MISSION ANTYODAYA

Why in News?

• With the right momentum Mission Antyodaya, the project can help transform rural India — in terms of development and social justice

1.About

• Mission Antyodaya is an accountability and convergence framework for transforming lives and livelihoods on measurable outcomes. Real Difference comes about through Convergence as it alone simultaneously addresses multi dimensions of poverty, Professionals, Institutions and Enterprises make it possible.
• Mission Antyodaya focuses on most backward districts.
• Ministries have consistently been adopting new methodologies and technologies to enhance its service delivery capacity.
• The main advantage of this application is convergence of data from Gram Panchayat Level.
• The convergence of multiple schemes under a single scheme could enable the government to migrate all these to the digital Aadhar-enabled platform thereby contributing further to the Digital India mission aims.
• Over 25 Ministries/ Departments through specific programs are involved in Mission Antyodaya Project.

2.Objective of the scheme

• Ensuring effective use of resources through convergence of various Government Schemes with Gram Panchayats as the basic unit of planning.
• Work with a focused micro plan for sustainable livelihood for every deprived household.
• Conduct an annual survey on measurable outcomes at Gram Panchayat level to monitor the progress in the development process across rural areas.
• Supporting the process of participatory planning for the Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP), which will improve service delivery, enhance citizenship, create pace for an alliance of people's institutions and groups and improve governance at the local level.
• Encourages partnerships with a network of professionals, institutions and enterprises to further accelerate the transformation of rural livelihoods.

3.Core aspects of the Mission

• There is a need to bring in synergies between different government programmes and schemes in terms of planning, processes and implementation to achieve the goals under SDG.
• The Planning should consider the household and the villages as the basic unit of planning that facilitates household level micro-plan and Gram Panchayat Development Plan (GPDP).
• Harmonising selection criteria, implementation processes and guidelines, and availability of funds at the same time is thus critical for implementation. This would need pooling of financial and human resources in different schemes of government and their rationalisation in implementing the plans at HH level and GPDP.
• "Mission Antyodaya" encourages addressing all identified deprivations in a time-bound manner through intensifying coverage of government schemes to address individual, household and community-level deprivations in saturation mode.
• Provisions of public services and improving access are necessary but not sufficient to address multiple deprivations. In this endeavour, over 25 Departments/Ministries of the Government are expected to provide resources to the Antyodaya GPs/Clusters on a priority basis through their programmes with a thrust on pooling of resources and delivery in saturation mode.
• Mission Antyodaya is an accountability and convergence framework for transforming lives and livelihoods on measurable outcomes.