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UDAN Scheme
Govt Scheme for Cheap Air Travel at 2500/- Per Hour
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government has launched a new scheme
named as UDAN (Udey Desh ka Aam Nagrik) to make the air travel cheaper. Under the
new UDAN scheme, people in tier 2 and tier 3 cities can fly at just Rs. 2500/- per hour.
The main objective of the UDAN scheme is to provide the cheaper air travel opportunity
to all the people in the country. The scheme also aims to make operational almost 50
underutilized airports across the nation.
Under the UDAN scheme, the fare for regional domestic flights will be capped at Rs.
2500/- per hour of flight for a fixed wing aircraft. One hour of flight can cover about 500
Kilometers, hence, the fare will be about Rs. 5 per kilometer, way cheaper than most cab
services in the country.
For journey on a helicopter, the fare will be capped at Rs. 2500/- for every 30 minutes,
i.e. Rs. 5000 per hour
Under the UDAN scheme, the airline operator will have to provide a minimum of 9 and
a maximum of 40 UDAN seats in each flight to domestic regions. While, in case of
flights through helicopter, a minimum of 5 and maximum 13 UDAN seats to be provided
by the operator.
Under UDAN scheme, fare for 50% of the seats of flights will be capped at Rs 2,500
while the rest will be sold on the basis of current market price.
The selected operators will also need to operate at least 3 UDAN flights and a maximum
of 7 departures every week.
BHIM
BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is a Mobile App developed by National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), based on the Unified Payment
Interface (UPI)
It has been named after Bhim Rao Ambedkar and is intended to facilitate e-
payments directly through banks and as part of the 2016 Indian banknote
demonetisation and drive towards cashless transactions
This UPI app supports all Indian banks which use that platform, which is built
over the Immediate Payment Service infrastructure and allows the user to
instantly transfer money between the bank accounts of any two parties
During the Union Budget 2017, Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley said that
BHIM is currently being used by over 125 lakh Indian citizens. He said that
Government will launch two new schemes to promote the use of the BHIM app.
One will be referral payments for individuals, and the other will cashback for
merchants who accept payments from BHIM.
PM Modi has launched two schemes under BHIM App namely BHIM Referral
Bonus Scheme and BHIM Merchant Cashback Scheme
The main objective of the scheme is to bring down the maternal mortality rate by
increasing the number of institutional deliveries across the nation. The scheme is aimed
at encouraging institutional deliveries in order to reduce maternal as well as infant
mortality. The scheme would be implemented across all the 650 districts of the country.
The financial aid amount of Rs. 6000 will be directly transferred to the saving bank
account of pregnant women through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
17% of all maternal deaths in the world occur in India with maternal mortality rate is
pegged at 167 per 100,000 live births, whereas infant mortality is estimated at 43 per
1,000 live births. However, these numbers may not sound too high but when comparing
to other nations, these are significant. The primary causes of high maternal and infant
mortality rate are inadequate medical care during pregnancy and child birth and poor
nutrition. The Rs. 6000 being provided under the scheme also sums up for the
vaccination and nutritious food during pregnancy.
The pregnancy aid scheme is being implemented in 53 districts on pilot basis where
financial assistance is Rs. 4000. Initially launched in 2010, this was the first scheme
under Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) to provide conditional financial
assistance to pregnant women above the age of 18 years for birth of up to 2 live births.
In the new scheme, the cash benefit has been increased to Rs. 6000 which will be
directly transferred to the bank account of the beneficiary pregnant women.
Vrishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2017 ( The Old Age Pension Scheme)
The Old Age Pension Scheme would be implemented by LIC (Life Insurance
Corporation of India) for current financial year, however the launch of VPBY 2017 has
not been declared yet.
From launch date, the scheme will be opened for the subscription period of one year.
The scheme will provide income security to old persons aged 60 years and above against
uncertain market falls.
VPBY will provide an assured pension based on a guaranteed interest rate of 8% for 10
years.
The scheme will come up with an option of monthly/quarterly/half-yearly or annual
basis benefits so that the beneficiary can choose any of the options under Varishtha
Pension Bima Yojana 2017.
The maximum amount to deposit under Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2017 has not
been mentioned, however PM had addressed in his New Year Eve speech that upto Rs.
7.5 lakh could be invested in Old Age Pension Scheme.
