga, is being
executed
·
A capital grant of Rs. 5,176 Crore (40 per cent of the
estimated capital cost of Rs. 12,940 Crore) approved.
·
Will cater to energy requirements of five states, covering 40
districts and 2,600 villages
·
Will revive three large fertilizer plants-Sindri, Gorakhpur
& Sindri, enable industrialization of over 20 cities and development
of city gas network in 7 cities, thereby generating large numbers of jobs.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
Launch Date: 1.5.2016
Objective: To provide deposit free 5 crore cooking gas (LPG)
connections to women from below-poverty-line (BPL) households over 3 years from
2016-17 to 2018-2019, further scaled up to 8 crore LPG connections in 4 years
i.e. by 2019-20.
Achievements:
Subsidy on Kerosene and
LPG:
As on 26 March 2018, the Oil Marketing Companies are currently incurring
under recovery of Rs 13.56 per litre
on PDS Kerosene and consumer is being
provided cash compensation of Rs.195.91
per cylinder under DBTL.
Automation at OMC ROs:
To
enhance customer confidence through Q&Q (Quality and Quantity) of fuel and
minimizes chances of fraudulent transactions, this Ministry has given the
target to OMCs to Automate all ROs selling more than 100KL/Month. As on 1.3.2018, out of 30956 ROs currently selling 100KL/Month, 24479 ROs have been automated.
Swachh Bharat Mission:
The
revised provision pertaining to availability of clean toilets has been
classified under “Major irregularity” and the penalty provisions have also been
suitably amended by the OMCs. As on 1.3.2018,
OMCs have a total number of 56133
ROs across the country, out of which 55299
ROs have toilet facility which includes separate toilet facilities for gents
and ladies at 32334 ROs. OMCs are
putting all efforts to provide separate toilet facilities for ladies and gents
at all ROs, wherever feasible.
Promotion of Digital Payments
Undertaken by MOP&NG:
There has been a significant expansion
of digital payment infrastructure at retail outlets. As on 20.03.2018, 89104 POS terminals and 82809 e-wallet facility have been
provided at 51610 (95%) petrol pumps
across the country, these Outlets cover more than 95% of sales.
Biodiesel Program:
The Government, vide notification dated
29th June, 2017, has paved the way for direct sale of Biodiesel
(B-100) for blending with High Speed Diesel to all consumers, in accordance
with the specified blending limits and the standards specified by the Bureau of
Indian Standards.
Strategic Crude Oil Reserves
Objective:
To strengthen our Energy Reserves
In the
first phase of Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) programme, Government has built
SPR facilities with a total capacity of 5.33 MMT at three locations viz.
Vishakhapatnam (1.33 MMT), Mangalore (1.5 MMT) and Padur (2.5 MMT) through the
Special Purpose Vehicle i.e. Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Ltd (ISPRL).
The
total reserve of Phase-I of SPR is currently estimated to supply approximately
10 days of India’s crude requirement according to the consumption during
2016-17 (194.2 MMT).
Under 2nd phase, feasibility
creating two additional SPRs at Chandikhol in Odisha (4 MMT)
and Padur in Karnataka (2.5 MMT) on PPP mode is being explored.
Project Commencement
of Barmer Refinery
·
Project Commencement
of Barmer Refinery done by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 16 January,
2018
Project details:
Benefits
of the project
Survey of un-appraised areas
of Sedimentary Basins of India:
Objective: To
generate seismic data for initiating Exploration and Production (E&P)
activities, Government prepared a Project to conduct 2D seismic surveys of all
sedimentary basins of India.
The
estimated cost of the project is Rs. 2932.99 Crore. Project will be completed by 2019-20.
Achievements:
·
As
on date 28.02.2018, 2D seismic survey of
18804.3 LKM has been carried
out.
·
Out
of this ONGC has conducted survey of 17205 LKM and OIL has conducted survey
of 1599.3
LKM.
National Data Repository
(NDR):
Date of Launch: 28.6.2017
NDR has been set up at DGH to make the entire E&P data
available for commercial exploration, research and development and academic
purposes.
*****
Ministry of Power
Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LED
for All) UJALA
Launch Date: 5.1.2015
Objective: To provide
LED bulbs to domestic consumers with a target to replace 77 crore incandescent
bulbs with LED bulbs by March 2019. NO Budgetary support required. LED Tubelights and ceiling fans are also
introduced under the Scheme.
Achievements:
-
More
than 29.74 crore LED bulbs
-
Energy saved per year- 38,626 mn kWh
-
Cost
saving per year INR 15,450 Cr
-
CO2 Reduction
per year- 3,12,87,063 t CO2
-
Avoided
Peak Demand- 7,733 MW
Deen Dayal
Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana DDUGJY
Launch Date: 25.7.2015 (Scheme was approved by the Govt of
India on 3rd December, 2014)
Budget 2017-18 allocation
increased from Rs. 3,350 crores to Rs 5,400 crores.
Objective:
100% Rural
Electrification with reliable, adequate & quality electricity supply and
also to provide access to electricity to villages/habitations & households.
It includes
Ř
Strengthening and augmentation of sub
transmission and distribution infrastructure,
Ř
Separation of agriculture and non-agriculture
feeders and
Ř
Metering for feeders, distribution transformers
& consumers along with Micro-grid
and off-grid distribution network
Achievements:
·
Out of 597,464 census
villages, 597,464 villages (100%) have been electrified
Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana
(UDAY)
Launch Date: 20.11.2015
Objective: To
obtain financial and operational turnaround of State owned Power Distribution
Companies (DISCOMs). The scheme aims to bring AT&C losses to 15% and
ACS-ARR Gap to Zero by FY 2018-19.
Achievements: The
most comprehensive power sector reform ever, to turnaround DISCOMs through
efficiency improvements.
Operational Indicators (As on 10 April 18):
·
*Feeder metering: 100% achieved in Urban areas and
Rural areas
·
*Rural Feeder audit: 100% conducted
·
*Feeder Segregation: 62% achieved
·
*Bonds issued: Rs. 2,32,163 crore (86.29%; data from 16
States)
·
*Tariff Revision done for 25 out of 27 States/UTs
Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli
Har Ghar Yojana – ‘Saubhagya’
Launch Date: 25.9.2017
Objective:
For
providing
free electricity connections to 4 crore poor and middle income families.
·
Total
outlay of the
project - Rs. 16, 320 crores, with Gross
Budgetary Support (GBS) of Rs. 12,320 crores.
·
Outlay
for the rural households - Rs. 14,025 crores, with GBS of Rs. 10,587.50 crores.
·
Outlay
for the urban households - Rs. 2,295 crores, with GBS of Rs. 1,732.50 crores. The Government of India will
provide largely funds for the Scheme to all States/UTs.
·
The
States and Union Territories are required to complete the works of household
electrification by the 31st of December 2018. For easy & accelerated
implementation of the Scheme, modern technology shall be used for household
survey by using Mobile App. Detailed
Information available on
·
Household progress (from 11 Oct, 2017 to 02 May,
2018) Out of 3,63,11,456
(i)
Electrified villages- 50,69,235
(ii)
To be electrified -3,12,42,221
Street Light National
Programme (SLNP)
Objective:
Replacement of 3.5
crore conventional street lights, which will result in saving of 9,000 million units
and reduction in Carbon Footprint of 6.2
Million Tonnes CO2 per year annually. Total cost savings of municipalities
every year will be Rs 5,500 crore.
Achievements: As on
02.05.2018:
·
More
than 57 lakh LED street lights installed.
·
1.28
MT CO2 GHG Emissions Reductions per year.
·
Average
energy savings per light per year - 270.49 kWh
Mobile Applications and Websites Launched to Ensure Accountability
and Transparency
● Grameen
Vidyutikaran (GARV) app to help
citizens track rural electrification under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti
Yojana (DDUGJY) )
·
‘Saubhagya’ Web-Portal – a Platform for
transparently monitoring Universal Household Electrification – was
launched on 16th Nov, 2017.
● GARV – II App, launched on 20th December 2016, hosts the data in respect of
about 6 lakh villages, with more than 15 lakh habitations having 17
crore people, that has been mapped for tracking progress on household
electrification in each of the habitations of these villages.
● UDAY
portal gives current status of implementation of the Ujjwal DISCOM
Assurance Yojana(UDAY) scheme in the country i.e. State wise Financial
and Operational performance parameters including bonds issued, reduction in
AT&C losses, tariff revision, smart metering, feeder segregation and other
energy efficiency initiatives.
● VIDYUT
PRAVAH app created to provide real time information of electricity
price and availability (http://www.vidyutpravah.in/)
● Unnat
Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) app to
keep track of LED distribution under the Domestic Efficient Lighting
Program (DELP)
● URJA (Urban Jyoti Abhiyaan) MobileApp - the
Consumer Dashboard of the URJA App, launched on 16.06.16, provides for Urban
Power Distribution Sector to enhance Consumer Connect, Project Monitoring of
Urban Distribution Sector projects and providing information on the monthly
performance on parameters like Consumer complaints redressal, Release of New service
connection, Average number of interruptions faced by consumer, Number of
consumers making e-payments, Energy lost / power
theft i.e. AT&C
loss.
● HELPLINE
NUMBER: 1912 to enable consumers to lodge complaints regarding power
outages .
● URJA
MITRA App: power consumers across the nation would have prior
intimation of expected duration and cause of scheduled power outages and post
fault intimation of unscheduled power outages duration in real time.
● E-Tarang app is
for monitoring the real time status of Transmission System.
● E-Trans app is
a platform for better price discovery in respect of Inter State Transmission
projects to be awarded through tariff based competitive bidding (TBCB) process.
● ‘DEEP (Discovery of Efficient Electricity
Price) e-Bidding’ portal - the
Portal will provide a common e-bidding platform with e-reverse auction facility to
facilitate nation-wide
power procurement through a wider network so as to bring uniformity and transparency
in the process of power procurement.
● BEE
Star Label – BEE
has developed a mobile app for Standards and Labeling Program (S&L) for consumers, which is linked with S&L database of BEE
and provides a platform to receive real-time
feedback from consumers and other stakeholders. On this portal,
manufacturers can file online application to obtain star rating of their
products.
*****
Ministry of Railways
1) Safety Reigns
Supreme
● Best ever safety record in 2017-18: Less
than 100 accidents recorded in a year. 62% reduction in consequential train
accidents from 118 in 2013-14 to 73 in 2017-18
● 50% increase in track renewal from
2,926 kms in 2013-14 to 4,405 kms in 2017-18
● 1.1 lakh safety posts being filled-up
through recruitment
● 5,469 Unmanned Level Crossings
eliminated in the last four years. Average pace of elimination is 20% more than
that of 2009-14.
● All unmanned Level crossings on Broad
Gauge routes targeted for elimination by 2020
● Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK)
fund of Rs. 1 Lakh Cr to be spent on safety over five years.
2) Quantum Leap in Capital
Expenditure
● Capital expenditure from April-2014 to
March 2018 (4 years) at Rs. 3.83 lakh Cr is more than total cumulative
investment in Railways till March 2014 at Rs. 3.25 lakh Cr
3) Capacity
Enhancement: Building Infrastructure For Tomorrow
● Accelerated commissioning of Broad
Gauge line: 9,528 kms between April, 2014 to March, 2018 (4 years) vis-ŕ-vis
7,600 kms during 2009-14
4) North-East Connectivity
● North East is fully integrated with
rest of India with the entire network converted to Broad Gauge
● Rail connectivity established with
states of Meghalaya (Dudhnoi-Mendipathar), Tripura (Kumarghat-Agartala) and
Mizoram (Kathakal-Bhairabi)
● Train connectivity established for
Itanagar and Silchar to Delhi
5) Mumbai
Ahmedabad High Speed Rail: First Ever Bullet Train in India
● High Speed of the train will reduce
travel time from approx. 8 hrs to 2 hrs
● Enhanced safety through Japanese
Shinkansen technology.
● Generate employment for about 20,000
workers during the construction phase
6) Dedicated
Freight Corridors: Unlocking Indian Economy
● Commissioning of Western and Eastern
DFCs (2,822 Kms) in phases by 2019-20
● Lead to reduction in freight travel
time, transportation cost and de-congestion in existing network
● Bring economic development and job
creation by connecting factories and farms to ports
7) Freight:
Moving India’s Economy
● Highest ever freight loading in 2017-18:
1,160 Million Tonnes
● Highest ever freight earnings of Rs.
1.17 Lakh Cr in 2017-18 (13% more than
last year)
8) Make In
India Initiatives
● The first locomotive from Electric
Locomotive Factory (ELF), Madhepura has been flagged off by Prime Minister
● First diesel locomotive received at GE
factory in Marhowrah, Bihar and is under trial
9) Superlative High
Speed Wi-Fi Service At Stations
● More than 675 railway stations already
provided with wi-fi
● All stations will be covered by March
2019
10) Swachhata Hi
Seva
● More than 1,25,000 bio-toilets fitted
over 34,400 coaches. All trains to run with bio-toilets by March 2019
11) LED Lights:
Boosting Energy Efficiency
● All railway stations have been provided
with LED lights. All buildings will be covered by June 2018
● 5000 coaches have been fitted with LED
lights. All coaches will be covered by March 2019
● LED lights will save more than Rs.250
Cr annually
12) Station
Redevelopment: A Leap Into The Future
● 600 Stations to be developed with world
class facilities
● Redevelopment of Habibganj station,
Madhya Pradesh and Gandhinagar station to
be completed by December, 2018
13) Atithi Devo
Bhava: Enhancing Passenger Convenience
● Capacity of e-ticketing increased from 2,000
tickets per minute to 15,000 tickets per minute
● Cancellation and refund of tickets made
easier
14) New Modern
Trains/Coaches: A Journey To Remember
● More than 700 Deen Dayalu coaches
produced with extra safety and modern features
● 13 Long distance unreserved Antyodaya
LHB trains with general second class coaches introduced
● Tejas train between Mumbai to Goa
started with speed potential of 200 kmph and ultra modern features
● New Delhi-Varanasi Mahamana Express was
started
● 19 Humsafar trains with additional
amenities in the coaches introduced
15) Digital India
Digital Rail
● Point Of Sale (POS) machines n
installed at more than 4,000 locations of Indian Railways
16) Major Thrust
To Suburban Networks
● Development of Bengaluru Suburban
System: Rs. 17,000 Cr in Budget 2018-19
● Upgradation of Mumbai Suburban System:
Rs. 51,000 Cr project in Budget 2018-19
17) Women empowerment: First
all women station operationalized at Matunga station in Mumbai and subsequently
extended to 12 stations across the country
18) Change in Procurement Practices
● Policy for e-reverse auction for all
tenders > Rs 10 Cr and works tender > Rs 50 Cr formulated
● Mandatory procurement of common use
goods/services through Government e-Market
19) India’s First National Rail & Transportation
University in Vadodara
● A not-for-profit company under Section
8 of the Companies Act formed
● Create a resource pool of skilled
manpower
20) Making India proud in Sports
● Best ever performance over the last 40
years with 39 podium finishes in 56 National Championship
● In Commonwealth Games -2018, 10 Gold
Medals out of 26 Gold won by India have been won by Railways’ Sportspersons.
*******
Ministry
of Road Transport and Highways
ROADS &
HIGHWAYS
•
Target of road construction
substantially enhanced
•
Highest ever allocation for roads and
railways.
•
Budget allocation for National Highways
increased from Rs 57,976 crores in BE 2016-17 to Rs 64,900 crores in
2017-18 and Rs 71,000 crores in 2018-19.
•
The expenditure on road construction rose
as follows
|
Sr. No. |
Financial Year |
Expenditure (Rs. in Cr.) |
Of which IEBR raised by NHAI |
|
1 |
2017-18 |
1, 16, 324 cr. |
50, 385 cr. |
|
2 |
2016-17 |
80, 553 cr. |
33,118 cr. |
|
3 |
2015-16 |
65, 136 cr. |
23, 281 cr. |
|
4 |
2014-15 |
38, 867 cr. |
3, 343 cr. |
|
5 |
2013-14 |
32,483 cr. |
7, 942 cr. |
•
2,000 kms of coastal connectivity roads
have been identified for construction and development
•
Total length of roads, including those
under PMGSY, built from 2014-15 till the current year is about 1,20,000 km , which
is significantly higher than previous three years.
•
National Highway Network expanded from
92851 km in 2013-14 to 96214 Km in 2014-15 to 100475 Km in 2015-16 to 103933
kms in 2016-17 to 1,20,543 km in 2017-18
•
The length of NH awarded and constructed between 2014-18 are
both higher than the award and construction figures for the three preceding
years.
•
|
Financial Year |
Award (length in kms) |
Construction (in kms) |
|
2013-14 |
3,620 kms |
4,260 kms |
|
2014-15 |
7,972 kms |
4,410 kms |
|
2015-16 |
10,098 kms |
6,061 kms |
|
2016-17 |
15,948 kms |
8,231 kms |
|
2017-18 |
17,055 kms |
9,829 kms |
•
Speed of construction has
gone up to 27 km per day in
2017-18 as against 12 kms per day in
2013-14.
•
India’s Longest Road Tunnel
- the Chennai - Nashri tunnel in Jammu opens for public.
