GS Paper 3
Source: Multiple sources of PIB, The Hindu, IE, DTE
Context: As per the ‘Saptarishi’ targets, the schemes have been divided into 7 Key Priority Areas
- Inclusive Development
- Reaching the Last Mile
- Infrastructure and Investment
- Unleashing the Potential
- Green Growth
- Youth Power
- Financial Sector
| Priority 1: Inclusive Development
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Agriculture Sector | Digital public infrastructure for agriculture | · It will be built as an open-source, open-standard and interoperable public good
· This will help to provide farmers with information services for crop planning and help improve access to farm inputs, credit and insurance |
| Agriculture Credit | · The credit target will be increased to 20 lakh crores with a focus on animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries. | ||
| Atmanirbhar Horticulture Clean Plant Program | · To boost the availability of disease-free, quality planting material for high value horticultural crops |
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| Agriculture Accelerator Fund | · It will be set up to encourage Agri start-ups by young entrepreneurs in rural areas | ||
| Enhance the productivity of extra-long staple cotton | · The government will adopt a cluster-based and value chain approach through PPP (collaboration between farmers, state and industry for input supplies, extension services, and market linkages)
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| Global Hub for Millets: ‘SHREE ANNA’
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· India is the largest producer and second largest exporter of ‘Shree Anna’ (Millets) in the world
· To make India a global hub for ‘Shree Anna’, the Indian Institute of Millet Research, Hyderabad will be supported as the Centre of Excellence for R&D in Millets · PM Quote: “India is at the forefront of popularizing Millets, whose consumption furthers nutrition, food security and welfare of farmers” |
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| A New sub-scheme of PM Matsya Sampada Yojana | · It will further enable activities of fishermen, fish vendors, and micro & small enterprises, improve value chain efficiencies and expand the market | ||
| Health | Nursing Colleges | · 157 new nursing colleges will be established (in co-location with the existing 157 medical colleges) | |
| Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission | · A Mission to eliminate Sickle Cell Anaemia by 2047 will be launched to enable awareness, screening of 7 crore people (0-40 years age group) and counselling | ||
| Pharma Innovation | · To promote R&D in pharmaceuticals through centres of excellence | ||
| Education | Teachers’ training | · Using innovative pedagogy, curriculum transaction, continuous professional development, dipstick surveys, and ICT implementation
· District Institutes of Education and Training will be developed as vibrant institutes of excellence |
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| National Digital Library for children and adolescents | · It will be set up for facilitating the availability of quality books.
· States/Panchayats will be encouraged to set up physical libraries to access digital resources |
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| Priority 2: Reaching the Last Mile
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Tribal Welfare | Aspirational Block Programme | · The government had recently launched the Aspirational Blocks Programme covering 500 blocks for saturation of essential government services across multiple domains |
| Pradhan Mantri PVTG Development Mission | · It will provide PVTG families and habitations with basic facilities such as safe housing, clean drinking water and sanitation, improved access to education, health etc.
· The mission will run under the Development Action Plan for the Scheduled Tribes |
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| Eklavya Model Residential Schools | · Centre will recruit 38,800 teachers and support staff for the 740 Eklavya Model Residential Schools, serving 3.5 lakh tribal students. | ||
| Water | Water for the drought-prone region | · For the drought-prone central region of Karnataka, Central assistance will be given to Upper Bhadra Project to provide sustainable micro irrigation and filling up of surface tanks for drinking water. | |
| Housing | PM Awas Yojana | · The outlay for PM Awas Yojana is being enhanced by 66 per cent to over 79,000 crores | |
| Languages and Inscriptions | Bharat Shared Repository of Inscriptions (Bharat SHRI)
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· It will be set up in a digital epigraphy museum, with the digitization of one lakh ancient inscriptions in the first stage | |
| Criminal Justice system | Support for Poor Prisoners | · For poor prisoners who are unable to afford the penalty or the bail amount, required financial support will be provided | |
| E-Courts | · For efficient administration of justice, Phase 3 of the E-Courts project will be launched | ||
| Priority 3: Infrastructure & Investment
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Investments | Capital Investment as the driver of Growth and jobs | · Capital investment outlay has been increased steeply for the third year in a row by 33 per cent to 10 lakh crore (3.3 per cent of GDP)—almost three times that of 2019-20 |
| Effective Capital Expenditure (through grant-in-aid to states) | · Budgeted at 13.7 lakh crore (4.5 per cent of GDP) | ||
| Support to States for capital investment | · Centre will continue the 50-year interest-free loan to state governments for one more year | ||
| Enhancing Opportunities for Private Investment in Infrastructure
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· It will be done through the newly established Infrastructure Finance Secretariat | ||
| Infrastructure | Harmonized Master List of Infrastructure | · The sectors eligible for financial assistance from IIFCL are the Harmonized list of infrastructure e.g., transportation, energy, water, etc.
· It will be reviewed by an expert committee |
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| Lab Grown Diamonds (LGD) | · LGDs were made by humans in a lab or factory rather than by nature. It is a technology-and innovation-driven emerging sector with high employment potential.
· To encourage indigenous production of LGD, and to reduce import dependency, a research and development grant will be provided to one of the IITs for five years. |
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| Urbanization | Sustainable Cities of Tomorrow | · States and cities will be encouraged to make ‘sustainable cities of tomorrow’ meaning the efficient use of land resources, transit-oriented development, and opportunities for all. | |
| Urban Infrastructure Development Fund (UIDF) | · Like the RIDF, an Urban Infrastructure Development Fund (UIDF) will be established through the use of priority sector lending shortfall. (This will be done by the National Housing Bank) | ||
| Urban Sanitation | · All cities and towns will be enabled for 100 per cent mechanical desludging of septic tanks and sewers to transition from manhole to machine-hole mode.
