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Human development
This is a summary of Human development chapter of economic survey [ http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2012-13/echap-13.pdf]
- to reap demographic dividend population needs to be skilled, healthy and literate
- india ranks 134 on HDI
- due to low literacy and poor healthcare
- ranks 129 on gender inequality'
- worse than pakistan, bangladesh and srilanka
- dimensions of inclusive development
- poverty alleivation
- employment generation
- health
- education
- women empowerment
- social welfare
- financial inclusion
- social inclusion
- social sector spending
- mostly focussed on education[40% of social sector spending]
- 3.3% of GDP spent on education
- public health expenditure much lesser than private health expenditure
- 1.36% of GDP
- Poverty
- poverty line
- based on monthly per cap consumption expenditure
- MPCE arrived at through NSSO surveys every 5 years
- poverty declined from 37 to 30% between 2004-05 to 2009-10
- 1.5% decline per year
- improvements in IMR and income
- inequality
- gini coefficient
- measures deviation of distribution of income
- India-35.8 lower than SOuth africa, lanka etc
- rural consumption expenditure increased at faster rate than urban
- employment
- grew by 1.6% per annum in last decade
- slowed down in second half of decade
- lower labour force participation rate
- declined from 430 in 2004-05 to 400 per thousand
- greater number of people opting for education/skill development
- female employment
- fall in female employment in rural areas
- indicates more rural women are continuing education
- unemployment
- declined in last 5 years
- unemployment rate decline greater than employment growth
- more people are opting for education
- poverty alleivation schemes
- MGNREGA
- 53% women participated against mandated 33%
- enhances bargaining power of agricultural labour
- reduced distress migration
- recent initiatives
- electronic fund management to reduce delays in wage disbursal
- additional employment beyond 100 days in drought affected areas
- integration with UID
- convergence with other schemes like total sanitation campaign
- NRLM
- also called ajeevika
- self employment program
- assist poor families through bank credit and subsidy for creating income generating assets
- features
- every woman member from poor household must be member of a SHG
- SHG members provided training
- provision of funds to SHG and also interest subsidy
- SJSRY
- For urban unemployed and Under employed
- encourage self employment
- social protection programmes
- AABY
- life and disability cover
- 18-59 years
- includes rural landless
- includes education scholarship for children
- RSBY
- 30000 per family per annum
- 75:25 share
- 90:10 special category states
- smart card based portability
- National social security fund
- support schemes for unorganised sector like beedi workers, weavers, toddy tappers etc
- Rural infrastructure development
- Bharat nirman
- water supply
- electrification
- irrigation
- roads
- housing
- telecommunication
- Indira awas yojana
- PM gram sadak yojana
- rural drinking water program
- aims to provide 40 ltr per cap per day
- so far 84% rural houses covered
- sanitation
- only 32% household have toilets
- new strategy- community sanitation approach
- urban infrastructure program
- JNNURM
- includes provision of shelter and basic services to urban poor
- extended till 2014
- Skill development
- National skill development council approved 24 training projects
- Udaan- private sector led skills training program for JK youth
- Education
- 12th plan focus
- teacher training
- accountability enforcement
- capacity building in secondary schools
- Elementary and secondary education
- Right to education
- out of school population 134 lakh to 81 lakh between 2005-09
- inservice teacher traning
- imrpovement in school infrastructure
- Mid day meals
- covers 1-8 standard
- convergence with NRHM
- MIS used to monitor scheme
- RMSA
- aims at improving access and quality of secondary education
- includes infrastructure, teacher training
- Models schools scheme
- implemented in 6000 educationally backward blocks
- implemented by state government
- sakshar bharat
- adult education
- aimed at 80% literacy by end of 11th FYP
- higher education
- among largest in world with over 600 universities
- 11th plan initiatives
- improvement of access
- curriculum reforms
- use of IT for distance education
- Health
- NRHM
- launched in 2005
- increased community involvement
- decentralized public health system
- improved manpower, drugs, equipment
- JSY
- launched 2005 to reduce MMR
- promotes institutional deliveries
- Janani shishu suraksha yojana
- covers all pregnant women
- free delivery, drugs, diet, transport etc
- National vector borne disease contorl, programme
- to contorl malaria, dnegue, chikungunya, japanese encephalitis, Kala-azar, lymphatic filariasis
- kala-azar , filariasis to be eliminated by 2015
- PM swasthya suraksha yojana
- to correct regional imbalance in territary healthcare
- 6 AIIMS like institutes to come up in
- bhopal
- bhubaneswar
- jodhpur
- patna
- rishikesh
- AYUSH
- mainstream allopathic services
- women and child development
- ICDS
- IGMSY
- Rashtriya mahila kosh
- micro credit to poor women
- policies to address violence against women
- varma committee-examine punishments in cases of aggravted sexual assault
- usha mehra committee- identify lapses in policing in delhi
- crisis centres
- counselling centres
- financial assistance to victims
- challenges
- need to balance imperatives of growth and inclusion
- growth should lead to higher and better jobs
- need to move towards more production and growth oriented schemes
- convergence of schemes
- empower PRIs and promote decentralisation in plan programme implementation
- need to convert outlays into outcomes
Boxes
- Socio economic caste census
- puprose - to better identify BPL families
- based on NC saxena recommended criteria
- door to door enumeration
- conducted by states with support from union
- ASER education survey
- positive
- increased enrollment
- better pupil teacher ratio
- better provision of girl toilets
- more libraries
- negatives
- fall in basic reading and arithmetic levels
- children attendance declined
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