PORTFOLIOS AFTER RECENT CABINET RESHUFFLE:
President of India :Pranab Mukherjee
Vice President of India :Mohd. Hamid Ansari
Manmohan Singh :
Prime Minister of India
Ministry of Planning
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Atomic Energy
Department of Space
Sushilkumar Shinde
Minister of Home Affairs
P Chidambaram :
Minister of Finance
Salman Khurshid
Minister of External Affairs
A K Antony :
Ministry of Defense
Jairam Ramesh
Minister of Rural Development
Sharad Pawar :
Minister of Food Processing Industries
Minister of Agriculture
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
Farooq Abdullah
Minister of New and Renewable Energy
Kamal Nath
Minister of Urban Development
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Vayalar Ravi
Minister of Overseas Indian Affair
S. Jaipal Reddy
Minister of Science and Technology
Minister of Earth Sciences
Ajit Singh
Minister of Civil Aviation
Kapil Sibal
Minister of Communications and Information Technology
M.M. Pallam Raju
Minister of Human Resource Development
M. Veerappa Moily
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Mallikarjun Kharge
Minister of Labour and Employment
C. P. Joshi
Minister of Road Transport and Highways
Anand Sharma
Minister of Commerce and Industry
Minister of Textiles
Praful Patel
Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Chandresh Kumari Katoch
Minister of Culture
Ajay Maken
Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
K Rahman Khan
Minister of Minority Affairs
G K Vasan
Minister of Shipping
Pavan Kumar Bansal
Minister of Railways
Harish Rawat
Minister of Water Resources
Kumari Selja
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
V. Kishore Chandra Deo
Minister of Tribal Affairs
Minister of Panchayati Raj
M. K. Alagiri
Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
Beni Prasad Verma
Minister of Steel
Ashwin Kumar
Minister of Law and Justice
Shriprakash Jaiswal
Minister of Coal
Dinsha Patel
Ministry of Mines
=== Ministers of State with Independent Charge ===
Krishna Tirath
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Jitendra Singh
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Srikant Kumar Jena
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
Jayanthi Natarajan
Ministry of Environment and Forests
Manish Tewari
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
Jayanthi Natarajan
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
K. Chiranjeevi
Minister of Tourism
Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Minister of Power
K.H. Muniyappa
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Sachin Pilot
Minister of Corporate Affairs
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Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Planning Commission
Nandan Nilekani
Unique Identification Authority of India
The 4 percent target for growth in agriculture, which will be missed in the Eleventh Plan (3.28% achieved in 11th FYP), must be achieved in the Twelfth Plan as it is critical for inclusiveness. (Ministry Of Rural Development).
>NEDFi was declared Winner of the NABARD Rural Innovation Award -2012 in the Category of Public/ Co-Operative Sector / Government for its contribution towards promoting handicraft products made from water hyacinth.
>UPA GOVT. SWABHIMAN SWAVALAMBAN scheme.
SIKKIM first NIRMAL STATE IN THE COUNTRY,UNDER TOTAL SANITATION PROGRAM.
National rural livelihood mission launched in BANSWADA district ,Rajasthan in 2011.
KUNWAR BAINU MAMERU (GUJRAT GOVT SCHEME FOR WOMAN)
BHARAT NIRMAN -SIX COMPONENTS IRRIGATION,HOUSING,ROADS,WATER SUPPLY ELECTRIFICATION AND RURAL COMMUNICATION.
KAUSHIKI BASU WORLD BANK CHIEF ECONOMIST.
ICICI TO EXTEND NET BANKING VIA FACEBOOK.
TATA CONSULTANCY SIGNS 103 CRORE DEAL WITH MGNREGA IN WEST BENGAL.
Onnu Ruhl country director for india,world bank.
PUNJAB GOVT. DOOR TO DOOR CANCER CAMPAIGN.
21 ST SEPT WORLD PEACE DAY.
Union Ministry for women and child development launched SAKSHAM to empower boys on gender sensitivity. Web portaL TRACH CHILD LAUNCHED......
>KULENDEI FRANCIS---RAMON MAGSAYSAY 2012 COMMUNITY SERVICE
>UTI LAUNCHES MICRO PENSION SCHEME FOR UNORGANISED POOR INDIAN WORKERS
>MRINAL GORE - ASSOCIATED WITH WATER RIGHTS, PRICE RISE AND WOMENS EMPOWERMENT
>VILASRAO SALUNKHE- ASSOCIATED WITH PAANI PANCHAYATS
>RAJENDRA SINGH-- WATER CONSERVATION
>GOI SWAJAL DHARA SCHEME
>CARBON SEQUESTRATION---TECHNIQUE USED TO REMOVE CARBON FROM ATMOS AND DEPOSITING IT IN THE RESERVOIR
>DELHI--IST TO GET CARBON CREDIT AWARD FROM UN
>CHIEF CROP --RICE FOR 2ND GREEN REVOLUTION IN EASTERN INDIA
5 JUNE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
PURA SCHEME BRAINCHILD OF APJ KALAM.
