Banna VenkateshAIR 15 · CSE 2024 · 132 wordsTheir whole copy
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India to achieve it's ideal of a welfare state as enshrined in Constitution need better implementation of welfare schemes based on principles of accountability and participation:
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Accountability & participation : Reaching the last mile
- Welfare state
- Directive principles & fundamental rights
- Removal of inequalities
- Gender equity & growth
- Policy, goals, implementation for last mile
- Accountability of govt
- Participation
- Role of civil society & people
- RTI, social audit
- Participatory democracy from representative one
- Reaching poor & oppressed
- Bridging the gap with government
- Policy inputs for better decision making
Limitations in achieving the last mile
- Blurred lines between welfare schemes & political freebies for vote bank politics.
- Short term agenda by government, losing sight of long term for electoral gains.
- Non-convergence between civil society, govt leading to limited reach of schemes.
- Errors of inclusion & exclusion, leakages of schemes.
- Corruption & lack of accountability, making the implementation falter.
- Budgetary deficits, making funding of schemes difficult, due to limited revenues.
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Accountability and participation is crucial to ensure welfare schemes reach last mile so that inequalities are reduced and equitable development is attained.
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