View: Political critique of NPR misses its importance in social benefit deliveryThe National Population Register (NPR), which is under the political spotlight now, is a crucial link in this chain that has changed the wa...
NHA issues circular advising states to identify eligible PMJAY beneficiariesThe move comes amid reports of names of some people, who do not fall in the specified deprivation categories of the SECC data, figuring in ...
Who will be the beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat?The database of targeted beneficiaries is being created based on the SECC data, which has details of deprived households.
SECC data collected in 2011 still lying unusedThe rural development ministry proposes to have live data to en sure that there is a central database of who avails of the social welfare b...
Coming up: An app to help update Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 dataThe govt is developing a mobile app to ensure that the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) is updated regularly, expeditiously to ensure...
Socio Economic and Caste Census data may be used for finding right beneficiariesThe move is in line with the recommendations of a committee formed to study validity and efficiency of the SECC 2011 data in identifying th...
Cabinet approves revision of cost of SECC 2011The proposal provides for revising the cost of SECC 2011 to Rs 4,893.60 cr, from the approved estimated expenditure of Rs 3,543.29 cr withi...
1.7 crore urban households in India don’t have a separate kitchen: ReportThis fresh data gains importance considering that different studies have shown how air pollution in kitchens has become a major health conc...
Government to use SECC-2011 census data to identify beneficiariesThe decision to use the SECC-2011 data was taken after the Sumit Bose Committee in its report favoured using the same for rural development...
Government to use SECC data for effectiveness of welfare schemesMinistry of Rural Development has published data for rural areas and decided to use SECC, 2011 data for selecting beneficiaries under its p...
Government working on social registry to better track welfare schemesThe idea is to expand the scope of the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) of 2011 by regularly updating the data for each household cov...
Government finds scientific way to implement social welfare programmes, combat povertyGovernment will adopt the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) instead of the poverty line-based method to identify recipients for its pr...
13.39 crore rural households' monthly income is less than Rs 5,000The ministry is using the SECC data in its programmes. The data is being used for selecting beneficiaries in PMAY, PMSY and others.
Government set to roll out Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna-Gramin; beneficiaries to be unveiled on April 24The government is set to roll out the rural housing programme, after drawing up a list of beneficiaries based on SECC data for a final veri...
On Socio Economic and Caste Census: This is not...an entirely wasted exercise, says economist Jean DrezeThe SECC needed two personnel and one digital tablet each to enter responses that would automatically upload data every day to the central ...
Socio Economic and Caste Census data unreliable or incomplete: ExpertsCommissioned by the UPA in 2011, the SECC was meant to record caste, urban poverty and rural poverty, only the last of which has been relea...
Mission Antyodaya: NDA government begins work on plan to converge social schemes across ministriesMove will involve convergence of various government schemes, sharing of infrastructure and resources and multi-pronged strategies to addres...