Siddharth Sihag, District Magistrate & Collector, Jhalawar, Rajasthan
9th KE Goa 2019: The biggest challenge policy makers and bureaucrats face today in implementing the social welfare schemes is targeting the deserving beneficiaries and ensuring delivery. But the solution lies in leveraging technology to improve efficiency and accuracy and that is exactly what #SiddharthSihag, District Magistrate and Collector of #Jhalawar district in Rajasthan did, and the results were quite encouraging.
“A mix of statistical modeling and then real-time monitoring is one solution to improve efficiency of social welfare schemes when you are looking for a criterion which is primarily age based,” said Sihag while speaking at the Elets 9th #KnowledgeExchange Goa earlier this month.
He cited the example of Election Commission of India to get his point across. “EC does it in its 18-19 years of age group voter targeting. They get the numbers from the Census data and then they aggressively target that group in schools and colleges and try to get them enrolled.” Another approach he cited was from the medical and health sector, where he stressed on “looking at data of babies that should have been born vs. the figure coming from the health department” to identify the beneficiaries under the government’s schemes for the welfare of women and babies.
“This data needs to be desegregated as it is not enough to have this data at the district level. It needs to be there at the block level and more importantly at the Gram Panchayat level sometimes, plus the real time monitoring has to be there,” he suggests.
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