Provision of Urban Amenities to Rural Areas(PURA) is a strategy for rural development in India. Concept given by former presidentDr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.and framed byProf.Emerson.
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 central government has been running pilot PURA programs in several states since 2004.
>RASHTRIYA AAROGYA NIDHI SCHEME---ITANAGAR ARUNACHALPRADESH PROVIDES FINANCE UPTO 1.5 LAKH
>UP GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED SAMAJWADI SWASTHYA SEWA (BIGGEST EMMERGENCY TRANSPORT SERVICE IN INDIA)
>VERGHESE KURIEN--MILKMAN AND WHITE REVOLUTIONARY OF INDIA PASSES AWAY.
6TH MEKONG GANGA COOPERATION MEET HELD IN DELHI
Bharat Nirman Objectives: 1) provide safe drinking water to all uncovered habitations by 2012.Cover approximately 55 thousand uncovered habitations and provide safe drinking water to approximately 2.16 lakh villages affected by poor water quality.
2) Target of 60 lakh houses for the poor already achieved in 2009. New target of 1.2 crore houses by 2014 adopted. Provide additional 1.2 crore houses at the rate of 24 lakh houses each year to be built by funds allocated to the homeless through Panchayats.
3)Achieve 40% rural teledensity by 2014,assure broadband coverage to all 2.5 Lakh Panchayats and setup Bharat NIrman Seva Kendra at Panchayat level by 2012.
4) Connect all villages that have a population of 1000(500 in Hilly and tribal areas by all weather roads by 2012.Provide road connections to remaining 23,000 villages approximately with population of 1000 or 500 in case of hilly or tribal areas.
5) Reach electricity to all villages and offer electricity connection to 1.75 crore poor households by end of 2012. Provide electricity to remaining 40,000 villages approximately and connections to about 1.75 crore poor households.
6) Bring additional one crore hectare of land under assured irrigation by 2012.(1.85 Million Hectare achieved during 2009-10 and 1.56 Million Hectare achieved during 2010-11.6.5 million hectares brought under assured irrigation till 2009. Remaining 3.5 million hectares to be completed by 2012.
HIMAYAT SCHEME: LAUNCHED UNDER NRLM
Himayat is a placement linked skill development scheme for youth from Jammu and Kashmir. Himayat scheme will cover 1 lakh youth from J&K; in the next 5 years and will be implemented through competent training providers, from the private sector and non-profit organisations. The training providers for placement linked skill training will give a 75 percent placement guarantee for the trained youth. Placement for youth will be provided all over the country, within J&K; and outside. Under SEE J&K; Scheme, different training strategies will be used for diverse groups of youth – school dropouts, dropouts of XII class level, and those who have had college education.
Aajeevika - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India in June 2011. Aided in part through investment support by the World Bank, the Mission aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor enabling them to increase household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services.
NRLM has set out with an agenda to cover 7 Crore BPL households, across 600 districts, 6000 blocks, 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats and 6 lakh villages in the country through self-managed Self Help Groups (SHGs) and federated institutions and support them for livelihoods collectives in a period of 8-10 years. In addition, the poor would be facilitated to achieve increased access to their rights, entitlements and public services, diversified risk and better social indicators of empowerment. NRLM believes in harnessing the innate capabilities of the poor and complements them with capacities (information, knowledge, skills, tools, finance and collectivization) to participate in the growing economy of the country.
NRLM initiated livelihood enhancement and vulnerability reduction interventions through a special program "Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana". MKSP was launched in 2010-11. The programme envisages empowering women in agriculture by making systematic investments to enhance their participation and productivity, as also create and sustain agriculture based livelihoods of rural women. The program is being implemented by NRLM in partnership with State Departments/CSOs as implementing partners (PIAs) across the country. The central to state share in funding for MKSP stands at 75:25 ratio.
Under NRLM, the core agenda of MKSP is to (i) create sustainable livelihood institutions around agriculture and allied activities (ii) create sector-specific geography-specific best package of practices and (iii) create a wide pool of community resource persons for scaling up livelihood interventions in the entire country.
