05 December 2022

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS ANALYSIS

1 – SVANIDHI SE SAMRIDDHI PROGRAM: GS II – Topic Government Policies and Interventions

 About Scheme: ‘SVANidhi se Samriddhi’:

• It is an add-on to the core application.
• It was started by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
• The project’s implementation partner is the Quality Council of India (QCI).
• Phase 1 of the campaign comprised 125 cities, including around 35 lakh street vendors and their families.
• The purpose is to equip street vendors with social security benefits in order to aid their holistic development and better their socioeconomic condition.
• As part of the programme, socioeconomic profiles of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families are conducted in order to establish their eligibility for eight Government of India welfare schemes and to allow sanctioning of qualifying schemes.

The eight schemes are as follows:

• The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana is a government-sponsored scheme.
• Suraksha Bima Yojana (Suraksha Bima Yojana) is a government-sponsored programme that helps low-income people.
• A government-sponsored scheme is the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana.
• Building and other construction workers’ employment and working conditions are regulated under the Act on the Regulation of Employment and Working Conditions for Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCW).
• Maandhan Shram Yogi Yojana
• The National Food Security Act (NFSA) – One Nation, One Ration Card – provides a benefit of mobility (ONORC).
• Janani Suraksha Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana

SVANidhi Scheme:

• It is a unique micro-credit facility that will offer a low-interest loan of up to $10,000 to over 50 lakh street vendors who established their businesses on or before March 24, 2020.
• The technical partner for the implementation of this scheme is the Small Industries Development Bank of India.
• It will manage loan guarantees to lending institutions through the Loan Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises.

The following loans are offered through the initiative:

• Vendors can apply for a working capital loan of up to $10,000, which is repayable over the course of a year in monthly instalments.
• If the loan is repaid on time or early, a 7% annual interest subsidy will be credited to borrowers’ bank accounts via Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) every six months.
• There will be no fines if the loan is repaid early.

Eligibility:

• The plan covers vendors, hawkers, thelewalas, rehriwalas, and theliphadwalas who supply goods and services in various areas/contexts. Street vendors from the surrounding peri-urban/rural areas are also represented.

 Source The Hindu

2 – JALIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE: GS I – Topic Modern Indian History

 About:

• Local residents in Amritsar decided to hold a meeting on that day, Baisakhi, to discuss and protest the detention of Satya Pal and Saifuddin Kitchlew, two leaders fighting for independence, as well as the implementation of the Rowlatt Act, which gave the British government the power to detain anyone without trial.
• The crowd included men, women, and children. They gathered in a park called the Jallianwala Bagh, which was fenced on all sides save for a few minor entries, against British orders. While the mob was gathered, Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, who had crept up to the scene with the purpose of teaching the rabble a lesson, ordered 90 soldiers he had brought with him to open fire on them. Many people tried but failed to scale the walls in an attempt to flee. Several people jumped into the well in the park.

Outcomes:

• General Dyer was removed of command and exiled to Britain after the carnage, receiving the moniker “The Butcher of Amritsar.”
• Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, respectively, surrendered their British knighthoods and the Kaiser-i-Hind medal as a gesture of protest.
• In 1922, the British repealed the heinous Rowlett Act.

 Source The Hindu

3 – BIRSA MUNDA: GS I – Topic Modern Indian History

 Who exactly was he:

• Bisra Munda was a Munda tribe tribal freedom warrior and folk hero. In the nineteenth century, he was a leading factor behind the Millenarian movement that arose in British-colonized Bihar and Jharkhand. He is also known as ‘Dharti Abba,’ or the Earth Father.
• He was born on November 15th, 1875.

Birsait:

• Bisra wanted to change the tribal group, so he encouraged people to give up their witchcraft beliefs and focus instead on prayer, abstinence from alcohol, faith in God, and following a code of conduct. He formed the ‘Birsait’ faith on the basis of these.

Achievements:

• The ‘Ulgulan,’ or ‘Great Tumult,’ movement was formed by Bisra. In 1908, as a result of his campaign against exploitation and prejudice towards tribals, the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act was passed, dealing a huge blow to the British administration. The law made it illegal for tribal members to sell their land to non-tribal members.

Uprising in Munda:

• It is one of the world’s most important tribal movements.
• It was commanded by Birsa Munda in Ranchi’s south from 1899 to 1900.

According to the movement, the following forces contributed to the Mundas’ discontent:

• The land policies of the British government were destroying the country’s historic land structure.
• Hindu landowners and moneylenders were encroaching on their land.
• Their native culture was rebuked by the missionaries.

The Importance of the Munda Rebellion:

• It forced the colonial government to pass legislation to ensure that the tribals’ land was not easily taken over by dikus (Chotanagpur Tenancy Act, 1908).
• It revealed that tribal peoples can stand up against injustice and express their dissatisfaction with colonial power.

Source The Hindu

4 – ABOUT THE RASHTRIYA GRAM SWARAJ ABHIYAAN: Prelims Specific Content

• A proposal to prolong the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA), a scheme to develop Panchayati Raj institutions’ governance capacities, till 2025-26 has been approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).
• In the years 2018 and 2019, it began.
• Among the plan’s objectives are “poverty-free and improved livelihood in villages,” “healthy villages, child-friendly villages,” “water-sufficient villages,” “clean and green villages,” “self-sufficient infrastructure in villages,” “socially secure villages,” “villages with good governance,” and “villages with engendered development.”

 Source The Hindu