· The enhanced focus will be provided for the scientific management of dry and wet waste. |
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| Logistics | · 100 critical transport infrastructure projects, for last and first-mile connectivity for ports, coal, steel, fertilizer, and food grains sectors have been identified | ||
| Railways | · The highest-ever capital outlay of 2.40 lakh crore has been provided for the Railways | ||
| Regional Connectivity | · 50 additional airports, heliports, water aerodromes and advanced landing grounds will be revived for improving regional air connectivity. | ||
| Priority 4: Unleashing the Potential
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Artificial Intelligence
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Centre of Excellence for AI: Make AI in India and Make AI work for India | · 3 centres of excellence for Artificial Intelligence will be set up in top educational institutions |
| Governance | National Data Governance Policy | · National Data Governance Policy will be brought out: This will enable access to anonymized data | |
| Simplifying KYC process | · The KYC process will be simplified by adopting a ‘risk-based’ instead of a ‘one size fits all’ approach | ||
| One Stop Solution for Identity and Address Updating | · This will be done using Digi Locker service and Aadhaar as a foundational identity
· PAN will be used as the common identifier for all digital systems of specified government agencies |
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| Unified Filing Process | · For obviating the need for separate submission of the same information to different government agencies, a system of ‘Unified Filing Process’ will be set-up | ||
| Result Based Financing of schemes | · To better allocate scarce resources for competing for development needs, the financing of select schemes will be changed, on a pilot basis, from ‘input-based’ to ‘result-based’. | ||
| Digitization | Entity Digi Locker | · An Entity Digi Locker will be set up for use by MSMEs, large businesses and charitable trusts, to share documents online securely, whenever needed by authorities | |
| 5G labs | · 100 labs for developing applications using 5G services will be set up in engineering institutions | ||
| Priority 5: Green Growth
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Environment
Conservation |
Green Growth | · “LiFE”, or Lifestyle for Environment
· ‘Panchamrit’ and Net-zero carbon emission by 2070 |
| Battery Energy Storage Projects | · Battery Energy Storage Systems with the capacity of 4,000 MWH will be supported with Viability Gap Funding.
· A detailed framework for Pumped Storage Projects will also be formulated. |
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| Renewable Energy Evacuation | · The Inter-state transmission system for evacuation and grid integration of 13 GW of renewable energy from Ladakh will be constructed | ||
| Green Credit Programme | · For encouraging behavioural change by companies, individuals and local bodies, a Green Credit Programme will be notified under the Environment (Protection) Act. | ||
| Gobardhan Scheme | · 500 new ‘waste to wealth’ plants under GOBARdhan (Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan) scheme will be established for promoting a circular economy | ||
| MISHTI: ‘Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats & Tangible Incomes’
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· It will be taken up for mangrove plantation along the coastline and on salt pan lands using convergence between MGNREGS, CAMPA Fund and other sources | ||
| Amrit Dharohar | · It will encourage the optimal use of wetlands, and enhance bio-diversity, carbon stock, eco-tourism opportunities and income generation for local communities for the next 3 years. | ||
| Agriculture | PM-PRANAM
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· “PM Programme for Restoration, Awareness, Nourishment and Amelioration of Mother Earth” will be launched
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| Bhartiya Prakritik Kheti Bio-Input Resource Centres
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· 10,000 Bio-Input Resource Centres will be set up, creating a national-level distributed micro-fertilizer and pesticide manufacturing network.
· It will help facilitate 1 crore farmers to adopt natural farming in the next 3 years. |
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| Priority 6: Youth Power
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Skilling | Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 4.0 | · It will be launched to skill lakhs of youth within the next three years
· It will also cover new age courses for Industry4.0 like coding, AI, robotics, mechatronics, IOT, 3D printing, drones, and soft skills · 30 Skill India International Centres will be set up across different States |
| Tourism | Unity Mall | · States will be encouraged to set up a Unity Mall in their state capital/important cities or most prominent tourism centre for the promotion and sale of their own ODOPs (one district, one product), GI products and other handicraft products, and for providing space for such products of all other States | |
| Priority 7: Financial Sector
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Regulation | Financial sector Regulations | · Time limits to decide the applications under various regulations will also be laid down |
| DATA Embassy | · The government will facilitate the setting up of Data Embassies in GIFT IFSC, Gandhinagar
· Data embassies create a new approach to securing data by leveraging diplomatic agreements bolstered by cloud technology solutions |
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| Banking | Improving Governance and Investor Protection in Banking Sector | · For this certain amendments to the Banking Regulation Act, the Banking Companies Act and the Reserve Bank of India Act are proposed | |
| Securities Market | Capacity building in Securities Market | · SEBI will be empowered to develop, regulate, maintain and enforce norms and standards for education in the National Institute of Securities Markets and to recognize the award of degrees, diplomas and certificates | |
| Central Data Processing Centre | · It will be set up for faster response to companies through centralized handling of various forms filed with field offices under the Companies Ac | ||
| Financial Schemes | Mahila Samman Savings Certificate | · It will be made available for a two-year period up to March 2025. This will offer a deposit facility of upto 2 lakhs in the name of women or girls for a tenor of 2 years at a fixed interest rate of 7.5 per cent with a partial withdrawal option | |
| Senior Citizen Savings Scheme | · The maximum deposit limit for Senior Citizen Savings Scheme will be enhanced from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 30 lakh |