• India's
longest bridge- the 9.15 km long Dhola-Sadiya Bridge over River Brahmaputra in
Assam dedicated to public on 26th May 2017. The bridge has ensured
24x7 connectivity between upper Assam and Eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh
• Bridges
over Narmada at Bharuch and Chambal at Kota thrown open for public
• Construction
of Zojila tunnel in J&K awarded
• E-Tolling:
Over 9.15 lakh FASTags issued till December 2017
NEW INITIATIVES
Bharatmala Pariyojana: Phase-I
• Cabinet approval - October 2017
• This is a new umbrella program for the
highways sector that aims to optimize the efficiency of road traffic movement
across the country by bridging critical infrastructure gaps. Special attention
has been paid to fulfilling the connectivity needs of areas of economic
activity, places of religious and tourist interest, border areas, backward and
tribal areas, coastal areas and trade routes with neighbouring countries under
the programme. Multi-modal integration is one of the key focuses of this
programme.
• A total of around 53,000 kms of NHs
have been identified to improve National Corridor efficiency, of which 24,800
kms are to be taken up in Phase-I, which will be implemented over a
period of five years i.e. 2017-18 to 2021-22 in a phased manner.
• This includes 5,000 kms of the
National Corridors, 9000 kms of Economic Corridors, 6000 km of Feeder Corridors
and lnter-Corridors, 2000 kms of Border Roads, 2,000 kms of Coastal Roads and
Port Connectivity Roads and 800 kms of Green-field Expressways.
•
Total
likely fund provision for Bharatmala Phase-I is Rs. 5,35,000 cr.
• Bharatmala will be a major driver for
economic growth in the country. lt is estimated that more than 35 crore
man-days of employment will be generated under Phase-l of the programme.
Setu Bharatam
• Launched in March 2016
• A programme aims to ensure road safety
by making all National Highways free of railway level crossings, by 2019, by
building Railway Over Bridges/ Under Passes.
• 1500 old and worn down bridges to be
improved by replacement/widening/strengthening. 208 Railway Over bridges/Under
Bridges to be constructed with an outlay of Rs 20 800 Crore.
• Detailed Project Reports for 127 ROBs
have been received in the Ministry, out of which 78 ROBs with an estimated cost
of ₹ 6,428.57 crore have been sanctioned till 31.03.2017 of which 35
works have been awarded so far.
• 09 ROBs with an estimated cost of ₹
576.58 crore have been sanctioned till date during FY 2017-18.
• Indian Bridge Management System (IBMS)
has been set up to inventories bridges and rate their structural condition so
that timely repair and rehabilitation work can be carried out based on the
criticality of the structure.
• Over 1,15,000 bridges have been
inventorized so far.
Chardham Mahamarg Vikas
Pariyojna
• Launched on 27.12.2016
• To improve connectivity to the Char Dham pilgrimage centres
in the Himalayas and make journey to these centres safer, faster and more
convenient by developing around 900 km of national highways at an approximate
cost of Rs 12,000 crore.
• So far, 24 works have been sanctioned traversing a length of
395 kilometres. 22 works covering a length of 340 kilometre have been awarded.
The projects are being taken up on EPC mode amd the program is targeted for
completion by March, 2020
Expressways
•
1000 km of Expressways to come up along
High Density Corridors . Some of these at advanced stages of construction/
pre construction activities include
• Eastern Peripheral Expressway– Western Peripheral Expressway
around Delhi, scheduled for completion by April 2018
• Delhi-Meerut Expressway
•
Bangalore-Chennai
Expressway
•
Mumbai-Vadodara
Expressway
Ensuring Road Safety
Decrease in number of
road accidents
•
As per the report Road Accidents in
India-2016, there has been a decrease in road accidents by 4.1% in 2016.
The trend continues in 2017. The fatalities have shown a decrease of 4.4%
during this period.
•
Except the States of Assam, Bihar,
Orissa and Uttar Pradesh, all the States have witnessed a decrease in road
accident fatalities ranging between 2-10 % during this period.
Rectification of Black
Spots
• 789 road accident black spots identified in various states.
189 spots have already been rectified and sanctions for rectification of 256
spots accorded till date which are in different stages of bidding/ progress.
• Road safety audits are being carried out as part of all EPC/
BOT projects, and on stand- alone basis on National Highways.
• Crash barriers being
installed on national highways in hilly terrain
New Scheme for setting up Driver Training Centres
·
Launched on 7th March 2018
·
A new scheme was launched on or giving financial assistance for setting up
driver training institutes.
·
Each district to have at least one
training institute
Scheme launched for giving financial assistance to NGOs for
road safety advocacy Launched on 7th March 2018
Connectivity with neighboring countries
•
Passenger bus service between India and
Bangladesh- Bus services on Guwahati-Shillong-Dhaka route and Kolkata- Agartala
via Dhaka route flagged off by Prime Ministers of both countries at Dhaka on
06. June 2015
•
MoU signed between India and Nepal in
August 2017.for construction of a new Bridge over River Mechi on Indo-Nepal
Border at an estimated cost of Rs.158.65 core
•
The new bridge is part of up-gradation
of the Kakarvitta (Nepal) to Panitanki Bypass (India) on NH 327B, covering a
length of 1500 mtrs..
Green Initiatives
•
BS IV Compliance for 4 wheelers- from 1st April
2017.
•
Advancing BS –VI Norms to1.April .2020 instead
of the earlier target date of April 2021, bypassing BSV norms
• Hybrid
vehicle launched, electric vehicles being promoted.
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Ministry of Rural Development
BUDGET 2018-19
*Government to spend Rs 14.34 lakh crore
in rural areas:
Besides
generating employment, this investment will lead to a construction of 3.17 lakh
km of roads, 51 lakh new houses, 1.88 crore toilets, and will provide
electricity connections to 1.75 crore new households.
*Budget allocation for the Rural Development
Ministry increased to Rs 1.124 lakh crore.
*Allocation
for the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) increased to Rs 5,750
crore in 2018-19 from Rs 4,500 crore.
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)
Launch
Date: 11.10.2014
Objective: Social,
cultural, economic, infrastructure developments in the villages by development
of model villages called “Adarsh Gram”
Achievements:
I.
1241 Gram Panchayats adopted by MPs under SAGY (As on 18th December 2017)
II.
Out of these, 857 Gram Panchayats have uploaded their Village
Development Plans on the SAGY website
III.
GPs identified under SAGY have completed 19951 projects and
7152 (15.3%) projects are in progress.
PRADHAN MANTRI AWAS YOJANA (PMAY) - APNA GHAR APNI CHHAT
Pradhan
Mantri Awas Yojana, Gramin
Launch Date: 20.11.2016
Objective:
To provide a home to every rural poor
which will mandatorily have a toilet along with other facilities; 1 crore
houses to be built by 2019. Beneficiaries identified based on SECC-2011
Achievements:
*A record number of one crore new
houses under PMAY(G) are to be completed by March, 2019. As on 26.12.2017,
15.57 lakh rural houses have been completed in 2017-18.
*Nearly 85 percent of the
eligible habitations (population of 500 in plain areas and 250 in hill areas)
have already been connected by all- weather road. This was at 57 percent three
and a half years ago.
*The target of 100 percent
connectivity by March, 2019 is likely to be nearly achieved.
MGNREGA
*Highest ever allocation of
Rs. 55,000 crores for MGNREGA in 2018-19
|
Year |
Budget Allocation |
|
2013-14 |
Rs.33,000 crore |
|
2014-15 |
Rs. 34,000 crore |
|
2015-16 |
Rs. 41,699crores |
|
2016-17 |
Rs. 47,499 crores |
|
2017-18 |
Rs. 48,000 crores |
|
2018-19 |
Rs. 55,000 crores |
*Payment of wages to MGNREGA
workers within 15 days in 85 percent of the cases as compared to only 37
percent in 2015-16 and 42 percent in 2016-17 on account of increased allocation
for MGNREGA at BE Stage.
*Expenditure including State share in FY
2016-17 is 58,532 crores which is the highest since inception.
*Women
participation rose to 56% in FY 2016-17, highest
ever participation of women since inception of the program.
*Against
the target of 5 lakh farm ponds for 2017-2018, 3.91 lakh farm ponds have been
completed as of 15.1.2018
*Over 96%
wages of MGNREGA laborers being paid through DBT and 85% of the wages are being
paid to the workers on time.
*Geo-tagging of MGNREGA assets implemented in FY 2016-17. As
on 15.01.2018, 3.15 crore assets out of 3.29 crore completed works have been
geo tagged.
MISSION
ANTYODAYA
Achievements:
·
States
have identified 50,000 Gram Panchayats under MISSION
ANTYODAYA
·
Ranking
of Gram Panchayats as per baseline data has been done.
DEENDAYAL ANTYODAYA YOJANA
Objective:
Aims at reaching out to all rural poor households estimated at
about 9 crores and link them to sustainable livelihood opportunities through
organizing all the rural poor into self-managed institutions, build their
skills and capacities and enable them to access finance, livelihood services,
entitlements and services from both the public and private sectors, till they
come out of poverty.
Achievements: 2017-18
·
During
2017-18 (as on October 2017), 683 additional blocks have been covered under
“Intensive” implementation strategy of DAY-NRLM bringing the cumulative total
to 4330 blocks.
·
During
the year 2017-18 so far, over 56 lakh households have been mobilized into 4.84
lakh SHGs.
·
About
14.2 lakh SHGs have accessed credit of Rs. 18000 crore up to October, 2017.
·
More
than 33 lakh Mahila Kisans have
been covered under Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP) in 17
States, to empower women in agriculture and enhance their participation
and productivity in agriculture based livelihoods.
·
“Aajeevika
Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY)” initiated for members of Self Help Groups (SHGs)
to operate public transport services in backward rural areas and to provide
safe, affordable and community monitored rural transport services (e-rickshaws,
3 and 4 wheeler motorised transport vehicles) to connect remote villages with
key services and amenities (including access to markets, education and health)
for the overall economic development of the area.
·
Promotion
of rural enterprises:
Start Up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP) to support rural youth to take
up local entrepreneurship. As on date, 7800 enterprises have been promoted
across 17 States. DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAMEEN
KAUSHALYA YOJANA (DDU-GKY)
·
Against
a target of skilling 2 lakh candidates during the current financial year, over
83,745 candidates have already been trained, of which over 46,654 candidates
have been placed in jobs (as on 31.10.17).
VILLAGE ROADS- PRADAHAN
MANTRI GRAM SADAK YOJANA
Objective:
To provide
road connectivity to every village by 2019.
Achievements:
·
As
compared to 2014 when only 56 per cent of the villages had road connectivity,
now more than 82 per cent villages mostly in far flung and inaccessible areas
have been connected by roads.
·
Target of connecting the remaining 14,141 habitations advanced
from 2022 to 2019
·
Construction of 73,727 km of roads to be done.4,113 kms
of roads constructed in 2016-17 using “Green Technologies” in
2016-17, 2634 kms during 2014-16 and 807 kms giving 2000-14.
·
“Meri Sadak” mobile app bringing in transparency and citizen
engagement in registering of complaints regarding quality of construction and
pace of construction.
·
Out
of 1,78,184 eligible habitations, 1,64,547 habitations have been sanctioned
(92.34%) till 30.11.2017
·
A
total of 1,45,158 eligible unconnected habitations have been connected.
·
Road
length of over 25,000 km has been constructed by covering 6400 habitations as
on 15.01.2018
·
Habitations
in LWE affected blocks have also been undertaken in 9 states with a target of
constructing 5,382 km.
Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission
Launch Date: 21.2.2016
Objective: The mission aims to create 300 such Rurban
growth clusters over the next 3 years, across the country. The funding for
Rurban Clusters will be through various schemes of the Government converged
into the cluster.
Achievement:
·
Against
the allocation of 300 clusters, 267 clusters have already been identified.
·
The
emphasis is to develop the thematic economic strengths of the clusters, provide
required amenities to support this, apart from saturating basic, social and
digital infrastructure in the clusters within a period of 3 years.
·
153
Integrated Cluster Action Plans (ICAPs), which are the blue prints of investment for each cluster,
have been approved for 29 States and one UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
·
At
the end of the Mission period, the country will have 300 Rurban clusters which
will be ODF, green, agro based and thematic clusters based on skilled manpower
and access to economic opportunities.
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Ministry of Science &
Technology
Important Events
Indian
Science Congress-2018
Prime Minister, Shri
Narendra Modi, inaugurated the 105th Session of the Indian Science Congress on
16 March 2018 at Imphal, Manipur.
Indian Science Congress
is an important annual event for the scientific community of India in which
thousands of Scientists, researchers and science students take part in the
scientific deliberations.
Major Achievements:
Atlas for Visually Impaired (India)
·
Union
Minister for Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan released the Special
Edition of “Atlas for Visually Impaired (India)” in English
Braille on 10th February 2017.
·
Braille
Atlas has been prepared by National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO)
under Department of Science & Technology.
Nakshe Portal:
Launched
by Dr. Harsh Vardhan on 250th Anniversary of Survey of India on 10th April
2017. Topographic
maps or Open Series Maps (OSM) containing natural and man-made geographical
features including terrain or topography are prepared by the SoI since its
inception in 1767 and is in conformity with the National Map Policy-2005. These
OSM maps have been made available for free download from “nakshe”web
portal in pdf format on 1:50,000 scale through Aaadhar enabled user
authentication process, in line with Digital India program of the Government of
India.
Events:
Technology Day celebrated on 11th May
2017 to commemorate India’s success in taking Science and Technology to the
service of the country. On 11 May 1998 the
Pokhran test was conducted. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared India
a full-fledged nuclear state after operation ‘Shakti’ and it made India the 6th country
to join the Nuclear Club.
Bose Institute’s Unified Campus at Salt
Lake, Kolkata on 29th June2017 inaugurated by the then President Pranab Mukherjee in the
Centenary year of the Institute. Closing ceremony of centenary
celebrations of the Bose Institute in Kolkata on 29th November,
2017 addressed by President Ram Nath Kovind .
Commemorative stamp released to mark the occasion of 250 years of Survey of
India by the Minister of State for Communication (I/C) and Railways
Shri Manoj Sinha on 22nd June 2017.
Minister of Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and
Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Dr. Harshvardhan launched “Pt
DeenDayal Upadhayay Vigyan Gram Sankul Pariyojana” on 22nd Sept. 2017.
This program will experiment and endeavour to formulate and implement
appropriate S&T Interventions for Sustainable Development through cluster
approach in Uttarakhand.
India and UK Science & Technology
Ministers reviewed the progress made in the India-UK partnership in science,
technology and innovation on 1st Nov. 2017 - Science and Technology Ministers of India and UK reviewed
the progress made in the India-UK partnership in science, technology and
innovation which has been significantly intensified under the Newton-Bhabha
program.
India-Canada Technology Summit held on
14th November 2017 in New Delhi.
Mission Innovation Smart Grids
Workshop - Mission Innovation challenge
on Smart Grids is collectively working to enable future smart grids powered by
renewables. 20 participating countries with India, Italy and China as
Co-lead are working together to realise this aspiration. An
international workshop was organised during 16-19th November,
2017 at New Delhi to define research priorities and develop action
plan for time bound action for realisation of these objectives.
New
Initiatives
·
A new
scheme called SERB Distinguished Investigator Award (SERB-DIA)
approved for early identification and empowerment of exceptional scientists.
The scheme aims to recognize and reward the young scientists who have
performed extraordinarily well in the SERB supported projects under its Extra
Mural Research scheme, but are yet to reach the stage of advanced professional
recognitions like SS Bhatnagar awards/ JC Bose fellowships etc. The awardees
will receive honorarium of Rs 15,000/- per month for a period of 3 years and
will be awarded a project to further develop their research.
·
TARE
(Teacher Associates for Research Excellence) Mobility Scheme: A new scheme has been
formulated and approved by SERB, which aims to activate the latent and unused
R&D capacity in our colleges and state universities that lack S&T
infrastructure and culture. The TARE scheme will allow undertaking of part-time
research by the faculty working in a regular capacity in State Universities or
Colleges by integrating them in Academic Institutions such as IITs, IISc,
IISERs, National labs, etc. located in the same city where the faculty member
is working.
·
MANAK
(Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge): In the context of Start-up India
initiative of the Government, implementation of MANAK has been initiated to
foster culture of scientific innovation among school children of class VI to
class X. This will significantly broaden the base our innovation pyramid to
produce future entrepreneurs in large numbers. The programme has been
targeted to encourage children to visualise/analyse needs of the society
inspire them to devise innovative ideas to address them.
·
Interdisciplinary
Centre for Cyber Security and Cyber Defence of Critical Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber
Security and Cyber Defence of Critical Infrastructures at IIT Kanpur has been
funded with a total cost of around Rs.15 crores to create India’s first such
research centre under a dynamic young professor. The mission of this Centre is
to promote research, education, training, and spawn start-ups to create
technological safe guards to protect country’s critical infrastructure.
·
Quantum
Information Science & Technology (QuST): This new program initiated by DST aims at developing
next generation and futuristic computation, communication and cryptography
systems.
·
Initiative
to Promote Habitat Energy Efficiency (I-PHEE): A new national programme on
“Initiative to Promote Habitat Energy Efficiency (I-PHEE)” to improve energy
performance of buildings and cities has been launched. It would support
enhancement of knowledge and practice to save energy in design, construction
and operation of buildings. 105 research proposals were received, out of which
31 have been recommended for funding.
