social Flashcards
(103 cards)
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Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
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It is an average number of children that would be born to a woman if she experiences the current fertility pattern throughout her reproductive span (15-49 years). It is a more direct measure of the level of fertility than the birth rate since it shows the potential for population change in a country.
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Replacement level fertility
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It is the level of fertility at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next.
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Mission Parivar Vikas
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for substantially increasing the access to contraceptives and family planning services in the high fertility districts
of seven high focus states with TFR of 3 and above.
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National Family Planning Indemnity Scheme (NFPIS)
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clients are insured in the eventualities of deaths, complications and failures following sterilization and the providers/ accredited institutions are indemnified against litigations in those eventualities.
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Habitual Offenders Act of 1952
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It recommended suitable steps to be taken for amelioration of the pitiable conditions of the Criminal Tribes rather than stigmatising them as criminals. As a result, the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 was repealed in 1952 and the Habitual Offenders Act was enacted in its place.
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characteristics of PVTGs are:
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o Mostly homogenous
o A small population
o Relatively physically isolated
o Primitive Social institutions
o Absence of written language
o Relatively simple technology and a slower rate of change
o Their livelihood depends on food gathering, Non Timber Forest Produce, hunting, livestock rearing, shifting cultivation and artisan works.
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NARI
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Portal for single-window access to information on women centric schemes/legislations
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e-samvaad Portal
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It is a platform for NGOs and civil society to interact with
the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) by providing their feedback, suggestions, put up grievances, share best practices etc. This will help in formulation of effective policies and measures for welfare of women and children.
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project Stree Swabhiman.
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launched by MEITy. It aims to create a sustainable model for providing adolescent girls and women an
access to affordable sanitary products in rural areas.
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Menstrual Hygiene Scheme (MHS)
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Being implemented by Health Ministry as part of Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya Karyakram.
• It provides subsidized sanitary napkins among adolescent girls residing primarily in rural areas
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Menstrual Hygiene Management National Guidelines, 2015
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Issued by Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation.
• It covers the aspects of providing adolescent girls with menstrual hygiene management choices and menstruation hygiene management infrastructure in schools and the safe disposal of menstrual waste.
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Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan
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Ministry of Human Resource Development
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Territorial Army
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It is the second line of defence after the Regular Indian Army; it is not a profession, occupation or a source of employment. It is only meant for those people who are already in mainstay civilian professions; in fact, gainful employment or self-employment in a civil profession.
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Teacher Associateship for Research Excellence (TARE) Scheme
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It aims to tap the latent potential of faculty working in state universities, colleges and private academic institutions who are well trained but have difficulty in pursuing their research due to reasons like lack of facilities, funding and guidance. The scheme facilitates mobility of such faculty members to carryout research in well-established public funded institution such as IITs, IISc, NITs, CSIR, ICAR, etc. Up to 500 TAs (Teacher Associates) will be supported under this scheme.
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Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF)
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It offers opportunities for up to 100 PhD students admitted in the Indian institutions for gaining exposure and training in overseas universities for period up to 12 months during their doctoral research.
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Distinguished Investigator Award (DIA)
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It is a one-time career award devised to specifically cater to the younger scientists who have not received any other prestigious awards or fellowships
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Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) scheme
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This has been initiated to encourage, empower and endow popular science writing through newspapers, magazines, blogs, social media, etc. by young PhD Scholars.
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Vector borne diseases
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- Malaria
- Dengue
- Lymphatic Filariasis
- Kala-azar
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Chikungunya
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Universal Immunization Programme
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Tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, Hepatitis B, Diarrhoea, Japanese Encephalitis, rubella, Pneumonia (Haemophilus Influenza Type B) and Pneumococcal diseases (Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Meningitis).
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MPOWER
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(a policy package intended to reduce the demand of Tobacco) initiative of WHO
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National Nutrition Mission
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It would be executed with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) as the nodal ministry along with Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The mission has a target to reduce stunting, under–nutrition, and low birth weight by 2 per cent per annum, and anaemia by 3 per cent annually.
It aims to focus mainly on children up to the age of 6 years, pregnant and lactating women, and adolescent girls.
o It would also strive to achieve reduction in stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022 (Mission 25 by
2022).
