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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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70 Cabinets will be attending the Vishwakarma Scheme on 17th September BY R K MAHATO
Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, is going to the event from Ahmedabad, while Rajnath Singh, the Defence Minister, will participate from Lucknow. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari is expected to appear in Nagpur, Smriti Irani in Jhansi, Bhupender Yadav in Jaipur, and S Jaishankar in Thiruvananthapuram. In a comparable manner, additional ministers have been delegated to join the program, mostly in their states of residence.
The initiative will spend Rs 13,000 crore over the next five years on skill education and growth for conventional artisans, and craftsmen from groups including weavers, metalworkers, blacksmiths, laundry laborers, and barbers, who are mostly from the OBC population.
Benefits of the Vishwakarma Scheme:
The initiative intends to increase the excellence, scale, and accessibility of artisans and crafts people’s goods and services, as well as incorporate them into the local and global value chains. This will result in financial independence for such workers, particularly those from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Minority Societies, women, transgender people, and other marginalized groups. As the opposition relies on the caste survey for fairness and to increase its presence within the OBC population, the NDA administration intends to entice OBCs, particularly EBCs, with this scheme before the Lok Sabha elections.
OM NAMO BHAGWATE VASUDEVAI.
Features of Vishwakarma Scheme:
Since its launch, the program has been eagerly anticipated as a program that could finally provide significant benefits to a slew of essential but underappreciated local craft-based industries.
The program’s goal is to provide beneficiaries with loan discounts and encouragement to start enterprises. Under the scheme, a value of Rs 15,000 will be granted for toolkit development. Additionally, for a minimum of a hundred transactions per month, craftspeople will be granted a one rupee incentive sum per deal.
During the scheme’s initial phase, a loan of Rs 1 lakh will be made available to the beneficiary at an aggregate interest rate of 5%. The scheme would grant loans of up to Rs 2 lakh during the subsequent phase.
In addition to these direct loans, craftspeople will be given a PM Vishwakarma Yojana card, which would allow them to obtain roughly Rs 15,000 in sophisticated technology gear. The scheme will cover 18 different craft-based occupations such as carpenters, blacksmiths, cobblers, metalworkers, tailors, artists, and so on.
The scheme has been allocated around Rs 13,000 crores for the initial five years of execution, from 2024 to 2028. The youngest age limit for submitting an application for the funding program is 18 years, and only a single member of a given family is eligible to apply. The model would grant financing of up to Rs 2 lakh during the subsequent phase.
Final Verdict:
On September 17, PM Modi’s birthday, the BJP will kick off the fortnight-long commemoration with a sanitation drive, followed by visits to recipients of government initiatives and meetings with all parts of society till October 2.
The scheme is consistent with many other measures targeted at decreasing poverty and social uplift launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Among these were the provision of 50,000 crore to marketplace sellers under the PM Svanidhi scheme and the immediate deposit of 2.5 lakh crore into farmer banks through the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi.
This initiative is both current and essential as many vital skill-based jobs in our nation are highly underestimated and undervalued. As novel professions arise, it
is critical that older jobs remain viable; government subsidies and support of them are so critical and much required...
The Indians’: Historians tell the many histories of India with humanness and scholarly objectivity
An exhibition organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi earlier in 2023, titled “Glory of Medieval India: Manifestation of the unexplored Indian dynasties, 8th-18th centuries”, was proof of a much-dreaded pudding. That the current ruling dispensation is aggressively saffronising history is no secret, but the brazen omission of all Muslim kingdoms and dynasties in the exhibition confirmed what many of us have known for some time.
Through the corridors of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), along the frenzied renaming and remaking of Mughal-era heritage structures and cities, via manipulation of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks, and by means of rendering the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) toothless, the BJP-led government is erasing Muslim contributions to India’s history and culture. Their reason was articulated by ICHR member secretary Umesh Ashok Kadam, who said that he didn’t consider Muslim dynasties Indian dynasties. “Those people (Muslims) came from the Middle East and didn’t have a direct connection with Indian culture.”
The ICHR has been tasked by the State to write a multi-volume revised history of India – no, Bharat – and one can reasonably guess the nature of its contents. While their stated intention of including neglected or forgotten histories deserves praise, their omissions-by-design stink of bigotry.
Challenging the Juggernaut
It is this juggernaut that The Indians: Histories of a Civilization attempts to challenge. A comprehensive volume, edited by noted linguist and cultural theorist Ganesh N Devy, journalist and author Tony Joseph, and professor of history and archaeology Ravi Korisettar, it brings together a vast range of essays on the history of India, with themes ranging from archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics, to religion, culture, and the arts.
The book is divided into seven parts: The Evolution of Humans and Their Life Conditions; Foundations, Emergence, and the Decline of Civilization; The Language Mix and Philosophies in Ancient India; Cultures, Sub-Nationalities, and Region; Colonialism; Towards Federalism – Social and Political Movements; and India since Independence. These sections include a whopping 101 essays, bookended by an introductory note by Devy and a detailed afterword by noted historian Vinay Lal.
This breathtaking width of topics is necessary to accommodate the intention of the book, that is, to map the “histories” of a civilisation. Note that the title is purposefully plural because the story of India is the story of each one of us; stories told in multiples, and indeed sometimes, in contradictions. Editor GN Devy, however, warns in the introduction, “The many-ended openness of history as a field of enquiry allows majoritarian politics and autocratic regimes to replace the narrative of history by irrational and untenable claims.” Recently, these claims have tended towards an undesirable homogenisation.
This book stands in stark contrast to the bull-headed insistence on “oneness” with campaigns promoting one nation, one election, one language, one religion, and whatnot. Those who insist on “unity” forget the important caveat of diversity which gives India its uniquely pluralistic legacy. The book aims to uphold the “scientific view of history” while countering the “ideologically-charged attempts to distort the history of South Asia” with “fantasy, hallucination, and wishful nostalgia.”
As many Indias as there are Indians
Standing up against the State’s massive resources has been no mean feat, especially for Devy, who produced this work “in extreme financial difficulties.” And yet, the pages of The Indians offer unparalleled wealth to students of history and seekers of pluralistic perspectives.
The first part of the book traces the evolution of the Indian subcontinent from the earliest times, drawing a picture of the region using data from palaeoclimatology and population genetics. Tony Joseph’s essay on migrations harks back to his pathbreaking book Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, which almost entirely changed the narrative of our ancestry. In this essay, Joseph uses the metaphor of an “Indian Demographic Pizza” which I found equally charming and memorable.
This pizza, he says, comprises a base of Out of Africa migrants who form about 50%-65% of the population. Slathered on this base is a Harappan sauce comprising Indians from North and South India, who form the “cultural glue” of beliefs and practices found all over the country. And finally, there are later-day migrants who are the cheese and toppings of this pizza. Joseph’s theory is firmly supported by genetic evidence and is a great reminder to all those who like to stake a primacy claim on the land.
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Monday, September 25, 2023
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