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The Minister of Human Resource Development, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju today said that a National Mission on Teachers and Training will be launched which will lay down a roadmap to improve the quality of teachers and teaching thereby improving the educational delivery and learning outcomes in higher education institutions and added that a sum of Rs 100 crore has been provided in Annual Plan 2013-14.

The Minister further added that a major new initiative is the Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) of Rashtriya Uchhatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) which will be launched to provide financial assistance to State Instituions. The total outlay for the scheme in the XII Plan is Rs. 25,000 crore of which a sum of Rs 500 crore has been provided in Annual Plan 2013-14.

On the issue of social imbalances in higher education system, the Minister said that National initiative will be launched for greater inclusion of socially disadvantaged sections of SCs, STs, Minorities, Backward classes, girls and inclusion of persons with disabilities in higher education will be accorded priority.

Since the launch of Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme on 1.1.2013, the Minister said that the Department of Higher Education has disbursed scholarships to 36060 students under ‘Universities / College Students’ and fellowship to 4971 students under ‘Fellowship Schemes of UGC’ and the amount has directly been transferred into the bank account of beneficiaries spread all over the country.

On the issue of elementary education the Minister said that thirteen states have asked for relaxation of guidelines in terms of qualification of teachers so that those states could have more number of teachers. He also expressed that untrained teachers in these states could be trained through distance education programme. There are 7.72lakh untrained teachers out of which 6 lakhs are being trained through this programme.

Regarding women’s education, he said that Sakshar Bharat Programme is being implemented to increase literacy level among women.

On Akash tablets, the Minister expressed that IIT Mumbai, has placed order for one lakh sets which are to be supplied by the end of this month. There is a gap in supply; the ministry is concentrating on content rather than hardware in order to let the people have choice about the set. The Ministry, he said wants to create enabling and conducive environment for technology based education.

Source: PIB News

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Electronic Transfer of funds for centrally sponsored welfare schemes
There is a proposal to shift to a system of Aadhaar enabled direct cash transfer for government subsidies and benefits to promote greater transparency in the implementation of government schemes. The schemes which are to be covered under this system are given below…

 

List of Central Sector/ Centrally Sponsored Schemes amenable to Direct Cash Transfers :-
1.    Post Matric Scholarship for SC Students
2.    Pre Matric Scholarship for SC Students
3.    Pre Matric Scholarship for children of those engaged in unclean occupations
4.    Upgradation of merit of SC students
5.    National Overseas Scholarship schemes for SC students
6.    Post Matric Scholarships for OBC
7.    National Overseas Scholarship for OBCs
8.    Post Matric Scholarships for economically backward class students
9.    Post Matric Scholarship for students with disabilities
10.    National Overseas Scholarship for persons with disabilities
11.    Scholarship for top class education for students with disabilities
12.    Top Class Education Scheme
13.    Scholarship to Universities/College Students.
14.    Fellowship Schemes of UGC
15.    Fellowship Schemes of AICTE
16.    Subsidy on Fee to Students.
17.    National Means cum Merit Scholarship.
18.    National Schemes for Incentive for the girl child for secondary education.
19.    National Overseas Scholarship for ST students
20.    Post Matric Scholarship Scheme
21.    Upgradation of merit scheme
22.    Top Class Education Schemes
23.    Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship
24.    Matric Scholarship Scheme
25.    Maulana Azad National Fellowship
26.    Merit cum Means Scholarship Scheme
27.    Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahlyog Yojana (IGMSY).
28.    Dhanalakshi Scheme.
29.    Janani Suraksha Yojana
30.    Scholarship to the Children of beedi workers.
31.    Housing subsidy to beedi workers.
32.    Stipend to children in the special schools under the Child Labour Project.
33.    Permanent Disablement Benefit, Dependent’s benefit, Sickness Benefit by Employees’ State Insurance Corporation to the insured persons and their families.
34.    Pension withdrawal of PF, Premature withdrawal of pension, payment related to Employees Deposit
Linked Insurance.
List of Schemes relating to Subsidy which are amenable to Direct Cash Transfers 
1.    Domestic LPG Subsidy Scheme.
2.    PDS Kerosene
3.    Targeted Public Distribution System (in UTs)
A part of the above detailed information was presented by the concerned Minister Shri.Rajeev Shukla as a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
Source: 90paisa

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