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GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND SCHEMES - August 2019

Aug 2019

Oct 20, 2020

Govt Launches Rs 10,000 cr Scheme to Boost Healthcare Infra

Union Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala launched a new scheme, Ayushman Sahakar, under which the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) would extend term loans of Rs 10,000 crore to cooperatives for creating healthcare infrastructure in rural India.
There are about 52 hospitals across the country run by cooperatives. They have cumulative bed strength of more than 5,000. The NCDC fund would give a boost to provision of healthcare services by cooperatives, NCDC Managing Director Sundeep Nayak said.
The government said any cooperative society with suitable provision in its byelaws to undertake healthcare related activities would be able to access the NCDC fund.
The NCDC assistance will flow either through the state governments or directly to the eligible cooperatives. Subsidy/ grant from other sources can be dovetailed.

Uttar Pradesh Governor Launches 'Safe City Project' in Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel said the movement of women police personnel in Lucknow will inculcate a feeling of pride and safety for women in the city.
The Governor spoke while inaugurating the 'Safe City Project', a 180-day-long campaign under which the police and other departments will work towards safety of women.
- In a statement, the UP Raj Bhavan said the Governor flagged off 100 pink scooties and 10 four-wheeler police vehicles. Lucknow is among eight cities in the country selected for the 'Safe City Project'.
- The central government has approved the project for Lucknow at a total cost of Rs 194 crore with an aim to strengthen security of women in public places.

Oct 18, 2020

Yogi Adityanth Launches 'Mission Shakti' Campaign

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that there will be a separate room now for women complainants in 1535 police stations across the state. The UP CM made the announcement at the launch event of 'Mission Shakti' programme for women security in the state.
The mission aims to reduce crime against women in Uttar Pradesh.
Expressing sadness over the Balrampur rape-incident, Yogi said that the incident was very unfortunate and that's why he decided to launch this mission from Balrampur. He said, ''To pay homage to the victim of a very unfortunate incident, I decided to kick-off Mission Shakti campaign from Balrampur & I'm extremely delighted to launch this programme. Mission Shakti aims at guaranteeing security & respect for every woman in the state.

Oct 16, 2020

Dr. Harsh Vardhan Launches Second Phase of Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana

The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan has launched the second phase of "Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana".
The scheme has been launched for the underprivileged Thalassemic patients.
This scheme was launched in 2017. It is a Coal India CSR funded Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) program.
The programme is aimed at providing a one-time cure opportunity for Haemoglobinopathies like Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Disease for patients who have a matched family donor. This initiative of CSR has targeted to provide financial assistance to 200 patients by providing a package cost of Rs. 10 lakhs per HSCT.

Oct 14, 2020

Telangana Government and Intel India to Launch Artificial Intelligence Research Centre

The Telangana Government along with Intel India will launch artificial intelligence research centre in Hyderabad. This was announced during the inaugural session of artificial intelligence 2020 virtual Summit. The research centre is to be launched in collaboration with International Institute of Information Technology and Public Health foundation of India.
The centre has been named INAI.
INAI is INtel AI. AI is Artificial Intelligence. It is a national level Research Centre. The centre will take initiative to apply artificial intelligence to population scale problems in India. The centre will focus on identifying and solving challenges in smart mobility segment and Healthcare.
The initiative will create National assets such as computing infrastructure curated data sets tools and frameworks to attract Global talent to achieve social sector development. The initiative will bring together multiple Institutions and is anchored by IIIT-Hyderabad.

Gujarat Disturbed Area Act (Amendment) bill, 2020

On October 12, 2020, the president Ramnath Kovind assented the Gujarat Distributed Area act (Amendment) Bill 2019. The amendment will prohibit transfer of assets that is the immovable property in disturbed areas. Also, it will protect the tenants from vacating the property.
Gujarat prohibition of transfer of immovable property and provision for protection of tenants from eviction from premises in disturbed areas act 1991 is commonly referred to as Disturbed Areas act.
The main objective of the act is to check on elements that cause demographic imbalance and to stop polarisation.

Oct 12, 2020

Government to Introduce Energy Conservation Policy

According to a release by State Energy Conservation Mission CEO A. Chandra Sekhar Reddy, in an attempt to achieve energy security, cost-effective power and strengthen the power sector, Andhra Pradesh government is contemplating to introduce a new policy for promotion of the use of the latest and efficient technologies for energy conservation in various sectors.
He stated that the Energy Department was eliciting the views of experts and the Central agencies such as Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) and institutes such as The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), Central Board of Irrigation and Power and Alliance for Energy Efficient Economy for formulating the policy.
The policy is aimed at conserving energy being used in industries, buildings, civic bodies , agriculture, transport, power utilities, commercial and residential sectors.

Tree Transplant Policy of Delhi Government

The Cabinet under Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal approved "Tree Transplantation Policy". The policy makes it mandatory to transplant 80 percentage of the trees that are being felled for a development project. Also, an additional 10 saplings should be planted as compensatory plantation.
The policy is first of its kind in the country. The policy does not apply if 10 or less trees are felled for the development project. Under the policy, the invasive species are excluded from the list of species that will be transplanted. In order to address the challenge of survival rate of transplanted tree national level agencies are to be appointed as a part of an expert panel.
The State Government of Delhi is to set up a tree transplantation cell. A panel has been formed from the identified agencies.

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