The mission has narrowed down to four major themes, to work with partners in MKSP programme. They are:
(a) Sustainable agriculture
(b) Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFP)
NRLM SPECIAL SCHEMES:
Special Projects have been developed to bridge the skill gap and entry level barriers for the rural BPL youth and facilitate their entry into relatively high level wage employment in the growing sectors of the economy. The initiative was piloted in 2005-06 as a special project under SGSY in partnership with Dr. Reddy's Foundation. The project sanctioned for training of 35,000 youth was spread in seven states: Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh .The success of this pilot catalysed progressive growth of innovative attempts by different private sector and civil society organizations to train and place rural BPL youth. SGSY skill development is an outcome based programme with funding linked to placement – 75% of trainees should be placed by an agency to avail any payment of training and placement services under this program. It primary objective is to train rural BPL youth in the age group of 18-35 years in marketable skills and place them in suitable jobs.
PARVAAZ PROGRAMME
One of the initiatives of Special Projects being implemented by the Project Implementing Agency IL&FS; isParvaaz- a pilot program on"Comprehensive Skills and Education Program for Rural BPL Minority Youth.The main objective of this programme is to mainstream the minority BPL youth of the country by empowering them with education, skills & employment.
>OMKAR NATH SHARMA ---KNOWN AS MEDICINE BABA. ESTABLISHED A MEDICINE BANK FOR THE POOR
>EIGHT Millenium Development Goals :-eradicate poverty and hunger,universal primary education,promote gender equality andn empower women,reduce child mortality,improve maternal health,combat HIV.AIDS,malaria and other diseases,ensure environmental sustainability,develop a global partnership for development
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee ActThe Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims at enhancing the livelihood security of people in rural areas by guaranteeing hundred days of wage-employment in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
MGNREGA- enacted on 5th sep,2005, came into force w.e.f. 2nd feb,2006 and named as MGNREGA on 31st dec ,2009
>INDIA -- 2.4%-world surface area
>16.7%-world population-1.28billion people -28 states-7 union territories
population mix-
80.5%-Hindu
13.43-muslims
Christians-2.3%
others-3.7%
social inclusion - sarwa shikshan abhiyan (2001)-education to all children
universalisation of secondry education- 11 th plan
national literary mission-80% 11 th plan
public expenditure on education-3.6%of gdp
the right to children for free and compulsory education bill 2008 (up to age of 14%) is a constitutional commitment in india
kasturaba ghandhi balika vidhyalaya scheme subsidized under sarwa shiksah abhiyan is specially designed for under privileged girls
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mid day may scheme (originated tamilnadu - followed by central laterally - 100% center sponsored) launched aug 1995 - revised sep 2004 - minimum 300 calories, 8-12 gms protein
11plan target- achieve 80% - reduce gender gap in literacy to 10%
IMS ISSUES OF SOCIAL CONCERN FOR IRMA------2012
1.According to central plan outlay 2011-2012 RS 11075 Crore has been allocated for rural housing
2.NOVOD a statutory body was constituted in 1984
3.World Ozone day 16th September
4.Rabi crop is the spring harvest also known as winter harvest
5.Maternal Mortality ratio means number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births.
6. The live stock census is done every 5 years. Last was done in 2008
7.Country programe action plan 2008-2012 signed between GOI and UNDP
8.City of locks Aligarh
9.India is the largest MILK producer in the world
10.Saboni west Bengal is the location of an RBI Currency printing press
11.The world’d largest foreign exchange market is London market
12.RBI has 100% equity on National Housing
13.Economic survey is an annual commentary on the state of economy in india which is put together by the Finance ministry of India.
14.The dairy cooperative network operates in over 346 districts
15. As per the economic survey of 2011-2012 the area coverage under total food grains during Kharif season 2010 compared to Kharif season 2009 shows a marginal decline of 2.71 lakh ha.
16.UREA is NOT a bio fertilizer but a chemical fertilizer.
17.Macro economics is often called Aggregative economics as it is the study of aggregates
18.National Income calculated at constant price is according to the base price year
19.The input method is NOT a method to estimate national income
20.Barter economy was replaced my money economy
21.RBI has the power of issuing currency notes in India
22.The banyan tree is National Tree of India
23.All landless labourers living BPL in rural areas come under the coverage Aam Admi Bima Yojana
24.GREEN HIKER CAMPAIGN is the name of the campaign by WWF for Nature India launched on june 4,2012.The idea is to encourage the tour operators to adopt better practices for disposal of waste in the Himalayas and protect the fragile eco system.