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National Strategic Plan (2017-24)
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It aims to strive, along with partners, towards fast track strategy of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 and is expected to pave a roadmap for achieving the target of 90:90:90.
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Mission SAMPARK
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The aim is to trace those who are Left to Follow Up and are to be brought under Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) services. “Community Based Testing” will be taken up for fast-tracking the identification of all who are HIV positive.
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Trachoma
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare declared India to be Trachoma free. It is a chronic infective eye disease caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis which is transmitted through contact with eye and nose discharge of infected people, particularly young children who are most vulnerable to the infection.
• It is also spread by flies. It is one of the causes of the avoidable blindness and one of the 18 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). According to WHO standards – Trachoma is considered eliminated if the prevalence of active infection among children below 10 years is less than 5% while in India its prevalence is only 0.7%.
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National Program for Control of Blindness & Visual
| Impairment (NPCB)
• It was launched in 1976 as a 100% Centrally
Sponsored Scheme to reduce the prevalence of
blindness from 1.4% to 0.3%.
• It has now been made part of Non Communicable
Diseases under the umbrella of National Health
Mission.
• The current goal of NPCB is to reduce the
prevalence of blindness to 0.3% by the year 2020.
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Ganga Gram Project
It has been launched under the Namami Gange Programme for sanitation based integrated development of villages with active participation of the villagers.
• Project envisages solid and liquid waste management, renovation of ponds and water resources, water conservation projects, organic farming, horticulture, and promotion of medicinal plants.
• Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation is the nodal agency for its implementation.
Launched in UK,UP,Bihar, Jharkhand, WB
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Ganga Swachhata Manch:
It has also been created for awareness creation, knowledge sharing, learning and advocacy for the Ganga Gram Project.
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Namami Gange Program
Aims to make more than 1600 panchayats on the banks
of Ganga open defecation free.
• Focus is on ‘aviral dhara’ (uninterrupted flow) and ‘nirmal dhara’ (clean flow) of Ganga.
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Utkrisht Impact Bond
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a Rajasthan Development Impact Bond (Utkrisht Impact Bond) at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad.
It has been launched to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths in Rajasthan by improving the quality of services at private healthcare facilities and adhere to the government’s quality standards.
• It is a world's first Development Impact Bond (DIB) in
healthcare and has been developed in a public-private
partnership and will provide financial assistance to 440
small healthcare organizations.
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Development Impact Bond (DIB)
They are outcome based bond, under which donor pay back private investors investment with interest, if the service providers achieve pre-determined targets.
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Neonatal mortality
deaths in the first 28 days of life.
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Infant Mortality Rate
refers to the deaths of infants under age of one year per 1,000 live births (34 per 1,000 live births in 2016).
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Child mortality
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refers to death of children below 5 years per 1000
live births (50 per 1000 live births in 2015-16).
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Maternal mortality Rate
refers to a number of women who die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth complications per 100,000 live births in a given year (174 per 100, 000 live births in 2015)
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National Testing Agency (NTA)
It is created as a Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860, and as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions.
It would be an independent body dedicated on the lines of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in The United States.
It will conduct entrance tests entrusted to it by any department or ministry.
It will be chaired by an eminent educationist appointed by Ministry of Human Resource Development.
The CEO will be the Director General to be appointed by the Government.
There will be a Board of Governors comprising members from user institutions.
The Director General will be assisted by 9 verticals headed by academicians/ experts.
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Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra.
To provide an interface for rural women to approach the government for availing their entitlements and for empowering them through training and capacity building.
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ICDS
It is a flagship government scheme which aims to improve the nutrition and health status of children in age group of 0-6 years and lays foundation of psychological, physical and social development of the child.
It was launched to reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout among children.
It also aims to enhance the capability of mothers to take care of the health and nutritional needs of the children.
In 2016-17, government had rationalised some schemes
such as Anganwadi Services, Scheme for Adolescent
Girls, Child Protection Services and National Crèche
Scheme and brought under Umbrella ICDS as its sub-
schemes.
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Anganwadi Services –
It is for holistic development of children under the age of 6 year and pregnant and lactating women.
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Scheme for Adolescent Girls –
It aims to facilitate, educate and make them self-reliant through improved nutrition and health status.
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Child Protection Services –
It aims to provide a safe and secure environment for children in conflict with law and children in need of care
and protection and reduce vulnerabilities.
