List of government schemes in India

Scheme MinistryLaunched

onOutlay/Status Provisions

Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana death and disability insurance for rural landless householdsBachat Lamp Yojna MoP reduce the cost of compact fluorescent lampsCentral Government Health Scheme

MoHFW 1954 comprehensive medical care facilities to Central Government employees and their family members

Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme

MoSJE 2003Create an enabling environment to ensure equal opportunities, equity, social justice and empowerment of persons with disabilities.

Gramin Bhandaran Yojna MoAMarch 31, 2007

Creation of scientific storage capacity with allied facilities in rural areas to meet the requirements of farmers for storing farm produce, processed farm produce and agricultural inputs. Improve their marketability through promotion of grading, standardization and quality control of agricultural produce.

Indira Awaas Yojana MoRD 1985 Housing for the rural poorIndira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana

MoWCD 2010 A cash incentive of Rs. 4000 to women (19 years and above) for the first two live births

Integrated Child Development Services

MoWCDOctober 2, 1975

tackle malnutrition and health problems in children below 6 years of age and their mothers

Integrated Rural Development Program

MoRD 1978 self-employment program to raise the income-generation capacity of target groups among the poor

Janani Suraksha Yojana MoHFW 2005 One-time cash incentive to pregnant women for institutional/home births through skilled assistanceKasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya

MoHRD July 2004Educational facilities (residential schools) for girls belonging to SC, ST, OBC, minority communities and families below the poverty line in Educationally Backward Blocks

Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana

MoST 1999Scholarship program to encourage students to take up research careers in the areas of basic sciences, engineering and medicine

Livestock Insurance Scheme (India)

MoA Insurance to cattle and attaining qualitative improvement in livestock and their products.

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act

MoRDAugust 25, 2005

Rs. 40,000 crore in 2010–11

Legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage of Rs. 120 per day in 2009 prices.

Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme

MoSPIDecember 23, 1993

Each MP has the choice to suggest to the District Collector for, works to the tune of Rs.5 Crores per annum to be taken up in his/her constituency. The Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament can recommend works in one or more districts in the State from where he/she has been elected.

Midday Meal Scheme MoHRDAugust 15, 1995

Lunch (free of cost) to school-children on all working days

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National Literacy Mission Programme

MoHRD May 5, 1988 Make 80 million adults in the age group of 15 - 35 literate

National Pension SchemeJanuary 1, 2004

Contribution based pension system

National Scheme on Welfare of Fishermen

MoAClosed on January 13, 2012

Financial assistance to fishers for construction of house, community hall for recreation and common working place and installation of tube-wells for drinking water

National Service Scheme MoYAS Personality development through social (or community) serviceNational Social Assistance Scheme

MoRDAugust 15, 1995

Public assistance to its citizens in case of unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement and in other cases of undeserved want

Pooled Finance Development Fund SchemePradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana

MoRDJuly 23, 2010

Integrated development of Schedule Caste majority villages in four states

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

MoRDDecember 25, 2000

Good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages

Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana

MoAAugust 1, 2007

Achieve 4% annual growth in agriculture through development of Agriculture and its allied sectors during the XI Plan period

Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

MoLE April 1, 2008 Health insurance to poor (BPL)

RNTCP MoHFW 1997 Tuberculosis control initiative

Sabla or Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls

MoRDMarch 8, 2011

Empowering adolescent girls (AGs) of 11-18 years with focus on out-of-school girls by improvement in their nutritional and health status and upgrading various skills like home skills, life skills and vocational skills. Merged Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) and Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY).

Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana

MoRDSeptember 25, 2001

Providing additional wage employment and food security, alongside creation of durable community assets in rural areas.

Swabhiman MoFFebruary 15, 2011

To make banking facility available to all citizens and to get 5 crore accounts opened by Mar 2012

Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana

MoRD April 1, 1999Bring the assisted poor families above the poverty line by organising them into Self Help Groups (SHGs) through the process of social mobilisation, their training and capacity building and provision of income generating assets through a mix of bank credit and government subsidy.

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Swavalamban MoFSeptember 26, 2010

pension scheme to the workers in unorganised sector. Any citizen who is not part of any statutory pension scheme of the Government and contributes between Rs. 1000 and Rs. 12000/- per annum, could join the scheme. The Central Government shall contribute Rs. 1000 per annum to such subscribers.

Udisha MoWCD

nationwide training component of the World Bank (External website that opens in a new window) assisted Women and Child Development Project (External website that opens in a new window). Udisha has been cleared with an outlay of about Rs.600 crores for five years. UNICEF is also a technical collaborator in the Project. The programmes aims to train child care workers across the country.

Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme

June 18, 1997

Closed on 31 December, 1998

Opportunity to the income tax/ wealth tax defaulters to disclose their undisclosed income at the prevailing tax rates

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List of Indian government initiatives focusing on economic development

Poverty alleviation

Pradhan Mantri Gramoday Yojana Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana Sampoorn Gramin Rojgar Yojana

Urban employment generation

Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana

Rural employment generation

Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana Sampoorn Gramin Rojgar Yojana NREGA National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Sampoorn Gramin Rojgar Yojana

Poverty alleviation programmes in India

Jawhar Gram Samridhi Yojna National Old Age ration Scheme(NOAPS) National family Benefit Scheme(NFBS) National Maternity Benefit Scheme ANNAPURNA Integrated Rural Development programme Rural Housing-Indira Awaas Yojana(IAY)

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Indian missions

Agriculture

National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICA)

NICRA was launched during February 2011 by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) with the funding from Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. The mega project has three major objectives of strategic research, technology demonstrations and capacity building across all sectors of agriculture, dairying and fisheries.

Mission Milk

The first phase of the National Dairy Plan (‘Mission Milk’) was set about in April 2012 at National Dairy Development Board (Anand, Gujarat). The first phase with an outlay of Rs. 2242 cr. is part of an ambitious 15-year-long National Dairy Plan with an estimated project cost of Rs. 17,300 crores.

Education

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (The Education for All Movement), is a programme aimed at the universalization of elementary education "in a time bound manner", as mandated by the 86th amendment to the Constitution of India making free and compulsory education to children of ages 6–14 (estimated to be 205 million in number in 2001) a fundamental right.

National Translation Mission

National Translation Mission (NTM) is a Government of India initiative to make knowledge texts accessible, in all Indian languages listed in the VIII schedule of the Constitution, through translation. NTM was set up as per National Knowledge Commission's recommendation. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has designated Central Institute of Indian Languages as the nodal organization for the operationalization of NTM.

Healthcare

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National Rural Health Mission

NRHM is a health program for improving health care delivery across rural India. The mission, initially mooted for 7 years (2005-2012), is run by the Ministry of Health. The scheme proposes a number of new mechanisms for healthcare delivery including training local residents as Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA), and the Janani Surakshay Yojana (motherhood protection program). It also aims at improving hygiene and sanitation infrastructure. Noted economists Ajay Mahal and Bibek Debroy have called it "the most ambitious rural health initiative ever".

Under the mission, health funding had increased from 27,700 crores in 2004-05 to 39,000 crores in 2005-06 (from 0.95% of GDP to 1.05%). As of 2009, economists noted that "the mid-term appraisal of the NRHM has found that there has been a significant improvement in health indicators even in this short period". However, in many situations, the state level apparatus have not been able to deploy the additional funds, often owing to inadequacies in the Panchayati Raj functioning. Fund utilization in many states is around 70%.

Total Sanitation Campaign

Total Sanitation Campaign is aimed at ensuring sanitation facilities in rural areas. The main goal of Total Sanitation Campaign is to eradicate the practice of open defecation by 2017. To give fillip to this endeavour, Government of India has launched Nirmal Gram Puraskar. Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free). CLTS (Community-Led Total Sanitation) focuses on the behavioural change needed to ensure real and sustainable improvements. It invests in community mobilisation instead of hardware, and shifting the focus from toilet construction for individual households to the creation of ’open defecation-free’ villages. Union Rural Development Minister Mr Jairam Ramesh says that new Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan will ensure the extension of the sanitation scheme to both Above Poverty Line and Below Poverty Line families. Subsidy amount for the sanitation scheme is also being raised from the present level of 3,000 rupees.

Urban Planning

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission

JNNURM is a massive city modernisation scheme launched by the Ministry of Urban Development. It envisages a total investment of over $20 billion over seven years. It is named after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. The scheme was officially inaugurated by the prime minister, Manmohan Singh on 3 December 2005[7] as a programme meant to improve the quality of life and infrastructure in the cities. JNNURM aims at creating ‘economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive Cities’ by a strategy of upgrading the social and economic

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infrastructure in cities, provision of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP)[8] and wide-ranging urban sector reforms to strengthen municipal governance in accordance with the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992.

Rural development

Swabhimaan

It is a campaign of the Government of India which aims to bring banking services to large rural areas without banking services in the country. It was launched on February 10, 2011.[9] This campaign is to be operated by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and the Indian Banks' Association (IBA). An initiative which seeks better financial inclusion within India will strive for rolling out banking services in 20,000 villages without banking services with a population of 2000 by March 2012 as to improve participation of rural folks in different plans launched by government for them. Under this plan, Banks will select business correspondents (bank saathi). They will act as intermediaries between the rural people and the banks. The government has targeted to cover at least 73,000 new habitations with a population of 2,000 and above and open at least 50 million new accounts by March 2012.

Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (PURA

PURA is a strategy for rural development in India. The concept was given by former president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. PURA proposes that urban infrastructure and services be provided in rural hubs to create economic opportunities outside of cities. Physical connectivity by providing roads, electronic connectivity by providing communication network and knowledge connectivity by establishing professional and Technical institutions will have to be done in an integrated way so that economic connectivity will emanate. The Indian government aims at developing of compact areas around a potential growth centre in a Gram Panchayat (or a group of Gram Panchayats) through Public Private Partnership (PPP).[10] The government has been running pilot PURA programs in several states since 2004.