25. For the year 2011-2012 India’s economy grew by 5.3% in fourth quarter ending March 2012
26.The National Literacy Mission was set up by GOI on 5th may 1998 with the aim to irradicate illiteracy in the country by imparting functional literacy to non illiterates
27.ITC Ltd plans to scale up 20000 E Choupals by 2012 covering 100000 villagers in 15 states servicing 15 million farmers
28. The main objective of Mill Gate Price Scheme is to provide all types of yarns to the handloom weavers organizations at the mill gate price
29. The publication titled Data Base on Indian Economy is realeased from time to time by the RBI
30. The full form of PFRDA is Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority
31. Services sector of Indian Economy is most dependent on economic developments in advanced nations
32. Yeshaswini Health Insurance Scheme was introduced in 2003 in Karnataka for rural farmers and peseants in Karnataka
33. About 65% of Indian population is mainly dependent on agriculture for their livelihood
34.The 9th five year plan was from 1997-2002
35. About 70 million new work opportunities will be created as per 11 th Five year plan
36.Carbamide is a fertilizer, another name for UREA
37. World forestry day March 21st
38. Asia’s FIRST ECONOMIC PROCESSING ZONE was set up in KANDLA,india
39. The R K Talwar Committee deals with enactments having bearing on agro landings by commercial banks
1.The Indian institute of crop processing technology is situated at tanjavur
2.Girish wagh is associated with TATA motors
3.In order to achieve 11th five year plan target of average growth of 4% per year the agriculture sector needs to grow at 8.5% during 2011-2012 as per economic survey of 2010-2011
4.The national project on management of soil health fertility (NPMSF) was introduced in 2008-2009
5.Per capita income at current prices during 2011-2012 is estimated to have attained a lever of Rs 60603 as per advanced estimates of national income 2011-2012 released by Central statistics office
6.Currently there are 15 state seed corporations operational in india
7.KUDUMBASHREE is the woman oriented community based state poverty eradication mission of GOI
8.The country expects to lower its infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 live births by year 2012 according to economic survey 2010-2011
9.The handicrafts development wing of the union textile ministry has started organizing BAMBOO BAZAARS in various parts of the country from june 2010. The first was launched in CHENNAI
10.Indias main import is petroleum and crude oil
11.The NRLM was launched for the first time in state of ORRISSA IN april 2011
12.The SABLA scheme caters to the health needs of adolescent girls
13.The SANJHA CHULHA YOJANA has been launched in 2009 in Madhya Pradesh .it provides nutritious food to children between age of 3 to 6 years under integrated child development scheme in rural areas
14.The Maharashtra state buget has fixed of rs 438 crores for the MIHAN PROJECT 2012-2013
15.IN APRIL 2011 The GOI has started full scale survey of the families living BPL
16.PROJECT GREEN HANDS is a MOVEMENT to raise GREEN COVER IN TAMIL NADU BY 10%
17.KNIDS GREEN INITIATIVE is marketed under the brand name of SAMRIDDHI
18.RAJIV GANDHI JEEVAMDAYI YOJANA has been launched in 6 districts of MAHARASHTRA. The objective is to provide mediclaim insurance worth rs one lakh to people living BPL
19.NABARD came into existence on 12th july 1982
20.IFFCO one of the largest co operatives produces fertilizers
21.The first CREDA(CENTRE FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT ACTION) was set up in UTTAR PRADESH
22.The rate of GDP growth to be maintained in the 12th five year plan is 10%
23.According to 11th five year plan 4% is the required percentage of increase in agricultural GDP growth rate to ensure a broader spread of benefits
24.According to the 11th five year plan by 2012 the GOI will provide broadband connectivity to all villages
25.The main target of MAHILA SAMAKHYA PROGRAMME is education and empowerment of women in rural areas
26.38 rivers have been brought under the National River conservation plan (NRCP) till date
27.24TH APRIL IS OBSERVED AS PANCHAYATI RAJ DAY
28.Service sector in the Indian economy received maximum equity inflow in 2012
29.GRAM SUMANGAL a 100% central sector scheme is associated with RURAL POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE
30.NABARD has been releasing money of recapitalizing assistance to Primary agricultural credit societies (PACS) in various states to introduce cooperative reforms. PROF. A VAIDYANATHAN COMMITTEE provides recommendation for this purpose
31.According to prime ministers National council Skill Development under 11th five year plan by year 2022 India will have 500 million skilled people
32.5 Communities in india come under the category of minorities as prescribed by section 2 (a) of the National commission for Minorities act 1992
33.The percentage of central government expenditure in IAY is 75%.it is a flagship scheme of ministry of rural development to provide houses to rural poor
34.The ministry of Rural development has identified 35 districts for RURAL BUSINESS HUB INTERVENTION PROGRAMME
35.AGRICOLA MEDAL------(please see latest awardees)
36.Rs 9271 crore is the provision made for Rashtriya Krishi Vikas yojana (RKVY) in the UNION BUDGET 2012-2012