The weakest link in the value chain is distribution, wherein DISCOMs in the
country have accumulated losses of approximately Rs. 3.8 lakh crore and
outstanding debt of approximately Rs. 4.3 lakh crore
States shall take over 75% of DISCOM debt as on 30 September 2015 over two
years - 50% of DISCOM debt shall be taken over in 2015-16 and 25% in 2016-17.
(This debt taken by states will not be calculated as a part of state fiscal deficit for
2015-16 and 2016-17 years
PM Ujjawala Yojana
This is the first ever welfare scheme by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Gas which would benefit crores of women belonging to the poorest households.
Financial support of Rs. 1600 for each LPG connection for BPL
Earmarked Rs. 8000 crore for providing 5 crore LPG connections to BPL
households.
This Scheme would be implemented over three years, namely, the FY 2016-17,
2017-18 and 2018-19
Budgetary provision of Rs. 2000 crore for 2016-17 to provide deposit free LPG
connections to 1.5 crore women belonging to the Below Poverty Line (BPL)
families.
Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan
208 Railway Over Bridges (ROB)/Railway Under Bridges (RUB) will be built at
the level crossings at a cost of Rs. 20,800 crore as part of the programme.
Rurban clusters will be developed to create over 300 smart villages in the next 3
years
Stand up India
Refinance window through SIDBI with initial corpus of Rs. 10,000 crore
Creation of credit guarantee through National Credit Guarantee Trustee
Company (NCGTC)
PRAGATI (pro active governance and timely implementation)
ICT based multi-modal mechanism to track key projects and policy outcomes
Three tier system: PMO, Union Government Secretaries and Chief State
Secretaries
Socio economic and caste census (SECC) will be used to identify beneficiaries
Central government to state government ratio will be 60:40 for plain area states
and 90:10 for north eastern and hilly states
Houses constructed under the mission would be allotted in the name of the
female head of the households or in the joint name of the male head of the
household and his wife
Make in India
DIPP Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Body named Invest India created in partnership with FICCI and State
governments
Ease of Doing Business
E-Biz Portal
AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) and
Smart Cities Mission
Ministry of Housing
Main Objective: Providing basic services (e.g. water supply, sewerage, urban
transport) to households and build amenities in cities which will improve the
quality of life for all, especially the poor and the disadvantaged.
o Clean drinking Water
o Sanitation
o Solid Waste management
o Efficient urban mobility and public transportation
o Affordable housing for the poor
o IT connectivity
o E-governance
Personal Accident Insurance Scheme (for death and disability due to accident)
Public Sector General Insurance Companies to administer and offer, and others
also allowed if agreed to the terms
Savings bank holders of Age: 18-70 years (must have a bank account)
Receive Rs. 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k or 5k per month depending on their contributions after
age of 60 years
Skill India
Skill India is a campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas
Modi on 15 July 2015 which aim to train over 40 crore (400 million) people
in India in different skills by 2022
In the budget of fiscal year 2017 - 18 the government of India has decided to set
aside Rs. 17,000 crore, the highest ever allocation to this sector, in order to boost
the Skill India Mission
The government has invested Rs. 4000 crore in the launch of SANKALP (Skill
Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion Programme),
another big initiative under the Skill India Mission. Through this it aims at
providing market relevant training to 350 million young Indians. Apart from this,
the government would set up 100 India International Skills Centres that will
conduct advanced courses in foreign languages to help youngsters prepare for
overseas jobs
1. Rural electrification
2. Strengthening of transmission and distribution infra.
3. Separation of agri and non-agro feeders to enable judicious supply of electricity to
agro and non-agro users respectively.
4. This used to be RG Gram Vidyutikaran Yojana
MUDRA
SIDBI
Sagarmala Project
Main Objective: To transform the existing ports into modern world class ports.
The prime objective of the Sagarmala project is to promote port-led direct and indirect
development and to provide infrastructure to transport goods to and from ports quickly,
efficiently and cost-effectively.
The Sagarmala Project, aimed at port-led development in coastal areas, is bound to
boost the countrys economy and the government has lined up about Rs 70,000 crore
for its 12 major ports only
Main Objective: Bringing together urban planning, economic growth and heritage
conservation in an inclusive manner to preserve the heritage character of each Heritage
City.
With a duration of 27 months (completed in March 2017) and a total outlay of INR 500
Crores, the Scheme is being implemented in 12 identified Cities namely, Ajmer,
Amaravati, Amritsar, Badami, Dwarka, Gaya, Kanchipuram, Mathura, Puri, Varanasi,
Velankanni and Warangal. The scheme is implemented in a mission mode.