For more on schemes visit http://www.indiastat.com/socialandwelfareschemes/27/stats.aspx

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Indian states and union territories

States

No. State Official Languages Other officially recognised languages

1. Andhra Pradesh Telugu Urdu2. Arunachal Pradesh English 3. Assam Assamese (Asamiya) Bengali, Bodo4. Bihar Maithili, Hindi Urdu, Bengali5. Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarhi, Hindi6. Goa Konkani, Marathi, Portuguese7. Gujarat Gujarati,[68] Hindi[68] 8. Haryana Hindi[69] Punjabi9. Himachal Pradesh Standard Hindi, Punjabi10. Jammu and Kashmir Urdu11. Jharkhand Hindi, Odia, Santali 12. Karnataka Kannada13. Kerala Malayalam, English14. Madhya Pradesh Hindi15. Maharashtra Marathi16. Manipur Meiteilon (Manipuri) 17. Meghalaya English Khasi, Garo[86]18. Mizoram Mizo19. Nagaland English20. Odisha Oriya (Odia) 21. Punjab Punjabi22. Rajasthan Hindi23. Sikkim Nepali24. Tamil Nadu Tamil, English 25. Tripura Bengali, Kokborok, English26 Uttarakhand Hindi Urdu, Sanskrit27. Uttar Pradesh Hindi Urdu28. West Bengal Bengali, English Urdu, Punjabi, Nepali, Santali, Oriya, Hindi

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Union Territories

No. Union Territory Official Languages Other officially recognised languages

1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Hindi, English2. Chandigarh Punjabi3. Dadra and Nagar Haveli Marathi, Gujarati 4. Daman and Diu Gujarati, English Marathi5. Delhi Hindi Punjabi, Urdu 6. Lakshadweep Malayalam 7. Puducherry French, Tamil, English Malayalam (for Mahe), Telugu (for Yanam)[104]

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Eighth Schedule to the ConstitutionThe Eighth Schedule to the Indian Constitution contains a list of 22 scheduled languages. At the time the constitution was enacted, inclusion in this list meant that the language was entitled to representation on the Official Languages Commission, and that the language would be one of the bases that would be drawn upon to enrich Hindi, the official language of the Union. The list has since, however, acquired further significance. The Government of India is now under an obligation to take measures for the development of these languages, such that "they grow rapidly in richness and become effective means of communicating modern knowledge."In addition, a candidate appearing in an examination conducted for public service at a higher level is entitled to use any of these languages as the medium in which he or she answers the paper.

Via the 92nd Constitutional amendment 2003, 4 new languages – Bodo, Maithili, Dogri, and Santali – were added to the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution.

The following table lists the languages set out in the eighth schedule as of May 2007, together with the regions where they are used:

Language FamilySpeakers

(in millions, 2001) State(s)

Assamese/AxomiyaIndo-Aryan, Eastern

13 Assam, Arunachal Pradesh

BengaliIndo-Aryan, Eastern

83 West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Bodo Tibeto-Burman 1.4 Assam

DogriIndo-Aryan, Northwestern

2.3 Jammu and Kashmir

GujaratiIndo-Aryan, Western

46 Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat

HindiIndo-Aryan, Central

258–422]Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, the national capital territory of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

Kannada Dravidian 38 Karnataka

KashmiriIndo-Aryan, Dardic

5.5 Jammu and Kashmir

KonkaniIndo-Aryan, Southern

2.5–7.6[114] Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala

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Language FamilySpeakers

(in millions, 2001) State(s)

MaithiliIndo-Aryan, Eastern

12–32[115] Bihar

Malayalam Dravidian 33 Kerala, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, PuducherryManipuri (also Meitei or Meithei)

Tibeto-Burman 1.5 Manipur

MarathiIndo-Aryan, Southern

72 Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh

NepaliIndo-Aryan, Northern

2.9 Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam

OriyaIndo-Aryan, Eastern

33 Odisha

PunjabiIndo-Aryan, Northwestern

29 Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab

Sanskrit Indo-Aryan 0.01 non-regional

Santhali Munda 6.5Santhal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha)

SindhiIndo-Aryan, Northwestern

2.5 non-regional

Tamil Dravidian 61 Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, PuducherryTelugu Dravidian 74 Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry

UrduIndo-Aryan, Central

52 Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

For more details visit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

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Amendment of the Constitution of India

Amendment of the Constitution of India is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Part XX (Article 368) of the Constitution of India. This procedure ensures the sanctity of the Constitution of India and keeps a check on arbitrary power of parliament.

However, there are two limitations imposed on the amending power of the constitution of India.

There has been a conflict between the Supreme Court and Parliament, where Parliament wants to exercise a discretionary use of power to amend the constitution while the Supreme Court wants to restrict that power.

As of (2012 Dec)104 amendments are passed.

For list visit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_of_the_Constitution_of_India

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