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Centrally Sponsored Schemes1. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA) was approved by the Government of India

in 2000 for achieving the goal of niversal elementary edcation in a time!bondmanner. It aims to provide sefl and relevant elementary edcation for allchildren in the "!1# age grops by 2010. It lays emphasis on bridging school$regional and gender gaps with the active participation of the commnity in themanagement of schools.

%he scheme is administered by the &epartment of School 'dcation and iteracy.

2. National Program of Mid Day Meal(&) was lanched in 1**+ with aview to enhancing enrollment$ retention and attendance and simltaneoslyimproving ntritional levels among children. %he ob,ectives of the scheme are-(a) improving the ntritional stats of children stdying in lasses I!/III ingovernment local body and government aided school and 'GS AI' centers (b)encoraging poor children belonging to disadvantaged sections to attend schoolmore reglarly and help them concentrate on classroom activities (c) providingntritional spport to children of primary stage in droght!aected areas dring

the smmer vacation.%he scheme is administered by the &epartment of School 'dcation and iteracy.

3. Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(4SA) was approved by theGovernment of India in 2005 for niversalisation of access to and improvementof 6ality of secondary edcation. It aims to provide sefl and relevantsecondary edcation for all children in the 1+!1" age grops by 201+. %hescheme envisages- (i) provision of infrastrctre and resorces for secondaryedcation to improve the 6ality of learning (ii) provision for 7lling the missinggaps in the e8isting secondary school system and (iii) provision for e8tra spportfor edcation of girls$ rral children and stdents belonging to S S%$ minorityand other wea9er sections of the society and (iv) a holistic convergent framewor9for implementation of varios schemes in secondaryedcation.

%he scheme is administered by the &epartment of School 'dcation and iteracy.

#. National Rural Health Mission(:4;) was lanched in 200+. %hedetailed framewor9 for the implementation of the scheme provided for ma,orhealth sector reforms and spport to States for a wide range of activitiesdesigned to provide aordable$ accessible and accontable health care. %he 15States with nsatisfactory health infrastrctre have been classi7ed as specialfocs States. %he thrst of the ission is on establishing a flly fnctional$commnity owned$ decentralielfare.

+. ntegrated Child Development Services(I&S) was lanched in 1*?+as a pilot scheme in 33 selected bloc9s bt now is a centrally sponsored @agshipscheme for early childhood care and pre!school edcation. %he scheme hase8panded nationwide covering 10.+3 la9h anganwadi centers. %he ob,ectives ofI&S are envisaged to be achieved throgh a pac9age of si8 basic services vi


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school non!formal edcation and ntritional and health edcation.%he scheme is administered by the inistry of >omen and hild &evelopment.

". Central Rural Sanitation Program(4S) was lanched in 1*5". %he%otal Sanitation ampaign was lanched in 1*** as a @agship program nder4S covering +?5 rral districts. %he scheme proposes to bring abot animprovement in the general 6ality of life throgh accelerated sanitationcoverage in the rral areas.

%he scheme is administered by the &epartment of &rin9ing >ater Spply.?. National Horticulture Missionwas lanched in 200+ with the aim of

promoting holistic growth of the horticltre sector throgh area based regionallydierentiated strategies. %he ob,ectives of the scheme inclded- enhancement ofhorticltre prodction$ improving ntritional secrity and income spport tofarm hoseholds$ convergence and synergy among mltiple ongoing andplanned programs for horticltre development$ promoting and disseminatingtechnologies and generate employment for s9illed and ns9illed speciallynemployed yoth.

%he scheme is administered by the &epartment of Agricltre and ooperation.

5. Macro Management of Agriculture Schemewas lanched in 2000 as acentrally sponsored scheme. %he overall aim of the scheme is all ronddevelopment in agricltre throgh >or9 lans prepared by States. %he speci7cob,ectives of the scheme incldes- re@ection of local needs crops regionspeci7c priorities optimm tili


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which is ensred by providing modalities for e6itable and sstainable sharing ofbene7ts and arising from sch programs.

