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A Brief Guide to Developing Schemes and Yojanas

Schemes are initiated in India by the government to provide welfare to all the citizens of India, catering to economic, social, as well as their overall necessities.

In introducing the topic it is quite well noted that the notion of schemes is crucial in every aspect of an individual specific to the nation of India. Schemes are initiated to provide a support system thereby assisting individuals with several opportunities by the government. The schemes are introduced by both the central as well as state governments. Moreover, these schemes are implemented to develop the backward and minority classes and also the rural underdeveloped areas. It is acknowledged that the schemes are primarily introduced by the government to put focus on effectively resolving the ongoing socio-political, economic and cultural issues that are hindering the successive growth and development of the civilians.

A Brief Guide to Developing Schemes and Yojanas

It should be taken note that those schemes and yojanas are not recently initiated notions but date back to 20th-century determining efforts for the government. The schemes are implemented by the government by addressing the needs and requirements that will promote economic welfare as well as social welfare for Indian citizens. Moreover, schemes are long-term programs to enhance the lifestyles of the Indian citizens in several aspects, such as health, education, employment and many more. These schemes also support creating awareness among the Indian citizens about the facilities and opportunities that are provided to them by the government. 

 What are government schemes?

In more specific words “government schemes” are initiative programs that determine the government’s intention primarily towards the minority groups and backward classes. These are long term programs, as in order to improve society, one need to quality time in actively breaking down all the barriers that cater to both mental and physical and also religion, caste and creed. Various schemes are noticed to have been incorporated into society for enhancing the lifestyles of every citizen. For every stratum of society there lies different yojanas such as farmers, businessmen of small and medium firms, within the field of education and many more. Therefore, it is understood that the government caters to all civilians of the entire nation.

Digilocker

“Digilocker” seems to be one of the most innovative stunts or approaches made by the government of India in order to empower people with digitization. This is successively used in providing access to an individual to his or her authentic documents in digital format as well as to the digital wallet for documents. Records have provided that so far, there are a total number of 102.76 million registered users and over 5.07 billion people have issued their documents.

Benefits of a Digi locker

Several benefits are there; those lies with the effective use of “Digi locker” are as follows.

  • It benefits an individual to access his or her authentic documents at any place and at any time. 
  • In this wallet, one can easily access a wide range of official certificates.
  • Furthermore, documents are directly issued such as “income tax department”, “CBSE” by the issuers who have registered.

List of schemes launched by Modi

Several numbers of schemes are unnoticed that are effectively implemented by Modi government, such as,

  •  “Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana”,
  • “Atal Pension Yojana”, provides support to the pension holders 
  • “PM-KISAN”, that effectively provides financial support to the framers,
  • “ PM Garib Kalyan Yojana”,
  • “Pradhan Mantri YUVA Yojana”, is one of the most notable as it provides skill development programs to the youth of India.

Ministry of rural development schemes

Arriving this far in the study, it is well understood that, government focuses on several needs of the citizens of India. Therefore, lists of schemes are also shown to provide a support system involving rural development. “Mission Antyodaya” was initiated in the year 2020 to provide a framework that will support effective management of resources. Another one is “SPMRM (RURBAN)”, which supports initiating and attempting to boost economic development, through effective planning.

Conclusion 

In conclusion, the study needs to be noted that the discussion has been conducted on the schemes that are implemented by the Indian government on the basis of the needs and requirements of the civilians.  Moreover, in this study focus has been given to the “Digi lockers” that were introduced by the central government. This digi locker has become a flagship and successively comes under the initiatives that support digitization of India. This programme is introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and IT” and thereby focuses on digitally empowering the citizens of India as a whole. In addition to these, several schemes are effectively explored that are initiated by the government and as well discussion has also been made on the schemes that cater to the development and growth associated with the rural regions.

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