{"id":38992,"date":"2024-01-09T05:19:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T23:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38992"},"modified":"2025-04-24T00:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:01:35","slug":"viksit-bharat-sankalp-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/viksit-bharat-sankalp-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra?<\/li>\n<li>News Summary: PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra<\/li>\n<li>Key highlights of the speech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi interacted with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra via video conferencing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About\n<ul>\n<li>The Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is a government initiative being undertaken across the country, to <u>raise awareness about and track the implementation of flagship central schemes<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>These schemes include programmes like Ayushman Bharat, Ujjwala Yojana, PM Surkasha Bima, PM SVANidhi, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Aims\n<ul>\n<li>Reach out to the vulnerable who are eligible under various schemes but have not availed benefit so far;<\/li>\n<li>Dissemination of information and generating awareness about schemes;<\/li>\n<li>Interaction with beneficiaries of government schemes through their personal stories\/ experience sharing; and<\/li>\n<li>Enrolment of potential beneficiaries through details ascertained during the Yatra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Implementation\n<ul>\n<li>The programme is being undertaken with the active involvement of various Union ministries and state governments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Achievement\n<ul>\n<li>According to the government\u2019s PIB:\n<ul>\n<li>In a short span of just one month, the Yatra has reached more than 2.50 crore citizens across 68,000 Gram Panchayats (GPs) in the country;<\/li>\n<li>nearly 2 crore individuals have taken Viksit Bharat Sankalp; and<\/li>\n<li>over 2 Crore beneficiaries of Central Government Schemes have shared their experiences under \u2018Meri Kahani Meri Zubani\u2019 initiative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>News Summary: PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>PM Modi interacted with the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra beneficiaries through video-conferencing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key highlights of the speech<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Main goal of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra (VBSY)\n<ul>\n<li>To ensure that government schemes reached all deserving people.<\/li>\n<li>He said the drive recently <u>completed 50 days and had connected with about 11 crore people<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Government is reaching the doorsteps of the beneficiaries\n<ul>\n<li>The poor people who spent their lives waiting to get the benefits of government schemes are seeing a meaningful change today.<\/li>\n<li>The government is reaching the doorsteps of the beneficiaries and proactively providing the benefits.<\/li>\n<li>He said that the doctors were reaching the doorsteps of the poor, Dalits, the deprived and the tribals, which was considered a challenge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Highlighted the achievements of this drive\n<ul>\n<li>Since the drive was launched, about 12 lakh new applications for Ujjwala connections were received along with lakhs of applications for Suraksha Bima Yojana, Jeevan Jyoti Yojana, PM SVANidhi.<\/li>\n<li>Health checkups for over two crore people had been carried out so far, including one crore TB and 22 lakh sickle cell checkups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Highlighted the government\u2019s impact on women\u2019s empowerment\n<ul>\n<li>The Prime Minister also highlighted the government\u2019s impact on women\u2019s empowerment through schemes like the Mudra Yojna, and their role as Bank Mitras, Pashu Sakhis, and Asha workers.<\/li>\n<li>In the past decade, 10 crore women had joined self-help groups, where over \u20b97.50 lakh crore had been provided to them.<\/li>\n<li>He said the government has planned to further increase the number of such beneficiaries to two crore, via programmes like \u2018NaMo Drone Didi Scheme\u2019.\n<ul>\n<li>The scheme aims to provide drones to 15,000 women Self Help Groups (SHGs) during the period 2024-25 to 2025-2026 for providing rental services to farmers for agriculture purposes.<\/li>\n<li>It seeks to empower women SHGs and bring in new technologies through drone services in the agriculture sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is NaMo Drone Didi Scheme?<\/h3>\n<p>Namo Drone Didi&#8217; programme aims to provide drones to 15,000 women Self Help Groups (SHGs) during the period 2024-25 to 2025-2026 for providing rental services to farmers for agriculture purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Q2)\u00a0What is PM Surkasha Bima?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) is a government-backed accident insurance scheme in India.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/government-committed-to-development-of-citizens-living-in-tribal-areas-pm-modi\/article67719165.ece#:~:text=Modi%20Ki%20Guarantee%20vehicles%20have,doorstep%20of%20beneficiaries%2C%20he%20says&amp;text=Prime%20Minister%20Narendra%20Modi%20on,schemes%20reached%20all%20deserving%20people.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>VBSY\u2019s goal is to ensure that govt. schemes reach all eligible people: PM Modi<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1994135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PIB<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/pm-modi-viksit-bharat-yatra-applications-welfare-schemes-9100166\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VBSY targets underserved eligible individuals, ensuring access of unutilized benefits in different schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38992","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=38992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}