Lok Sabha Question No. 2799 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-10
Subject: Development of Aspirational Districts
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Sumedhanand Saraswati, Sudhakar Tukaram Shrangre

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2799 TO BE ANSWERED ON 10.07.2019

## DEVELOPMENT OF ASPIRATIONAL DISTRICTS

2799. SHRI SUMEDHANAND SARSWATI SHRI SUDHAKAR TUKARAM SHRANGARE

Will the Minister of Planning be pleased to state:

- a) Whether the Government has fixed any next 100 days agenda for development of 112 Aspirational districts of the country and if so, the details thereof;
- b) Whether the Sikar, Nagar, Churu, Jhunjhunu, Jaipur districts of Rajasthan and the Latur district of Maharashtra are also included/proposed to be included among the said districts and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reason thereof;
- c) Whether the Government has done a regular review of the works carried out so far out in these 112 Aspirational districts;
- d) If so, the details of the thereof and the level at which the review is being done; and
- e) The  details  of  the  development  works  done  under  various  schemes  in  these  112 Aspirational districts during the last two years including Sikar, Nagar, Churu, Jhunjhunu and Jaipur districts?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

(RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- a) The on-going Aspirational District Programme (ADP), launched on January 5, 2018 envisages to rapidly  transform  112  districts  in  a  mission  mode  approach.  The  programme  strives  for continuous improvement in Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and hence no specific 100 days agenda has been identified. The programme aims to bring about continuous improvement in key socio economic indicators in sectors like health, nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources,  financial  inclusion,  skill  development  and  basic  infrastructure  through  better monitoring and ensuring healthy competition among district unit for better performance on continuous basis.
- b) The  districts  of  Sikar,  Nagar,  Churu,  Jhunjhunu,  Jaipur  (Rajasthan)  and  Latur  (Maharashtra), mentioned in the question  are  not  included  in  the  programme.  In  Maharashtra,  districts  of Washim, Osmanabad, Gadchirolli and Nandurbar and in Rajasthan, districts of Dholpur, Karauli, Jaisalmer, Sirohi and Baran are included. These districts were selected in a transparent manner on the basis of a composite index of backwardness. The data bases and their weight in creation of the composite index for selection of districts is given in Annexure-I.   At present, there is no proposal to expand the list of Aspirational districts.
- c) & d) Review of the Aspirational Districts is held at different level. Districts are uploading data pertaining to different KPIs under focus in this programme on a dashboard www.championsofchange.gov.in where the performance is reviewed by the District Magistrates on real time basis. Niti Aayog has requested the State Chief Secretaries to regularly review the progress. In addition, under this programme, an officer has been nominated by the Government of India as a Central Prabhari Officer for each of the 112 districts. These officers are mandated to review the performance of these districts on a continuous basis. Aspirational Districts  are  also  allotted  to  different  Central  Ministries  for  overall  coordination  and  are reviewed by the Secretaries of the Central Ministries.
- e) As mentioned in answer (b) above, districts of Sikar, Nagar, Churu, Jhunjhunu, Jaipur and Latur are  not  among  the  districts  taken  up  under  this  programme.  As  regards  performance, aspirational  districts  programme  tracks  progress  of  well  identified  49  KPIs  (list  of  these indciators are placed at Annexure-II. The detail of progress made in these KPIs as reported by Districts  are  available  on  the  web-portal  www.championsofchange.gov.in  as  referred  to  in answer (c) above.

## Composite Index

| Databases                                                                                    | Sector            | Weight   |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|----------|
| Landless households dependent on Manual labour (Socio Economic Caste Census - Deprivation 7) | Deprivation       | 25%      |
| Ante natal care ( National Health and Family Survey (NHFS-4)                                 | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Institutional delivery( NHFS-4)                                                              | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Stunting of children below 5 years ( NHFS-4)                                                 | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Wasting in children below 5 years ( NHFS-4)                                                  | Health& Nutrition | 7.5%     |
| Elementary dropout rate ((Unified District Information System for Education (U-DISE 2015-16) | Education         | 7.5%     |
| Adverse pupil teacher ratio ( U-DISE 2015-16)                                                | Education         | 7.5%     |
| Un-electrified households ( Ministry of Power)                                               | Infra             | 7.5%     |
| Households without individual toilets ( Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation )          | Infra             | 7.5%     |
| Un-connected PMGSYvillage ( Ministry of Rural Development )                                  | Infra             | 7.5%     |
| Rural Household without access to water ( Ministry of Drinking water and sanitation )        | Infra             | 7.5%     |
| Total                                                                                        |                   | 100%     |

