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Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

Why in News?
The Prime Minister, has paid homage to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on his Jayanti.

About Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Ji

• The Pandit Ji born in Mathura, UP in 1916, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay is an Indian politician.
• He was one of the most important leaders of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the forerunner of the present day Bharatiya Janata Party.
• He qualified the civil services examination, where he got his nickname as Panditji for appearing in the examination hall wearing traditional dhoti-kurta and cap.
• He however did not join the service, but became in 1942, a life-time volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
• However, Upadhyaya is seen to have played a larger role in India’s thought process and political life, transcending party lines.

About the Ideals of Pandit Ji

• The concept of Integral Humanism he propounded envisages remedies for the post-globalization maladies of the world.
• The Upadhyaya Ji conceived a classless, casteless and conflict-free social order. 
• He stressed on the ancient Indian wisdom of oneness of the human kind.
• For him, the brotherhood of a shared, common heritage was central to political activism. He emphasized on coexistence and harmony with nature.
• He conceptualized an alternative approach which was free from the dialectics of competition and envy, a third way from the inertia of Capitalism and Communism.
• He was a pioneer of many political experiments. He was the architect of the first coalition phase in Indian politics.
• The Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Ji was an advocate of less government and more governance.
• He believed in self-sustaining autonomous units, more power to states and decentralized and competitive federalism, solidly cemented on the cultural mosaic of our tradition, heritage and experience of the past.

About Major Schemes in the name of Pandit Ji

• The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY) – integrating the NULM and NRLM for alleviating poverty.
• The Deendayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) Antyodaya Diwas – to diversify the incomes of rural poor families and to cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.
• The Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana – to provide electricity to rural homes.
• The Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Shramev Jayate Karyakram – to create a conducive environment for industrial development primarily through  skill training.
• The Deendayal Upadhyaya Swaniyojan Yojana (DUSY) – the rural version of the Start Up India scheme.

National Service Scheme Awards

Why in News?
Recently, President of India presented National Service Scheme Awards for the year 2020-21.

About National Service Scheme (NSS)

• The National Service Scheme (NSS) is a Central Sector Scheme of Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports.
•  It provides opportunity to the student youth of 11th & 12th Class of schools at +2 Board level and student youth of Technical Institution, Graduate & Post Graduate at colleges and University level of India to take part in various government led community service activities & programmes.
• The sole aim of the NSS is to provide hands on experience to young students in delivering community service.
• Since inception of the NSS in the year 1969, the number of students strength increased from 40,000 to over 3.8 million up to the end of March 2018 students in various universities, colleges and Institutions of higher learning have volunteered to take part in various community service programmes.

Motto
The motto of National Service Scheme is NOT ME BUT YOU

Benefits of Being a NSS Volunteer

• A NSS volunteer who takes part in the community service programme would either be a college level or a senior secondary level student. Being an active member these student volunteers would have the exposure and experience to be the following:
  • an accomplished social leader
  • an efficient administrator
  • a person who understands human nature

National Service Scheme Award

• The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India had instituted the National Service Scheme Awards to recognize the voluntary service rendered by NSS volunteers, Programme Officers, N.S.S. units and the university/senior secondary council.
• These awards were instituted in the year 1993-1994. Since then, these awards are given away every year at various Levels. 

• To recognize outstanding contribution by NSS student volunteers, NSS Programme Officers and the Programme Coordinators in community service
• To encourage young NSS student volunteers to develop their personality through community service.
• To encourage the Programme Officers and the Programme Coordinators of NSS for catering the needs of National Service Scheme through the NSS volunteers.
• To motivate NSS Volunteers for continuing their selfless service towards community work.