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National Crèche Services –
It aims to provide a safe place for children of working mothers while they are at work. Thus empowering
them to take up employment
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Moscow Declaration
Recently, WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Tuberculosis in the Sustainable Development Era: A Multi-sectoral Response was held in Moscow. During the Conference, Moscow Declaration was adopted by representatives from various countries (including India).
It aims to eliminate additional deaths from HIV co-infection by 2020 and establishing a coordinated effort
towards action against TB and non-communicable diseases.
It also highlights the important areas for international action to address TB – sustainable financing, pursuing
science, research and development and the establishment of a multisectoral accountability framework.
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Elephantiasis or Lymphatic
| Filariasis
It is a parasitic disease caused by the parasitic worms called filial worms which is spread by the bite of the infected black flies and mosquitoes.
The disease parasite is usually acquired during childhood. The larvae in the human can live in human beings for up-to 5-8 years without showing any symptoms; however, the lymphatic system is damaged.
Elephantiasis leads to severe swelling in arms, legs, knees and genitals disfigurement and disability.
It also makes the infected areas vulnerable to even
minor scratches especially in rural areas with low sanitation.
70% of disease burden in India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Bangladesh.
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Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)?
RUTF is a medical intervention to cure Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) among children which include readymade packed paste made of high energy fortified supplements (peanuts, oils, dried milk etc.) being administered to the child under doctor’s supervision.
The paste is administered to children aged between 6 months and 6 years daily for about a month.
It is being implemented under the global initiative Scaling Up Nutrition movement and ICDS in India, through collaboration with the state governments.
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Nutraceuticals
Nutraceuticals are supplements and foods that aren’t drugs but purported to contain ingredients essential to well-being such as obesity pills, diet regimens shakes with exaggerated benefits etc.
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Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY)
It aims to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery among poor pregnant women.
Eligible pregnant women are entitled for cash assistance irrespective of the age of mother and number of children for giving birth in a government
or accredited private health facility.
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Global Hunger Index (GHI) scores are based on four indicators:
o UNDERNOURISHMENT: the share of the population
whose caloric intake is insufficient.
o CHILD WASTING: the share of children under the age of five who have low weight for their height.
o CHILD STUNTING: the share of children under the age of five who have low height for their age.
o CHILD MORTALITY: the mortality rate of children under
the age of five (a reflection of the fatal mix of inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environments).
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Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY)
It is a tax-financed health insurance that is managed by private insurance companies for BPL (below poverty line) families.
It was launched for the workers in the unorganized sector in 2007-08.
It provides for IT-enabled and smart–card-based cashless health insurance, including maternity benefit cover up to Rs. 30,000/- per annum on a family floater basis.
Funding Pattern: Contribution by Government of India to State Government is in the ratio of 75:25.
It is implemented by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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PENCIL Portal
Ministry of Labour and Employment launched an online portal named PENCIL (Platform for Effective Enforcement for Child Labour) in order to combat the menace of child labour, and trafficking.
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LPG Panchayat
The centre plans to organise one lakh LPG panchayat across the country in the next one and half year.
LPG Panchayats will bring together about 100 LPG users of an area and create an interactive platform to
discuss safe and sustainable usage of LPG, its benefits and linkages between using clean fuel and empowering women as their health risks are reduced.
The panchayats will also include safe practices, quality of service provided by distributors and availability of refill cylinders
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Swacchta Hi Seva Campaign
Swacchta Hi Seva Campaign is a 15 day campaign
undertaken by the government under the Swacch
Bharat Mission (SBM). The campaign was co-
ordinated by the Ministry of Drinking Water and
Sanitation.
Under this campaign, people from all walks of life were encouraged to undertake shramdaan (voluntary
labour) to make SBM a janandolan (mass movement).
The campaign targeted the cleaning of public and
tourist places.
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Swacch Sankalp se Swacch Siddhi
Under this campaign, essay, short films and painting
competitions were organised for general public with
a special focus on school children.
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Swacchathon-The Swacch Bharat Hackathon –
It invited innovative technology-based solutions to
some of the most challenging questions being faced
by Swacch Bharat Mission (Gramin) such as usage of
toilets in non-intrusive manner at scale, how to spark behaviour change at scale, frugal technology designs for difficult terrains etc.