## Transforming Aspirational District

## Annexure-I

## List of Key Performance Indicators:

|   S No | Key Performance Indicators                                                                                                   |
|--------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    1.1 | Percentage of Pregnant Women receiving four or more antenatal care check-ups against total ANC registration                  |
|    1.2 | Percentage of ANC registered within the first trimester against total ANC registration                                       |
|    1.3 | Percentage of pregnant women (PW) registered for ANC against estimated pregnancies                                           |
|    2   | Percentage of pregnant women taking Supplementary Nutrition under the ICDS programme regularly                               |
|    3.1 | Percentage of Pregnant having severe anaemia treated, against PW having severe anaemia tested cases.                         |
|    3.2 | Percentage of Pregnant Women tested for Haemoglobin (Hb) 4 or more times for respective ANCs, against total ANC registration |
|    4.1 | Sex Ratio at birth                                                                                                           |
|    4.2 | Percentage of institutional deliveries out of total estimated deliveries                                                     |
|    5   | Percentage of home deliveries attended by an SBA (Skilled Birth Attendance) out of total Home deliveries                     |
|    6.1 | Percentage of new-borns breastfed within one hour of birth                                                                   |
|    6.2 | Percentage of live born infants with a birth weight 2500 gms                                                                 |
|    6.3 | Proportion of live babies weighed at birth                                                                                   |
|    7   | Percentage of underweight children under 5 years                                                                             |
|    8.1 | Percentage of stunted children under 5 years                                                                                 |
|    8.2 | Percentage of children with Diarrhoea treated with ORS                                                                       |
|    8.3 | Percentage of children with Diarrhoea treated with Zinc                                                                      |
|    8.4 | Percentage of children with ARI in the last 2 weeks taken to a health facility                                               |
|    9.1 | Percentage of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)                                                                                |
|    9.2 | Percentage of Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM)                                                                              |
|   10.1 | Breastfeeding children receiving adequate diet (6-23 months)                                                                 |
|   10.2 | Non-Breastfeeding children receiving adequate diet (6-23 months)                                                             |
|   11   | Percentage of children fully immunized (9-11 months) (BCG+ DPT3 + OPV3 + Measles1)                                           |
|   12.1 | Tuberculosis (TB) case notification rate (Public and Private Institutions) as against estimated cases                        |
|   12.2 | TB Treatment success rate among notified TB patients (public and private)                                                    |

## Annexure-II

| 13.1   | Establishment of Health &Wellness Centres (HWCs)                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|--------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 13.2   | Proportion of Primary Health Centers compliant to Indian Public Health Standards                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 13.3   | functional FRUs (First referral units) rate                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 13.4   | Availability of specialist services in District hospitals against IPHS norms                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| 13.5   | Conduct of village health, Sanitation, Nutrition Days                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| 13.6   | Proportion of Anganwadis with own buildings                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 13.7   | Percentage of First referral units (FRU) having labour room and obstetrics OT NQAS certified (ie meet LaQShya quidelines)                                                                                                                                                      |
| 14.1   | Transition Rate (a) Primary to Upper Primary level                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| 14.2   | (b) Upper Primary to Secondary level                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 15     | Toilet access: %schools with functional girls' toilets                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| 16     | Learning outcomes (Average in government schools) (a)Mathematics performance in Class 3 (b)Language performance in Class 3 (c )Mathematics performance in Class 5 (d)Language performance in Class 5 (e )Mathematics performance in Class 8 (f)Language performance in Class 8 |
| 17     | Female literacy rate (15+ Age group)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 18     | Percentage of schools with functional drinking water facility                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 19     | Percentage of schools with functional electricity facility at secondary level                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 20     | Percentage of elementary schools complying with RTE specified Pupil Teacher Ratio                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 21     | Percentage of schools providing textbooks to children within 1 month of start of the academic session                                                                                                                                                                          |
| 22     | Water Positive investments and Employment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| (a)    | Percentage of net sown area under micro-irrigation                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| (b)    | Number of water bodies rejuvenated under MGNREGA                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 23     | Crop Insurance- Percentage of net sown area under PradhanMantriFasalBimaYojana (PMFBY)                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| 24     | Increase in Critical Inputs usage and supply                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| (a)    | 3 (a)Percentage increase in agricultural credit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| (b)    | 3 (b) Certified quality seed distribution                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| 25     | Number of mandi in the district linked to electronic market                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 26     | A) Percentage change in Price Realization (Wheat) B) Percentage change in Price Realization (Paddy Common, Paddy Grade A)                                                                                                                                                      |
| 27     | Percentage share of high value crops to total sown area in district                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 28     | Agricultural productivity of 2 major crops                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |

|   29 | Percentage of animals vaccinated                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   30 | Artificial Insemination coverage                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|   31 | Number of Soil Health Cards distributed                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|   32 | Total Disbursement of Mudra loan (in rupees) per 1 Lakh population                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|   33 | Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY ): Number of Enrolments per 1 Lakh population                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|   34 | Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY): Number of Enrolments per 1 Lakh population                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
|   35 | Atal Pension Yojana (APY): Number of Beneficiaries per 1 Lakh population                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|   36 | Percentage of bank accounts seeded with Aadhaar as a percentage of total banking accounts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|   37 | Number of accounts opened under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
|   38 | No of youth certified in short term and long term training # schemes / no of youth in district in age group 15-29*                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|   39 | No of certified youth employed # /No of youth trained under short term and long term training                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|   40 | Number of Apprentices completing/Total number of trainees registered on the portal                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
|   41 | No of people certified under Recognition of Prior Learning # / Non formally skilled workforce **                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
|   42 | Number of Vulnerable/Marginalized youth certified trained under short term and long term training# ( a) Women - certified trained, b) SC - certified trained c) ST - certified trained d) OBC - certified trained e) Minorities - certified trained f) Differently abled - certified trained) / Total Number of youth certified trained |
|   43 | Percentage of households with electricity connection                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
|   44 | Percentage of Gram panchayat with internet connection                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
|   45 | (a) Percentage of habitations with access to all weather roads under PMGSY (b) Cumulative number of kilometres of all-weather road work completed as a percentage of total sanctioned kilometres in the district under PMGSY                                                                                                            |
|   46 | Percentage of households with Individual Household Latrines                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
|   47 | Percentage of Rural habitations with access to adequate quantity of potable water - 40 lpcd drinking water in rural                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|   48 | Coverage/ establishment of Common Service Centres at Gram Panchayat level                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
|   49 | Number of pucca houses constructed for household who are shelter-less or having one room with kuchha wall and kuchha roof or having 2 room with kuchha wall and roof                                                                                                                                                                    |

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