%he scheme is administered by the &epartment of and 4esorces of the inistryof 4ral &evelopment.

12. Pradhan Mantri 'ram Sadak (o)na(GSC) was lanched in 2000 as aflly fnded entrally Sponsored Scheme to provide road connectivity in rralareas of the contry. %he program envisages connecting all habitations with apoplation of +00 persons and above (2+0 persons and above in respect of hillStates$ the tribal and desert areas). Abot 1."? la9hs nconnected eligiblehabitations need to be ta9en p with 3."+ la9h 9m of new rral roads nder theprogram. It also aims at pgrading 3."5 la9h 9m of e8isting thogh rotes ma,orlin9 rotes.

%he scheme is administered by the inistry of 4ral &evelopment.

13. ndira A*as (o)na(IAC) is in operation since 1*5+!5" with the basic aimto provide assistance for the constrction p gradation of dwelling nits forbelow poverty line (D) rral hoseholds of Ss$ S%s and freed bonded laborercategories. Since 1**3!*# the scope of the scheme was e8tended to non!SS%category of the rral D sb,ect to the condition that the bene7ts to the non!SS% poor wold not be more than #0E of the total IAC allocation.


1#. Accelerated Rural &ater Supply Program(A4>S) is one of the si8components of Dharat :irman to be implemented in for years from 200+!200*to cover ++$0"? ncovered habitations abot 3.31 la9h slipped!bac9 habitationsand 2.1? la9h 6ality!aected habitations. It is centrally sponsored scheme

which aims at tac9ling arsenic and @oride contamination on a priority basis.%he scheme is administered by the &epartment of &rin9ing >ater Spply.

1+. National Rural !mployment 'uarantee Program(:4'G) waslanched in 200" with 200 districts being covered in its 7rst year of operation.

%he program has been sbse6ently e8tended to cover 330 districts (200?!05)and aims to cover the entire contry in (2005!0*) well before the target date forfll coverage nder the Act. %he primary ob,ective is to provide garanteed wor9for 100 days for any hosehold wishing to have sch employment. Althogh all

hoseholds are eligible the e8pectation is that only the poorest sections$ i.e.$landless labor and marginal farmers wold actally see9 wor9. %he secondaryob,ective is to ensre that employment generated was from wor9s that raisefarm prodctivity and ths increase farm prodctivity and incomes andemployment over time.


1". National +ood Security Missionwas lanched in 200? to address thestagnating food grain prodction and an increasing need of the growingpoplation. %he ma,or ob,ective of the scheme is to increase prodction andprodctivity of wheat$ rice and plses on a sstainable basis so as to ensre foodsecrity of the contry. %he approach is to bridge the yield gap in respect of

these crops throgh dissemination of improved technologies and farmmanagement practices. %he Scheme covers 133 districts in 12 States of the
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contry.%he Scheme is administered by the &epartment of Agricltre and ooperation.

1?. Micro rrigationwas lanched dring the %enth lan period to introdcenew irrigation techni6es vi


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23. Scheme for setting up of 2333 Model Schools at 4lock level as4enchmarks of !"cellencewas lanched in 200? towards fl7llment of theoverall ob,ective of niversali


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stage to enable them to complete their edcation. %hese scholarships areavailable for stdies in India only and are awarded by the government of theState J% to which the applicant actally belongs. Stdents whose parents gardiansB income from all sorces does not e8ceed 4s.10$ 000 per annm.

%he Scheme is administered by the inistry of Social Lstice and 'mpowerment.33. Multi Sectoral Development Programfor inorities in selected

minority concentration districts was lanched in 200". It aims at a focsedattention of government programs in identi7ed *0 districts of the contry.

%he rogram is implemented by the inistry of inority Aairs.3#. Scheme of S$ Doo9 Dan9 and Jpgradation of erit of S% Stdents aims

to provide 7nancial assistance to stdents belonging to Schedled tribesprsing ost!atriclation recogni

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