·
Materials
on Energy Storage (MES): A
new programme on the Materials on Energy Storage (MES) to support R&D
activities aimed at innovative materials for energy storage, and to build
energy storage device with enhanced output for multifunctional applications was
launched during the year. Aiming the efficient use and further increase of
renewable energy, and demonstrating its value in terms of flexibility in the
energy systems are the prime objective of the initiative. 130 proposals were received
and 18 were approved for funding.
Ease of Doing Science
·
SERB
Goes Online: Science
and Engineering Research Board has become 100% online for processing of all
proposals under its various schemes. This has helped thousands of Scientists to
submit their proposal and see the decisions online without wasting time through
paper correspondence. This has also improved the speed of decision making and
transparency on the submitted proposals.
·
Complete
Online Processing of INSPIRE:
Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) program which has
5 components and enrolls nearly 1.5 lakhs students every year. It is completely
ONLINE process right from submission of application to release of scholarships/
fellowships etc. to every student under the scheme through web-based system.
For the last 3-4 years it is functioning in a complete paperless mode. Students
from across the country use this web-based ONLINE system and get the benefits
of this scheme.
·
An ONLINE
web-based system has been introduced for FIST scheme which supports
R&D infrastructure. Processing of proposals right from submission of
applications to release of funds to the Departments/ Colleges would become
easily accessible and transparent with this initiative.
·
Greater
Access of High-end Equipment/Facilities: A common webportal is being developed which will be
populated with the name of high-end equipment and facilities available with the
institutions/ universities and their online booking and use in a transparent
way. This will facilitate researchers/ students the access of these facilities.
The portal will be launched with full functionality by the end of 2017.
·
India
S&T Portal:
Development of an ambitious India S&T Portal has been initiated with the
objective to provide one stop information centre to school students, scientists
and the society at large on various schemes and programmes/activities and major
achievements in S&T. This would be a 360-degree view and connect to all the
stakeholders and activities of S&T in India. An internet-TV channel
on S&T is also in the advanced stages of planning and execution. Currently,
systems are being set up for production of contents.
*****
Ministry
of Shipping
INLAND WATERWAYS
·
Only 5 National Waterways in last 30
years. Cheap, fuel efficient and eco friendly cargo/passenger movement.
Reduce congestion in road and rail traffic.
·
Central Legislation to declare 106
additional inland waterways as national waterways
·
The total number of national waterways
has become 111. This has paved the way for better regulation and development of
the national waterways in the country
·
The Government has taken initiatives to
earmark 2.5 % ofCentral Road Fund (CRF) for development of NationalWaterways by
reducing the share of NH cess from 41.5% to39 %
JAL
MARG VIKAS PROJECT (JMVP) ON NATIONAL WATERWAY-I: RIVER GANGA
Jal Marg Vikas’
(National Waterway-I: River Ganga) Project envisages to develop a fairway with
upto 3 meters depth between Varanasi and Haldia covering a distance of 1380 kms
at an estimated cost of Rs. 5369 crore. On completion, the project would enable
commercial navigation of 1500-2000 ton vessels. The project is being
implemented by the IWAI with technical and investment support of World Bank and
is to be completed by 2022-23. The major activities under the project are
construction of multi-modal terminals, jetties, river information system,
channel marking, navigational lock, river training and conservancy works.
Multimodal
Terminal, Haldia
61 acres of land in the Haldia Dock
Complex has been taken on 30 year lease from Kolkata Port Trust. Work for
construction of the Terminal at a cost of Rs. 517 crore has been awarded on
27.12.2016 and is scheduled to be completed in Dec, 2019.
Construction of New Navigational Lock ,
Farakka
The work has been awarded on 15.11.2016
at a cost of Rs. 359.19 crore and is scheduled to be completed in April 2019.
Development of National Waterway-4
Foundation stone laid for development work
for Phase-I of National Waterway-4 from Muktiyala to Vijaywada on
3rd October, 2017.The project would facilitate movement of construction
material for Amravati, the upcoming capital city of Andhra Pradesh. The work
for dredging and setting up of floating terminals has commenced.
Development of eight (8) new NWs
• Mandovi, Zuari, Camberjua, Barak,
Gandak, Rupnarayan, Alappuzha-Kottayam-Athirampuzha Canal and Sunderbans
National Waterways taken up for development during 2017-18.
• The
three NWs of Goa to be developed after signing of the MoU between IWAI,
Mormugao Port Trust and Captain of
Ports, Govt. of Goa.
• The bandelling and channel marking in Gandak
river has been issued and work will start shortly.
• Development of fairway in Barak river
has been awarded and the contractor is mobilizing the equipment at site.
• The tendering for fairway and pantoon
at Hemnagar of Sunderbans waterways is under finalization.
• The dredging and floating terminals at
Rupnarayan river is also under finalization.
Movement
of Cargo on NWs
• The IWAI is focusing on movement of
cargo on the National Waterways so that by the time the terminals and other
infrastructure are established they are utilized effectively.
• A pilot run of defence cargo (eight Army
trucks and 20 personnel) transportation on IWAI’s Ro-Ro vessel, MV Gopinath
Bordoloi (capacity 250 DWT from Pandu (Guwahati) to Bogibil (Dibrugarh) on
National Waterway-2 (river Brahmaputra) in Assam was conducted successfully
during 24th to 29th April, 2017.
• IWAI’s cargo vessel MV V.V. Giri moved
240 metric tonnes of bagged cement of a prominent manufacturer from Lolaghat,
West Bengal (Rupnarayan river) to Bhagalpur (on Ganga).
• Transportation of 50,610 ton of cement
from Gaighat (Patna) to Bhagalpur and 73,400 ton km stone chips from Sahibganj
(Jharkhand) to Manihari (Bihar) on NW-1 was completed during April, 2017.
Developing inland
waterways in the North East
The Shipping Ministry is developing
inland waterways in the North East .
• Connect north east region to Kolkata,
Haldia, Mongla and Chittagong ports
• Dredging in Bangladesh to enable barge
movement into North-East
• Set up Roll on- Roll off services
across River banks
• Facilitate movement for armed forces
· 12 floating terminals are already in place
on Brahmaputra- Hatsingimari, Dhubri,
Jogighopa, Pandu, Tezpur, Silghat,
Biswanathghat, Neamati, Sengajan, Bogibil,
Dibrugarh/Oakland and Oriumghat
· 56 floating terminals have been
sanctioned for Brahmaputra and 16 floating terminals
have been sanctioned for Barak river (
Investment of Rs. 35 crore)
· Dredging is being done. Night
navigation is being enabled.
· 4 Differential Global Positioning
System stations for safe navigation of vessels- Dhubri,
Jogighopa, Biswanthghat and Dibrugarh
· Pandu terminal has been developed as
a multi-modal modern Terminal, equipped with cargo handling facilities, transit
sheds.
Raising of bonds by IWAI
•
On the
basis of Finance Minister`s Budget Announcement 2016-17, IWAI was permitted to
raise Rs. 1000 crore as bonds through Extra Budgetary Resources. IWAI raised
Rs. 340 crore during the financial year 2016-17 and the balance amount of Rs.
660 crore has been raised in Oct, 2017. The EBRs raised are being utilized by
IWAI exclusively for capital expenditure for development of National Waterways
(NWs) during 2017-18.
Institutional funding for development
and maintenance of National Waterways (NWs)- Allocation of 2.5 per cent of
Central Road Fund
•
The Union Cabinet has accorded its
approval to a proposal for amendment of Central Road Fund Act, 2000 to allocate
2.5 per cent of the proceeds of Central Road Fund (CRF) for development and
maintenance of National Waterways (NWs) and a commensurate reduction in the
share provided for development of National Highways.
•
To implement the decision, the Central
Road Fund (Amendment) Bill, 2017 has been introduced in Lok Sabha on
24.07.2017.
SAGARMALA
•
Over 500 projects with infrastructure
investment of more than Rs. 8 Lac Crore
•
289 projects of Rs. 2.17 Lac Crore
already under implementation / development
•
Coastal shipping to increase from 80
MTPA to 200+ MTPA by 2025
•
Sagarmala will enable creation of 10
million (1 crore) jobs (including 4 million direct jobs)
•
Sagarmala program hinges on four
pillars namely
Port modernization & New Port
Development (234 projects; Rs.1.4 lac
Cr)
Port
Connectivity Enhancement (206 Projects;
Rs.2.5 lac Cr)
Port-led
Industrialization (46 Projects; Rs.4.4 lac Cr)
Coastal
Community Development (22 Projects; Rs.2,700 Cr)
A. Port Modernization & New Port
Development
•
Roadmap for increasing port capacity to
3000+ MMTPA
•
Master plans finalized for 12 major
ports
•
142 port capacity expansion projects
(cost: Rs. 91,254 Cr and capacity of 884 MMTPA).
•
New Port Development
•
TEFRs prepared for 6 new port locations
- Vadhavan (Maharashtra), Enayam (Tamil Nadu), Tajpur (West Bengal), Paradip
Outer Harbour (Odisha), Sirkazhi (Tamil Nadu), Belekeri (Karnataka).
•
DPR under preparation for Port of
Vadhavan, Enayam and Paradip Outer Harbour.
•
Under the Project Unnati, 116
initiatives to unlock 110 MMTPA in Major ports
B. Port
Connectivity Enhancement
i. Rail Connectivity
•
37 last mile works (cost: Rs. 16,207 Cr) at 9
major ports taken up by IPRCL.
•
33 projects (cost: Rs. 42,703 Cr) taken up by
Indian Railways.
•
DPR is under preparation for the heavy haul
rail corridor between Talcher & Paradip to promote coastal shipping of
coal.
ii. Road Connectivity
·
93 road projects identified under
Sagarmala (cost: Rs. 166,535 Cr)
iii. Coastal Berth Scheme
•
47 projects (cost Rs. 2,302.05Cr) taken
up for financial assistance under the Scheme.
C. Port-linked Industrialization
•
14 Coastal Economic Zones (CEZs) in
Maritime States and UTs identified
•
CEZ perspective plans prepared
•
Preparation of Master Plans for 4 pilot
CEZs (in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh)
•
29 industrial clusters across three
sectors, namely – Energy, Materials and Discrete Manufacturing, identified.
•
Based on availability of land with the
Major Ports, Ministry of Shipping is developing:
•
SEZ at JNPT
•
Free Trade Warehousing Zone (FTWZ) at
Ennore
•
Smart Port Industrial Cities (SPICs) at
Kandla and Paradip
D. Coastal Community Development
•
3 areas under Coastal Community
Development are:
•
Skill development for coastal
communities
•
Infrastructure for fisheries
•
Coastal tourism
•
Ministry is part-funding select fishing
harbour projects. Rs. 70.81 Cr released for 8 projects (cost: Rs. 466.42 Cr).
•
Skill gap study of 21 coastal
districts.
•
1,153 candidates trained and 600
candidates placed
•
Fire safety training project for
workers at Alang-Sosiya Shipyard.- 1,909 people trained.
•
Centre of Excellence in Maritime &
Shipbuilding being setup at Vizag and Mumbai. MOU signed with IRS and Siemens
in Nov 2017.
• Multi-Skill
Development Centre linked to JNPT being setup
PORTS
Improved port performance
•
To
benchmark Major Ports to international standards, 116 initiatives identified –
86 implemented and remaining to be implemented by 2019.
•
80 MTPA
capacity unlocked.
•
Major
focus is on improvement of efficiency and productivity in Major Ports.
•
Improvement
in efficiency parameters of major ports during April to December, 2017
➢ Avg. Turn-around Time improved from 73
to 65 hrs.
➢ Avg. Output Ship Berthday improved from
14379 to 14979 tonnes
➢ Operating surplus of Major Ports has
increased by 11% as compared to corresponding period of last year.
•
4th
Container Terminal at JNPT, the largest PPP Project in Port Sector in India, is
ready for operation.
•
KPL and
JNPT have raised foreign currency denominated loans.
•
Port
Capacity re-rated based on Berthing Policy as per international norms.
•
Rationalisation
of maintenance dredging at Major Ports.
•
100%
FDI under the automatic route is being allowed for port development projects
• New Port Development-TEFRs prepared for 6 new port locations
- Vadhavan (Maharashtra), Enayam (Tamil Nadu), Tajpur (West Bengal), Paradip
Outer Harbour (Odisha), Sirkazhi (Tamil Nadu), Belekeri (Karnataka). DPR under
preparation for Port of Vadhavan, Enayam and Paradip Outer Harbour.
• 43% increase in operating profits of
the ports.
• Promoting
Ship building and Ship Repair- from 2025 only India- made ships for government
purpose.
• Traffic
handled at the major ports has also been increasing as shown in the Table below:
(To be updated after 31 st March )
(In MT)
|
Year |
Traffic |
|
2012-13 |
545.79 |
|
2013-14 |
555.49 |
|
2014-15 |
581.34 |
|
2015-16 |
606.37 |
|
2016-17 |
648.40 |
|
2017-18 (upto November,
2017) |
439.66 |
Legislation
•
To bring in
more transparency, efficiency, autonomy and professionalism in the management
of Major Ports, the Major Port Authorities Bill, 2016 has been introduced in
the Lok Sabha on 16.12.2016. The
proposed law will replace the existing Major Port Trust Act, 1963.
•
Department
Related Parliamentary Standing Committee has given its recommendations on the
Bill and Government has approved official amendments to be introduced on Port
Authorities Bill.
New Policies
•
Captive
Policy in Major Ports to encourage Port - dependent Industries from July, 2016.
•
Berthing
Policy to increase productivity and greater transparency from August, 2016.
•
Stevedoring
Policy for port efficiency and revenue optimization from July, 2016.
•
Revised
Model Concession Agreement for PPP project in Major Ports has been approved by
the Government on 3.1.2018to enhance confidence of investors.
•
Security
clearance guidelines for PPP projects and dredging projects have been revised to
enhance the validity period of security clearance of companies participating in
Major Port projects.
Ease of Doing Business
•
42 Action
Points identified for enabling trading across border out of which 35 have been
implemented. These include:-
•
Elimination of manual forms, increase in
Direct Port Delivery volumes from 3% in December, 2016 to 35.98% in December,
2017,
•
Issue of
e-Delivery Orders by Shipping Lines, installation of RFID based gate automation
system in the Major Ports,
•
Integration
of the Port Community System with Customs ICEGATE for seamless exchange of
messages and installation of Container scanners.
Deendayal Port
In
recognition of the invaluable contribution and sacrifices made by Pandit
Deendayal Upadhaya towards serving the nation and also upliftment of the poor
& downtrodden, the name of Kandla Port has been changed to Deendayal Port.
Chahbahar Port in Iran
India
is also engaged in the development of Chahbahar Port in Iran. An MoU has been signed
between the two countries in this regard. Inauguration ceremony of the Phase-I
of Shahid Beheshti Port at Chabahar, Iran was held on 3rd December,2017 by the
Hon’ble President of Iran.
Coastal and Cruise
Shipping
i.
To
develop cruise shipping and tourism in the country, Government has constructed
New cruise terminals at Mormugao port and Chennai Port.
ii.
The
revised SoPs have been implemented at major ports w.e.f 29.11.17.
iii. E-visa facility was extended to 5 major
ports namely Mumbai Port, Mormugao Port, New Mangalore Port, Cochin Port and
Chennai Port.
iv. A uniform tariff rate at all major ports
has been fixed at $ 0.35 per GRT to attract cruise vessels in India.
v.
Facility
for foreign flag passenger vessels to call at Indian ports without obtaining
license from DG(S) has been extended from February, 2019 to February, 2024.
Coastal Shipping
• On the request of Ministry of Shipping,
Department of Fertilizer has included the primary movement of subsidized urea
and P&K fertilizers by rail and/or coastal shipping or inland water
transportation including road bridging on 29th March, 2017. Now movement of
subsidized fertilizers by coastal route and road also qualifies for
reimbursement of freight subsidy which will encourage the coastal movement of
fertilizer.
• Ro-Ro ships carrying cargo from Chennai
port to Mongla port in Bangladesh were flagged off on the coastal shipping
route in October 2017.
• Steel cargo from Vizag port to Ahmedabad,
Mumbai and Kochi was sent through the coastal shipping route.
NavIC (Navigation
Indian Constellation)
•
With the successful
launch of IRNSS-1G, India joined the elite list of countries with their own
satellite navigation system
*****
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Budget
Allocation:
There is an
increase of 12.10% in the budget allocation for Ministry of Social justice and
Empowerment in the Union Budget 2018-19 over 2017-18. In 2017-18, it was Rs.
6908.00 crore which has now been increased to Rs. 7750.00 crore in 2018-19.
Also there is an increase of 11.57% in the budget allocation for schemes in
2018-19 over 2017-18. In addition, there is an increase of 41.03% in the budget
allocation for the welfare of OBC in 2018-19 over 2017-18
Accessible
India Campaign- Sugamya Bharat Abhiyaan
Launch Date: 3.12.2015
Objective: To make at least 50 percent
of all government buildings in the national capital and all state capitals
“fully accessible” for the disabled by July 2018.
Achievements:
·
The
scheme is ensuring a dignified life to Divyangs.
