NITI Aayog is set to launch ‘Sampoornata Abhiyan’ to help India’s underdeveloped areas
At the district level, the campaign aims to immunize children, provide secondary schools with functional electricity, and provide textbooks to schools
NITI Aayog has planned to begin a campaign to examine the development at the most undeveloped locations throughout India, reported News18, involving screening for diabetes, blood pressure, and whether secondary schools have power or textbooks.
The chosen “Sampoornata Abhiyan” initiative aims to raise six district and block-level KPIs. To achieve success and real results on the ground, districts, and blocks have been directed by the CEO to create a three-month “action plan” based on the discovered indicators.“ The duration of the initiative begins from 1 July 2024 to 30 September 2024,” said the letter, dated June 19, accessed by News18.
At the district level, the campaign aims to immunize children, provide secondary schools with functional electricity, and provide textbooks to schools within a month of the start of the academic session. At the block level, its indicators include timely registration of pregnant women for antenatal care, their regular consumption of supplemental nutrition, and screening the population for diabetes and blood pressure.
The campaign’s six indicators are the proportion of expectant mothers who register for prenatal care within the first trimester; the proportion of expectant mothers who regularly take supplemental nutrition; the creation of soil health cards about the target soil sample collection; and the proportion of people in the block who get diabetes and hypertension screenings with the targeted population.
Similar metrics are often included in district programs, with goals such as the proportion of kids who receive all recommended vaccinations between the ages of 9 and 11 months, the proportion of secondary schools having operational electrical systems, and the percentage of schools providing textbooks to children within one month of the start of the academic session.
Sampoornata Abhiyan: Key Objectives and Goals
District authorities will monitor saturation progress in these blocks every month. In addition, these communities will launch programs aimed at raising awareness and changing behavior, and district representatives will visit these communities in parallel for monitoring.
“One way of accelerating progress is to focus on a few select indicators at one time and saturate them so that one can see quick impact,” Subrahmanyam wrote in the letter sent to district magistrates and district collectors of aspirational districts and blocks. “The Hon’ble Prime Minister had also suggested the same,” he added.
In a letter, the government’s think tank NITI Aayog’s CEO, BVR Subrahmanyam, stated that the organization had designed “Sampoornata Abhiyan,” a program to attain saturation in “six identified indicators” in districts and blocks. According to the letter, the goal of both projects is to strengthen governance to raise the standard of living for inhabitants and provide better services in the most rural and underdeveloped districts and blocks of India.
The Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP), introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018, aims to rapidly and efficiently improve the 112 most impoverished districts in the nation. The Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP), which covers 500 Blocks, was introduced in January 2023 and is based on the lessons learned from the ADP.
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