Uttar Pradesh Quiz: Major Schemes of the Uttar Pradesh Government

The One District One Product programme was announced on Uttar Pradesh Diwas, 24 January 2018, and picks one traditional product for every district of the state so that its artisans get design help, common facility centres, marketing support and easier credit through one programme instead of many.

Bhadohi, on the Ganga plain near Varanasi, is the centre of India’s hand-knotted carpet industry, and the whole belt around it is often called the carpet city; ODOP therefore lists carpets as the product of Bhadohi.

The scheme, launched in 2019 and run by the Department of Women and Child Development, pays in six stages: at birth, after the full course of vaccination in the first year, on admission to Class 1, on admission to Class 6, on admission to Class 9, and on admission to…

Mukhyamantri Abhyudaya Yojana was started on Basant Panchami, 16 February 2021, and runs free coaching classes at centres in every division of the state for aspirants of the civil services, state services, NEET, JEE, defence services and other examinations, with serving officers taking some of the classes and the content…

The loan waiver was cleared at the first cabinet meeting of the state government in April 2017 and wrote off outstanding crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh taken by small and marginal farmers from banks, that is, farmers holding up to two hectares of land.

Begun in 2018 along with the ODOP programme, it gives traditional craftspeople such as weavers, potters, carpenters, blacksmiths, cobblers and tailors a short training course of about six days and a free set of tools so that they can earn more from the same craft.

The scheme, run by the Khadi and Village Industries Board and the MSME department, finances a bank loan for a new unit set up by an educated unemployed youth of the state, with the project cost allowed up to Rs 25 lakh in the industry sector and up to Rs…

Nivesh Mitra is the single-window system of the state, on which an entrepreneur files one application and tracks the no-objection certificates, registrations and licences needed from the many departments, with time limits fixed for each of them under the state’s right-to-service rules.

Under it the state distributes free smartphones and tablets to students of degree, diploma, technical and professional courses so that they can attend online classes and use government portals, and the beneficiary data is kept on the DigiShakti portal.

The scheme, notified in 2019, pays up to Rs 5 lakh to the family of a farmer who dies or is disabled in an accident, and it covers not only the recorded landholder but also the family members who work on the land, the claim being filed with the district…

Kannauj has distilled attar from flowers, herbs and roots for centuries using the deg and bhapka method, and is called the perfume city of India, so ODOP lists perfume and attar as its product.

Mission Shakti was launched in the Navratri of October 2020 and runs in phases, each phase combining awareness drives in villages and schools, help desks for women at police stations, action on crimes against women, and links to self-employment and self-help groups so that safety is joined to earning.