Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy,popularly known as YSR,was the 14th chief minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh,serving from 2004 to 2009.
The Indian Forest Service (IFS) is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India. The other two All India Services being the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service. It was constituted in the year 1966 under the All India Services Act,1951,by the Government of India.
Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an apex Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. In 2003,the Parliament enacted a law conferring statutory status on the CVC. It has the status of an autonomous body,free of control from any executive authority,charged with monitoring all vigilance activity under the Central Government of India,advising various authorities in central Government organizations in planning,executing,reviewing and reforming their vigilance work.
The Ministry of Home Affairs,or simply the Home Ministry,is a ministry of the Government of India. As an interior ministry of India,it is mainly responsible for the maintenance of internal security and domestic policy. The Home Ministry is headed by Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah.
Social security in India includes a variety of statutory insurances and social grant schemes bundled into a formerly complex and fragmented system run by the Indian government at the federal and the state level and is divided into three categories:non-contributory and tax-payer-funded,employer-funded and lastly,joint-funded. The system has since been universalised with the passing of The Code on Social Security,2020. These cover most of the Indian population with adequate social protection in various situations in their lives. The Indian social security system is considered to be one of the most generous in the world amongst developing countries. The Central Government of India's social security and welfare expenditures are a substantial portion of the official budget and as well as the budgets of social security bodies,and state and local governments play roles in developing and implementing social security policies. Additional welfare measure systems are also uniquely operated by various state governments. The government uses the unique identity number (Aadhar) that every Indian possesses to distribute welfare measures in India. The comprehensive social protection system of India can be categorised as the follows:social assistance and mandatory social security contributory schemes mostly related to employment. The Code on Social Security,2020 is part of the Indian labor code that deals with employees' social security and have provisions on retirement pension and provident fund,healthcare insurance and medical benefits,sick pay and leaves,unemployment benefits and paid parental leaves. The largest social security programs backed by The Code on Social Security,2020 are the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation for retirement pension,provident fund,life and disability insurance and the Employees' State Insurance for healthcare and unemployment benefits along with sick pays. There is also the National Pension System which is increasingly gaining popularity. These are funded through social insurance contributions on the payroll. While the National Food Security Act,2013,that assures food security to all Indians,is funded through the general taxation. With the passing of the social security code by the Indian Parliament,the fragmented social security system was universalised,resembling the social security systems of most developed countries.
The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency,officially referred to as the Left Wing Extremism (LWE),is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals and the Indian government. The area of the insurgency is known as the red corridor,which has been steadily declining in terms of area and number of violent incidents;in 2021 it was confined to the 25 "most affected" locations and 70 "total affected" districts across 10 states in two coal-rich,remote,forested hilly clusters in and around the Dandakaranya-Chhattisgarh-Odisha region and the tri-junction area of Jharkhand-Bihar and West Bengal.
Sahni is an Indian (Khatri) surname found among the Hindus or Sikhs of Punjab.
Tella Lakshmi Kantamma was an influential Indian politician who served as a member of parliament from 1962 to 1977. She was also a political advisor to Prime Minister P.V Narasimha Rao.
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana,previously Indira Awas Yojana,is a social welfare programme,created by the Indian Government,to provide housing for the rural poor in India. A similar scheme for urban poor was launched in 2015 as Housing for All by 2022. Indira Awas Yojana was launched in 1985 by Rajiv Gandhi,the Prime Minister of India,as one of the major flagship programs of the Ministry of Rural Development to construct houses for the Below Poverty Line population in the villages.
The National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Government of India that provides financial assistance to the elderly,widows and persons with disabilities in the form of social pensions.
Andhra Pradesh State Election Commission is a Constitutional authority agency of Andhra Pradesh,India. It was formed under the Articles 243-K and 243-ZA of Constitution of India. It conducts the Rural and Urban Local Body Elections in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Yerra Srilakshmi is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Srilakshmi was former Andhra Pradesh Secretary for Industries (including).Telangana government gave her the posting order on October 7,2016,appointing as Chief Secretary of State Government Institutions,despite previous allegations and pending investigations for various involvement in controversial decisions,on approval by AP govt. She got the Special Chief Secretary post. In Dec'2020 she shifted from Telangana cadre to Andhra Pradesh cadre,albeit with questions asked about her previous involvement in various corruption issues and even being jailed for the same,being only let out on grounds of 'ill health'. She was posted as Secretary Municipal administration and urban development.
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is a rural development programme broadly focusing upon the development in the villages which includes social development,cultural development and spread motivation among the people on social mobilization of the village community. The programme was launched by the Prime Minister of India,Narendra Modi on the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan,on 11 October 2014.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an initiative by the Government of India in which affordable housing will be provided to the urban poor with a target of building 2 crore affordable houses by 31 March 2022. It has two components:Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(Urban) (PMAY-U) for the urban poor and Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin) for the rural poor. This scheme is converged with other schemes to ensure houses have a toilet,Saubhagya Yojana electricity connection,Ujjwala Yojana LPG connection,access to drinking water and Jan Dhan banking facilities,etc. Total 1 crore homes are approved against total demand of 1.12 crore as of 28 December 2019.
S. R. Sankaran (1934–2010) was an Indian civil servant,social worker and the Chief Secretary of the State of Tripura,known for his contributions for the enforcement of Abolition of Bonded Labour Act of 1976 which abolished bonded labor in India. One among the seven civil servants held hostage by the People's War Group in 1987,he was the chief negotiator of the state government in the negotiations of 2004 to end naxalite violence in Andhra Pradesh. He was a mentor to the Safai Karmachari Andolan,a social initiative propagated by Bezwada Wilson to eradicate manual scavenging in India. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 2005,for his contributions to society,but he declined the honor. His social welfare activities earned him the moniker,People's IAS officer.
Rajeev Sadanandan is a former Indian bureaucrat from the Kerala cadre of the Indian Administrative Service and a healthcare policy-maker. He has been working and researching in the area of health systems,policy and financing for over two decades. He has been involved with the health system of the state of Kerala and has been active in health sector reforms in the state. After serving as the Additional Chief Secretary,Kerala,taking care of the Department of Health and Family Welfare,he took over as the Chief Executive Officer of Health Systems Transformation Platform (HSTP),funded by the Tata Trusts.
Ajay Prakash Sawhney is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. He has served as the Secretary to the Government of India,at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Preeti Sudan is a retired Indian bureaucrat who served as Health Secretary of India from October 2017 to July 2020. She has been the key strategist in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
