Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan is associated with
- (a)Disabled Persons
- (b)Child Health Care
- (c)Women Empowerment
- (d)Under Privileged People
Correct — A, Disabled Persons. Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan (the Accessible India Campaign) is a nationwide programme to make India's environment barrier-free and accessible for Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan). Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 3 December 2015 (the International Day of Persons with Disabilities), and run by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment), it works on three verticals — accessibility of the built environment, of the transport system, and of the information & communication technology (ICT) ecosystem. Hence it is associated with disabled persons.
- (b)Child Health Care — Wrong — child health is addressed by programmes like Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram, not Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan, which targets accessibility for the disabled.
- (c)Women Empowerment — Wrong — women's empowerment is the domain of schemes such as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao; Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan is about accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.
- (d)Under Privileged People — Wrong — it is not a general anti-poverty/underprivileged scheme; its specific beneficiary group is Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan).
Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan / Accessible India Campaign is a flagship accessibility programme for Divyangjan (Persons with Disabilities). Its goal is 'universal accessibility' so that a person with any disability can independently access physical spaces, public transport and digital information. It operationalises the accessibility mandate of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016.
The name is the clue: 'Sugamya' means easily accessible/barrier-free. The campaign is about removing physical, transport and digital barriers for the disabled. Anchor it to '3 Dec 2015, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Dept. of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities' to separate it from health/women/poverty schemes.
- Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan = Accessible India Campaign; beneficiaries are Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan).
- Launched by PM Modi on 3 December 2015 (International Day of Persons with Disabilities).
- Implemented by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
- Three verticals: built-environment accessibility, transport accessibility, and ICT accessibility.
- Confusing Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan with poverty/underprivileged or health schemes
- Assuming any 'Bharat Abhiyan' relates to sanitation or health rather than disability accessibility
UPPSC & UPSC ask 'Scheme X is associated with which group?' — match the scheme name to its beneficiary; Sugamya Bharat = Persons with Disabilities.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan (Accessible India Campaign) is implemented under which Union Ministry?
- (a)Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- (b)Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- (c)Ministry of Women and Child Development
- (d)Ministry of Rural Development
Answer(b) Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment — through its Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Accessible India Campaign works on accessibility of which of the following? 1. Built environment 2. Transport 3. Information & communication technology
- (a)1 and 2 only
- (b)2 and 3 only
- (c)1 and 3 only
- (d)1, 2 and 3
Answer(d) 1, 2 and 3 — its three verticals are the built environment, transport and the ICT ecosystem.