Future of Social Protection Schemes in India

Despite a plethora of social protection programmes, India still has a long way to go in ensuring basic welfare outcomes for all its citizens. A major hurdle is effective implementation: execution of programmes is plagued by misallocation and leakage of resources, benefits going to non-targeted persons (inclusion errors), and intended recipients getting deprived of benefits (exclusion errors). The Government of India’s Economic Survey 2016-17 estimated that even programmes that receive the most funds and attention have targeting errors as high as 60-70%.

Immediate Future: Direct Benefit Transfers

  • To tackle some of these implementation challenges, India is now attempting to ....
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