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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES - June 2019

Jun 2019

Jul 18, 2022

Centre Revives Bill to Regulate Registration of Digital News Media

The central government is preparing a bill for a new registration regime for newspapers that will also include the digital news media industry, which currently is not included in the Centre's registration framework.
The government will propose the Registration of Press and Periodicals Bill, 2019, with the changes before the Cabinet soon. The new bill will replace the colonial-era Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867, which currently regulates the newspaper and printing press industry in India.
If the bill is passed, digital news websites operating in India will come on par with newspapers, and they will have to register themselves with the Press Registrar General, equivalent to the prevalent Registrar of Newspapers in India.

Jharkahand Cabinet Approves Old Pension Scheme

The Jharkhand cabinet approved the proposals for the implementation of the old pension scheme with certain conditions and 100 units of free electricity every month for the poor.
For the implementation of the old pension scheme, a three-member committee headed the by Development Commissioner will be set up.
The committee will draft a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the implementation of the scheme. It will be brought to the cabinet for approval.
The old pension scheme was discontinued on April 1, 2004, and replaced by the National Pension System (NPS).

Jul 16, 2022

Women and Child Development Ministry Issues Guidelines for Mission Shakti Scheme

Women and Child Development Ministry issued guidelines for Mission Shakti Scheme. This scheme was launched for the safety, security and empowerment of women. It seeks to realise the government's commitment to women-led development by making them equal partners in nation-building. The key objectives of the mission are to provide care, support and assistance to women and to put in place quality mechanisms for the rescue, protection and rehabilitation of women who are victims of crime and violence. The scheme is also aimed at improving accessibility to various government services available for women at various levels.
Mission Shakti has two sub-schemes - Sambal and Samarthya. While the Sambal stresses on safety and security of women, the Samarthya focuses on the empowerment of women. The components of the Sambal sub-scheme consist of schemes including One Stop Centre, Women Helpline, Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao and Nari Adalats. The components of the Samarthya sub-scheme consist of schemes of Ujjwala, Swadhar Greh and Working Women Hostel. In addition, the existing schemes of the National Creche Scheme for children of working mothers and Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana have now been included in Samarthya.

Jul 15, 2022

New Delhi SAH-BHAGITA' Scheme

Delhi Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena launched a SAH-BHAGITA scheme to increase the involvement of the Residential Welfare Association (RWAs) in optimal tax collection and waste management systems.
Under this scheme, the RWAs will be incentivised for their efforts to improve efficiency and compliance in tax collection. The RWAs, on achieving 90% tax collection from the total number of properties in their societies, can recommend development work to the tune of 10% of the tax collection subject to a ceiling of Rs. 1 lakh in their areas.

Jul 12, 2022

Tripura Launches Scheme 'Earn with Learn'

The Tripura government launched a new scheme 'Earn with Learn' as a part of the 'Vidyalay Chalo Abhiyan' programme to bring back the dropout students to schools. Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said that about 8,000 students between the age group of 6 and 14 in the state dropped out of schools during the Covid-19.
It was decided to take up this project to get all these students into school and bring them back into the mainstream of education. The minister further said that in the implementation of this project, the third-year students of all the colleges will be used to bring the students, who left schools during the pandemic.

Jul 08, 2022

Ministry of Women and Child Development Issues Guidelines for Mission Vatsalya Scheme

The Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Scheme "Mission Vatsalya" erstwhile Child Protection Services (CPS) Scheme, since 2009-10 for the welfare and rehabilitation of children. The objective of Mission Vatsalya is to secure a healthy and happy childhood for each and every child in India, ensure opportunities to enable them to discover their full potential and assist them in flourishing in all respects, in a sustained manner, foster a sensitive, supportive and synchronized ecosystem for development of children, assist States/UTs in delivering the mandate of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 and achieve the SDG goals. Mission Vatsalya promotes family-based non-institutional care of children in difficult circumstances based on the principle of institutionalization of children as a measure of last resort.
Components under Mission Vatsalya include- Improve functioning of statutory bodies; Strengthen service delivery structures; Upscale institutional care/services; Encourage non-institutional community-based care; emergency outreach services; Training and capacity building.
All the States/UTs have signed the Memorandum of Undertaking with the Ministry for implementation of the Scheme.

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