Bihar Quiz: Major Schemes of Bihar (Saat Nischay, Jeevika)

The seven resolves were announced as a programme of government in 2015 and were taken up for implementation from 2016, each resolve carrying its own schemes with budget provision: work for the youth, reservation for women in government jobs, electricity, piped drinking water, paved lanes and drains, toilets in every…

Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal is the resolve to take piped drinking water to every household, carried out by the Public Health Engineering Department in the towns and larger habitations and through the panchayats in the villages, and it had a special importance in Bihar because of arsenic, fluoride and…

The Bihar Student Credit Card Yojana, part of the first of the seven resolves, offers a loan of up to Rs 4 lakh for higher education after the intermediate, the state guaranteeing the loan through the Bihar State Education Finance Corporation so that a student without security can borrow for…

The scheme charges simple interest of four per cent in general, and only one per cent to women applicants, to transgender applicants and to the differently abled, a concession meant to push up the enrolment of girls in higher education.

The Kushal Yuva Program, run at Kushal Yuva Kendras under the first of the seven resolves, trains young people who have passed at least Class 10 in life skills and behaviour, in spoken and written communication in Hindi and English, and in the use of a computer, so that they…

The self-help allowance is paid to a young person of the state who has passed the intermediate examination, is between twenty and twenty-five years of age and is neither employed nor in further study, so that the cost of looking for work does not stop the search, and it is…

Under the resolve Aarakshit Rozgar, Mahilaon ka Adhikar, Bihar reserved thirty-five per cent of posts in state government services for women, a horizontal reservation that applies across categories, and the state was the first in the country to go that far in its services.

Jeevika is the working name of the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society, set up under the Rural Development Department with assistance from the World Bank, and it is the state agency for the national rural livelihoods mission, later renamed the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana, National Rural Livelihoods Mission.

The women who form and run the self-help groups of the programme are called Jeevika Didi in common speech and in government communication, and they have taken on work far beyond saving and lending, including running Didi ki Rasoi canteens, selling seeds and sanitary napkins, and keeping accounts for their…

The Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana, run through Jeevika, identifies the very poorest families, among them those whose earnings came from making or selling liquor before prohibition came into force in the state, and gives them an asset, a consumption support for the early months, training and hand-holding, so that they move…

The scheme of the industries department allows a project of up to Rs 10 lakh for a new enterprise and gives half of it, that is up to Rs 5 lakh, as a subsidy that need not be repaid, the rest being a loan at a nominal rate of interest…

The scheme, begun in 2006, gives money to buy a bicycle to girls who enter Class 9, the point at which many girls used to drop out because the high school was several kilometres from the village.