Lok Sabha Question No. 5727 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-04-06
Subject: Effective Implementation of Aspirational Districts Programme
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5727 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.04.2022

## EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF ASPIRATIONAL DISTRICTS PROGRAMME

## †5727. SHRI MANSUKHBHAI DHANJIBHAI VASAVA:

Will the Minister of PLANNING  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether there is a need to implement Aspirational Districts programme in an  effective manner in order to solve the problems of illiteracy and unemployment; and
- (b)   if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS AND PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION; MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) The Aspirational Districts Programme was launched in 112 Districts, across 26 States and 1 Union Territory, in January 2018 with the aim to bring transformative changes in the most under-developed districts  of  India.  The  programme  aims  at  rapid  transformation  of  these  relatively  underdeveloped districts  across  sectors.  These  sectors  are  Health  and  Nutrition,  School  Education  and  Basic Infrastructure, and also Agriculture and Water  Resources and Financial Inclusion &  Skill Development.  The  programme  is  being  implemented  in  an  effective  manner  and  has  led  to  a significant improvement in districts in a short span of time.
- (b) The  broad  strategy  of  the  Aspirational  Districts  Programme  rests  on  the  3  Cs  -  Convergence (between Central and State Schemes), Collaboration (between Centre, State, District Administration, Development Partners and Citizens) and Competition (between Districts). Further, 49 key performance  indicators  have  been  selected  across  the  abovementioned  sectors  and  a  district's performance  is  monitored  on  the  basis  of  progress  made  on  these  indicators  on  a  monthly  basis which is available in the public domain on the Champions of Change Dashboard (http://championsofchange.gov.in/site/coc-home/).

Since  the  programme  is  in  the  nature  of  additionality,  there  are  no  works  which  are  under implementation  separately.  The  Central  Ministries  and  respective  State  Governments  run  specific schemes  to  address  the  problems  of  illiteracy  and  unemployment.  The  Aspirational  Districts Programme assists  Districts  in  creating  better  systems  of  monitoring  and  convergence  to  achieve progress on the 49 key performance indicators (Annexure). These indicators like those pertaining to education,  health  etc.  are  critical  for  improving  quality  of  life  and  indicators  like  skill  formation, financial inclusion, basic infrastructure are important in raising the economic productivity of citizens which in turn assist in addressing the issue of unemployment.

## List of 49 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)                                                    |
|     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                                                                                  |

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| 13.4   | Availability of specialist services in District hospitals against IPHS norms                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
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| 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 (i.e., meet LaQShya guidelines)                                                                                                                                                      |
| 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 Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
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|   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 panchayats 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                                                                                                                                                                 |