·
Special
camps organized for distribution of Aids and Assistive devices to 3.24 lakh
persons with disabilities.
·
Access Audit of 1662 buildings in 50 cities completed
till date.
·
All 34 International Airports and all 48 Domestic Airports
have been provided with accessible features viz. Ramps, Accessible Toilets,
lifts with Braille symbols and auditory signals.
·
624 out of 709 A1, A, B, category Railway Stations and
12894 buses out of 1,41,572 buses have been provided with accessibility
features.
·
917 identified websites of State Governments/UTs are
in the process of being made accessible through ERNET India. 141 State
Governments websites out of 917 are made accessible.
·
The Department organized Drawing and Painting Competition
for School students including Students with Disability on the theme of
“Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities” on Thursday, 2nd November,
2017 at Bal Bhawan, New Delhi.
·
On 9th November, 2017, the Department
organized an award function of Short Film Competition on Divyangjan
Sashaktikaran in association with Directorate of Film Festival (DFF).
ADIP Scheme
·
1188 ADIP camps organized and more than 1.94 lakhs
Divyanjgans provided Aids and Assistive devices in the year 2017
·
1447 motorized tricycles provided and 404 (284 under
ADIP & 120 in CSR) cochlear implant surgery conducted successfully during
2017-18.
Rajkot Samajik Adhikarita
Shivir
·
At Rajkot Camp aids and
appliances to the tune of Rs.11.19 Cr. were distributed among 17589 divyang beneficiaries
including 3000 beneficiaries who have received aids and appliances from the
State Government amounting to Rs.1.53 Cr. So far it is the biggest camp in the
history of the country in terms of the number of beneficiaries in a single camp
for distribution of aids and appliances.
·
During the event 90 motorized
tricycles, 1960 tricycles, 1541 wheel chairs, 77 Cerebral Palsy (CP) chairs,
2896 crutches, 3095 walking sticks, 529 Braille cane, 112 rolators, 162 Braille
kits, 732 smart canes, 214 smart phone with screen reader, 68 daisy players, 20
ADL kits for leprosy cured, 2206 digital hearing aid, 1101 artificial limbs and
callipers, 4416 TML kits and 73 laptops for person with intellectual disability
were distributed among various classes of Divyangjan as per their need. The
State Government on their own also distributed devices for rehabilitation and
empowerment of persons with disabilities to 3000 divyangjans.
·
Two Guinness World Records
were created in connection with the event. On 28th June 2017 a Guinness Book of
World Record was created in the category of highest ever participation of 1442
persons with hearing impairment in a
sign language lesson at a single venue while performing our National Anthem.
Previously, such a record was hold by Taiwan (China) with participation of 978
persons with hearing impairment. The
participants of this historic record repeated their performance in the presence
of Prime Minister.
·
Second Guinness World Record
was created in the category of highest number of Orthosis (Calipers) fitted to
781 mobility impaired persons on a single day.
·
In addition to the above two
Guinness Book of World records, another
new ‘World Book Record’ was also created in the category of World’s Largest Disbursement of Aids and Appliances
for Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) at a single venue, in one day, involving 17589 persons with
disabilities (Divyangjan).
·
A Mega camp was held in
presence of President on 11.2.2018 in Gwalior. Apart from distribution of aids
and assistive devices to 2436 Divyangjan
under ADIP Scheme, aids and assistive devices were distributed to 1835
senior citizens belonging to BPL Category under Rashtriya Vayoshree Yojana .
UNIQUE DISABILITY IDENTIFICATION (UDID) PROJECT IN PROCESS
·
The Department is in the process of implementing UDID
Project with a view to creating a national data-base for Persons with
Disabilities and also to issue unique ID card to every one of them. It will
subsequently help in tracking the physical and financial progress of delivery
of benefits and in terms of hierarchy at all levels on implementation from
Village level to Block level, District level, State level and National level.
So far more than 5.92 lakh disability certificates as well as e-UDID cards have
been processed through this online mode in about 387 districts in 17 States /
UTs namely Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil
Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Andaman & Nicobar
Islands, Meghalaya., Haryana, Mizoram, Tripura and Bihar.
PRESIDENT
PRESENTS “NATIONAL AWARDS FOR EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES -2017
·
The President of India gave away the National Awards
for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), 2017 to awardees at
a function organized by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities,
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in New Delhi on 3rd December, 2017
on the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3rd
December). Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot,
Ministers of State of Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar
and Shri RamdasAthawale also graced the occasion.
·
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 3rd
December the Department of Empowerment
of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment presents National Awards on Individuals, Institutions,
Organisations, State/District etc for their outstanding achievements and work
done towards empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS OF DEPwD
·
A
National Consultation Workshop on Skill Development of Persons with
Disabilities was organized on 3rd February, in New Delhi, to
finalize strategy and action plan for skill development of PwDs. The workshop
was organized in collaboration with National Skill Development
Corporation, focusing on intellectual and developmental disabilities in
addition to other disabilities.
·
The
National Trust, in collaboration with Child Neurology Division, Department of
Pediatrics, AIIMS, New Delhi organized the 2nd three-day
Workshop for Training Master Trainers in Autism Tools-INCLEN & ISAA, from 9th-11th
February, 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
·
The
Department felicitated the team that won the Global IT Challenge 2016 for Youth
with Disabilities on 22nd February in the presence of the Minister and T-20
Blind Cricket World Cup winning team on 28th February in the presence of Prime
Minister.
·
Indian
Sign Language Research and Training Center, New Delhi has developed an ISK
Dictionary for Deaf people and Hearing impaired people, offering them the words
to learn and expressing their feelings, ideas etc. ISL Dictionary consists of
various words for example legal terms, medical terms, academic terms, technical
terms and daily use words. The videos are sub titled. This dictionary will not
only work for deaf education but will also connect them with the society.
·
First
Indian Sign language dictionary of 3000 words was launched by Shri Thaawarchand
Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment in New Delhi at a function
on 23.2.2018 at Indian International Centre, New Delhi.
·
The
National Trust organized National Conference on Down Syndrome at
PravasiBhartiya Kendra, New Delhi on 25.03.2017 in relation to the world Autism
Day. The conference was inaugurated by Shri ThaawarchandGehlot, Minister
of Social Justice and Empowerment.
·
Five Regional Zonal
Conferences were organized to discuss important schemes / Programs of the
Department:-
1.
Western Regional Conference
was held in Mumbai 11.05.2017 attended by the States of Maharashtra, Gujarat,
Goa, Daman &Dio, Dadar and Nagar Haweli;
2.
Southern Regional Conference
was held in Chennai on 12th May 2017 attended by States of
Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Andaman Nicobar, Lakshadweep
and Pondicherry.
3.
Northern Regional Conference
was held in Chandigarh on 26.05.2017 attended by States of Punjab,
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi and
Chandigarh.
4.
Central Regional Conference
and Eastern Regional Conference were held on 02.06.2017 and 09.06.2017 at
Bhopal and New Delhi respectively to discuss important schemes / Programmes of
the Department. The States of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur,
Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura and West Bengal were attended.
A Review Meeting of NE State, chaired by Secretary,
SJ&E was held in Guwahati on 23rd February 2018 to discuss
issues related to NE States.
Inclusive
India Summit 2017’
·
To popularize the Inclusive
India initiative in the country, the National Trust organized an ‘Inclusive
India Summit 2017’ in VigyanBhavan, New Delhi on 12th September 2017. The
objective of the summit was to bring together leaders from diverse sectors of the
country and seek their commitment in changing India into an inclusive nation
for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PwIDDs).
Scholarships
for SC/ST students
·
Scholarships for SC/ST students – 3,30,64,900 student benefitted during
2014-15 and 2015-16 by distribution of Rs 7565 Cr
·
The
allocation for the welfare of Scheduled Castes has been stepped up from ₹38,833
crore in BE 2016-17 to ₹ 52,393 crore in 2017-18, representing an
increase of about 35%.
·
Under the scheme of Venture capital Fund, 36 proposals worth Rs.
135.91 Cr have been approved for Scheduled Caste Entrepreneurs.
·
In
order to include more beneficiaries, income eligibility criteria for
‘Pre-Matric Scholarships for Scheduled Castes Students studying in Class IX and
X’ was raised from Rs. 2 Lakh to Rs. 2.5 Lakh, at par with Post-matric
scholarship for next three years i.e. 2017-18 to 2019-20.
Reservation
for Divyangs up
·
Reservations for Divyangs in Govt. jobs rose from 3% to 4%.
·
Over 6 lakh Divyangjan have so far benefitted
from 4,700 special assistance camps organized across the country since May 2014
SAKHSHAM
·
Scholarship scheme launched on 11th November 2014 to provide scholarship to
differently abled students to pursue technical education
NIRAMAY
Yojana
·
Rs one lakh health insurance cover to people with autism, cerebral
palsy and many disabilities
Indian Sign
language research and training centre established
Celebrations of
125th birth Anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar:
·
14th April declared as ‘RashtriyaSamrasata Divas’.
·
26th November declared as ‘Constitution
Day’.
·
Gramodaya se Bharat UdayAbihiyan- 14th- 24th April
2016.
The Right
of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016
·
Types of disabilities have been increased from existing 7 to 21.
·
Speech and Language Disability and Specific Learning Disability
have been added for the first time
·
Acid Attack Victims have been included
·
Reservation in vacancies in Govt. establishments increased from
3-4%
·
Right to free education for children with disabilities of 6-18
years and Reservation of 5% seats for students with disabilities in Govt. and
Govt. aided higher education institutions.
·
In order to promote accessibility in public buildings (both Govt.
& private) and creation of National and State fund to provide financial
support to PwDs.
·
Penalties for offences committed against persons with Disabilities
(PwDs)
The
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment
Act, 2015
·
Provides for the establishment of exclusive special courts for the
speedy trial of offences of atrocities against the members of SCs & STs
·
To insert a new chapter relating to “Rights of Victims and
Witnesses”
·
To impose certain duties and responsibilities upon the State for
making necessary arrangement for protection of victims, their defendants and
witnesses
*****
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
PRADHAN MANTRI KAUSHAL VIKAS YOJNA
Launch Date: 15.7.2015
Objective: To provide formal short-term
skill training across the country, recognizing the skills through certification
and enhancing employability opportunities among the youth.
Achievements:
Under
PMKVY -2 (2016-20)
·
Under
PMKVY 2, as on 31.03.2018, 23.78 lakh candidates have been trained (16.43 lakh
STT + 7.03 lakh RPL) and approximately 5.70 lakh are undergoing training under
Short Term Training and Recognition of Prior Learning. In year 2017, under
PMKVY (STT) 11 lakh candidates have been trained and under RPL, more than 3.7
lakh people were assessed and
certified.
·
Model
training centres known as
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKK) are being set up in every
district across India. As on 26.03.2018, 526
PMKKs have been allocated to 27 states covering 484 districts and 406
parliamentary constituencies. Out of these 415, PMKK have been established.
Phase 4 of allocation for the remaining districts/Parliamentary Constituencies
is under process.
·
Physical
target of 20.5 lakh approved for 35 states/UT costing to Rs 3,000 crore till
2020 under Centrally Sponsored State Managed (CSSM)
·
6.01
lakh training to be implemented through state/UTs by March’18
·
Women constitute approximately 50% of all enrolled
candidates under fresh training provided through PMKVY
National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme
Launch Date: 19.08.2016
Objective: To promote apprenticeship training with
target of 50 Lakh apprentices to be trained by 2019-20 by incentivizing employers to engage apprentices
through sharing of cost of basic training and reimbursement of 25% of
prescribed stipend
Achievements:
·
9.5
lakh candidates have been registered since launching of scheme
·
About 5 lakh
apprentices have completed or are undergoing apprenticeship training since the
launch of NAPS in August 2016
Pradhan Mantri Yuva Yojana (MSDE)
Launch
Date: 9th November 2016
Objective:
·
In order
to encourage entrepreneurship among youth the scheme was launched on 9th November
2016.
·
The
scheme aims at creating a culture of Entrepreneurship amongst youth by
motivating, educating and equipping them with basics skills of
entrepreneurship.
·
The scheme
will be launched in 2200 Institutes of Higher Learning
(colleges/universities/polytechnics), 300 schools, 500 ITI’s and 50
Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDCs).
·
The
entrepreneurship education will be provided to interested students through Facilitated
Blended Model, which is a combination of e-Learning and Class room teaching.
·
The
course curriculum is based on experiential learning and emphasises on Learning
by Doing.
·
E
Cell is an essential component of the scheme, which will help students develop
their entrepreneurial capabilities by virtue of exposing them to the real-life
situations.
·
Participating
institutes and students will be provided handholding support through a network
of 55 Regional/Nodal Hubs, spread across the country.
*****
Ministry of Textiles
1. EXPORT DIVISION (Garmenting Package)
Union Government on 22nd June, 2016 approved a special
package of Rs 6,000 crores for apparel sector to boost employment
generation and export potential in the textile and apparel value chain. The
package is expected to lead to cumulative increase of US$ 30 bn. in exports,
investment of 74,000 crores ($11 bn) and 1 crore job opportunities over the
three year period.The special package was extended to the made-ups sector on
7th December, 2016 after Cabinet approval.
Salient
features of special package:
1.
Employee
Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) reforms
Pradhan
Mantri Paridhan Rozgar Protsahan Yojana (PMPRPY):
As per the EPF scheme, Govt. of India is
providing the entire 12% of the employers’ contribution of the Employers
Provident Fund Scheme for new employees of garment industry for first 3 years
who are earning less than Rs. 15,000 per month. The scheme was operational with effect from 9th August, 2016.
2.
Labour
Law Reforms
Introduction
of fixed term employment: Looking at the seasonal nature of the
apparel industry, fixed term employment was introduced for the garment sector
3. Income tax act reform
Enhancing
scope of Section 80JJAA of Income Tax Act: According to the existing provision, a manufacturing company with minimum
100 workmen can claim deduction
of 30% of additional wages paid to new regular workmen in a factory for 3 years
including the year of employment. Owing to the seasonal nature of the
apparel manufacturing units, the minimum requirement of 240 days has been
relaxed to 150 days. The reform is effective from 1st April, 2017.
4. Enhancement of Capital
Investment Subsidy under ATUFS
Additional
incentives under ATUFS: Government provides an additional 10%
capital investment subsidy (CIS) for garmenting units based on the achievement
of projected production and employment
after a period of three years. The cap has also been raised to Rs. 50 crores.
The Scheme for Production and
Employment Linked Support for Garmenting Units (SPELSGU) under ATUFs was rolled out on 25th July, 2016 by
Ministry of Textiles for the garment sector And was extended to made-up
sector on 10th January, 2017.
2.
AMENDED
TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION FUND SCHEME (A-TUFS)
Amended Technology
Upgradation Fund Scheme was launched in 2015-16 with an outlay of Rs 17822 cr
for a period of seven years from 2016-2022.
The scheme is expected to mobilize new investment of Rs 95000 cr and
create new jobs for about 35 lakh
persons by 2022.
3.
NORTH EAST REGION TEXTILE PROMOTION SCHEME (NERTPS)
North East Region Textiles
Promotion Scheme (NERTPS) reflects vision of the Government towards its North
East Policy. NERTPS is an umbrella scheme implemented in project based approach
with necessary flexibility in design and implementation to cater to the
specific need of the NE States. Projects
worth about Rs 1200
Crore with GOI share of Rs.1150 Crore covering all sub sectors of textiles have been sanctioned under the
scheme during last 4 years.
4.
INTEGRATED
SKILL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (ISDS)
The Integrated Skill Development
Scheme (ISDS) was introduced by Ministry of Textiles as a pilot scheme on October,
2010.ISDS main phase was approved by CCEA on 23rd August 2013 for the 12th plan
period upto 2016-17. The scheme got extended upto 30/011/2017.
On the basis of learning’s from
the ISDS a new skill development scheme, namely scheme for capacity building in
Textiles sector, also known as “Samarth” has been introduced with an outlay of
Rs. 1300 crore to be implemented from 2017-18 to 2019-20, The Scheme targets
providing skill to 10 lakh persons (9 lakhs in organized schemes and 1 lakh in
traditional sector).
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5.
INFRASTRUCTURE (SITP)
Scheme for Integrated
Textile Parks (SITP)
SITP addresses the need for infrastructure
on cluster basis by establishing integrated value-chains under PPP for lowering
costs and helps the industry to meet international environmental standards. At
present 66 textile parks are at different stages of implementation. A total of Rs.184.73crores has been released in the last
four years for developments of project under SITP.
Scheme for Incubation in Apparel Manufacturing (SIAM): The Scheme for Incubation in Apparel Manufacturing (SIAM) was launched
on pilot basis in January 2014 with
initial outlay of Rs.38.8 crore for setting up three Incubation Centres @12.93
crore /Incubation Centre.
Scheme for Textile Industry Workers’
Accommodation: The Scheme for Textile Worker’s Accommodation
was launched in 2014 with an outlay of Rs.45. The objective of the Scheme is to provide safe,
adequate and conveniently located accommodation for textile and apparel
industry workers in the proximity of areas of high concentration of textile and
apparel industries.
6.
HANDLOOMS
SECTOR
1.