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Integrated Child Development Scheme
Launched in 1975, Beneficiary: children (6 months to 6 years) and pregnant & lactating mothers irrespective of their economic and social status. Categorised as Core Scheme under Centrally Sponsored Scheme.
Provides an integrated package of six services which include; i) Supplementary nutrition programme ; (ii) Immunization; (iii) Health check-up; (iv) Referral services; (v) Pre-school non-formal education; and (vi) Nutrition & health education.
Schemes are provided at Anganwadi Centre (AWC).
5-tier monitoring and review mechanism at National, State, District, Block and Anganwadi Levels.
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Major Reports and Indices by WEF
Global Competitiveness Report
Global Gender Gap Report
Global Human Capital Report
Inclusive Development Index
Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report
Global Energy architecture performance index
report.
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South Asia Partnership on Ageing
The Kathmandu Declaration 2016- signed during the 18th SAARC Summit meeting in 2014 with focus on the special needs of the elderly population in the region.
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Antara and Chhaya
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched two new contraceptives, an injectable contraceptive named ‘Antara’ and a contraceptive pill ‘Chhaya’, to meet the emerging needs of couples.
Antara is an injection of Medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), a birth control hormone and it will be effective for 3 months
‘Chhaya’ is a non-steroidal, non-hormonal oral contraceptive pill which will be effective for 1 week.
Recently Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to provide women an injectable contraceptive.
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'Zero Hunger' programme
It will be initiated by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in association with the Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR), the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation and the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). The concerned state governments will also be involved in the programme.
It will focus on agriculture, health and nutrition in a symbiotic manner to develop an integrated approach to deal with hunger & malnutrition.
It will consist of organising farming systems for nutrition, setting up genetic gardens for biofortified plants crops and initiation of a `Zero Hunger' training.
It will ensure suitable methods of measuring the impact of the intervention.
There will be intensive training programme in order to
identify the nutritional maladies in each district and the appropriate agricultural/horticultural and animal husbandry remedies.
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National Health Assurance Mission
promises more than 50 free drugs, a dozen diagnostic tests and insurance cover to all by 2019.
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High level Political Forum (HLPF)
Established in 2013, under United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) by replacing the Commission on Sustainable Development.
The Forum meets annually under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council for eight days.
It has a central role in the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.
Government recently presented Voluntary National Review Report at UN-High Level Political Forum.
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Voluntary National Review
It is an effort towards SDG-Goal 17 as a part of follow-up and review mechanism.
It aims to facilitate the sharing of experiences, including successes, challenges and lessons learned, with a view to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.
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National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority [NPPA]
It is an independent body under Department of Pharmaceuticals under Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Its functions are:
To fix/revise the controlled bulk drugs prices and
formulations.
To enforce prices and availability of the medicines under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 1995/2013.
To recover amounts overcharged by manufacturers for the controlled drugs from the consumers.
To monitor the prices of decontrolled drugs in order to keep them at reasonable levels.
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Family Participatory Care (FPC)
FPC means involving the family of sick and preterm new-born as partners in caregiving and decision making in the new born care facilities.
The FPC initiative is under Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI) which aims to reduce neonatal and infant mortality by strengthening capacities and improving access and utilization of public health services.
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CPI- Agricultural Labourers (CPI-AL) and CPI-Rural Labourers (CPI-RL)
Computed by Labour Bureau under Ministry of Labour
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CPI-Rural (CPI-R):
Computed by CSO under Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
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Champions of Change Initiative
It was organised by the NITI Aayog where Prime Minister of India interacted with young entrepreneurs
It was aimed at bringing together young businessmen at a place and share ideas in an effort to bring together diverse strengths for the benefit of the nation and society.
PM said the different groups of entrepreneurs could be attached with the relevant ministries on a permanent basis to suggest policy initiatives.
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Swayam
A Web portal where Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) will be available free of cost on all kinds of
subjects with a provision of certificate / credit-transfer.
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Swayam Prabha
It is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite.
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National Academic Depository (NAD)
It is a 24X7 online storehouse of all academic awards viz. certificates, diplomas, degrees, mark-sheets etc. duly digitised and lodged by academic institutions boards/eligibility assessment bodies.
