Schemes in India

SABLA---RAJIV GANDHI'S SCHEME FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS

The Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) Sabla is a centrally sponsored program of Government of India initiated on April 1, 2011 under Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Objective

The objectives of the program are:

• Enable the Adolescent girls for self-development and empowerment
• Improve their nutrition and health status.
• Promote awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, adolescent reproductive and sexual health (ARSH) and family and child care.
• Upgrade home-based skills, life skills and integrate with the National Skill Development Program (NSDP) for vocational skills.
• Mainstream out of school adolescent girls into formal/non formal education.
• Provide information/guidance about existing public services such as PHC, CHC, Post Office, Bank, Police Station, etc.

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An integrated package of services is to be provided to adolescent girls as follows:

• Nutrition provision
• Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation
• Health check-up and Referral services
• Nutrition & Health Education (NHE)
• Counseling/Guidance on family welfare, ARSH, child care practices and home management
• Life Skill Education and accessing public services
• Vocational training for girls aged 16 and above under NSDP

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The program would cover adolescent girls 11–18 years old under all ICDS projects in selected 200 districts in all states/UTs in the country. The target group would be subdivided into 11-15 and 15–18 years.

RAGIV GANDHI UDAYAMI MITRA YOJANA LAUNCHED IN 2009

NACP-IV targets zero infection, zero death and zero stigma

November 27th, 2012

National AIDS Control Programme-IV (NACP-IV) has targeted to reach zero infection, zero stigma and zero deaths. India has registered 56% decline in new infections.

• National AIDS Control Programme-I (1992-1999): The main objective of the project was to slow the spread of HIV to reduce future morbidity, mortality, and the impact of AIDS by initiating a major effort in the prevention of HIV transmission.
• National AIDS Control Programme Phase II (1999-2004) had the main objectives to reduce the spread of HIV infection in India; and Strengthen India’s capacity to respond to HIV/AIDS on a long-term basis.
• NACP-III, launched in 2007, had set the goals of Halting and Reversing the epidemic by 2012.

 Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) Scheme was launched in 1972 to organize rural youth and to involve them in developmental activities.The Government had earlier introduced two schemes-The National Service Volunteer Scheme (NSVS) in 1977-78 and the Rashtriya Sadbhawana Yojana (RSY) in 2005, being implemented through the NYKS, wherein young volunteers were enrolled on a full time basis for participating in youth based activities. The scheme of National Youth Corps (NYC) is to be implemented by amalgamating  the two existing volunteer schemes into a new scheme christened „National Youth Corps’. The Scheme would create a space enabling   young men and women in the age group of 18-25 to serve up to two years in nation building activities, for which they would receive a suitable honorarium.  

Under which among the following scheme, the central government is enhancing
the bed capacity of public health facilities exclusively for mother and child care by a
whopping 20,000 beds?
[A]Janani Suraksha Yojana
[B]Reproductive and Child Health scheme
[C]Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram
[D]Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana
Reproductive and Child Health scheme
To meet the growing demand for institutional deliveries, the government has
enhanced the bed capacity of public health facilities exclusively for mother and child
care by a whopping 20,000 beds.To be implemented under the Reproductive and
Child Health scheme, the increase in the bed numbers will benefit 10 States that
have bad health indicators but a heavy patient load for institutional deliveries. The
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has set a target of two to two-and-half years
for the additional infrastructure to become functional.In many cases, the beds will be
added as separate maternal and child health wings to the District Hospitals. Once
fully functional, common sites like women sharing beds before and after delivery or
having to recuperate in the corridors will no more be seen














Debt-Swap Scheme : It is a scheme to reduce interest burden of the state government in India through gradual conversion of high cost debt into a low cost debt.

Grants-in-aid Scheme :

-- The amount of assistance given by the Ministry of Labour for taking up actionoriented projects aimed at benefiting child labour and women labour will be
restricted to 75% of the recurring cost of the project as per the approved budget.The remaining 25% of the cost including the non-recurring cost, if any, will have to be borne by the organization concerned.
-- Duration of assistance will depend on each project and will be for a maximum of 5 years and will be generally restricted to the currency of the Five Year Plan.Sanction will, however be accorded for a maximum period of three years at a time.  Releasing of grants for the project after a year will be subject to fulfillment of prescribed terms and conditions.
-- In the event of assistance being  available from any other source including international organizations like  ILO, UNICEF, etc. for taking up the action programme on a multi-aided approach.

Extension of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to the Domestic Workers

The Union Cabinet today approved extension of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana(RSBY) to all the registered domestic workers in the country.  The scheme is expected to cover approximately 47.50 lakh domestic workers in the country.           The Scheme envisages smart card based cashless health insurance cover up to Rs.30,000/- in any empanelled hospital anywhere in the country.  The funds will be allocated from the National Social Security Fund for Unorganised Workers.  The premium will be shared by the Central and State Governments in the ratio of 75:25.  In case of States in NE Regional and J&K the ratio is 90:10.  The estimated expenditure to be borne by the Central Government is as follows:           Year            Estimated expenditure (Rs. in crore)           2011-12                 29.70           2012-13                 74.25           2013-14                 148.50           2014-15                 297.00 Background:           Domestic work forms one of the largest sectors of female employment in the urban areas.  Domestic workers are unorganized and the sector remains unregulated and unprotected by labour laws.  These workers come from vulnerable communities and backward areas.  Most of these are poor, vulnerable, illiterate, unskilled and do not understand the urban labour market.           The RSBY provides for smart card based cashless health insurance cover of Rs.30,000/- per annum to BPL workers (a unit of five) in unorganised sector is presently being implemented in 25 States / UTs.  More than 2.34 crore smart cards have been issued as on 31.5.2011.  The scheme has since been extended to building and other construction workers registered with Welfare Boards constituted under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, street vendors,beedi workers and such MNREGA workers who have worked for more than 15 days during the preceding year