{"id":29578,"date":"2018-10-26T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29578"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:50:15","slug":"partial-success-for-gram-swaraj-abhiyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/partial-success-for-gram-swaraj-abhiyan\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial success for Gram Swaraj Abhiyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/partial-success-for-gram-swaraj-abhiyan\/article23797258.ece\">Partial success for Gram Swaraj Abhiyan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the end of a three-week drive to bring seven flagship schemes to 16,850 villages with a high number of poor, SC (Scheduled Caste) and ST (Scheduled Tribe) households, less than 30% of the target households received an electricity connection, while less than 40% got a gas connection, according to government data.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gram Swaraj Abhiyan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Gram Swaraj Abhiyan was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14, the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, to reach out to villages, most of which have a majority of Dalit and tribal homes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why the Outreach program was launched?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official objective of the outreach programme, which was launched a fortnight after nationwide protests against the dilution of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, was to \u201cpromote social harmony, spread awareness about pro-poor initiatives of government, reach out to poor households to enrol them in various welfare programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Code of Conduct<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Villages in Karnataka and West Bengal, where the election code of conduct is in effect, were left out of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Targeted outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>However, financial schemes for rural beneficiaries to get Jan Dhan bank accounts and sign up for life and accident insurance achieved a high level of saturation<\/li>\n<li>A scheme to fully immunise all pregnant women, and all children under two years, also reached almost all targeted beneficiaries.<\/li>\n<li>The Saubhagya scheme to give every household an electricity connection reached 4 lakh homes, as against a target of 14.5 lakh homes, thus reaching 27% of the intended beneficiaries.<\/li>\n<li>Under the Ujjwala scheme to give gas connections to all homes, 39% or 5.6 lakh households were reached out of a total target of 14.4 lakh.<\/li>\n<li>The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, a life insurance scheme, enrolled 73% of targeted beneficiaries, while the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana, a risk insurance scheme for accidental death or disability, enrolled almost 88% of target beneficiaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Till full saturation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gram Swaraj Abhiyan officially ended on Saturday, the government planned to continue until full saturation was achieved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partial success for Gram Swaraj Abhiyan What has happened? 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