Lal, Bharat and Kolipaka, Spurthi

Accelerating socio-economic development - Yojana - 66(4), Apr, 2022: p.13-19

In recent years, the government of idia has take a number of steps to improve the ‘quality of life’ and enhance ease of people with targeted approach towards poverty elimination, especially of shots eliding in rural areas, by ensuring basic services like housing toilets, electivity clean cooking gas, healthcare, financial services, social security, broadband connectivity, road, etc. The logical aspiration of people has now risen to have the provision of tap water within their household premises. The digital era provides the opportunity to utilize data analytics to measure and monitor the impact of various initiatives, to integrate and promote digital governance. This is possible even more so with the massive linkage of Aadhaar to the rural households. Time has come to understand the impact of the accessibility of these services to the poor and marginalised sections of society, and whether the families have been able to escape the vicious cycle of poverty. – Reproduced