Swachh Bharat rural has at least twice taken data off its dashboard, including data related to release & spending of funds, conversion of insanitary toilets which foster manual scavenging, and several details of toilet construction.
Tag: Data Transperancy
As Health Crises Grow, 29% Of Funds With States Not Spent In 5 Years
Even as health crises in India grew, National Health Mission (NHM) funds unspent by states over five years to 2016 increased by 29%, according to a recent audit by the government’s auditor. The audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India also reported delayed transfers and misallocation of these funds.
Toilet Owners Defecate In Open In Villages Declared Open-Defecation Free: Rajasthan Study
With a little more than a year to go for Swachh Bharat Mission’s deadline of open-defecation-free India, patchy access to toilets, incomplete toilet construction and rampant open defecation among households with a toilet were some findings of a new study in gram panchayats (village councils) declared open defecation-free (ODF) in Rajasthan.
Lessons from GST for eliminating the Rs1 trillion lying around as float
Unclogging the government’s financial pipeline requires expanding workflow- driven IT platforms akin to MGNREGS for all central sector, centrally sponsored and state government schemes
Manual scavenging: A road with no end
There are significant differences in the number of manual scavengers identified by the states and those identified in the Social Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011
Education not yet for all
Expenditure as a share of total approved budgets has been decreasing for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
Why Poor Funding of Swachh Bharat Mission Since 2014 Has Put its Goals at Risk
While budgetary allocation has been hiked in the last two years, it’s still not nearly enough for the government to meet its 2019 goal.
Where has the social sector money gone?
This year’s budget was to focus on “strengthening agriculture and rural economy, provision of good healthcare to economically less privileged, taking care of senior citizens, infrastructure creation and improving the quality of education in the country”.
How A ‘Pro-Poor’ Budget Downplays Programmes That Fund The Poor
Budget speeches are all about messaging. While we all speculated on what the budget will hold for the social sector, many of us, got it wrong.
Budget 2018: Stumbling towards sustainable sanitation
The challenge will be in ensuring that open defecation-free villages and cities are truly ODF, but more crucially that they remain so.