State PCS - Uttar Pradesh (UP PCS)

• 15 Apr 2025

India Skills Report 2025

Why in News? 

In the India Skills Report 2025, Uttar Pradesh has topped the country in the areas of mathematical skills and computer proficiency. 

• The state has also made remarkable progress in employment opportunities and ranking of cities. 

Key Points 

• About the Report: 
  • According to the report, 80% of the youth are proficient in mathematics and computer skills .  
  • In this case, Uttar Pradesh has secured the first position, leaving behind Andhra Pradesh.  
    • Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Telangana are at third, fourth and fifth positions respectively. 
  • Uttar Pradesh is also ranked first in critical thinking.  
    • After this, Rajasthan is at second place and Madhya Pradesh is at third place. 
  • In the field of English proficiency, Maharashtra has secured first place, Karnataka second and Uttar Pradesh third . 
    • These figures have emerged in the Global Employability Test (GATE) report, which evaluates the job-ready skills of students and professionals across the world. 
  • Uttar Pradesh ranks first in the country in terms of availability of employment resources for youth in the age group of 18-25 years , while the state has also secured third position in the category of youth in the age group of 26-29 years 
  • Uttar Pradesh is second after Tamil Nadu as the preferred state for internships 
  • In total employment percentage, Maharashtra (84%) is at first place, Delhi (78%) at second, Karnataka (75%) at third, Andhra Pradesh (72%) at fourth, 

Kerala (71%) at fifth and Uttar Pradesh (70%) at sixth place. 

Zero Poverty Programme

Why in News? 

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh has announced that the 'Zero Poverty Programme' being launched in Uttar Pradesh will be known by the name of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar . 

Key Points 

• About the Program: 
  • The objective of this program is that no person in Uttar Pradesh should be deprived of basic facilities and the poor and marginalized communities should be linked to all government schemes
  • According to the Chief Minister this scheme is being named after Baba Saheb Ambedkar because it was he who presented the philosophy of educational, social and economic upliftment . 
  • In every Gram Panchayat, 20-25 such families will be identified, who are still deprived of the facilities. 
  • The state government will work to provide all the government facilities like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, toilets, drinking water, electricity, gas connection, Ayushman card, pension schemes to such families . 
    • In the first phase, 14-15 lakh families will be included in the scheme. 
    • The scheme will give special priority to Musahar, Tharu, Vantangiya, Kol, Buksa, Chero, God and Saharia communities . 
  • The committee formed for the maintenance of community toilets of Gram Panchayats will get regular monthly honorarium . 

 Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) 

• Launch: To achieve the objective of “Housing for All” by the year 2022 , the erstwhile rural housing scheme Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) was restructured into Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme from 1 April 2016 . 
• Ministry Involved: Ministry of Rural Development. 
• Status: States/UTs have sanctioned 2.85 crore houses to the beneficiaries and 2.22 crore houses have been completed till March 2023. 

Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY 

• Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana ( PMJAY) is the world's largest fully government -funded health insurance scheme. 
• Launched in February 2018, the scheme provides a sum insured of Rs 5 lakh per family for secondary as well as tertiary care . 
  • The health benefit package covers surgery, medication and daily treatment, cost of medications and diagnosis. 
• It is an entitlement-based scheme that targets beneficiaries identified by the latest Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data. 
• National Health Authority (NHA) has provided flexibility to States/UTs to use non-SECC beneficiary family databases with similar socio-economic profiles for tagging against left out (unverified) SECC families. 
• The scheme is funded jointly, 60:40 between the Centre and legislature in case of all States and Union Territories , 90:10 for North-Eastern States and Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and 100% central funding for Union Territories without a legislature.