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Amrit Yatra of New India Cover Story

Golden Period....

To promote skill The scope of Atal Smart India
development, more Tinkering Lab has Hackathon has
than increased to about attracted more than
50,000 9000 1000000

students' participation, about
youth will be trained schools and 6 thousand ideas from more
by 2024 under the now it will be than 7 thousand institutions.
Rail Kaushal Vikas taken beyond 10 Efforts will be taken to give
Project. thousand. further momentum to it.

Free skill training Making India a Sports Powerhouse

More women and over 45 thousand To secure a place for India in
than differently-abled people have the list of top 10 countries in
been empowered by free skill the Olympic Games by 2028. A
training and efforts are being separate provision of Rs 8750
46 taken to cover their cent crore for sports by 2021-25.
Lakhs percent population.

n Training athletes under podium scheme in the run-up to Los Angeles Olympics-
2028. Another special feature of the new National Education Policy is that sports
have been made a part of mainstream education instead of extra-curricular.
n The campaign aimed at providing opportunities to sportspersons through grooming
talent and increasing the use of technology to be intensified and expanded in this
decade. Under the new education policy, a target has been set to provide vocational
skills to at least 50% of the students by 2025 so that the vocational skills acquired
at the school level can be taken up to a higher education level.

INDIA HAS MAXIMUM START-UPS IN has been given to the states.

THE WORLD. YOUTH ARE GETTING NEW ALL AROUND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH INNOVATION. The central government is ensuring that in
the development journey no person, no class,

their own oxygen plants. Now every class no region, no corner of the country should be
and region which have remained beyond the left behind. Efforts have been made in the last
ambit of development are being taken along. seven years to give attention to such areas of
Along with it, Dalits, Backwards, Tribals, and the country. Be it Eastern India or Northeast
marginalized people in general categories or Jammu-Kashmir, Ladakh including the
are getting the benefit of reservation. More entire Himalayan region, coastal areas, or
recently, arrangements have also been made tribal areas, is becoming new frontiers for
for reservations for the OBC category in the All India's development journey. The Delimitation
India Quota for medical education. By making a Commission has been constituted in Jammu
law in Parliament, the right to make the OBC list and Kashmir and preparations are also going

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