{"id":15325,"date":"2023-09-29T04:08:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T22:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:34:07","slug":"sankalp-saptaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sankalp-saptaah\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Sankalp Saptaah\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About \u2018Sankalp Saptah\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>linked to the effective implementation of the Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To implement the ABP and prepare an effective block development strategy,\u00a0<strong>\u201cchintan shivirs (brainstorming sessions)\u201d were organized<\/strong> at village and block levels across the country. The\u00a0<strong>Sankalp Saptah is the culmination of these chintan shivirs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sankalp Saptah\u00a0<strong>will be observed in all 500 aspirational blocks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Each day<\/strong> in Sankalp Saptah\u00a0<strong>will be dedicated to a specific development theme<\/strong> on which all aspirational blocks will work.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>themes for the first six days are \u201cSampoorna Swasthya\u201d, \u201cSuposhit Parivar\u201d, \u201cSwachhta\u201d, \u201cKrishi\u201d, \u201cShiksha\u201d, and \u201cSamridhi Diwas\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The last day of the week<\/strong> will be a celebration of the work conducted during the entire week, as \u201c<strong>Sankalp Saptah \u2013 Samavesh Samaroh\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>inaugural programme will witness the participation of about 3,000 panchayat and block-level people\u2019s representatives<\/strong> and functionaries from across the country at the Bharat Mandapam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key Facts about Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ABP was\u00a0<strong>launched on January 7, 2023,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>on the lines of the Aspirational District Programme\u00a0<\/strong>that was launched in 2018 and covers 112 districts across the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Enhancing governance and improving the quality of life in 500 Aspirational Blocks<\/strong> spanning 329 districts across India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Over half of these blocks are in 6 states<\/strong>: Uttar Pradesh (68 blocks), Bihar (61), Madhya Pradesh (42), Jharkhand (34), Odisha (29) and West Bengal (29).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It will be\u00a0<strong>attained by converging existing schemes, defining outcomes, and monitoring them on a constant basis<\/strong>, enabling holistic development in areas that require added assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Aspirational District Programme?<\/h3>\n<p>It was launched in 2018 and aims to transform districts that have shown relatively lesser progress in key social areas.<\/p>\n<p>3C Strategy: The broad contours of the programme\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Convergence (of Central &amp; State Schemes)<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration (of Central, State level \u2018Prabhari\u2019 Officers &amp; District Collectors)<\/li>\n<li>Competition (among districts driven by a Mass Movement )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2023\/09\/29\/pm-modi-to-launch-sankalp-saptah-aims-at-elevating-citizens-quality-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Modi to launch Sankalp Saptah, aims at elevating citizens\u2019 quality of life<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sankalp Saptah is linked to the effective implementation of the Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}