Lok Sabha Question No. 142 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-04
Subject: YUVA Scheme
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sujay Radhakrishna Vikhepatil, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Shrikant Eknath Shinde

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.142 ANSWERED ON 04.12.2023

## YUVA Scheme

## 142. DR. SUJAY RADHAKRISHNA VIKHE PATIL:

PROF. RITA BAHUGUNA JOSHI:

DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) The  number  of  beneficiaries  under  the  Young  Upcoming  and  Versatile Authors (YUVA) Scheme since its launch along with the details thereof, State-wise particularly in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharastra;

- (b) whether the Government has any plan to extend the scope of the scheme to include more beneficiaries above the age of 30 years;
- (c) whether the YUVA Scheme has been able to achieve the objective for which it was launched, if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the total amount released by the government for the YUVA Scheme since its launch and the actual amount spent thereon?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

## (DR. SUBHAS SARKAR)

(a) The PM YUVA Mentorship Scheme was launched on 29 th  May 2021 with an aim to provide a platform to the young authors below the age of 30 years through a Mentorshipcum-Scholarship  Scheme.  The  authors  were  selected  through  an  All-India  competition conducted  through  MyGov  and  National  Book  Trust  (NBT)  platforms  in  all  22  Official Indian  languages  and  English.  Under  this  scheme,  75  YUVA  authors  were  selected  from across the country. A state-wise details of selected beneficiaries is attached at annexure.

- (b) The  PM-YUVA  Mentorship  Scheme  is  to  promote  young  authors,  hence  the maximum age limit of 30 years has been fixed for the participants.
- (c) YUVA scheme was launched to provide opportunity and groom to young authors to create ambassadors of Indian literature. It has been successfully implemented since launched and  created  awareness  amongst  young  authors  and  researchers  to  locate  and  write  about unsung heroes & unknown places of national movement.

In  PM  YUVA-1,  16000  applicants  participated,  75  winners  got  selected  through merit bases system, 70 books of the selected beneficiaries have been published and released during New Delhi World Book Fair 2023.

(d) As on 29 th  November 2023, amount released by the Ministry of Education under the PM YUVA scheme is Rs 3.28 Cr. and amount utilized is 2.54 Cr.

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ANNEXURE  AS  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.142 FOR ANSWER ON 04.12.2023 REGARDING YUVA SCHEME  ASKED  BY  DR.  SUJAY  RADHAKRISHNA  VIKHE  PATIL,  PROF.  RITA BAHUGUNA JOSHI, DR. SHRIKANT EKNATH SHINDE HON'BLE MPs.

## The State-wise details are as below:

|   S. No. | State          |   Number |
|----------|----------------|----------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh |        1 |
|        2 | Assam          |        4 |
|        3 | Bihar          |        5 |
|        4 | Chhattisgarh   |        1 |
|        5 | Delhi          |        6 |
|        6 | Gujarat        |        3 |
|        7 | Haryana        |        1 |
|        8 | Jammu &Kashmir |        3 |
|        9 | Jharkhand      |        2 |
|       10 | Karnataka      |        6 |
|       11 | Kerala         |        6 |
|       12 | Maharashtra    |        6 |
|       13 | Manipur        |        2 |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh |        1 |
|       15 | Odisha         |        3 |
|       16 | Punjab         |        1 |
|       17 | Rajasthan      |        3 |
|       18 | Tamil Nadu     |        5 |
|       19 | Telangana      |        2 |
|       20 | Uttarakhand    |        3 |
|       21 | Uttar Pradesh  |        5 |
|       22 | West Bengal    |        6 |