Evaluation of Mission Antyodaya : How far it is successful in terms of Social Justice 

27 Apr Evaluation of Mission Antyodaya : How far it is successful in terms of Social Justice 

Evaluation of Mission Antyodaya – Today Current Affairs

Context :

 Mission Antyodaya is the programme through which the government wants to reduce economical diversity in India . This mission is helpful to provide benefits to the marginalized people also . But recently statistical data released by the governments expose some flaws of this mission. These flaws must be addressed and resolved because this mission is the hope of marginalized people and it should not fall fall by the wayside

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Introduction : 

• Mission Antyoday was adopted in the Union Budget 2017-18. is a convergence and accountability framework aiming to bring optimum use and management of resources allocated by 27 Ministries/ Department of the Government of India under various programmes for the development of rural areas. It is envisaged as a state-led initiative with Gram Panchayats as focal points of convergence efforts.
• As per the Indian constitution , social justice is the fundamental structure of the Indian constitution . In article Articles 243G and 243W of the Indian constitution, local governments are empowered to prepare and implement plans for ‘economic development and social justice’. Several complementary institutions and measures such as the gram sabha to facilitate people’s participation. District Planning Committees (DPC) make the plans for the bottom level while the state finance commission provides the financial assistance to such programmes . But , if we observed as ground level, the objective of the Indian constitution for the decentralization has not been seems too much successful in rural areas because of the lack of awareness of the people 

Why Mission Antyoday was introduced : The Hindu Analysis

In fact, some data were brought into the public domain by the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, which showed the vulnerable conditions of the marginalized people and these people were demanding some remedies for them. According to these data , approx. 90 % of the rural household have no job (No salary) 53.7 million households are landless, 6.89 million female-headed households have no adult member to support, 49% suffer from multiple deprivations, 51.4% derive sustenance from manual casual labor, 23.73 million are with no room or only one room to live, and so on. 

The above data can not be ignored by any democratic government at that time. Therefore the Antyodaya mission was brought. It was the compulsion for the center government who had come into power on the ground of poverty reduction 

The keys goals of the mission Antyodaya : The Hindu Analysis

1. The fundamental objective of this mission is to ensure optimum use of resources through the convergence of various schemes that address multiple deprivations of poverty
2. To make  gram panchayat the hub of a development plan
3. The collection of the data regarding health and nutrition, social security, good governance, water management, so that government could make plan accordingly. The Hindu Analysis
   
4. To identify the gaps in basic needs at the local level, and integrating resources of various schemes, self-help groups, voluntary organizations and so on to finance them needs coordination and capacity-building of a high order.

Evaluation : The Hindu Analysis

• The concept of Social justice  is still distant. The reason behind this is the gap among the gram panchayats. Some Gram Panchayats are well developed and have many resources but some are not . First, this gap among all the gram panchayats should be reduced . First time the data was collected in a survey of The ‘Mission Antyodaya’ in 2019-20 which threw light on the infrastructural gap among the Gram panchayats. The data was collected through the survey which was conducted in 2.67 lakh gram panchayats, comprising 6.48 lakh villages with 1.03 billion population. For an insight into the gap report, we may use the State-wise break-up of the score-values. The Hindu Analysis
  
• The maximum score values assigned will add up to 100 and are presented in class intervals of 10. On this ground , no state of India could get a score of 90 . 1,484 gram panchayats are in the lowest bracket. Only 10 states come in the bracket of 80 to 90 . If we consider a score range of 70-80 as a respectable attainment level, Kerala tops but accounts for only 34.69% of gram panchayats of the State, the corresponding all-India average is as low as 1.09%. Even for Gujarat which comes next to Kerala, gram panchayats in this bracket are only 11.28%.All the gram panchayats in Kerala are above this and stand out in contrast to the rest of the States. While in the country as a whole only 7.37% have a composite index in the 70-100 bracket, Gujarat (which tops the list) has 20.5% in the range, followed by Kerala (19.77%) and Karnataka (17.68%). 

The Hindu Analysis

The above data , definitely compels us to think about the success and flaws of the Mission Antyodaya .With such a gap, how we can provide social justice in India. This is the big question. There are definitely several laps which must be rectified . 

• Government should focus on universal primary health care, literacy, drinking water supply
• Government should implements some central governments plans like Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the National Rural Livelihood Mission, National Social Assistance Programme, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, etc.) effectively.  The Hindu Analysis
  
• Government should reduce expenditure on the governance 
• Another big lapse is the failure to deploy the data to India’s fiscal federalism. Government should rectify these flaws so that the goal of social justice could be achieved 

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Conclusion 

On the basis of the above discussion, it can be said that social justice is not only the constitutional compulsion but also the mandatory element of the development of India. If inequality is there in India , it will create discontent among people which would hamper the law and order of the country. Therefore government should ensure the minimization of the gap between upper and lower class which could be done only through providing financial assistance to marginalized people.

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Source : The Hindu (Editorial)

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Dr Anshul Bajpai 

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Dr. Anshul Bajpai

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