Education
of handloom weavers and their children: Third handloom census conducted in
2009-10 reveals that level of education of 83.3% adult handloom workers is
below High School/Secondary. To empower the
weavers, enabling them and their families for career progression, Ministry of
Textiles has signed Memorandums of Understanding with Indira Gandhi National
Open University (IGNOU) and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).
2.
Hathkargha
Samvardhan Sahayata: In the handloom
clusters, Hathkargha Samvardhan Sahayata has been launched on 22.12.2016 to
provide modern looms and accessories to trained weavers at 90% Government
subsidy so as to produce quality niche products with improved productivity for
improved earnings of weavers. So far, more than 8556 weavers benefitted.
3.
“India Handloom”
Brand- During the celebration of 7th
August 2015 as National Handloom Day, ‘India Handloom’ Brand has also been
launched for branding of high quality handloom products. It will promote
production of niche handloom products with high quality, authentic traditional
designs with zero defect and zero effect on environment.
4. ERP and eDhaga App for Handloom
weavers:
Keeping in view
the Digital India initiative of Government of India, National Handloom
Development Corporation Ltd.,(NHDC) has implemented Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) system and eDhaga Mobile App for its commercial activities for
the benefit of the handloom weavers.
5. Weavers’
Mudra Scheme: Under the Weaver Mudra Scheme, credit at concessional
interest rate of 6% is being provided to the handloom weavers. Margin money
assistance to a maximum of Rs. 10,000 per weaver and credit guarantee for a
period of 3 years is also provided.
During 2017-18, 35219 weavers have been sanctioned loan with sanctioned
loan amount of Rs. 190.84 crore upto 28th February 2018.
7.
HANDICRAFTS
SECTOR
1.
New Handicrafts Mega Clusters
Four new Mega Clusters have been sanctioned during the year 2014-15
to the tune of Rs. 28.50 crores each at Bareilly, Lucknow, Katchh and J&K
at a project cost of Rs.20.00 crores benefitting 80,000 number of artisans for
setting up of Common Facility Centres, Skill Training, Marketing and Design and
Product Development and direct assistance to the artisans.
2.
“Pahchan” Initiative:
An initiative to register and provide Identity Cards
to the Handicrafts Artisans for better access to the benefits of Ministry of
Textiles launched on 7th October, 2016. Total number of 20.69 lakhs applications have
been received so far and total no. 17.97 lakhs ID Cards have been printed upto
March 2018.
3.
Pushtaini:
Launched in May 2017 at Institute of Carpet Technology
Bhadohi to impart technical and soft skill training to weavers from the
traditional carpet weaving families sanctioned at a project cost of Rs. 80.00
lakhs to impart technical and soft skill training.
4.
Handicraft
Mark:
It is a trademark certification for Indian Handicraft products which
will be symbolic to assure domestic and overseas consumers about the
authenticity of the product and social & environmental requirements.
5.
Handicrafts
help Line
Handicrafts Helpline No 18002084800 (Toll Free) was launched
on 5th May 2017 by Hon’ble Minister of Textiles. The services are available on
7 days a week from 10.00AM to 6.00 PM in 7 Languages viz Hindi, Tamil, Telugu,
Bangla, Assamese, Kannada and English. So far 10607 calls have been received
and all the call has been redressed.
8.
POWERLOOM
SECTOR:
·
In-situ Up-gradation of Plain Powerloom: For upgrading existing
plain looms to semi-automatic/ automatic looms, to improve quality and
productivity of the fabric being produced by way of fixing certain additional
attachments/kits and to enable them to face the competition in domestic and
international markets financial assistance is given as follows.
9.
SILK
SECTOR:
Major Achievements
DEVELOPMENT OF SILK INDUSTRY
CSB through
"Integrated Scheme for Development of Silk Industry (ISDSI)" under
Central Sector Scheme(CSS) extended critical
support to the farmers and reelers for improving quality Cocoon production and quality of silk
produced in the country. CSB has
successfully increased the production of raw silk to 30,348 MT by the
end of XII Plan (2016-17) from 23,060 MT at the end of XI Plan (2011-12)
registering 32% growth.
I.T. Initiatives:
·
Development of Mobile App : Initiated
process to create mobile application to reach a large number of mobile users
with sericulture details in friendly and useful manner.
10. COTTON SECTOR
·
During
cotton season 2014-15, visualizing the possibility of mega MSP operation due to
higher production, CCI strategically operated 341 cotton procurement centres in
all the major cotton growing States in such a way to cover almost 75% to 80% of
kapas arrivals including remote centres. With dedicated procurement centres,
the Corporation had procured 86.94 lakh bales (i.e. 451 lakh quintals kapas)
valuing Rs. 18114 Crores which is ever highest value of procurement in the
history of CCI since its inception.
11.
JUTE SECTOR
Recent
innovations in Jute Diversification:
·
Design
Development Project with National Institute of Design,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat - NID developed bags with smoking techniques, collapsible
jute bags, Fashion bags, Tote Bags, Foldable hand bags (Natural & Dyed),
have been awarded India Design Mark (I-
Mark 2017) - Tokyo
·
PACKTECH- Food grade jute cloth & bags – by
using Rice Bran Oil (RBO) technology replacing Jute Batching Oil (JBO), a petroleum
product for packaging Cocoa beans, Coffee beans, Shelled nuts, etc.
·
GEOTECH-
Jute Geotextiles – An eco-compatible solution to crucial geotechnical problems
such as Soil erosion, Consolidation of Soft Soil, Construction of Rural Roads
and for agro-textile applications.
Achievements:
Improved
Cultivation & Retting Exercise (Jute- I Care)
The programme - Jute I Care, implemented in 2015 involving
103,000 farmers in 70,328 hectares of land achieved:
·
Production improvement of Jute by 5 %
from current production
·
Quality improvement of Jute by at least
1 grade
·
Reduction in Retting period, thereby reducing and savings in Labour requirement
·
Cost
reduction in cultivation by Rs.8,000 to 10,000 per Hectare
·
Increase in Farmers income by approx. Rs.7,000/- per Hectare
Exports :
1.
Exports of Jute Goods reveals increasing trend :
·
2014-15 : 1814 Crores
·
2016-17 : 2074 Crores
(increased
by 14 %)
2.
Export of Jute diversified products
(JDP) reveals increasing trend
·
2014-15 : Rs.508 Crores
·
2016-17 : Rs.591 Crores
(increased
by 16 %)
JUTE – ICARE: A programme initiated by NJB in
association with CRIJAF & JCI with an aims at mechanization in jute farming
in a farmer-friendly way and accelerated retting using microbial consortium for
improved income for jute farmers.
Objective: The
objective of the project is to support the small and marginal jute growers with
adequate pre and post harvesting operations so that they can grow good quality
jute & receive higher price for their produce.
Target of the
Project: The targets of the project proposed to
be achieved at the end of the project are:
a)
Production improvement of jute by at least 5% from current
production
b)
Grade improvement of jute by at least one grade (TD 6 to TD
5)
c) Cost reduction in cultivation by
Rs.8,000/- to 10,000/- per hectare including
labour saving.
d) Indicative increase in farmer’s income by
approximately Rs. 7000/-
per hectare due to production and quality
improvement.
Jute ICARE-II Project – 2015 onwards : Based on the experience success and overwhelming response of
farmers it was decided to expand the coverage of area and further intensify the
implementation of the various inputs for the scheme for 2016 onwards.
12.
WOOL
SECTOR
Achievements:
·
The Ministry of Textiles has launched
Pashmina Promotion Programme (P-3) for implementation in Ladakh region as per
announcement of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi in his visit
to Leh (on 12th August,2014). Under this Programme (P-3), the Ministry of
Textiles released grant of Rs. 13.61 crore under different components like
Creation of Common Pashmina Facilitation Centre for wool testing, Disease
Surveillance Centre, Geographic Information System (GIS) Lab, 100 Shelters for
Nomads etc. Also implemented Pashmina Wool Development Scheme (PWDS) in Leh and
Kargil districts under Wool Sector schemes through the Central Wool Development
Board.
·
USTTAD – Joint initiative of NIFT and
Ministry of Minority Affairs NIFT being the knowledge partner to Ministry of
Minority Affairs for the USTTAD project has been working towards the progress
of this scheme..
CRAFT
CLUSTER INITIATIVE
On the occasion of the 2nd
National Handloom Day, NIFT signed MoU with DC (Handlooms) for the Cluster
Initiative. It is envisaged that the craft exposure
will help the students to become ‘Young Change Agents’ and utilize the skills
of the handloom and handicraft sectors for developing niche contemporary products.
Under the initiative 7000 students of
NIFT have been sensitized to the grass root level in various craft clusters all
across India through various activities..
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Ministry of Tourism
PRASHAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage
Augmentation Drive)
Launch Date: 9.3.2015
Objective: To beautify,
develop and improve amenities of important pilgrimage destinations of the
country.
Achievements: 25 pilgrimage
sites identified so far for development & beautification
Year-wise:
2014-15 – A total of 4 projects sanctioned
for an amount of Rs. 78.56 Crore.
2015-16 – A total of 7 projects sanctioned
for an amount of Rs. 205.95 Crore.
2016-17 – A total of 7 projects sanctioned for an
amount of Rs. 203.94 Crore.
2017-18- A total of 5 projects sanctioned for an
amount of Rs. 199.47 Crore
India’s rank in Travel & Tourism Competitiveness
Index 2017 shows a 25 places jump from 2013:
Ministry of Tourism launches “Incredible India 2.0
Campaign”
Paryatan Parv
organized in 31 States and Union Territories
BHARAT PARV
Ministry of Tourism was designated as the nodal
Ministry for the Bharat Parv event organized by the Government of India at Red
Fort, Delhi from 26th to 31st January 2017, as part
of the Republic Day Celebrations.
The event included a display of Republic Day Parade
tableaux, performances by the Armed Forces Bands, Food Festival, Crafts Mela
and Cultural Performances from different regions of the country. The prime
objective of organizing the event was to generate a patriotic mood, promote the
rich cultural diversity of the country, to ensure wider participation of the
general public and to popularize the idea of Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat.
NATIONAL TOURISM AWARDS 2015-16
The Hon’ble President of India presented the ‘National
Tourism Awards 2015-16’ to various segments of the travel, tourism and
hospitality industry at a function organised by the Ministry of Tourism on the
occasion of “World Tourism Day” 27th September, 2017.
DEVELOPMENT OF
TOURIST AMENITIES AT THREE RAILWAY STATIONS IN GOA
· Konkan
Railway is one of the most memorable train journeys in the country on account
of the vistas that one gets to see and the excellent on board services on these
trains. Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned an amount of Rs. 2499.98 Lakh
for developing tourist amenities at Madgaon, Karmali and Thivim
railway stations in Goa considering the importance of the Konkan Rail
route from tourism angle.
GLASS TOP
COACHES
Ministry of
Tourism as part of its Rail Tourism Policy is collaborating with MoR for
manufacturing of three glass to coaches to be deployed on scenic rail routes of
the country.
These glass top
coaches are fitted with extra wide comfortable seats, wide windows, single
observation window at one end, glass roof, rotatable seats, automated sliding
doors, mini pantry and wider body side door. Two glass top coaches were
launched in 2017 on the Vishakhapatnam – Araku Valley and Dadar to Madgaon
route. The third glass top coach is being refurbished to make it suitable for
plying on the Qazigund - Baramullah route in Jammu and Kashmir.
Swadesh Darshan
Launch Date: January
2015
Objective : Develop
circuits having tourist potential in a planned and prioritized manner; Integrated
development of infrastructure in the identified theme based circuits; Promote
cultural and heritage value of the country; Provide complete tourism experience
with varied thematic circuits; Enhancing the tourist attractiveness in a
sustainable manner by developing world class infrastructure in the circuit
destination; Follow community based development and pro-poor tourism approach;
Creating awareness among the local communities about the importance of tourism
for them in terms of increased sources of income, improved living standards and
overall development of the area. Promote local arts, culture, handicrafts,
cuisine etc to generate livelihoods in the identified regions. Harness tourism
potential for its direct and multiplier effects in employment generation and
economic development.
Achievements:
Five
Special Tourism Zones
OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
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Ministry of Tribal Affairs
Eklavya Model
Residential Schools (EMRSs):
EMRs are being set up
by the Government to give best quality education to tribal children in their
own environment. As on 31.03.2018, 271 EMRSs are sanctioned and 190 are functional
in various States.During the last four years, 106 new EMRSs with total capacity
of 50,880 students have been sanctioned (30 in 2014-15, 32 in 2015-16, 30 in
2016-17 and 14 in 2017-18). Further, 51 EMRSs were made functional during last
four years.
Hostels for Tribal
Girls and Boys:
There are a total of
1545 hostels, sanctioned by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, for tribal girls
and boys in the country at present. Out of this, the number of hostels for boys
is 544 hostels and 1001 hostels are for girls.
Scholarship Scheme:
During 2014-15 to 2017-18, a total of Rs.
5404.97 crore were distributed as pre-matric and post-matric scholarship to
about one crore ST students.
Institutional Support
for Development & Marketing of Tribal Products/Produce (Central Sector
Scheme):
The total grants
released under this scheme have increased from Rs. 4190 lakh in 2014-15 to Rs.
4495 lakh in 2017-18.
Launch of e-commerce
portal of TRIFED and M-commerce android app and ‘Tribes India’ banner:
In a path breaking initiative,
the Minister of Tribal Affairs, in the month of March 2018, launched the Tribes
India banner on Snapdeal, Amazon, Paytm and GeM for marketing of Tribal
Products through these e-commerce portals. With this, more than 55 thousand
tribal artisans connected to TRIFED will get access to local as well as
international markets. Also, the e-commerce portal of TRIFED i.e. www.tribesindia.com and M-commerce
android app 'Tribes India' was also launched.
Scheduled Tribe
Component:
Tribal Affairs
Ministry has now been mandated to monitor Scheduled Tribe Component of
funds of Central Ministries by NITI Aayog. An online monitoring
system has been put in place with web address stcmis.gov.in.. The allocation
under Scheduled Tribe Component (STC) was increased from Rs. 21,811 crore in
2016-17 to Rs. 32,508 crore in RE 2017-18. In the BE of 2018-19, Rs. 39,135
crore has been allocated under STC for the welfare of Scheduled Tribes.
Minimum Support Price
(MSP) to Minor Forest Produce (MFP):
Minimum Support Price
for Minor Forest Produce scheme (MSP for MFP Scheme) has now been expanded to
24 Minor Forest Produces in all States from the initial 10 MFPs in 9 States in
2013-14.
Skill Development:
An amount of Rs.
1019.27 Crore has been released to various states under the scheme Special
Central Assistance to Tribal Sub-Scheme (SCA to TSS) and Grants under Article
275(1) during 2014-15 to 2017-18 for skill development of more than 3,37,000
(Three Lakh Thirty Seven Thousand) male and female tribal beneficiaries in a
wide gamut of trades.
Forest Rights Act:
Under the Forest
Rights Act, 2006 (FRA), until 30th, January, 2018 as much as 1 lakh
39,266 Community Forests Rights (CFR) claims have been received from 20 states.
Out of this 64,328 (46.19%) claims have been recognised.
Aadi Mahotsav:
Showcasing Tribal Culture, Commerce & Cuisine:
Ministry of Tribal
Affairs in association with TRIFED organized a National Tribal Festival Aadi
Mahotsav from 16th November, 2017 to 30th November, 2017.
The total sale of tribal artisans during the Mahotsav was Rs. 4.10 Crores. This
Mahotsav also organised at Jaipur, Bhopal, Ranchi, Chandigarh and Guwahati
during November - December, 2017 and has become a continuous process now.
Museums for Tribal
Freedom Fighters:
A state-of-the-art
Tribal Museum of national importance in Gujarat State is being constructed. The
Ministry has also approved proposals for setting up of museums in Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala to highlight struggle
& sacrifices of tribals during freedom struggle.
New Tribal Research
Institute and Tribal Repository:
During the year
2017-18, based on the proposals received from the States of Arunachal Pradesh,
Nagaland and Sikkim, funds have been provided for establishment of new tribal
research institutions at Itanagar, Kohima and Assam Lingzey, near Gangtok.
Ministry has developed a web page for use as tribal repository
(www.tribal.nic.in/repository) in which documents, folks songs, photos, videos
regarding their evolution, place of origin, lifestyle, eating habits,
architecture, education level, traditional art, folk dances and other
anthropological details.
*****
Ministry of Women and Child Development
WOMEN
Empowerment
Mahila e-Haat
Objective: To
enable an online digital marketing platform for women entrepreneurs, SHGs and
NGOs and provide them direct access to markets to sell their products.
·
Launched
in March 2016
·
Women
entrepreneurs/SHGs/NGOs from 24 states are showcasing over 2000
products/services across 18 categories.
·
26000
Self Help Groups and 3.5 lakh women benefitted
·
Registered
women have already managed to sell goods worth Rs 30 lakhs
Organized 1st Mumbai edition of
Women of India Organic Festival 2018 (World Trade Centre, Mumbai):
·
First
Mumbai Edition of Women of India Organic Festival 2018, was organised by the
Ministry in Mumbai from March 16 – 20, 2018 to promote women entrepreneurs and
farmers in the organic field from across India. This year’s theme of the
festival is “Good for Women; Good for India; Good for You”
·
To
encourage women producers of organic products, a Women of India Festival
2017 from 1st to 15th October 2017 at Dilli Haat, INA, New Delhi. Over 530
women farmers and entrepreneurs from 25 States of India and the remotest parts
of the country participated in the Festival. Total Sales of all participants
during the 15 day festival were to the tune of Rs. 1.84 crores.
