World’s largest government-funded health assurance scheme Let us begin by imagining this:A poor family suddenly faces a medical emergency — heart surgery, cancer treatment, or a road accident.This one incident can wipe out their lifetime savings, push them into debt, or even cost them their lives. To protect such vulnerable families from catastrophic health expenditure,…
“Ek desh, ek digital health identity” – a revolutionary step towards digitalizing India’s health system. Let us start with a simple question:➡️ When you change doctors or hospitals, what is the first thing they ask? Your medical history.But how often do you carry your previous prescriptions, reports, or diagnosis papers? Rarely, right? This is where…
🧠 Understanding the Broader Picture Education is not just about schools and universities. It’s also about research access, financial empowerment, digital education, skill development, and inclusive literacy. While major schemes like Samagra Shiksha, PM SHRI, and PM-USHA form the backbone, several parallel initiatives strengthen India’s educational ecosystem. Let’s explore them, one by one. 🔷 One…
🧭 Context: Why Do We Need a Dedicated Scheme for State HEIs? If school education is the foundation of a strong nation, then higher education is the engine of growth and innovation. But there’s a paradox—while elite institutions like IITs and IIMs flourish, a large section of India’s higher education system, especially in the states,…
🧭 Introduction: Why Was This Scheme Needed? Imagine an India where every district proudly showcases at least one school that reflects the ideal vision of education—vibrant classrooms, skilled teachers, joyful learning, digital tools, environmental awareness, and most importantly, values-based development. This isn’t a utopia—it’s the vision behind PM SHRI Schools. Launched in line with the…
🧭 Understanding the Context: Why Samagra Shiksha? Imagine trying to fix the education system by working on pre-primary, primary, secondary, and teacher training — all separately, with multiple departments, schemes, and disconnected policies. It becomes a bureaucratic maze. India faced exactly this situation until 2018, when it was realized that education is not a fragmented…
When we talk about NAM (National AYUSH Mission), it is not a standalone program. The Ministry of AYUSH has launched a series of complementary initiatives to strengthen regulation, digital access, documentation, and credibility of AYUSH systems. 🔬 Scheme for Promoting Pharmacovigilance of AYUSH Drugs Let’s begin with a simple analogy. If a medicine causes side…
Imagine India’s healthcare system as a diverse garden. On one side, you have Allopathy, the dominant system. But in the same garden, there exist deeply rooted, time-tested medicinal systems that have originated from Indian culture itself — Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, and Homoeopathy. These systems are together known as AYUSH. Now, the Government of…
These schemes are targeted initiatives by NCDC to support various sectors under the umbrella of cooperative empowerment. While the Dairy Sahakar focuses on dairy, these schemes broaden the scope to healthcare, youth entrepreneurship, and internships. Let us look at each of them one by one: 🩺 AYUSHMAN SAHAKAR SCHEME “Cooperatives in the service of holistic…
Introduction: The Vision Behind the Scheme The Dairy Sahakar Scheme was launched as a part of the government’s larger vision of transforming the cooperative sector. The motto behind this scheme is: 🗣️ “From Cooperation to Prosperity” This means that cooperatives, which are often small or local-level bodies, must not remain just as facilitators of services,…
