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Q89 (IAS/2017) Economy › Schemes, Inclusion & Social Sector › Rural development programmes Official Key

What is the aim of the programme 'Unnat Bharat Abhiyan' ?

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The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) launched Unnat Bharat Abhiyan with an aim to connect institutions of higher education, including IITs, NITs and IISERs, with local communities to address the development challenges through appropriate technologies.[1] The mission enables higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth.[2]

Option A is incorrect as the program is not focused on achieving 100% literacy or promoting collaboration with voluntary organizations. Option C is incorrect because while the program involves scientific institutions, its objectives focus on building institutional capacity in research and training relevant to the needs of rural India[3], not on making India a global scientific power. Option D is incorrect as the program does not involve allocating special funds for healthcare, education, or organizing skill development programs for the poor; rather, it aims to provide rural India with professional resource support from institutes of higher education.[4]

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  1. [1] https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=113018
  2. [2] https://drdahamirpurhp.nic.in/ubm.htm
  3. [3] https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=113018
  4. [4] https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=113018
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Statement 1
Does the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan program aim to achieve 100% literacy by promoting collaboration between voluntary organizations, the government's education system, and local communities?
Origin: Web / Current Affairs Fairness: CA heavy Web-answerable

Web source
Presence: 2/5
"The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has launched a programme called Unnat Bharat Abhiyan with an aim to connect institutions of higher education, including Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) etc. with local communities to address the development challenges through appropriate technologies."
Why this source?
  • Explicitly states UBA aims to connect institutions of higher education with local communities to address development challenges — supporting the "collaboration... with local communities" part of the statement.
  • Does not mention 100% literacy or collaboration with voluntary organizations or the government's education system, so it does not support the literacy claim.
Web source
Presence: 2/5
"The Mission of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India in identifying development challenges and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating sustainable growth."
Why this source?
  • Describes UBA's mission to enable higher educational institutions to work with the people of rural India to identify development challenges and evolve solutions — again supporting collaboration with local communities.
  • Makes no reference to a goal of 100% literacy or explicit partnerships with voluntary organisations or the government's formal education system.
Web source
Presence: 2/5
"The Unnat Bharat Abhiyan is conceptualized as a movement to connect institutes of higher education with local communities to address the development challenges of rural India through appropriate technological inventions."
Why this source?
  • States UBA is conceptualized as a movement to connect institutes of higher education with local communities to address development challenges through appropriate technological inventions — supporting the collaboration-with-communities element.
  • Does not mention 100% literacy or voluntary organisations or the government's education system, so it does not support the specific literacy aim in the statement.

Exploring Society:India and Beyond. Social Science-Class VI . NCERT(Revised ed 2025) > Chapter 13: The Value of Work > The strength of community participation > p. 192
Strength: 4/5
“The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is based on the collective efforts of all Indian citizens to keep our surroundings clean. Individually, we keep our homes and surroundings clean. People have also come together to clean up streets, roads, parks and other public places or community areas. Together, these efforts lead to a clean home, neighbourhood, society and nation. Another example of collective community participation is the celebration of Van Mahotsav (the festival of forests) in India to promote awareness about the value of trees and the conservation”
Why relevant

Describes the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan as based on collective community participation, showing a pattern where national campaigns enlist local communities to achieve social goals.

How to extend

A student could infer that similar national programmes (like Unnat Bharat Abhiyan) might use local community collaboration to meet ambitious targets such as literacy.

Environment and Ecology, Majid Hussain (Access publishing 3rd ed.) > Chapter 6: Environmental Degradation and Management > EnvIronMEnt EducatIon, aWarEnESS and traInInG ScHEME (EEat). > p. 56
Strength: 5/5
“Te Central Government of India launched in the Sixth Five Year Plan in 1983-84. Te main objectives of the scheme were as under: • (i) to promote environmental awareness among all the section of the society,• (ii) to spread environmental education, especially in the non-formal system,• (iii) to facilitate development of education/training materials and aids in formal education sector,• (iv) to promote environmental education through existing educational/scientifc institutions,• (v) to ensure training and manpower development of Environment Education, Awareness and Training.• (vi) to encourage NGOs, mass media and other concerned organizations for promoting awareness about environmental issues,• (vii) to use diferent media (audio and visual) for spreading messages concerning environment awareness, and• (viii) to mobilize people's participation for the preservation and conservation of resources and environment.”
Why relevant

The EEAT scheme lists encouraging NGOs and mobilizing people's participation as explicit objectives, demonstrating an established rule of involving voluntary organisations and community mobilization in government education/awareness programmes.

How to extend

One could extend this pattern to suspect Unnat Bharat Abhiyan may also leverage NGOs and community participation to pursue educational outcomes.

Geography of India ,Majid Husain, (McGrawHill 9th ed.) > Chapter 15: Regional Development and Planning > Areas of Development > p. 35
Strength: 4/5
“• 1. Education: The literacy rate of the Scheduled Tribes is only 49.5% as against the national average of 73.0% (2011). Since education plays an important role in bridging the gap between the tribals and non-tribals and in helping the process of change and modernisation, a considerable amount of money is being spent on the provision of educational facilities to the tribals. For this purpose, award of scholarships, hostel facilities, stipends, stationery grants, boarding grants, midday meals etc. have been provided by the central and state governments. The coaching and guidance facilities are also provided to tribal students who appear for the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) and other competitions.”
Why relevant

Notes targeted educational measures (scholarships, hostels, coaching) used by government to raise literacy among marginalized groups, illustrating that state education systems implement interventions to improve literacy.

How to extend

A student could combine this with the idea of community/NGO involvement to assess whether Unnat Bharat Abhiyan might blend government education interventions with local/voluntary support to aim for universal literacy.

Indian Economy, Vivek Singh (7th ed. 2023-24) > Chapter 7: Indian Economy after 2014 > 7.1 NITI Aayog > p. 228
Strength: 3/5
“The Governing Council presents a platform to discuss inter-sectoral, inter-departmental and federal issues in order to accelerate the implementation of the national development agenda, in the spirit of Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat. The following are the various initiatives and programmes of NITI Aayog: • Aspirational District Programme• Poshan Abhiyan• Atal Innovation Mission• With emphasis on outcomes, NITI finalized indices to measure incremental annual outcomes in critical social sectors like health, education, water and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). For example, Health Index, 'School Education Quality Index' (SEQI), 'SDG India Index', 'Digital Transformation Index' (DTI).”
Why relevant

Describes NITI Aayog initiatives and indices (e.g., 'School Education Quality Index') showing central bodies set education targets and monitor outcomes, indicating a framework for nationwide educational programs.

How to extend

Using this, one could plausibly expect national programmes like Unnat Bharat Abhiyan to align with central monitoring and targets when pursuing literacy goals.

Indian Economy, Nitin Singhania .(ed 2nd 2021-22) > Chapter 8: Financial Market > 2016| > p. 250
Strength: 3/5
“Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana is aimed at (a) bringing the small entrepreneurs into formal financial system (b) providing loans to poor farmers for cultivating particular crops (c) providing pensions to old and destitute persons (d) funding the voluntary organizations involved in the promotion of skill development and employment generation STARTING”
Why relevant

Mentions that MUDRA Yojana funds voluntary organizations involved in skill development, giving an example of government funding NGOs to deliver social objectives.

How to extend

A student might generalize that government schemes sometimes fund voluntary organisations to achieve social targets, a model Unnat Bharat Abhiyan could follow for literacy efforts.

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