Sattvik Food Festival – 23rd to
25th December, 2017 (Ahmedabad) –WCD Ministry setup 50 stalls in the said event
thereby providing an opportunity to 100 participants (especially women
entrepreneurs and farmers who produce organic products) to exhibit and sell
their products thus making another attempt towards financial inclusion of these
participants.
Mahila Shakti Kendras
Objective: To provide one stop convergent support services for
empowering rural women with opportunities for skil development, employment,
digital iteracy, health and nutrition.
§ MSK scheme has an institutional mechanism at the
National level (MWCD), State level –State Resource Centre for Women (SRCW),
District level- District level Centre for Women (DLCW) that will serve as
repository of information to provide technical assistance towards implementing
programmes, laws and schemes meant for women through effective
coordination.
§ At the village level, community services will be
provided through engagement of Student Volunteers in 115 most backward districts
over a period of 3 years with maximum of 8 blocks per district under the
supervision and guidance of Block level Committee (BLC) constituted at the
block level.
§ At the district level, New District Level Centre for
Women (DLCW) has also been envisaged for 640 districts to be covered in phased
manner. These centres will serve as a link between village, block and state
level in facilitating women centric schemes
Government of India
has approved a new scheme Mahila Shakti Kendra (subsuming National Mission for
Empowerment of Women) to empower rural women through community participation
for the period 2017-18 upto 2019-20.
Community
engagement through Student Volunteers is envisioned in 115 most backward
districts as part of Mahila Shakti Kendra block level initiative. Student
volunteers to play an instrumental role in awareness generation regarding
various important government schemes/ programmes as well social issues.
Under
MSK Scheme, the national and state level (State Resource Centre for Women) structures
of erstwhile NMEW Scheme will continue. New District Level Centre for
Women (DLCW) has also been envisaged for 640 districts (to be covered in a
phased manner) for facilitating women centric schemes of the government and for
giving a foothold to BBBP scheme. During FY 2017-18, 220 DLCWs have been
envisaged and Block Level initiatives under Mahila Shakti Kendra have been
proposed for 50 most backward districts.
An
amount of Rs. 49.57 crore has been released to the State Govt./UT Adm. for
implementing Mahila Shakti Kendra during FY 2017-18.
Six Months Maternity Leave
Objective: To enable working women to get at least six months of
paid leave so that they can provide proper care to the child
·
Maternity Benefit Act has been amended in
March 2017 to extend period of mandatory paid maternity leave for working women
to 26 weeks (~6 months).
·
Empowers working women as they need not fear
loss of salary or job due to childbirth and now also have time to recuperate
and breastfeed their child.
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
Objective: To
provide partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of cash incentive so
that the woman can take adequate rest before and after delivery of the first
child. The cash incentive provided would lead to improved health seeking
behavior amongst the Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers (PW&LM).
·
The program is being implemented Pan-India to cover
all the Districts of the country. It is expected that approximately 51.70 lakhs
beneficiaries per annum would benefit from the scheme.
·
PMMVY is a DBT compliant scheme and maternity benefits
are directly transferred to the bank/post office account of the beneficiary.
·
The programme is being implemented through a robust
web-based MIS Software, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana-Common Application
Software (PMMVY-CAS).
The National
Policy for Women
·
The National Policy for Women,
2017 is currently under consideration by the cabinet.
·
Draft National Policy for Women, 2017 has
been prepared keeping in view the socio economic changes that have occurred
since the last policy formulation in 2001. The policy envisions a society in
which, women attain their full potential and are able to participate as equal
partners in all spheres of life. It also emphasises the role of an effective
framework to enable the process of developing policies, programmes and
practices which will ensure equal rights and opportunities for women. These
changes have brought forth fresh opportunities and possibilities for women’s
empowerment. While many progressive laws, policies, programmes and schemes have
been implemented for women since then, persisting socio-economic problems
continue to hinder gender equality. The policy also prescribes the operational
strategies for implementation of the policy.
·
It has taken into consideration
multi-stakeholder feedback. Over 15,000 crowd-sourced ideas have been
considered as part of the policy formulation process.
Training of Elected
Women Representatives of Panchayats
Objective: To empower the women heads of panchayats so that they
can govern the villages effectively and also develop into grass change makers. The program aims at
improving their leadership qualities and managements skills for better
implementation of various schemes, impart knowledge on the important
legislations for protection of the vulnerable, train the EWRs to monitor the
asset creation and public works
·
Approximately 20,000 Elected Women
Representatives of Panchayats are being trained across the country to ensure
better village governance and administration. The training programme has been
launched in 2017.
Protection
Beti
Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana
The
goal of the BBBP scheme is to celebrate the girl child and enable her
education.
The specific objectives of the scheme include preventing gender biased sex
selective elimination; ensuring survival and protection of the girl child and
ensuring education and participation of the girl child. This a
tri-ministerial, convergent effort of Ministries of Women and Child
Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development with
focus on Awareness and Advocacy Campaign with focus on multi-sectoral action,
effective enforcement of Pre-Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic
Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act and Enabling girl child’s education.
Achievements:
1. The Scheme
was launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister on 22nd January, 2015 at Panipat,
Haryana
2. Multi-sectoral intervention
in selected 161 districts (100 districts in phase I and 61 districts in
phase-II)
3. Districts have
demonstrated various innovative initiatives to generate awareness and created
enabling environment for girls.
4.
Hon'ble Prime Minister had launched All India coverage 640 districts (as
per Census 2011) of BBBP Scheme on 8th March, 2018 at Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan
5.
Two major components of the Scheme, (i) Multi-sectoral intervention and media
advocacy in 405 districts (including 161 districts) is being implemented
under the leadership of DCs/DMs and (ii) 360 degree approach in alert media
advocacy & outreach activities in remaining 235 districts.
6.
The BBBP is 100% central sector scheme with total outlay of Rs.
1132.5 Cr from 2017-18 to 2019-2020.
7.
The encouraging trends are visible as per the latest HMIS data of MoH&FW
for 161 districts for the time period between April-March, 2015-16 and 2016-17
indicating that;
i.
Improving trend in SRB is visible in 104 BBBP
ii.
119 Districts have reported progress
in first trimester registration against the reported Anti Natal
Care registrations
iii.
146 districts have reported
improvement in Institutional deliveries
8. Unified District Information System for Education
(U-DISE) 2015-16: girls’ enrolment in secondary education was 80.97% against
76% in 2013-14. Now the revised target of GER has been proposed to 82% by
2018-19.
Nirbhaya Fund
Government of India has set up a dedicated and
non-lapsable fund called Nirbhaya Fund in 2013, for the implementation of
initiatives aimed at enhancing the safety and security for women in the
country. Ministry of Women and Child Development
is the nodal authority for appraisal of the schemes/ proposals received under
Nirbhaya Fund. Under the Nirbhaya Fund an amount of Rs. 3600 has been allocated, out of which 5731.95
Crore has been appraised so far.
·
Under the ‘Safe City Project’, the
Ministry of Women and Child Development has recently appraised projects worth Rs.
2,919.55 Cr. under the Nirbhaya Fund for eight major cities, namely Delhi,
Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Chennai.The plans
have been prepared in coordination with Municipal Corporations and Police
Commissionerates of these cities. The objective of the project is to make the
cities safer for women.
·
A project for Integrated Emergency
Response Management under Nirbhaya is run by Railways. CCTVs and
monitoring rooms are being installed at 983 major Railway Stations to provide
24x7 security to women passengers at stations and in trains.
·
Central Victim
Compensation Fund has been
created under Nirbhaya, which is a corpus fund to support States/UTs for their
Victim Compensation Scheme. This is helping ensure adequate and timely support
for women survivors of crime and violence. Under the CVCF scheme, financial assistance of Rs. 200
Crore, as a component of Nirbhaya Fund, has been released by the Ministry of
Home Affairs to all States/UTs as one time grant in 2016-17 to support their
respective Victim Compensation Scheme.
·
New Taxi Policy:
New Taxi Policy Guidelines brought out
with better safety measures for women – mandatory GPS panic devices in all
taxis, disabling of child-locking system, prominent display of driver's identification
with photo and registration number of the vehicle, sharing of seat to be
subject to willingness of female passengers etc
Mahila Police Volunteers:
MPVs acts as a link between police and the community
and facilitate women in distress. They are envisaged as empowered, responsible,
socially aware women for fostering leadership in local settings to facilitate
police outreach on gender concerns. MPV also serve as a public-police interface
in order to fight crime against women. The broad mandate of MPVs is to report
incidences of violence against women such as domestic violence, child marriage,
dowry harassment and violence faced by women in public spaces.The
scheme is currently operational in 6 States.
One Stop
Centre - SAKHI
Objective: To
provide medical, police, legal and psycho-social counselling to women affected
by violence at a single place
·
Launched in March, 2015
·
170 centres already established and
functional by end of March, 2018. One centre per district will be established by
the end of 2018-19
·
In the last one year,
105 new One Stop Centres (OSCs) have become operational in
addition to previous 55 OSCs. These 170 centres have offered support to over
97,000 women. They offer a single window to a range of services including access
to police, medical, legal and psychological support and temporary shelter in 33
States/UTs. A further 150 OSCs are planned to be set up by 2020.
Panic
Buttons on Mobile Phones
Objective: To provide an
effective mechanism for women to seek help in distress situation
·
All
Cell Phones to have physical Panic buttons from 2017 onwards for women in
distress
·
Panic
button is configured to alert the police as well as family members
Universalisation of Women
Helpline (181)
Objective: To
provide universal helpline for women who need assistance of any:
·
It has been decided to provide Universal
Helpline to all states
·
Funds sanctioned to 33 states over last two
years
·
29 states have already set up the facility
SHe-Box
This Sexual Harassment electronic
Box (SHe-Box) is an effort of GoI to provide a single window access to every
woman, irrespective of her work status, whether working in organised or
unorganised, private or public sector, to facilitate the registration of
complaint related to sexual harassment. Any woman facing sexual harassment at
workplace can register their complaint through this portal. Once a complaint is
submitted to the ‘SHe-Box’, it will be directly sent to the concerned authority
having jurisdiction to take action into the matter.
Widow
Shelter Home
Objective: To enable widows
who do not have family support to lead a life of dignity
·
Construction
of Largest ever Government funded home for 1000 widows at Vrindavan.
·
More
such homes to be set up in other cities
Swadhar Greh:
·
Swadhar
Greh Scheme targets the women victims of difficult circumstances and envisages
providing shelter, food, clothing and health as well as economic and social
security for these women.
·
At
present total 561 Swadhar Greh are functioning in the country benefiting 17291
beneficiaries.
·
In
addition one Widow Home with the capacity of 1000 inmates fully funded by the
Ministry has been constructed at Sunrakh Bangar, Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh.
Haj Pilgrimage
Keeping in mind the objective
of womens’ empowerment, for the first time since independence, the restriction
on women above 45 years of age to perform Haj pilgrimage unaccompanied by their
male relatives has been removed. This year, more than 1300 women are going on
Haj pilgrimage without Mehram.
Passport
rules for single mothers:
Passport rules have
been amended in favour of single mothers. Now either mother or father’s name
can be provided in application form and do not have to provide certificate of
marriage/divorce during application.
International
Women’s Day Celebration
International Women’s Day is celebrated every year on 8th
March across the world. Ministry of Women & Child Development,
acknowledging the role of women, organizes an event to honor women by giving
Nari Shakti Puraskars. This
year also International Women’s day was
celebrated by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on 08.03.2018. the
Hon’ble President conferred the awards in a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan
to eminent women and institutes, in recognition of their services, towards the
cause of women empowerment.
CHILDREN
Development
Complete overhaul of
Anganwadi system
Objective: Anganwadi is
the basic unit of extending supplementary nutrition and early education
services to all children and pregnant/lactating mother. These Anganwadis cover
every habitation in the country and the entire set up is being overhauled to
ensure that the designated services reach all beneficiaries.
Setting
up new Anganwadi Centres
·
Construction
of Anganwadi Centre (AWC) Buildings under MGNREGS in convergence with Anganwadi
Services (under Umbrella ICDS Scheme):
·
Joint
guidelines for construction of 2 lakh Anganwadi Centre (AWC) buildings in most
backward districts of 11 States (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chattisgarh,
Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana and Uttar
Pradesh) by 2019 under MGNREGS in convergence with ICDS Scheme have been
jointly issued by Ministry of Rural Development and WCD on 13.08.2015.
·
Taking
into consideration the acute shortage of AWC buildings (around 4.5 lakhs) in
the country, the convergence scheme for construction of AWC buildings has been
extended to all districts across the country and the target for construction of
AWCs has been enhanced from 2 lakh to 4 lakh in the four years (by 2019).
Toilet
Facilities at Anganwadi Centres
·
Number
of anagnwadis with toilet facilities has increased from 6.9 lakhs to more than
8.5 lakhs over last three years.
Swachh Bharat Mission:
·
Swachhta
Pakhwada between 1st-15th March, 2017 to maintain
universal sanitation and hygiene at Anganwadi Centres, by conducting activities
on various themes [like Clean Anganwadis; Clean Surroundings e.g. Playgrounds;
Clean Self (Personal Hygiene / Child Health), Clean Food, Clean Drinking Water,
Clean Toilets] related to cleanliness and sanitation.
·
“Swachhta Hi Seva” campaign
from 15th Sept 2017 to 2ndOct 2017: The Ministry
carried out activities such as: White-washing the AWCs involving local
communities; Cleanliness in and around the AWCs; weeding out of obsolete
records and documents; Review of toilets constructed; Involving private sectors
under CSR for Swachhta; Swachhta Drive in and around AWCs on the bank of rivers
in convergence with ‘Namami Gange’; Construction of toilets in rented AWCs or
shifting of such AWCs to the building having toilet facilities, etc. to mention
a few.
·
Swachhta
Pakhwada conducted between 1st March to 15th March, 2018
to intensify the focus on cleanliness and create an environment of cleanliness
in the spirit of a Jan Andolan, the following activities undertaken during the
aforesaid period :
i) White-washing
the AWCs involving local communities;
ii) Cleanliness
in and around the AWCs;
iii) Weeding
out of obsolete records, documents, etc.;
iv) Review
of toilets constructed;
v) Involving
private sector under CSR for Swachhta;
vi) Swachhta
drive in and around AWCs on the bank of rivers in convergence with ‘Namami
Gange’;
vii) Uploading
photographs relating to cleanliness of toilets at AWCs on Mygov.in/Swachhta Hi
Sewa (SHS) portal;
viii) Construction
of toilets in rented AWCs or shifting of such AWCs to the building having
toilet facilities.
In addition to the above, following
activities were also undertaken :
a) Cleanliness
drives and distribution of menstrual hygiene products;
b) Distribution
of paper soaps to women and children in underprivileged communities;
c) Conducting
awareness campaigns for menstrual hygiene; and
d) NGOs
working in WCD to take Swachhta pledge and participate in the
cleanliness/awareness drives.
Direct Benefit Transfer
“In pursuance of directions of the
Government of India for implementation of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in its
schemes, the Ministry of Women & Child Development has identified 14
Schemes / Scheme Components as DBT applicable Schemes/Scheme Components which
have been on-boarded on DBT Bharat Portal. The list of the Schemes is
enclosed at Annexure. The purpose of Direct Benefits Transfer is to ensure
that benefits go to individuals’ bank accounts electronically, minimising tiers
involved in fund flow thereby reducing delay in payment, ensuring accurate
targeting of the beneficiary and curbing pilferage and duplication. The
Ministry is working in tandem with States/UTs/Implementing Agencies for proper
implementation of DBT. Respective Divisions in the Ministry are also in the
process of developing Common Application Software (CAS)/ Management Information
System (MIS) for the real time monitoring of benefit transfer in the
beneficiaries’ account and grievance redressal etc.”
|
List of DBT identified Schemes of
MWCD |
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|
Sl. No. |
Scheme Name |
Scheme benefit type |
|
|
1 |
ICDS-Training
Program |
Cash
and In kind |
|
|
2 |
Pradhan
Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) |
Cash |
|
|
3 |
Protection
And Empowerment Of Women-Comprehensive Scheme For Combating Trafficking
Of Women And Children-Ujjawla-Facilities To Beneficiaries |
Cash
and In kind |
|
|
4 |
Protection
And Empowerment Of Women-Comprehensive Scheme For Combating Trafficking Of
Women And Children-Ujjawla- Salary |
Cash |
|
|
5 |
Protection
And Empowerment Of Women-Swadhar Greh-facilities To Beneficiaries |
Cash
and In kind |
|
|
6 |
Protection
And Empowerment Of Women-Swadhar Greh- Salary To Staff |
Cash |
|
|
7 |
Protection
And Empowerment Of Women- National Mission For Empowerment Of Women (NMEW) |
Cash |
|
|
8 |
Micro
Finance For Women By Rashtriya Mahila Kosh |
Cash |
|
|
9 |
Integrated
Child Protection Scheme-Salary Of Staff |
Cash |
|
|
10 |
National
Creche Scheme-Nutrition |
In
kind |
|
|
11 |
National
Creche Scheme- Honorarium To Workers |
Cash |
|
|
12 |
Scheme
For Adolescent Girls |
In
kind |
|
|
13 |
Umbrella
ICDS-Anganwadi Services- Supplementary Nutrition |
In
kind |
|
|
14 |
Umbrella
ICDS-Anganwadi Services- Honorarium To AWW And AWH |
Cash |
|
IT enabled system to ensure real time
monitoring
• The delivery of
services through Anganwadi is being put on to an IT platform which
enables real time monitoring. 95,000+ Anganwadis have been equipped with
smartphones with special software backbone. This will be expanded to cover all
14 lakh Anganwadis.
