PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra

What’s in today’s article?

• Why in news?
• What is Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra?
• News Summary: PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra
• Key highlights of the speech

Why in news?

• The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi interacted with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra via video conferencing.

Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra

• About
  • The Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is a government initiative being undertaken across the country, to raise awareness about and track the implementation of flagship central schemes.
  • These schemes include programmes like Ayushman Bharat, Ujjwala Yojana, PM Surkasha Bima, PM SVANidhi, etc.
• Aims
  • Reach out to the vulnerable who are eligible under various schemes but have not availed benefit so far;
  • Dissemination of information and generating awareness about schemes;
  • Interaction with beneficiaries of government schemes through their personal stories/ experience sharing; and
  • Enrolment of potential beneficiaries through details ascertained during the Yatra.
• Implementation
  • The programme is being undertaken with the active involvement of various Union ministries and state governments.
• Achievement
  • According to the government’s PIB:
    • 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;
    • nearly 2 crore individuals have taken Viksit Bharat Sankalp; and
    • over 2 Crore beneficiaries of Central Government Schemes have shared their experiences under ‘Meri Kahani Meri Zubani’ initiative.

News Summary: PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra

• PM Modi interacted with the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra beneficiaries through video-conferencing.

Key highlights of the speech

• Main goal of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra (VBSY)
  • To ensure that government schemes reached all deserving people.
  • He said the drive recently completed 50 days and had connected with about 11 crore people.
• Government is reaching the doorsteps of the beneficiaries
  • The poor people who spent their lives waiting to get the benefits of government schemes are seeing a meaningful change today.
  • The government is reaching the doorsteps of the beneficiaries and proactively providing the benefits.
  • He said that the doctors were reaching the doorsteps of the poor, Dalits, the deprived and the tribals, which was considered a challenge.
• Highlighted the achievements of this drive
  • 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.
  • Health checkups for over two crore people had been carried out so far, including one crore TB and 22 lakh sickle cell checkups.
• Highlighted the government’s impact on women’s empowerment
  • The Prime Minister also highlighted the government’s impact on women’s empowerment through schemes like the Mudra Yojna, and their role as Bank Mitras, Pashu Sakhis, and Asha workers.
  • In the past decade, 10 crore women had joined self-help groups, where over ₹7.50 lakh crore had been provided to them.
  • He said the government has planned to further increase the number of such beneficiaries to two crore, via programmes like ‘NaMo Drone Didi Scheme’.
    • 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.
    • It seeks to empower women SHGs and bring in new technologies through drone services in the agriculture sector.

Q1) What is NaMo Drone Didi Scheme?

Namo Drone Didi' 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. 

Q2) What is PM Surkasha Bima? 

Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) is a government-backed accident insurance scheme in India.

Source: VBSY’s goal is to ensure that govt. schemes reach all eligible people: PM Modi | PIB | Indian Express