WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT FLAGSHIP PROGRAM IN INDIA

Flagship programs of a government are those programs which are the main or most important and address major national concerns on health, education, environment, irrigation, urban and rural development, employment and other sectors. The ultimate objective behind the flagship programs is to achieve broad-based improvement in the living standards of people and to ensure that growth is widely spread so that its benefits, in terms of income and employment, are adequately shared by the poor and weaker sections of the society. The present volume is the scholar's articles/research papers derived from capacity building program organized at Faculty of Commerce, BHU during the month of January, 2019. Ten different flagship schemes of government of India namely MGNREGA, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Pradhan Mandrti Ujjwala Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, Deen Dayal Upadhya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana, Atal Pension Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Swach Bharat Abhiyan has been analyzed and apprised. The present volume would be helpful to policy makers in re-structuring, and re-assessment of existing schemes for its successful implementation and value creation. Further,  thirty (30) review as well as empirical papers under then useful flagship programs of government of India have been projected in the present volume that definitely will bring potential critical thinking among prospective researchers which finally pave the way in preparing proposals under STRIDE (Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for India's Developing Economy) IMPRESS (impactful Policy Research in Social Science) and SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Health insurance specified to gender inequities and how women's have biological risk factors, illness, and social contexts differ from men. Health insurance related to women is limited decision making.  Health insurance scheme highlighted barriers in Tamil Nadu state like household state and market. In Chhattisgarh they have pointed in women's higher vulnerability. Some of the states focus on the Self-employed Women's Association and they have also focus in Women's use of health insurance. Specific to health insurance, they have gender inequities are related to- they have experience of illness and they have differ from men. Then further, women's lower literacy and access to technology have resulted in lower awareness. In 2020 Tamil Nadu's state Health Insurance scheme generated barriers at multiple levels like household community. An organization of women workers in India, could improve women's use of health insurance.

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Keywords: Flagship programs, IMPRESS, SPARC, BBBP, Developing Economy, Decision Making.


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