Supplementary Nutrition (under the
ICDS) Rules, 2017:
·
In
pursuance of the provisions contained in the National Food Security Act
(NFSA), 2013, WCD Ministry has notified the Supplementary Nutrition (under
Integrated Child Development Services Scheme) Rules, 2017 on 20th February
2017 to regulate the entitlement specified under provisions of said Act for
every pregnant women and lactating mother till 6 months after child birth, and
every child in the age group of 6 months to 6 years (including those suffering
from malnutrition) for 300 days in a year, as per the nutritional standards
specified in Schedule II of the said Act.
·
Revision
of cost norms for Supplementary Nutrition: The Government has also revised
the cost norms for supplementary nutrition with annual
indexation under the Anganwadi Services.
Protection of Children Against Sexual
Offences
§
In
2017, the WCD Ministry took up the issue for dichotomy between IPC Section 375 (rape)
and the Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012.
§
A
decision by the Hon’ble Supreme Court this year has criminalized sex between a
man and his underage wife – a big success for the Ministry.
§
The
Ministry is working to prosecute panchayat members for promoting or permitting
solemnization of child marriages.
To address the
issue of easy availability of child sexual abuse material/imagery,
an Inter-Ministerial Committee constituted by Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY), with membership of MWCD has issued an advisory
to all Internet Service Providers within the country to prevent the
distribution and transmission of child sexual abuse material.
A Public Grievance Cell is also active in the WCD Ministry,
which gives women and children citizens a way to send their grievances directly
to the government. It has already processed ~18,000 complaints in the one year
since its inception.
Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection
of Children) Model Rules, 2016.
The Juvenile
Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Model Rules, 2016 (JJ Model Rules,
2016) have been notified and published in the Gazette of India, thereby
repealing the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Rules, 2007 on
21.09.2016. The JJ Model Rules, 2016 are based on the philosophy that children
need to be reformed and reintegrated into society. The Rules are appreciative
of developmental needs of children and therefore the best interest of the child
is the primary consideration. Child friendly procedures are incorporated across
the board.
The JJ
Model Rules, 2016 prescribe detailed child friendly procedures for the Police,
Juvenile Justice Board and Children’s Court. Some of these procedures include:
no child to be sent to jail or lock-up, child not to be handcuffed, child to be
provided appropriate medical assistance, parent/guardian to be informed about
legal aid etc. The Juvenile Justice Board and the Children’s Court are required
to put the child at ease and to encourage him/her to state the facts and
circumstances without any fear, after understanding the questions put up across
in a language understood by the child.
Various
new forms have been added in the JJ Model Rules, 2016 to revise the progress
children in Juvenile Justice System and to ensure adequate rehabilitation and
restoration services for them. Some of the new forms included in JJ Model
Rules, 2016 are Case Monitoring Sheet, detailed individual Child Care Plan,
application for registration of Child Care Institutions, certificate for
registration, quarterly report by Juvenile Justice Board/ Child Welfare
Committee, etc. Further, monitoring provisions have been strengthened.
Comprehensive Adoption Reforms
•
Government has notified Juvenile Justice Act in 2015.
Chapter VIII of the Act provides for adoption of orphaned, abandoned &
surrendered children and also adoption of children by relatives.
•
The Act has adequate in built safeguards for the children to
ensure their best interest. Further, section 80 & 81 of the Juvenile Justice
(Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 provides that any person or agency
who indulges in illegal adoption shall be punished.
•
Further, as per the
Act, the adoption cases should be processed in accordance with the Adoption
Regulations, 2017 notified by Government of India. As per the regulations,
online registration is mandatory to adopt a child from anywhere in India.
Central Adoption Resource Information & Guidance System (CARINGS) is the
only official portal for legal adoption process.
Registration of Child Care
Institutions:
The JJ
Act 2015 under Section 41, provides for mandatory registration of all Child
Care Institutions (CCIs) across the country. In order to ensure mandatory
compliance of the same, a massive registration drive was initiated by the
Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with State Governments
and UT administrations. As a result of
this drive, during 2017-18, more than 7800 Child Care Institutions have been
registered under the JJ Act, 2015 as of now, as intimated by the
States/UTs.
Integrated Child Protection Scheme:
·
The Ministry of Women and Child Development is
executing an Integrated Child Protection Scheme for ensuring implementation of
the JJ Act.
·
The scheme has been brought under the Umbrella ICDS as
its sub-scheme with the nomenclature as Child Protection Services.
·
The erstwhile ICPS got EFC approval for the FFC period
2017-18 & 2019-20. The financial norms under the scheme were enhanced with
the following important changes:
i.The maintenance grant for children of Rs.2000/- has
been increased by 8 % annually in homes, open shelter and SAAs.
ii.Increase in programmatic allocation for CIF Head
Office & its regional centers, by Rs.9.70 crore for protection services of
CHILDLINE.
iii.Sitting allowance of CWC and JJB members have been
enhanced from Rs. 1000/- to Rs. 1500/-.
Cradle Baby Reception Center:
The Ministry has stressed upon the need to place
cradles at important locations such as hospitals, PHC, etc. to save the lives
of unwanted new born babies and placing them in the adoption net managed by
CARA with the intent to rehabilitate them in the familial care.
Awareness generation regarding the
safety initiatives for children in difficult circumstances.
It is imperative
to make the children aware about the facilities/resources available for them
while encountering any difficult situation. The Ministry of Women and Child
Development persuaded Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) to
advertise child friendly information such as child helpline (1098), POCSO
e-box, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao etc in the course books for children. This year,
NCERT has published the child friendly information at the backside of the front
cover of all their course books for children.
Through this initiative, more than 26 crore children are expected to
become aware of these facilities, which will empower them to protect themselves
and their friends under distress. The easy availability of this information
will enable families, mothers and care givers to help in the cause of child
protection and welfare.
Celebration of Hausala 2017:
The Ministry of Women and
Child Development celebrated the child rights week by hosting an inter-Child Care
Institution festival, “ Hausla 2017” for the children who reside in child care
institutions between 16-20th November
2017. The event aimed at inspiring and mainstreaming these children by
providing a national platform to showcase their talents. During the week-long
celebration Children participated in various events like Bal Sansad, painting
competition, athletics meet, football, chess competition and speech writing.
More than 1000 children from child care institutions across the country are
participated in the event.
First National Conclave on
Psychological Trauma, Child Protection, and Mental Illnesses:
The
Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi organized two- days National
Conclave on psychological trauma, child protection and mental illness. The
overall aim of the conclave was to create a common platform to professionals to
share their focused research on childhood adversities and discuss various
issues pertaining to prevention and protection of children from psychological
trauma. A Training of Trainers (ToT) Module on Psychological Trauma Assessment
& Intervention in Child Abuse was also releases during the event. The
module is expected to strengthen the skill set of care givers engaged in child
protection & welfare.
Protection
To provide a ring fence of mechanisms
for Child Protection
Expansion of Childline (1098)
·
CHILDLINE is a nation-wide initiative for
rescuing and assisting children in
distress conditions. In the last four years, CHILDLINE (1098 helpline number)
has been extended to 420 locations from 279 (in 2013-14) locations and will be
expanded to 80 new locations shortly. With the expanded reach, CHILDLINE has
been able to help lakhs of children and restore them to their families. Phone
calls to the helpline have also increased from 38 lakhs (in 2013-14) to 1.8
crore calls in 2017-18.
Railway Helpline
·
The Ministry of WCD has framed path- breaking Special
Operating Procedures (SOPs) to be implemented with the help of Railways for
rescue and rehabilitation of runaway, abandoned, kidnapped, trafficked children
via railways. 60 Railway stations which serve as ‘source’ and ‘destination’
centre for child trafficking have been identified & rescue services has
been started through CHILDLINE India Foundation and its partners. The CHILD
Help Desks set up at stations, work with railway authorities for restoration of
children to their parents / guardians or their rehabilitation in the absence of
parents/ guardians. The CHILD Help Desks are currently operating at 60 railway
stations. However approval for extending the service in 28 more railway
stations has been given by the Ministry. It is planned to cover many more
stations across the country incrementally.
Awareness
campaign via posters in railway coaches was launched in November, 2015. Around
02 lakh posters have been put in trains which caution passengers about children
around them who may need protection. Children are brought for temporary stay
before they are restored to their parents or are sent to children’s home.
Continuous announcements are made for passengers to be on the lookout for such
children. Over 34,000 children have been assisted through this service as on
31.01.2018.
Skoch
Order of Merit Award to CARINGS
CARINGS has been rated on three
parameters namely Early Bird, Jury Evaluation and Popular Vote and has been
conferred the SKOCH Order-or-Merit Award during the 50th SKOCH Summit on
20th-21st December 2017.
Public Grievance Redressal Mechanism
·
New multiple mechanisms have been set up to
enable women and children to seek assistance from the Ministry. These
mechanisms are on the social media platforms in line with the objectives of
Digital India.
·
Public Grievance Cell has already processed ~18,000
complaints in the one year since its inception.
·
#HelpMeWCD where
women and children can send in their grievances. Specially sensitised team of personnel
has been put in place to reach out to the woman/child and provide assistance to
the extent possible.
·
min-wcd@nic.in is the dedicated email helpdesk for
public grievances.
·
E-Box for Children
who have suffered sexual abuse: Children are often unable to complain about
sexual abuse. In order to provide them with a safe and anonymous mode of making
a complaint, an internet based facility, POCSO e-Box, has been provided at NCPCR website where the child or anyone on his/her
behalf can file a complaint with minimal details. As soon as the complaint is
filed, a trained counsellor immediately contacts the child and provides
assistance to the child. The counsellor also registers a formal complaint on
behalf of the child wherever warranted. Since the inception of POCSO e-box in
August 2016, around 1100 hits were made on this facility.
·
Khoya-Paya
Portal: In order to bring citizen participation for protecting children, a
citizen based portal i.e. Khoya Paya was launched in June, 2015, which enables
posting of information of missing or sighted children. It also provides
facility for matching the two databases. More than 8746 users had registered on
the Portal (as on 26th March, 2018) and nearly 10,447 cases of
missing- sighted children have been published on the portal.
POSHAN Abhiyaan - The PM’s Overarching Scheme for Holisitic
Nourishment (National Nutrition Mission)
Launch Date: 08.03.2018
Objective: The
programme through the targets will strive to reduce the level of stunting,
under-nutrition, anemia and low birth weight babies. It will create synergy,
ensure better monitoring, issue alerts for timely action, and encourage
States/UTs to perform, guide and supervise the line Ministries and States/UTs
to achieve the targeted goals.
In NFHS(4), 35.7% children under 5
years of age are underweight and 38.4% are stunted indicating a reduction from
the previous NFHS – 3 which reported 42.5% children under 5 years of age as
underweight and 48% stunted. Further, 22.9% women (15-49 years of age) have
chronic energy deficiency (BMI less than 18.5) which is a decline from the
previous NFHS-3 levels which reported 35.5% women having chronic energy
deficiency.
The Goals of POSHAN Abhiyaan (NNM)
are to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Children from 0-6 years,
Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner during the next
three years beginning 2017-18 with fixed targets as under:
|
S.No |
Objective |
Target |
|
1. |
Prevent and reduce
stunting in children (0-6 years) |
By 6% @ 2% p.a |
|
2. |
Prevent and reduce
under nutrition (underweight prevalence) in children (0-6 years) |
By 6% @ 2% p.a |
|
3. |
Reduce the
prevalence of anemia among young Children (6-59 months) |
By 9% @ 3% p.a |
|
4. |
Reduce the
prevalence of anemia among Women and Adolescent Girls in the age group of
15-49 years |
By 9% @ 3% p.a |
|
5. |
Reduce Low Birth
Weight (LBW) |
By 6% @ 2% p.a |
Real Time Monitoring (ICT-RTM) of ICDS
One of the key activities in project is
Information and Communication Technology enabled Real Time Monitoring (ICT-RTM)
of ICDS.
A customized mobile based Common
Application software (ICDS-CAS) has been developed. Anganwadi workers feed the
information regarding the services delivered, through the mobile devices
installed with ICDS-CAS application. Information entered by the AWWs is visible
on the dashboard that can be accessed at Block, District, State and Centre
Level at www.icds-cas.gov.in.
The Roll-Out of ICT-RTM has been
initiated in 6 states viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. A total of 95,000+ Anganwadi Workers are using
the mobile application.
Draft
Trafficking of persons (Prevention, Protection & Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018
In
order to address various aspects of trafficking in terms of its
prevention, protection and
rehabilitation of victims – the Ministry has conceptualized a
comprehensive bill on trafficking. The
proposed Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection & Rehabilitation)
Bill 2018 has introduced various aggravated forms of trafficking such as
trafficking for the purpose of forced or bonded labour, forced marriage, begging,
trafficking by administering chemical substance or hormones on a person for the
purpose of early sexual maturity, etc. The purpose of the bill is to prevent
trafficking of persons and to provide care, protection and rehabilitation to
the victims of trafficking, to prosecute offenders and to create a legal,
economic and social environment for the victims and for matters connected
therewith or incidental thereto.
NARI- National Repository of Information for Women
The NARI Portal – National Repository of
Information for Woment has been developed by the Ministry to provide women
citizens with easy access to information on government schemes and initiatives
for women. It can be viewed at www.nari.nic.in. The
government – Both Central and State- has implemented a number of schemes &
legislations for women to provide them equal rights, economic opportunities,
social support, legal aid, housing, etc.
In
order to make this information more easily accessible in one place, the NARI
portal summarizes over 350 Government schemes and other important information
for the benefit of women, with more being added every day. It provides links to the Ministries,
Departments and autonomous bodies offering these schemes as well as to online
applications and grievance redressal. NARI
also provides essential information for women on subjects such as employment,
health, safety, adopt.
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Ministry of Water Resources, River
Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
NAMAMI GANGE PROJECT
Launch Date: 10.7.2014
Objective: To integrate
the efforts to clean and protect the Ganga river in a comprehensive manner.
Achievements:
·
Under
Namami Gange program, a total of 187 projects worth Rs. 16565.34 crore have
been sanctioned for various activities such as sewage infrastructure, ghats and
crematoria development, river front development, river surface cleaning,
institutional development, biodiversity conservation, afforestation, rural
sanitation, and public participation.
·
93
projects out of 187 were sanctioned for creation of 2205.08 MLD new sewage
treatment plants (STPs), rehabilitation of 564.3 MLD of existing STPs and
laying/rehabilitation of 4762.4 km sewer network for abatement of pollution in
river Ganga and Yamuna. Till date 13 projects have been completed which has
created 198 MLD STP capacity (153 MLD for river Ganga and 45 MLD for Yamuna
River) and 1147 km of sewerage network has been laid.
·
Within
a year of reconstitution of NMCG as an Authority (October 07, 2016 to October
07, 2017), 44 projects worth Rs 7,547.87 crore were approved by the Executive
Committee. These projects pertain to creation of adequate sewage treatment
capacities in Ganga basin States – Uttarakhand (17) Uttar Pradesh (10), Bihar
(11) Jharkhand (1) West Bengal (3) and Delhi (2). Total STP capacity of 1402.26
MLD will be created with the approval of these projects and sewer network
length of 1429.24 km will be laid down.
·
For
abatement of industrial pollution, survey of all 1109 Grossly Polluting
Industries (GPIs) was conducted. Out of 1109 GPIs, 333 were closed and closure
notices were given to non-complying GPIs.135 GPIs have been closed for
non-compliance to stipulated norms. Eight Real Time Water Quality Monitoring
Station (RTWQMS) are operational under National Hydrology Project.
·
For
River Front Development, works at 111 ghats and 46 crematoria are in progress
and expected to be completed by 2018. For river surface cleaning, 11 trash
skimmers have been deployed at Haridwar, Garh Mukhteshwar, Kanpur, Varanasi,
Allahabad, Patna, Sahibganj, Nabadwip, Kolkata, Delhi and Mathura-Vrindavan.
·
On
rural sanitation front, all 4464 villages on the bank of river Ganga have been
made Open Defecation Free (ODF) and 12, 74, 421 Individual Household Toilets
have been constructed.Five State Ganga Committees and 34 District Ganga
Committees constituted for effective monitoring of projects and
activities.Against the target of 15.27 lakh individual household latrines,
approx. 10 lakh individual household latrines have been constructed.
·
Six
public outreach programmes were organised in five main stem Ganga basin States.
They are Ganga Swachhta Pakhwada, Ganga Sankalp Divas, Ganga Nirikshan Yatra,
Ganga Dusshera, Ganga Vriksharopan Saptah, and Swachhta Hi Seva Pakhwada.
