SEED scheme: The Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified/Nomadic/SemiNomadic (SEED) communities was launched in February 2022 by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
It aims to provide free competitive exam coaching to these students, to provide health insurance to families, to uplift clusters of these communities through livelihood initiatives, and to provide financial assistance for housing.It ensures expenditure of Rs.200 crore to be spent over five years beginning 2021-22.The DWBDNCs (Development and Welfare Board for De-notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities) has been tasked with the implementation of this scheme.
Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana(AVYAY): It is under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
Type: Central Sector Scheme
Aim: To improve the quality of life of the Senior Citizens by providing basic amenities like shelter, food, medical care and entertainment opportunities and by encouraging productive and active ageing through providing support. Basic amenities are provided free of cost to indigent senior citizens.
Barak River: Barak River is one of major rivers of South Assam. The river is part of Surma-Meghna River System.The Barak River originates in Manipur and flows 900 kilometres through the states of Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Assam in India.Â
It later enters Bangladesh where it forks into Surma and Kushiyara rivers which converges again to become the Meghna river before forming the Ganges Delta with the Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers and flowing into the Bay of Bengal. The sixth national waterway stretch is on this river. Tipaimukh Dam is a proposed dam on the river.
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana: The Ministry of Power, Government of India has launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana for rural areas with the following objectives:
- To provide electrification to all villages
- Feeder separation to ensure sufficient power to farmers and regular supply to other consumers
- Improvement of Sub-transmission and distribution network to improve the quality
- Metering to reduce the losses.
Rural Electrification Corporation is the Nodal Agency for implementation of DDUGJY.
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed a programme celebrating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary.
Aurobindo Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 15th August 1872. He was a yogi, seer, philosopher, poet, and Indian nationalist who propounded a philosophy of divine life on earth through spiritual evolution. From 1902 to 1910 he partook in the struggle to free India from the British. As a result of his political activities, he was imprisoned in 1908 (Alipore Bomb case).
Literary Works: An English newspaper called Bande Mataram (in 1905),Bases of Yoga,Bhagavad Gita and Its Message,The Future Evolution of Man,Rebirth and Karma,
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol and Hour of God.
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