Flagship Programmes by Government of India
Vinodh Reddy March 16, 2015 General Knowledge Leave a comment
Some of the Flagship Programmes by Government of India (GOI) are :
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (NREGP)
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
Mid-day Meal Scheme (MDM)
National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)
Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)
Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF)
National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme
(NREGP):
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) was launched in 2005, It has been enacted to reinforce
the commitment towards livelihood security in rural areas.
The objective of the NREGP is to enhance the livelihood security of the people in the rural area by guaranteeing
100 days of wage employment in a financial year to a rural household whose members volunteer to do unskilled
manual work.
Starting with 200 districts across the country in phase-1 during 2005-06. NREGA was extended to additional 130
districts in phase-2 during 2007-08. Under phase-3 remaining 285 districts of the country were covered under NREGA.
On October 2, 2009 Government of India renamed it as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
Act (MGNREGA).
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM):
The main aim of National Rural Health Mission NRHM (2005-12) is to provide accessible, affordable,
accountable, effective and reliable primary healthy care, especially to poor and vulnerable sections of the population.
NRHM gives a special focus on 18 states, which have weak public health indicators and/or weak infrastructure.
Those 18 states are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, hyimachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu and
Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand
and Uttar Pradesh.
NRHM seeks to revitalize local health traditions and mainstream AYUSH into the public health system.
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS):
The programme of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) was launched in 2nd October, 1975
seeking to provide an integrated package of services in a convergent manner for the holistic development of the child.
The ultimate objective of the ICDS scheme is to reduce incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school
dropouts and enhance the capability of the mother and family to look after the health, nutritional and development
needs of the child.
ICDS is a nation wide programme which aims at promoting health and nutritional requirements of children upto six
years and expectant and nursing mothers.
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA):
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is the principal programme for universalization of elementary education.
SSA aims to provide useful and relevant elementary education for all children in the age group of 6-14 years by
2010.
Mid-day Meal Scheme (MDM):
Mid-day Meal (MDM) was launched in 1995 and aims to give a boost to universalization of primary education by
increasing enrollment, retention and attendance and simultaneously impacting upon nutritional status of students in
primary classes.
MDM scheme was revised in June 2006, provides for 450 calories, 12 gm of protein and adequate quantities of
micro nutrients such as iron, folic acid and vitamin A to be children. The cooking cost has been enhanced to Rs. 2.00
per child per school day.
National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP):
National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) became effective from August 15, 1995. NSAP is an
amalgamation of National Old Age Pension Scheme, National Family Benefit Scheme and National Maternity Benefit
scheme.
NSAP objective is to provide social assistance to poor houses.
Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC):
In 1999, the Department of Drinking Water Supply launched Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) which is a
demand-responsive, community-oriented, low subsidy programme in a project mode.
The objective of TSC was attaining 100% sanitation coverage in terms of household, schools and anganwadi
toilets and also providing hygiene education to the people.
Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF):
The Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF) has replaced the Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY) in order to
provide a more participative approach through involvement of PRIs.
The spatial coverage was also expanded and it now covers 250 districts.
BRGF aims at catalyzing developments in backward areas by:
1.
Filling infrastructure gaps.
2.
Promoting good governance and angrarian reforms.
3.
Converging through supplementary infrastructure and capacity building, the substantial existing
development inflows into these districts.
External links:
1.
http://nrega.nic.in/circular/Report_to_the_people.pdf
2.
http://www.nird.org.in/brgf/doc/Rural%20HealthMission_Document.pdf
3.
https://nrhm-mis.nic.in/SitePages/HMIS-AboutUS.aspx
4.
http://www.wcdhry.gov.in/child_development_f.htm
5.
http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page1.asp?relid=19785
