UP Government Schemes, Planned Development and Skill Development

What the official syllabus says

UPPCS Main Examination, General Studies VI.

UP Government Schemes, Projects and Planned Development for welfare of People, Human Resources and Skill Development.

Topics in detail

Group the schemes of the state government by the people they serve and the need they meet, rather than learning a list. For each scheme note its aim, the target group, the kind of help (cash, training, loan, asset, service) and the department that runs it. Scheme names, amounts and eligibility change, so check the current version on the department's website before an exam.

Planning in UP

• Planned development in UP: Five-Year Plans in the state, the State Planning Commission and the planning department
• Decentralised planning: District Planning Committees (Article 243ZD) and Metropolitan Planning Committees (Article 243ZE)
• Regional development: special attention to Bundelkhand and Purvanchal, and the reasons for it
• Aspirational Districts Programme in UP (Bahraich, Balrampur, Shravasti, Siddharthnagar, Chitrakoot, Chandauli, Sonbhadra and Fatehpur) and the state's own programme for aspirational development blocks
• Monitoring of schemes: dashboards, social audit, direct benefit transfer (DBT)

Schemes by target group

• Girls and women: Mukhyamantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana, Mission Shakti, widow (destitute women) pension, women's self-help groups under the State Rural Livelihood Mission
• Poor families and marriages: Mukhyamantri Samuhik Vivah Yojana
• Elderly and persons with disabilities: old-age pension and disability pension
• Farmers: crop loan relief, input subsidies, farm machinery banks, irrigation and solar pumps
• Labour: registration of construction workers and the welfare board's schemes
• Housing: Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) alongside the central housing schemes
• Students: scholarships, the Abhyudaya scheme of free coaching for competitive examinations, distribution of tablets and smartphones
• Artisans: Vishwakarma Shram Samman Yojana (training and toolkits for traditional trades)
• Youth and entrepreneurs: Mukhyamantri Yuva Swarozgar Yojana and other self-employment loan schemes
• Rural industry: Mukhyamantri Gramodyog Rozgar Yojana (Khadi and Village Industries Board)
• Destitute cattle: the scheme for the care of stray (destitute) cattle and cow shelters

Projects for welfare

• Large projects that change welfare outcomes: rural drinking water, rural roads, electrification, health and medical colleges
• Projects for school infrastructure (Operation Kayakalp in basic education schools)
• Urban projects: Smart Cities, AMRUT and urban housing in UP's cities

Human resources

• Human resource development: education, health and nutrition as investment in people
• Demographic dividend of a young state and the risk of it turning into a burden
• Human development indicators of UP: literacy, life expectancy, infant mortality, nutrition
• Labour force participation, especially of women

Skill development

• Uttar Pradesh Skill Development Mission: its role in short-term skill training and placement
• Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs), polytechnics and apprenticeship
• Central skill schemes as run in UP: Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
• Skilling for traditional crafts and the ODOP products
• Linking skills to industry demand; problems of quality, placement and dropouts

Overlaps

Central welfare schemes as implemented in UP, including those under the Jal Shakti Mission, are in General Studies V. Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections and human resources for India are in General Studies II.