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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Government in the dark on status of 13 schemes’ -Nitin Sethi

‘Government in the dark on status of 13 schemes’ -Nitin Sethi

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published Published on May 29, 2013   modified Modified on May 29, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: If the dictum 'you can't manage what you can't measure' is true, then the government has an unsure grip over at least half the 13 flagship schemes worth nearly Rs 2 lakh crore annually, almost 80% of the total spend on central schemes.

The government is unable to efficiently collate information to assess whether some of the 13 key flagship schemes are producing the results for which crores are being spent every year, Planning Commission's think tank, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, has said.

Two programmes that have made great strides in providing detailed information are the rural employment and rural roads schemes.

But for the few that have improved, allowing not just the government but also the public at large to assess the quality of work, there are several others which are floundering, the IAMR study has found. With the data being collected, its not possible at the moment to assess if flagships programmes such as Integrated Child Development Scheme, rural telephony, irrigation and mid-day meals are meeting their objectives, the think tank said.

The IAMR report said that in most schemes, there was a weak connection between data on what was implemented and what goals were really achieved. "This is applicable for majority of flagship schemes, except PMGSY and MGNREGS," the study said.

The information collected also differed from other authenticated sources of data. "For instance, Integrated Child Development Scheme and National Family Health Survey are quite inconsistent in respect of data on level of malnutrition for each state and hence at national level. Data authentication and validation is a criterion that is not followed in many schemes," the study said.

Noting that data to help assess real achievements instead of just money spent on projects was missing in many cases, it said, "In the Total Sanitation Campaign, toilets might be built, but the question that is always asked is: are toilets being used as toilets? Or are Nirmal Gram Puraskar villages still free of open defecation six months after the award to the village of that title by the President of India?"

Similarly, on the rural electrification scheme, it said online data generated should "be reporting whether any of those households actually get electricity in their home. Or, if so many thousand electric poles or electric lines in kilometres have been installed, how many of those have since simply gone missing".

The study also criticized the data collection systems of many flagship schemes for being too opaque or useless for people other than government agencies to use. In an odd case, it found the rural electrification data being used more by foreign entities - suggesting business interests in the power sector - rather than people in India.


The Times of India, 29 May, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Government-in-the-dark-on-status-of-13-schemes/articleshow/20321615.cms


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