·
The
participation of corporates in Namami Gange programme grew stronger with
successful completion of two road shows – London and Mumbai. Commitments of
participation in NMCG activities have been made by several corporates.
·
Projects
have also been taken up for bio-diversity conservation, conservation of fish
and fisheries, Dolphin conservation, afforestation activities.
·
Countries
like Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Israel have shown keen
interest in collaborating with the Indian government for river Ganga cleaning.
·
NMCG
has signed an MoU with OISCA International, a leading NGO of Japan to
collaborate in specific activities for pollution abatement and river
rejuvenation.
·
Water
Quality Monitoring: Based on water quality monitoring being carried out at 124
locations through manual as well as sensors based real time system, it has been
observed that water quality trend on tributaries of Ramganga river viz.,
Bahela, Dahela, Kosi and Ramganga itself before its confluence with Ganga has
shown improvements during the last two years.
PRADHAN MANTRI KRISHI
SINCHAYEE YOJANA (PMKSY)
Launch Date – 2015-16
This programme has been formulated by amalgamating ongoing
schemes viz. Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) of the Ministry of
Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR,RD&GR),
Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) of Department of Land
Resources (DoLR) and the On Farm Water Management (OFWM) of Department of
Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC).
Objective - PMKSY was launched with an aim to
enhance physical access of water on farm and expand cultivable area under
assured irrigation, improve on farm water use efficiency, introduce sustainable
water conservation practices
Achievements
·
Prioritization
of 99 projects for completion by December 2019 : Under PMKSY, Ninety Nine (99) ongoing
AIBP projects along with their Command Area Development & Water Management
(CADWM) works, having potential of 76.03 lakh ha. and
estimated cost of Rs. 77595 cr, . have been identified for completion in phases
up to December, 2019. Funding mechanism through NABARD has been made by the
Government for both central and state share for timely completion of 99
prioritized projects.
·
A Long
Term Irrigation Fund has been created under NABARD for PMKSY (AIBP)
projects. The Government on 16.08.2017 approved the proposal for raising zero
cost bonds up to ₹ 9,020 crore during FY 2017-18 for keeping interest
rate @ 6%. During 2017-18, CA of ₹ 1,720.68 crore has been sanctioned for
release through NABARD for AIBP & Command Area Development works. Further,
State share of ₹ 3,390.37 crore for prioritised projects has been
released through NABARD. In addition, an amount of ₹ 1,297.58 crore has
been sanctioned for release through NABARD for Polavaram Project of Andhra
Pradesh during the year.
NATIONAL AQUIFER MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME
(NAQUIM)
Launch date:
Objective:
Delineation and characterization of aquifers for
quantification of ground water availability and assessment of ground water
quality to formulate aquifer management plans for facilitating sustainable
management of ground water resources at regional and local levels.
Achievements:
Under the
program, 7.99 Lakh km2 area
has been covered so far against total target of about 13 lakh SQ Km till March,
2020. Aquifer maps and management plans being prepared by CGWB are shared with
the State Agencies for implementation. Implementation of the management plans
by the State agencies is expected to improve the groundwater situation.
Work done
under National Aquifer Mapping Program has been utilized for following
successful activities which will reduce dependence on monsoon:
§ Project on Tapi Mega Recharge has been
initiated as an outcome of Aquifer mapping study. This project envisages to
recharge ground water to the tune of 358.92 million m3/ year
benefiting an area of 2.3 lakh hectare.
§ Multi layered
aquifers identified in intensely irrigated water stressed areas of Haryana.
§ Managed
Aquifer Recharge plans for Chhatarpur Basin in Delhi has been prepared.
§ Govt of
Kerala has initiated preparation of Panchayat Water Security Plans from NAQUIM
outputs.
§ Successful
wells (18 nos) were drilled in water scarce villages in Tikamgarh district of
Bundelkhand region for State PHED.
§ In Latur,
Maharastra, 25 wells drilled for drought mitigation in Year 2016 and handed
over to state agency for water supply
NATIONAL HYDROLOGY
PROJECT (NHP):
Launch Date: April 2016
Objectives:
To improve the extent, quality, and
accessibility of water resources information, decision support system for
floods and basin level resource assessment/planning and to strengthen the
capacity of targeted water resources professionals and management institutions
in India. Under National Hydrology
Project, it proposed to establish National
Water Informatics Centre (NWIC) as
a repository of nation-wide water resource data. This data will be utilised for
various applications such as development of decision support system, integrated
reservoir operation, flood forecasting including inundation forecasting, Basin
Modelling and development of Water Resources Management plans with aims to
achieve the objective of Ensuring Water Security and disaster management.
National Hydrology Project (NHP) has been taken up with the
assistance of World Bank with total outlay of Rs.3679.7674 crore. NHP is a
Central Sector Scheme, with 100% grant to the States with World Bank Assistance
to the tune of 50% of the project cost. It has pan India coverage with 49
Implementing Agencies (IAs) (including 10 from Central Government and 39 from
States). The project has a total duration of eight years from 2016-17 to
2023-24.
Status of
Interlinking of Rivers
In compliance to the direction of Union
Cabinet, MoWR, RD & GR vide O.M. dated 13th April, 2015 has
constituted a Task Force for Interlinking of Rivers (TF-ILR) under the
Chairmanship of Shri B.N. Navalawala, Chief Advisor, MoWR, RD&GR. So far,
eight (8) meetings of the TF-ILR has been held and the last meeting was held on
15.09.2017. TF-ILR on 18.07.2016 has constituted a Group to look into legal
aspects and required enabling provisions for implementation of Interlinking of
Rivers and other related issues. The legal group has completed its assigned
task and submitted its report to the Chairman, TF-ILR on 17th March
2017. In addition, a Group for Financial Aspects under TF-ILR was also
constituted on 12.09.2017 to consider the financial aspects of ILR projects and
to suggest the funding pattern for implementing the same. Three meetings of the
Group were held so far and the last meeting was held on 08.12.2017.
Four priority links under Peninsular
Rivers Component have been identified for preparation of Detailed Project
Reports (DPR) viz; Ken-Betwa link project (KBLP), Damanganga-Pinjal link
project, Par-Tapi-Narmada link project and Mahanadi-Godavari link project. The
preparation of DPR of a project is taken up only after consent of concerned
State Governments. Based on the concurrence of the concerned States, DPRs of
KBLP, Damanganga-Pinjal link project and Par-Tapi-Narmada link project have
been completed.
PROJECTS COMPLETED BY WAPCOS
Afghan-India
Friendship Dam Project, Herat Province, Afghanistan Development of Six
Irrigation Schemes in Champassack Province, Lao PDR.
·
Project
Management for Augmentation of Water Supply Scheme in Dar-Es-Salaam and
Chalinze, Tanzania, Stung Tasal Dam Project, Cambodia.
·
Preparation
of Feasibility Report and Detailed Project Report on Sewerage and Sewage
Treatment for Bhopal City.
·
Project
Management Consultancy for Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Project, Bhopal
(World Bank Funded).
·
Project
Development and Management Consultant (PDMC) for Atal Mission for Rejuvenation
and Urban Transformation including Project Management of Haryana and Madhya
Pradesh.
PROTECTION OF MAJULI ISLAND FROM FLOOD AND EROSION
This
project was approved by the MoWR, RD & GR in March 2017 for a value of Rs
237 crores. Out of the total amount, funding of Rs 207 crores has been provided
by DONER. Brahmaputra Board has awarded the work which is presently in
progress. Successful conclusion of this project will provide succour to Majuli,
which is the largest river island in the world, from flood and erosion.
MAJOR
ACTIVITIES BY PENINSULAR RIVER WING.
·
In
the year 2017 Dam Break Analysis were conducted on 64 Dams for preparation of
Inundation maps. Emergency Action Plans (EAPs) prepared by State IAs have been
reviewed and commented upon by CPMU
·
Total
of 109 NITs worth Rs. 600 Cr were issued since January 2017 and works of 145
packages worth Rs. 373 Cr were awarded till date. During this period with in a
period of 11 months an expenditure of Rs. 596 Cr. was incurred
·
One Dam
Safety Conference was organized in Roorkee in which 466 delegates (with 30
International) participated. 35 Indian and Foreign organizations showcased
their products, technology and services in the exhibition.
·
Two
International trainings were conducted in which 43 officials from all
participating State were trained. In addition, 22 National Trainings were
conducted in different implementing agencies benefitting 716 officials.
·
Four
Draft Guidelines on various aspects of dam safety have been prepared under the
project and in the process of finalization.
·
DHARMA,
web based dam inventory management software has been completed. Efforts are
being made to capture the dam related data on this platform.
·
Third
Party Evaluation Study of DRIP scheme has been carried out by the IIT Roorkee.
·
Proposal
for DRIP-II covering 684 dams of 18 States and two central agencies grossing to
amount Rs. 9070 Crore prepared and sent to MoWR,RD&GR for in-principal
approval.
·
Two
special Dam Safety Review Panel have been constituted under DRIP for
comprehensive dam safety review of
Kadana and Bheema & interim
report has been submitted to MoWR, RD &GR.
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Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports
Department of Youth affairs
National Young Leaders Program
·
National
Young Leaders Program was launched in December, 2014, to develop leadership
qualities among the youth, with 5 following components and is implemented
through Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan.
i.
Neighborhood Youth Parliament
ii. Youth for Development Program
iii. National Young Leaders Award
iv. National Youth Advisory council
v. National Youth Development Fund.
Budget allocation for the year 2017-18 is
Rs. 14.14 Crores (as per RE 2017-18).
·
Neighborhood
Youth Parliament Programs are being organized by involving NYKS-affiliated
Youth Clubs with the objective of developing leadership qualities of the youth
by involving them in debate/ discussions on contemporary issues.
·
During
the current year, 5,216 Block level Programs have been organized, with
participation of 4.47 lakh youth. In
addition, 37,435 village-level neighborhood youth parliament programs involving
4.95 lakh youth.
·
Under
the Youth for Development Program component of the scheme, during the year 300
IEC-Media and Publicity events with the participation of 68,241 youth, have
been organized in 296 districts to create awareness/motivation about Shramdaan.
·
In
order to encourage the participation of youth clubs in Shramdaan activities,
during the year 655 youth clubs have been awarded for their outstanding
work.
Department of Sports
Revamped Khelo India
Program:
The
Union Cabinet has approved the revamped Khelo India program with an estimated
financial outlay of Rs.1, 756 crore for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. This marks
a watershed moment in the history of Indian sports, as the Program aims to
encourage sports all over the country thus allowing the population to harness
the power of sports through its cross-cutting influence and to use sports as a
means of holistic development of children & youth, community development,
social integration, gender equality, healthy lifestyle, national pride and
economic opportunities related to sports development. The revamped Khelo India
Program would impact the entire sports ecosystem in the country through its
twelve verticals which includes playfield development; community coaching
development; promotion of community sports; establishment of a strong sports
competition structure at both school and university level as also for rural /
indigenous sports, sports for persons with disability and women sports; filling
up of critical gaps in sports infrastructure, including creation of hubs of
sports excellence in select universities; talent identification and
development; support to sports academies; implementation of a national physical
fitness drive for school children; and sports for peace and development.
National Sports
University
Announcement for setting up National Sports University, Manipur was made by
the Government in budget speech 2014-15. Govt. of Manipur has provided land for
setting up university in west Imphal. Hon’ble Prime Minister of India laid the
foundation stone for NSU on 16th March, 2018.
National Sports University will be first of its kind to promote sports
education in the areas of Sports Science, Sports Technology, Sports Management,
Sports Coaching and will also function as National training centre for selected
training centres.
Pending finalization of National Sports University Bill, National Sports
University Society established under the Manipur Societies Registration Act,
1989, has started functioning from the Khuman Lampak Sports Complex at Imphal.
The Academic Session of 2017-18 commenced w.e.f. 15 th January 2018 with two
courses namely BPES and B.Sc (Sports Coaching).
Olympics, Commonwealth
Games and Asian Games
An Olympic Task Force (OTF)
was set up in January, 2017 to prepare a comprehensive Action Plan for
effective preparation of Indian sportspersons in the next three Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo, 2024 & 2028. The Task Force was entrusted with the preparation
of an overall strategy for sports facility, training selection procedure and
other related matters. The OTF has submitted its report in August, 2017.
As per recommendation of the
Task Force of OTF, the Government of India (GoI) should set up an Empowered
Steering Committee (ESC) as the single point entity with the responsibility to
ensure proper preparation for the 2020 Olympics which are to be held in Tokyo
(Japan). A Notification has already been issued with main Terms of Reference.
Athletes identified for
Olympics are being provided financial assistance for customized training within
the country and abroad under Target Olympic Podium Scheme of MYAS (Stipend of
Rs 50,000 per month to the elite athletes). On the recommendation of the
Olympic Task Force, the Ministry has on 15.9.2017 decided to give stipend of Rs
50,000 per month to all the athletes selected under Target Olympic Podium
Scheme to meet pocket expenses during their preparation for participation in
international sports events. As on March 2018, 220 sportspersons are being
provided with Out of Pocket allowance @ Rs.50,000/- pm.
Training
Center for Para Athletes:
Sports Minister laid the
Foundation Stone at Gandhinagar, Gujarat for the first ever training center
dedicated for Para Athletes on 5th February, 2017. The center is proposed
at an estimated cost of over Rs. 50 crores. It will have the World Class
facilities where Para athletes will be trained for various International
Competitions including Asian Games, Common Wealth Games and Olympic Games. The
center will have the following facilities for Para athletes:
i.Indoor Hall (64m x 42m) fully AC
ii.Elite Hostel (100 bedded) fully AC
iii.VIP Accommodation for Foreign Guest (20 nos) AC.
iv.Open land for warm-up.
International
Boxing Academy:
A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) involving International
Boxing Association (AIBA), Boxing Federation of India (BFI) and Sports
Authority of India (SAI) was signed on 1st March 2017 in New Delhi to set
up boxing academy at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi and Rajiv Gandhi
Sports Complex, Rohtak. A detailed proposal is awaited from Boxing Federation
of India(BFI).
Successful
conduct of 22nd Asian Athletic Championship, 2017:
India conducted successfully 22nd Asian Athletic Championship,
2017from 06 – 09 July, 2017 at Bhubaneswar, Odisha. India topped in the medal tally by winning 29
medals (12 Gold, 5 Silver, 12 Bronze).
Rural
Games:
The first edition of Rural Games or Grameen Khel Mahotsavwas organized
between 28th August to 3rd September, 2017 in Nizampur village in Delhi. The
Rural Games aimed at popularising the indigenous games like wrestling,
athletics etc. and also had fun games like Matka Race, Tug of War for senior
citizens to add the fun element in the games to convey the message that every
age category needs to take up and practice sports.
Launch
of Sports Talent Search Portal:
Sports Talent Search Portal was launched to spot the best talent from
among the young population of the country, by the Vice President of India Shri
M.Venkaiah Naidu at a function at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi on
28th August, 2017 in the presence of the MoS(I/C) YAS, Arjuna awardees and
thousands of school children. The portal is providing a transparent platform
for talented youth to upload their achievements. Shortlisted applicants undergo
selection trials and those who pass the trials will be offered admission to SAI
schemes. Since its inception the portal has been accessed by 140727 individuals
of which 8016 sportspersons registered with portal. 433 applications of the
eligible candidates were forwarded to SAI centres of which 249 sportspersons
were invited for the selection trials. Based on the performance in selection trials,
the selection committee recommended 23 talented sportspersons for admission in
SAI centres.
Financial assistance to
Abhinav Bindra Foundation Trust:
Department of Sports, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government
of India has granted a financial assistance of up to Indian Rupees Five Crores
Only (INR 5,00,00,000/-) (“Grant”) from the National Sports Development Fund to
Abhinav Bindra Foundation Trust (ABFT) to purchase certain state-of-the-art
sports science equipments to establish and operate, a high-performance facility
for rehabilitation, fitness-training and sports science (“Facility”) at the
Centre at the Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence, Bengaluru and named
as the “Sports Authority of India (SAI)-Abhinav Bindra Targeting Performance
Centre”.
Indian athletes who are selected for training in Indian National Camps
(“National Campers”) shall utilise the equipment and services at the centre
free of cost. An agreement to this effect was signed between SAI and ABFT.
In addition to above, financial assistance from National Sports
Development Fund (NSDF) has also been granted to Mary Kom Regional Boxing
Foundation, Pullela Gopichand Badminton Foundation, Usha School of Athletics
(Kerala), SAI-Gopichand National Badminton Academy (Hyderabad), etc.
Successful conclusion of
FIFA U-17 World Cup
The 17th edition of the FIFA Under -17 World Cup was successfully held
from 6th to 28th October 2017. First
time in history, India hosted such a big international football competition.
The Venues of the competition were JLN Stadium- New Delhi, PJN Stadium, Fatorda- Goa, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium- Kochi, Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium- Guwahati, Vivekanand Yuva Bharti Krirangan,
Salt Lake- Kolkata, DY Patil
Stadium- Navi Mumbai.
Twenty Four Teams from across the world participated in the
tournament. The Final Match was
played between England and Spain before a packed YubabharatiKrirangan Stadium,
Salt Lake at Kolkata on 28th October, 2017 in which England were declared FIFA
U-17 World Cup Champions.
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