Name of the scheme: Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) Purpose: The main purpose of the insurance scheme is to provide life insurance coverage for death due to any reason. Eligibility Conditions: The savings bank account holders of the participating banks aged between 18 years (completed) and 50 years ...
Read More »Atal Pension Yojana: A Pension Scheme for All
Name of the scheme: Atal Pension Yojana (APY) Purpose: The main purpose of this scheme is to address the longevity risks among the workers in unorganized sector and to encourage them in the unorganized sector to voluntarily save for their retirement. Eligibility: Any Citizen of India, aged between 18 years and 40 ...
Read More »National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) has been formulated for enhancing agricultural productivity especially in rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, water use efficiency, soil health management and synergizing resource conservation. Objectives: To make agriculture more productive, sustainable, remunerative and climate resilient by promoting location specific Integrated/Composite Farming Systems; To ...
Read More »Rainfed Area Development (RAD) under NMSA
This component of NMSA (National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture) formulated in a ‘watershed plus framework’, i.e., to explore potential utilization of natural resources base/assets available/created through watershed development and soil conservation activities/interventions under MGNREGS, NWDPRA, RVP&FPR, RKVY, IWMP etc.. RAD under NMSA introduce appropriate farming systems by integrating multiple components ...
Read More »On Farm Water Management (OFWM) Under NMSA
OFWM will focus primarily on enhancing water use efficiency by promoting efficient on-farm water management technologies and equipment. This will not only focus on application efficiency but, in conjunction with RAD component, also will emphasize on effective harvesting & management of rainwater. Assistance will be extended for adopting water conservation ...
Read More »Soil Health Management (SHM) under NMSA
Out of the 4 interventions under NMSA, Soil Health Management (SHM) is one of the most important intervention, SHM will aim at promoting location as well as crop specific sustainable soil health management including residue management, organic farming practices by way of creating and linking soil fertility maps with macro-micro ...
Read More »Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modeling and Networking (CCSAMMN) under NMSA
CCSAMMN, a component of NMSA will provide creation and bidirectional (land/farmers to research/scientific establishments and vice versa) dissemination of climate change related information and knowledge by way of piloting climate change adaptation/mitigation research/model projects in the domain of climate smart sustainable management practices and integrated farming system suitable to local ...
Read More »Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana: Affordable Housing for All by 2022
Name of the scheme: Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Purpose: The scheme envisages the vision of Housing for All by the year 2022. Details of the scheme: The scheme aims to construct more than two crore houses across the length and breadth of the nation within a span of next seven ...
Read More »Credit Risk Guarantee Fund Scheme for Low Income Housing
Name of the scheme: Credit Risk Guarantee Fund Scheme Purpose: The main purpose of this scheme is to enable availability of bank credit without collaterals/third party guarantee and to strengthen credit delivery system and facilitate flow of credit to low income housing viz., EWS/LIG*. (EWS- Economically Weaker Sections and LIG ...
Read More »Affordable Housing: Rajiv Rinn Yojana
Name of the scheme: Rajiv Rinn Yojana Purpose: The main purpose of the scheme is to provide home loan with Central Government interest subsidy to EWS/LIG* persons for acquisition/ construction of house to such beneficiaries, who do not own a house in his/her name or in the name of his/her ...
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