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# 300 Rurban Clusters will be developed under the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission
# 100% village electriication by 1st May, 2018.
# District Level Committees under Chairmanship of senior most Lok Sabha MP from
the district for monitoring and implementation of designated Central Sector and
Centrally Sponsored Schemes.
# Priority allocation from Centrally Sponsored Schemes to be made to reward villages
that have become free from open defecation.

# A new Digital Literacy Mission Scheme for rural India to cover around 6 crore
additional household within the next 3 years.

# National Land Record Modernisation Programme has been revamped.
# New scheme Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan proposed with allocation of `655 crore.
SOCIAL SECTOR INCLUDING HEALTH CARE

# Allocation for social sector including education and health care – `1,51,581 crore.
# `2,000 crore allocated for initial cost of providing LPG connections to BPL families.
# New health protection scheme will provide health cover up to `One lakh per family.
For senior citizens an additional top-up package up to `30,000 will be provided.
# 3,000 Stores under Prime Minister’s Jan Aushadhi Yojana will be opened during 2016-17.
# ‘National Dialysis Services Programme’ to be started under National Health Mission
through PPP mode
# “Stand Up India Scheme” to facilitate at least two projects per bank branch. This
will beneit at least 2.5 lakh entrepreneurs.
# National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Hub to be set up in partnership with
industry associations
# Allocation of `100 crore each for celebrating the Birth Centenary of Pandit Deen
Dayal Upadhyay and the 350th Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh.
EDUCATION, SKILLS AND JOB CREATION

# 62 new Navodaya Vidyalayas will be opened
# Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to increasing focus on quality of education
# Regulatory architecture to be provided to ten public and ten private institutions to
emerge as world-class Teaching and Research Institutions
# Higher Education Financing Agency to be set-up with initial capital base of `1000 Crores
# Digital Depository for School Leaving Certiicates, College Degrees, Academic
Awards and Mark sheets to be set-up .
SKILL DEVELOPMENT

# Allocation for skill development – `1804. crore.
# 1500 Multi Skill Training Institutes to be set-up.
# National Board for Skill Development Certiication to be setup in partnership with
the industry and academia
# Entrepreneurship Education and Training through Massive Open Online Courses
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