Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The well intentioned programmes and policies

No matter how laudable the political objectives may be, a majority of them fail to convert into reality as there are no concrete efforts made to reach out to the beneficiaries. Three and a half years into the XIth FYP and inefficient implementation perhaps has been the greatest stumbling block for the well intentioned programmes and policies by Gyanendra Kashyap

Even the report card of access to education is in an equally pitiful state. Though enrolments have been impressive (thanks to schemes like mid-day meals), what is worrisome is the drop-out ratio that is still pegged at 43%. Adding to the woes is the Annual Status of Education Report 2010, which too paints a shoddy picture of the learning achievement. Consider any other inclusiveness programmes – Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Accelerated Rural Drinking Water Supply Programme, Total Sanitation Programme, Indira Awas Yojana or the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Viduitikaran Yojana (the cumulative annual budgets for these programmes is pegged at `404.90 billion for 2010-11) – the overall picture only reveals deficiencies in their implementation. And the irony is that though the Mid Term Appraisal for XIth FYP clearly mentions the fact that progress in reducing malnutrition has been particularly slow and that it can not be dealt with a single instrument such as ICDS, it surprisingly does not suggest any mid-course correction.

Certainly, the devil lies in the details as Amit Sen Gupta, Joint National Convenor, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, points out: “Only 20% of the children receive supplementary food from ICDS centres.” Moreover, the plan document emphasised on National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) and National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to bridge the gap between rhetoric and reality. “But while NUMH was prominent by its absence, NRHM, for its part, promoted limited package of services through the government health centres rather than extending comprehensive services,” adds Sen Gupta. Even Shirish N. Kavadi, Social Researcher at National Centre for Advocacy Studies feels that there is a very large gap between the rhetoric of inclusive growth and what is being pursued to attain high economic growth.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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