Balanced Regional Development: Transforming Aspirational Districts
Objective
- Achieve balanced development in India by uplifting 115 districts, currently below the national average in the areas of health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion and skill development, and basic infrastructure.
Current Situation
- The Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) was launched on January 5, 2018.
- A list of 49 target indicators has been developed by NITI Aayog.
- In April 2018, NITI Aayog issued a ranking of these districts according to baseline data collated from secondary sources on these selected indicators.
- According to this, the top five districts are Vizianagaram (Andhra Pradesh), Rajnandgaon (Chhattisgarh), Osmanabad (Maharashtra), Cuddapah (Andhra Pradesh), and Ramanathapuram (Tamil Nadu) with ....
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- 1 Data Led Governance and Policy Making
- 2 Optimizing the Use of Land Resources
- 3 Modernizing City Governance For Urban Transformation
- 4 Civil Services Reforms
- 5 Legal, Judicial and Police Reforms
- 6 The North-East Regi
- 7 Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Other Tribal Groups and Minorities
- 8 Senior Citizens, Persons with Disability and Transgender Persons
- 9 Gender
- 10 Nutrition
- 11 Universal Health Coverage
- 12 Human Resources for Health
- 13 Comprehensive Primary Health Care
- 14 Public Health Management and Action
- 15 Skill Development
- 16 Teacher Education and Training
- 17 Higher Education
- 18 School Education
- 19 Sustainable Environment
- 20 Water Resources
- 21 Swachh Bharat Mission
- 22 Smart Cities for Urban Transformation
- 23 Digital Connectivity
- 24 Logistics
- 25 Ports, Shipping and Inland Waterways
- 26 Civil Aviation
- 27 Railways
- 28 Surface Transport
- 29 Energy
- 30 Minerals
- 31 Travel, Tourism and Hospitality
- 32 Housing For All
- 33 Financial Inclusion
- 34 Doubling Farmers’ Income (III): Value Chain & Rural Infrastructure
- 35 Doubling Farmers’ Income (II): Policy & Governance
- 36 Doubling Farmers’ Income (I): Modernizing Agriculture
- 37 Industry
- 38 Technology and Innovation
- 39 Employment and Labour Reforms
- 40 Growth
- 41 Minerals
- 42 Water
- 43 Forest
- 44 Land
- 45 Climate Change Rulebook
- 46 G-20 Summit 2018