It ensures easy access to and retrieval of an academic award and also validates and guarantees its authenticity and safe storage.
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Programme 17 for 17
A 17 point action plan for 2017 – for building digital campuses and high-quality education.
The action plan covers measures like the universal adoption of digital education, digital financial transactions in the campuses from the current academic year
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Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP)
In July 2017, WHO and UNICEF under Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) released the report titled 'Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2017 update and Sustainable Development Goal baselines'.
This is the first global assessment of “safely managed” drinking water and sanitation services”.
The report focus on;
o Ending open defecation (SDG 6.2)
o Achieving universal access to basic services (SDG 1.4)
o Progress towards safely managed services (SDG targets 6.1 and 6.2).
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Draft Domestic Worker Welfare Bill 2016
It guarantees certain rights to the domestic workers in accordance with international conventions on labour,
Compulsory registration of the employer and the employee with the District Board for regulation of domestic workers.
Workers' Facilitation Centres for purposes of facilitating the filling and verification of employment agreements
Provided that a minor domestic worker may be employed if he has completed compulsory elementary education.
It mandates the collection of cess from the employer for the maintenance of a social security fund.
Inclusion of domestic workers under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY).
It seeks to regulate multiple work arrangements such as work type, hourly basis, part time work, full time work, and live-in work.
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The first state to prohibit social boycott
Maharashtra
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Garib Nawaz Skill Development Centres
These centres will effectively ensure employment oriented skill development of youth belonging to Minority communities.
The courses will be short-term( 2 to 6 months) in fields such as mobile and laptop repairing, security guard training, housekeeping training, etc
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Skill development schemes for minorities
1. Seekho aur Kamao
2. USTTAD (Upgrading the Skills and Training in Traditional Arts/ Crafts for Development)
3. Nai Manzil
4. Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills (MANAS)
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National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
NCST was established by amending Article 338 and inserting a new Article 338A in the Constitution through the Constitution (89th Amendment) Act, 2003.
The chairperson of the Commission is appointed by President of India for the period of three years. The chairperson has been given the rank of Union cabinet minister.
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Mission Parivar Vikas
Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched Mission
Parivar Vikas.
It aims to control Total Fertility Rate of 146 districts in seven states, constitute the 28% of the total country population.
The mission will utilise the RMNCH+A strategy, Family Planning Logistics Management Information System (FP-LMIS) and consumer-friendly website on family planning.
Strategic focus on improving access through;
o Provision of services: distribute a kit (Nayi Pahal) containing products of family planning and personal hygiene among newly-wed couples.
o Commodity security: it will increase sterilization services, roll out injectable contraceptive at the sub-centre level and generate awareness about condoms and pills.
o Promotional schemes: Special buses called ‘SAARTHI-Awareness on Wheels’ to generate awareness, sensitize the community and disseminate family planning messages.
o Capacity building: ‘SAAS BAHU SAMMELANS’ will be held to bridge the gap in their attitudes and beliefs about reproductive and sexual health.
o Enabling environment: ASHA workers to encourage inter-spousal communication and consensual decision-making on reproductive and sexual health, delaying the birth of the first child and spacing the second.
o Intensive monitoring: find out the causes of high Fertility rate and half yearly review of the programme and correlate the achievements with time.
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GeneXpert MTB/RIF Test
It detects the presence of TB bacteria, as well as testing for resistance and genetic mutation to the drug Rifampicin.
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Target 90-90-90 Treatment for All
These are the targets set by UNAIDS program as mentioned below:
1. By 2020, 90% of all the people living with HIV will know their HIV Status
2. By 2020, 90% of all the people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy.
3. By 2020, 90% of all the people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.
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Sexual Harassment Electronic-Box (SHE-Box)
Recently government launched an online platform, which enable women employees to file complaints related to sexual harassment at the workplace.
Once a complaint is submitted to the portal, it will be directly sent to the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the concerned Ministry or department.
It will cater effective and speedier remedy to women facing sexual harassment at workplace as WCD as well as complainant can monitor the progress of inquiry.
Currently, complaint can be filled by central government employees only which will be later extended to all.
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Hemoglobinopathies:
They are a kind of genetic defects that result in abnormal structure of one of the globin chains of the hemoglobin molecule.
