India has started counting each of its 1.2 billion citizens and as prime minister said,"The information gathered during census will be a treasure to implement development programs." The prime minister is 100% correct.
The exciting factor is this data will be passed on to Mr. Nandan Nilekani who will use it for UIDAI project implementation.
The critical success factor will be government employees gathering this data have robust processes in place for 99% accuracy otherwise it will be mess beyond correction. Extra care needs to be taken in U.P. and Bihar where government employees may complete their work without visiting respective households.
Economists will wait for this data and it may actually clarify all doubts about poverty level in India where various experts have various opinions and as it always happens, every expert appointed by any government is absolutely right.
This job should be handled by Planning Commission of India and this exercise should happen every 5 years due to pace of growth in India. Also, India does not need planning commission of India any more, it needs implementation commission of India with power and teeth to stop leakages in the system.
A bunch of handful intellectuals sitting in Delhi have achieved very little so far in last 60 years. Lets have one representative in every state monitoring independently implementation of government projects and sending reports to Delhi monthly basis. There has to be segregation of duties and we can no longer trust government employees implementing these schemes at grass level.
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