{"id":1785,"date":"2024-03-29T21:30:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:41:14","slug":"q-what-is-the-purpose-of-vidyanjali-yojana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-what-is-the-purpose-of-vidyanjali-yojana","title":{"rendered":"Q.\u00a0What is the purpose of Vidyanjali Yojana\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. To enable the famous foreign educational institutions<\/strong> to open their campuses in India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. To increase the quality of education<\/strong> provided in government schools by taking help from the private sector and the community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. To encourage voluntary monetary contributions <\/strong>from private individuals and organizations so as to improve the infrastructure facilities for primary and secondary schools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Select the correct answer using the code given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 3 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 1 and 2 only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 2 and 3 only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Answer:<\/strong> (a) 2 only<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

      Vidyanjali Yojana<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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      • Vidyanjali is an amalgamation of the words Vidya meaning \u201ccorrect knowledge<\/strong>\u201d or \u201cclarity<\/strong>\u201d and Anjali meaning \u201can offering with both hands\u201d<\/strong> in Sanskrit language.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Vidyanjali is an initiative taken by the Ministry of Education<\/strong>, Government of India with the aim to strengthen Schools through community and private sector involvement<\/strong> in schools across the country.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • This initiative would connect schools with varied volunteers from the Indian Diaspora<\/strong> namely, young professionals, school alumni, in service and retired teachers \/ Government officials \/ professionals and many others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Vidyanjali has two verticals: \u201cParticipate in school Service \/ Activity\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cAssets \/ Material \/ Equipment<\/strong>\u201d in which volunteer can support and strengthen the government and government aided schools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Vidyanjali, which is being implemented under the overall aegis of the Samagra Shiksha <\/strong>will enhance the community involvement in Government schools <\/strong>and effectively engage children in reading, creative writing, public speaking, play acting, preparing story books etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The volunteers can register for free by visiting through the mobile app<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The Programme is unique which gives the freedom to the volunteers to design their activities<\/strong> in consultation with the school.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The programme will be open for participation by all Indian citizens including retired Professionals, retired government officials, working professionals, homemakers and also persons from the Indian Diaspora.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Yojana allows an individual to take part in government reforms and help the government in tackling issues on quality education and scarcity of teachers<\/strong> across India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)<\/strong> established by statute, involves four regional committees which are responsible to monitor the quality of teacher passing institutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • The program being piloted across 21 states which includes Indian states like Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Vidyanjali 2.0 portal will facilitate donations, contributions<\/strong> from Corporate Social Responsibility funds, and volunteering, all aimed at developing and improving schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Select the correct answer using the code given below: Answer: (a) 2 only Vidyanjali Yojana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[38],"years":[56],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-economy","years-56"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":38,"label":"Indian Economy"}],"years":[{"value":56,"label":"2017"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":38,"name":"Indian Economy","slug":"indian-economy","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":38,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":225,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}