Government Schemes (Yojana) in India Part:-26



Nayi Manzil (New Destination) Scheme: All You Need To Know

Introduction
·         The scheme was launched in Jammu and Kashmir initially
·         On wards  the scheme covers the entire country
·         Minister for Minority affairs has launched the scheme
·         The scheme mainly focuses on school drop outs in minorities and help them complete their school education
·         The scheme aids in providing employment to youth and opportunities to school dropouts after training them

Nodal Agency
·         The scheme is implemented by ministry of minority affairs
·         Government of India to fund 3738 crore rupees for the scheme initially
·         World Bank funded scheme
·         Recently, World Bank signed credit agreement with GOI to provide funding to Nai Manzil Scheme to the tune of $50 million
·         Maulana Azad education foundation to impart skill training in all its centers

Background
World Bank reports indicate that around 20 percent of individuals in India in the age group of 17 to 35 are from minority groups
            Minority groups in India include
            1. Christians
            2. Muslims
            3. Jains
            4.Sikhs
            5. Parsees
            6. Buddhists
Nai Manzil scheme targets to tap the labor force from these minority groups to join the formal employment by proving skill training

Objectives
·         The main objective of the scheme is creation of employment to youth belonging to minority communities
·         The scheme also extends loans for starting up new businesses to minorities
·         The scheme is going to address the educational needs of the minorities especially Muslims
·         The scheme also covers the livelihood needs of minorities in India

Beneficiaries
·         Scheme covers people of India in the age group of 17 to 35 from all minority communities
·         All school drop outs are also eligible for training under this scheme
·         Madarasa students form the main beneficiaries
·         Madarasa students intern themselves to contemporary education and often do not get formal employment
·         Nai Manzil Scheme also enables Madarasa students to get employed in the formal sector through skill training and development
·         among all the seats ,30 percent of the seats will be reserved for minority girls

About Nai Manzil Scheme Training course
·         Tenure of the course is falls between 9 to 12 months
·         Bridge courses will be provided to the trainees to get 10th and 12th certification on distance mode
·         Trade basis skill training program is provided to the beneficiaries
·         Road are open to continue or pursue higher education and create employment opportunities in the formal sector
·         The training mainly covers courses in four main sectors are as follows
            1. Engineering
            2. Manufacturing
            3. Soft skills
            4. Services

Way Forward
·         The scheme is welcomed by all academicians and religious leaders
·         The scheme will benefit nearly 3 lakh madrasas operating in India
·         Each madrasa has about 100 students enrolled in them
·         A total of about 3 cr madrasa students would get benefited from the scheme
·         The scheme makes the minority young persons to compete with the rest of the students in the formal employment
·         The foremost benefit of the scheme is to make minority youth to become good citizens and enter formal sector rather than drifting towards anti social activities
·         Overall, the scheme is a great boon to the minority youth

Digi-Locker (Digital Locker) Scheme: All You Need To Know

INTRODUCTION
Digi Locker is nothing but a short of ‘digital locker’ that was launched by the government of India in February 2015.The main idea behind the scheme is to provide a secure storage of documents in digital form.It is one of the key initiatives of “digital India” campaign.It is also aimed to minimise the usage of the documents in physical form in which handling risks are involved.

WORKING OF SCHEME
It will be helpful in sharing the e-documents through the registered repositories, in order to ensure the authenticity of the documents online.This scheme allows the citizens to upload their own documents and digitally sign them using aadhar based e-sign facility.One can easily share to other entities or organisations using their aadhar enabled “Digi locker” accounts.Some of the examples of such digitally uploaded documents are income tax returns file, university degree certificates, etc.

ELEMENTS INVOLVED
My certificates futher divided into two Digital documents: It contains the URL’S of the documents issued by the government agncies or any other entities.
Uploaded documents: It contains all the documents uploaded by the end user,each not exceeding 10mb of space.
Issuer: an entity which issues the documents in original format and converting them to electronic format (digital format).
Requester: an entity who requests for a secure access to particular electronic-documents. Repository: a collection of e-documents.

USAGE
Currently, the beta version(trial version) has been launched in which more than 2.5 lakh of people registered and have uploaded more than 1.8 lakh of documents electronically through their aadhar enabled accounts.

ADVANTAGES
The Digital locker will gradually bring down the cost incurred in providing services by the government.
It will also bring down the staffing requirements involved for Hard copies management.
Helps in saving the time as well as safe and secure, thereby reducing the fraudulent and middlemen.
Since these e-documents are digitally signed using aadhar based facility one cannot cheat/forge the documents.
A “ Digi locker” user holder can access his/her e-documents anywhere at anytime.

SECURITY FEATURES
256 bit SSL encryption.
Mobile authentication based sign up facility.
Documents are hosted by ISO 27001 certified data centre.
Timed log out is provided to secure the user's account from unauthorised access.

CONCLUSION
One of the great step towards the ‘digital India’ by saving the time, cost and various other risks involved in physical transactions of the documents (because less involvement of human).


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