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Section 498A
Whoever, being the husband or the relative of the husband of a woman, subjects such woman to cruelty shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.
It is separate from the Anti Dowry Act.
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Section 304B
relates to Dowry Deaths.
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Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana was previously known as Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana.
The draft guidelines provide for
- Aadhaar linkage
-Direct Benefit Transfer of Rs. 5000 in beneficiary’s bank/post office account in three instalments
o at the stage of early registration of pregnancy
o after six months of pregnancy on at least one antenatal check-up and registration of child birth &
o first cycle of immunisation of the child.
The PMMVY is Centrally Sponsored Scheme. The cost-sharing ratio between –
- The Centre and the States & UTs with Legislature is 60:40
- For the North-Eastern States & three Himalayan States, it is 90:10, &
- 100% Central assistance for Union Territories without Legislature.
It is a maternity benefit program run by the government of India launched in 2010. It aims:
To provide fixed-day, assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care universally to all pregnant women on the 9th of every month.
To identify and follow-up high risk pregnancies.
These services will be provided in addition to the routine ANC at the health facility/ outreach at identified public health facilities in both urban and rural areas.
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Inclusive India Initiative
The three core focus areas of Inclusive India Initiative are:
o Inclusive Education
Awareness campaigns and involvement of private organisations for making the infrastructure of educational disabled friendly.
o Inclusive Employment
Engage with corporate sector organisations; public and private, for creating awareness towards inclusive employment
o Inclusive Community Life
Civil Society organisations and State Government connect initiative creating awareness among general public, ensuring that the people becomes sensitive towards the focus group.
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Vatsalya
National Human Milk Bank and Lactation Counselling Centre (Vatsalya – Maatri Amrit Kosh) set up at Lady Hardinge Medical College Delhi.
Established in collaboration with the Norwegian government, Oslo University and Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI).
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Intensified Diarrhea Control Fortnight (IDCF)
Involves three action framework
Mobilize: health personnel, State Governments and other stakeholders (NGOs).
Prioritize investment: Government and International organisation.
Create mass awareness: ORS and Zinc therapy demonstration will be conducted at state, district and village levels.
ASHA worker would undertake distribution of ORS packets to households with under-five children in her
village.
ORS-Zinc Corners will be set-up at health care facilities and non-health facilities such as Schools and Anganwadi centres.
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Two core ILO conventions which are yet to be ratified by India are:
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (No 87)
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (No 98)
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National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
NCPCR was set up in March 2007 under the Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005.
NCPCR is under administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development.
Commission's mandate is to ensure that all Laws, Policies and Administrative Mechanisms are in consonance with Child Rights perspective as enshrined in the Constitution and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Child is defined as a person in 0-18 years age group.
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One IP- Two Dispensaries
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, launched two schemes namely; One IP- Two Dispensaries and
Aadhaar based Online Claim Submission.
Two Dispensaries schemes of ESIC has given an option to an Insured Person (IP) to choose two dispensaries,
one for self and another for family through an employer.
It will benefit all IPs, especially migrant workers who are working in other than home State.
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Electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN) project
of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
eVIN is an indigenously developed technology system in India that digitises vaccine stocks and monitors the temperature of the cold chain through a smartphone application.
The technological innovation is implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
By streamlining vaccine flow network, it strengths health systems by easy and timely availability of vaccines.
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PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation)
It is an integrating and interactive platform aimed at addressing common man’s grievances, and simultaneously monitoring and reviewing important programmes.
It uses Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology.
It is a three-tier system - PMO, Union Government Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries of the States.
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Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana was launched in May 2016 through which cash assistance is given to the beneficiaries to get a deposit-free new LPG connection.
Earlier Eligibility: Any Below Poverty Line (BPL) family, whose information is included in the district BPL list prepared by the State government.
The earlier scheme excluded genuinely poor households whose name was not included in Socio Economic Caste Survey (SECC) list.
Now the Scheme will cover all SC/ST households, beneficiaries of PMAY (Gramin), Antyoday Anna Yojana (AAY), Forest dwellers, Most Backward Classes (MBC), Tea and Ex-Tea Garden Tribes, people residing in Islands and rivers etc. in addition to SECC identified households.
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Swajal Project
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation launched Swajal Pilot project at Village Bhikampura, Karauli district, Rajasthan.
