Social registries are key to ensuring that the development gains are realised while enabling welfare delivery effectively. Explain (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· A social registry essentially attempts to harmonise information systems to create a registry of citizens to establish their eligibility for social welfare programmes.
· The 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) helped in facilitating targeted interventions under various schemes and consideration to undertake the SECC again is currently underway.
Lessons
Data collection
· Data collection is the single most important step in the process of creating a social registry.
· Similar efforts are needed in India to build awareness around consent and mainstream privacy consciousness among the masses.
· The effort by the Government of Odisha to link 20 State scheme datasets to identify authentic beneficiaries for its KALIA scheme is one such example.
Decentralisation
· The institutional arrangements for managing social registries vary across the world.
· In India, given the number of beneficiaries, unique development contexts across regions and multiples welfare schemes will be more prudent and secure.
Independence
· Instituting independent administrative bodies can help detect and deter delivery gaps and leakages, and also serve as a source of subject-matter expertise.
· In India, along the lines of the National Health Authority for the health sector, creating other bodies which could provide independent sector-specific expertise and evaluation of the programme must be considered.
IAS Parliament 3 years
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