UPSC Current Affairs Hub
Reference pages for the schemes, institutions and policy concepts that UPSC Prelims actually tests. Each page aggregates the latest PIB releases on the topic plus past Prelims questions, so you can study the source the question-setter used — not a coaching summary of it.
Schemes
12 pagesPM-KISAN→
Central sector scheme that transfers ₹6,000 per year, in three equal instalments of ₹2,000, directly to bank accounts of eligible land-holding farmer families.
PMAY→
Twin housing-for-all schemes — PMAY-Urban (MoHUA) for urban poor and PMAY-Gramin (MoRD) for rural households — using subsidy, partnership and direct construction models.
Ayushman Bharat→
Two-pillar health initiative: Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) provides ₹5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary hospitalization, while Ayushman Arogya Man…
PLI→
Sector-specific scheme that pays manufacturers a percentage incentive on incremental sales over a base year, designed to boost domestic manufacturing in 14 priority sectors inclu…
Digital India→
Umbrella programme launched in 2015 to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy, organised around three vision areas: digital infrastructure as a…
PMKVY→
Flagship skill-development scheme of the Skill India Mission, providing short-term training and certification aligned to the National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF), plus R…
Swachh Bharat→
Twin sanitation missions launched in 2014 — SBM-Gramin under the Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (Ministry of Jal Shakti) and SBM-Urban under MoHUA — covering toilet co…
Make in India→
Initiative launched in 2014 to facilitate investment, foster innovation, build best-in-class infrastructure, and develop India as a global manufacturing hub, identifying 25 prior…
PMJDY→
Financial-inclusion mission launched on 28 August 2014 providing zero-balance bank accounts to unbanked households, with a RuPay debit card, accident insurance cover, and an over…
Startup India→
Initiative launched in January 2016 to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation and startups, providing tax exemptions, easier compliance, IPR fast-tracking, and the Fun…
MUDRA Yojana→
Scheme that provides collateral-free institutional credit to non-corporate, non-farm micro and small enterprises through three product categories: Shishu (up to ₹50,000), Kishore…
MGNREGA→
Statutory entitlement under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, that guarantees at least 100 days of unskilled manual wage employment per financial…
Institutions & policy concepts
8 pagesRBI→
Central bank of India, established 1 April 1935 under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, and nationalised in 1949. Functions: monetary authority, regulator and supervisor of ba…
GST→
Comprehensive indirect tax levied on the supply of goods and services, introduced via the 101st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2016 and rolled out on 1 July 2017. It subsumed cent…
NITI Aayog→
National Institution for Transforming India — a policy think-tank of the Government of India, established on 1 January 2015 by an Executive Resolution to replace the Planning Com…
G20→
Premier multilateral forum for international economic cooperation, comprising 19 countries, the European Union, and (since 2023) the African Union. Established at the finance-min…
IndiaAI→
Comprehensive programme approved by the Cabinet in March 2024 with an outlay of ₹10,371.92 crore over five years to build AI compute infrastructure, datasets, foundation models,…
Finance Commission→
Constitutional body set up under Article 280 every five years by the President, primarily to recommend the distribution of net proceeds of taxes between the Centre and the States…
UPI→
Real-time, mobile-first interbank payment system developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and launched in 2016, that lets users transfer money between bank…
Vande Bharat→
Indigenously designed semi-high-speed Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) train manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai. The first train ran on 15 February 2019 (origi…
Why these pages exist
UPSC question-setters work from primary documents — PIB releases, Economic Survey chapters, ministry FAQs — not from coaching notes. Each page here pulls the latest PIB items on a single topic so you read the same source the paper-setter is reading. The "Past UPSC questions" block shows which years tested the same idea, so you can see how the topic shows up in real exams.
Last updated 9 May 2026.