It is a community owned drinking water programme which will not only ensure round-the-year availability of clean drinking water but also generate employment.
It is the second project under the Swajal Yojana. Prior to this, it has been launched in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand.
90% of the project cost will be taken care of by the government while the rest 10% of the project cost which will be contributed by the community.
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National Achievement Survey
National Achievement Survey (NAS) was released by the HRD Ministry.
It assesses performance of students in five major subjects-English, Mathematics, Science, Social Science and Modern Indian Languages.
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Education Development Impact Bond (EDIB)
The British Asian Trust created a 10-million-dollar Education Development Impact Bond (EDIB) for India. It is intended as an innovative and sustainable social impact investment tool which will be tied in with performance and outcomes of educational initiatives in India.
It will provide funding for delivering a range of activities including principal and teacher training, direct school management, and supplementary programmes.
The concept of Development Impact Bonds is intended as a result-oriented way to attract new capital into development, with a strong emphasis on data and evidence.
The focus is to improve literacy and numeracy learning levels for over 200,000 primary school students from marginalized communities in Delhi, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
The UK government’s Department for International Development (DfID) will contribute technical assistance and insights to the project as part of a wider partnership.
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Revitalization Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE)
It is a new initiative to step up investments in centrally funded institutions like IITs, Central Universities and others such institutes
Funding will be provided through Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA).
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Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA).
It is a joint venture of MHRD Government of India and Canara Bank.
RBI granted license to operate as Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC)
It seeks to introduce a market-linked education financing structure
It aims to lend low-cost funds to government higher educational institutions.
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TECHNICAL EDUCATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME (TEQIP)
The government has decided to employ graduates from premier colleges like IITs, NITs etc to teach in engineering colleges in backward districts for a period of 3 years as a part of TEQIP Phase 3.
The scheme, launched by HRD Ministry in 2002, aims to overhaul the quality of technical education in the Low Income States and Special Category States (SCS).
The project commenced with the World Bank assistance to Government of India to launch a TEQIP as a long term programme of 10-12 years and in 2 or 3 phases.
The present 3rd Phase of the schemes has central, eastern and north-eastern region and hill states as its focus states
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India Health Fund (IHF)
The India Health Fund (IHF), an initiative by Tata Trusts, in collaboration with the Global Fund has come forward to financially support innovations and technologies designed to combat tuberculosis and malaria.
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Ayushman Bharat programme
Ayushman Bharat programme has two component viz. National Health Protection Scheme & Health and Wellness Centre.
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Health and Wellness Centre:
They were envisioned under National Health Policy, 2017.
Under this 1.5 lakh centres will bring health care system closer to the homes of people.
These centres will provide comprehensive health care, including for non-communicable diseases and maternal and child health services.
Contribution of private sector through CSR and philanthropic institutions in adopting these centres is also envisaged.
Augmented by induction of non-physician healthcare providers such as nurse practitioners, in addition to the existing staff, the HWC will provide essential drugs and basic diagnostic free of cost.
Various vertical disease control programmes will find convergence at this delivery point.
Using technology, HWCs can generate real time data for monitoring various health indicators.
Challenges - shortage of human resource along with concerns related to lower budget allocation.
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National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS)
Aim- To provide medical cover up to Rs5 lakh per year per household for secondary and tertiary health care.
Coverage- An estimated 10 crore households across the country, constituting 40% of total population on the basis of “deprivation and occupational criteria” as per SECC data, 2011.
It would be a cashless and Aadhaar enabled for better targeting of beneficiary.
It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with ratio of contribution towards premium will be
o 60: 40 ratio Share between Centre and State in all states and UTs with legislature.
o 90: 10 ratio between Centre and northeastern states & 3 Himalayan states.
o 100% Centre’s contribution in case of union territories (UTs) without legislature.
o Central funding: Initial corpus of Rs 2000 crore was announced and rest will be funded from 1% additional cess (Budget-2018).
It will subsume Rashtriya Swasthiya Bima Yojana (RSBY) under it.
National Health Agency (NHA) will be set up to manage NHPS. It will operate around the insurance principle of risk pooling. When a large number of people subscribe to an insurance scheme, only a small fraction of them will be hospitalised in any given year.
