All future allocations to poverty alleviation schemes will be based on Socio Economic and Caste Census findings
New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on Friday signalled a radical regime change in its spending on entitlements.
The government released provisional data from the first Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) in seven decades and declared that it will form the basis for all future allocations under poverty alleviation programmes funded by the rural development ministry.
SECC has evolved exclusion criteria based on which it has found that a little under 40% of rural households will not be eligible for entitlements provided by the Union government.
And for the remainder of the population, it has evolved a deprivation matrix which allows the government to target their specific needs—education, skills, housing, employment, health, nutrition, drinking water, sanitation, social and gender mobilization—to alleviate poverty.
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