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An Objective Government ?
05 DEC 2014 :
I sent to Shri Jaitleyji , my following blog :
In that email , I urged that in his Feb 2015 Budget , he shift the emphasis
from :
“ Spending ( Expenditure ) “
to “ Objectives ( Outcomes ) “
In my email , I gave some illustrations of “
Quantifiable / Measurable Objectives “ as follows :
* FINANCE MINISTER
* GDP ..... 6 % ............ [ 10 % improvement ]
* CAD.......( - ) 5 % .....[ 20 % improvement ]
* COMMERCE
MINISTER
* Exports........ $ 350 Billion .... [ 10 % improvement ]
* FDI..............$ 50 Billion......
[ 20 % improvement ]
* RAILWAY
MINISTER
* Lengths of Tracks...... 125,000 Km.....
[ Up
by 10 % ]
* No of Passenger Trains / day..... 10,000... [ Up by 10 % ]
* HEALTH
MINISTER
* Chronic Hunger and Hunger Related Deaths
8 Million / year .................................... [ Down by 20 % ]
* Under-nourished people..... 200 million..... [ Down by 10 % ]
* SOCIAL
WELFARE MINISTER
* Dowery Deaths / year....... 8,000...... ...... [ Down by 10 % ]
* People without Toilets........ 500 Million.... [
Down by 20 % ]
* AGRICULTURE
MINISTER
* Farmers Suicide/ year..... .. 14,000...............
[ Down by 20 % ]
* Food Grain rotting / year..... 5 Million tons.....
[ Down by 20 % ]
14 MONTHS
LATER
In Global Business Summit ( 29 Jan 2016 )
, Shri Jaitleyji said :
" We will
introduce Structural Reforms in the forthcoming Union Budget "
24 MONTHS
LATER :
Business Line ( 07 Dec 2016 ) carried following report
:
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" Outcome Budget norms
tightened ; Deadlines will be set to meet Objectives "
" In order to improve the quality
of public expenditure, the Finance Ministry has tightened norms under which
each ministry and department will have to prepare an Outcome Budget in consultation with NITI Aayog to achieve certain OBJECTIVES within a TIME FRAME .
As per the Ministry’s directions, every
ministry will have to prepare an Outcome
Budget statement linking outlays against each scheme as
well as project with theDELIVERABLES and
medium term OUTCOMES .
A Finance Ministry official, involved in
Budget making, said every “allocation for scheme/project will be against a firm set of DELIVERABLES which will need to be
adhered to”.
The ‘Outcome Budget’ is to be prepared after finalisation of the
estimates for budgetary allocation, the official added.
“The OUTPUTS / DELIVERABLES should
be mandatorily given in MEASURABLE / QUANTITATIVE terms on the basis of parameters and deliverables DECIDED IN ADVANCE in consultation with Department of Expenditure
and NITI Aayog,” the official said.
Through “outcome-based budgeting”, the Ministry is trying to shift from traditional
performance-based budgeting by planning expenditure, fixing appropriateTARGETS and QUANTIFYING DELIVERABLES of each scheme.
The outcome-based one will outline what can be achieved
with what is being spent and
will involve the process of defining the desired long-term outcome of schemes
of various ministries. "
38 MONTHS
LATER
Now , in just presented Budget 2018 , I find that Shri
Jaitleyji has set following OUTCOMES :
·
Ayushman Bharat Health Insurance Scheme
#
Cover 10 crore families ( 50 crore persons ) for Rs 5 Lakh
·
Ujjwala Yojana
#
Free LPG cylinders to 8 crore poor women ( up from 5 crore )
·
Saubhagya Yojna
#
Free Electrical connection ( not free electricity ) to 4 crore families
·
Farmers MSP
#
50 % more than cost of production
·
Gramin Agricultural Markets
#
Develop and upgrade existing 22,000 rural haats
·
Organic farming
#
Set up large clusters, preferably of 1000 hectares each
·
Agri Exports
#
To increase from US $ 30 Billion to US $ 100 Billion
·
Kisan Urja Suraksha Utthan Maha Abhiyan [ KUSUM ]
#
To convert 30 million farm pumps ( 10 million running on diesel and 20 million
running on grid-supplied electricity ) to Solar Pumps , to generate 10,000 MW
of Solar Power ( surplus of which farmers can “ Sell “ back to DISCOMS )
·
Swachh Bharat Mission
# Government is planning to construct around 2 crore toilets.
·
Prime Minister Awas Scheme
#
Rural > 51 lakhs houses in year 2017-18 and 51
lakh houses during 2018-19
#
Urban > To construct 37 lakh houses.
·
Prime Minister Krishi Sinchai Yojna- Har Khet ko Pani
# 96 deprived irrigation districts where less than 30% of the
land holdings gets assured irrigation presently
·
Employment
# Create employment of 321 crore person days
·
Rural Roads
#
3.17 lakh kilometers
·
Right to Education Act
# More than 13 lakh untrained teachers to get trained.
·
Ekalavya Model Residential School
# In every block with more than 50% ST population and at least
20,000 tribal persons
·
Schools of Planning and Architecture
#
18 new SPAs would be established in the IITs and NITs
·
Prime Minister’s Research Fellows (PMRF)’’ Scheme
#
1,000 best B.Tech students each year from premier institutions and provide them
facilities to do Ph.D in IITs and IISc, with a handsome fellowship
·
Quality Medical Education
#
Setting up 24 new Government Medical Colleges and Hospitals
·
Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana
# Bringing all sixty crore basic
accounts within its fold
Finally , we see a “ Change of Attitude “ on part of the Ministers / Bureaucrats
An attitude of holding themselves “ personally accountable “ , not only to the Prime Minister but to
the entire nation !
Accountable for actual achievements
against “ quantifiable / measurable “ targets set at the beginning of the year
This “ ATTITUDINAL CHANGE “ is a reform which is much bigger than
De-Monetization or GST ! Its beneficial effects will continue to be felt
for decades to come !
I hope this is just the beginning and by April 2018 , Shri Jaitleyji will put in place
a mechanism that answers the following issues that I had raised in my email to
him , 38 MONTHS ago :
“ Actual vs Targeted “ achievements must be measured ,
on an on-going basis , by totally independent THIRD PARTY agencies
Ministers / Finance Minister and these Agencies , must
agree in advance , how the Agencies will go about " measuring " the
Actual Achievements
The method of measurement must be transparent and well
publicized in advance
Agencies shall have no role in fixing of Annual
Targets
* There must be at least 10 performance parameters for each
Minister
* Parameters themselves could be selected / prioritized ,
based on an,
ONLINE PUBLIC SURVEY / OPINION POLL , from Govt web site
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MEASUREMENT OF
ACTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS :
In March 2015
, government launched a web site ,
with a banner that reads :
“ Pro Active Governance and Timely Implementation “
It records “ Minutes of
Monthly Meetings “ held by PM with the officers of the concerned
Ministries for reviewing the progress of implementation of various projects
Unfortunately, one cannot make any sense out of these
“ Minutes“ in respect of ,
* percentage completion ( against target )
* probability of achieving target
For ease of understanding by even ordinary citizens, I
suggest that each concerned Ministry ( responsible / accountable ) , put up on
its web site , a graph such as following illustration .
This graph should be updated with a dotted line (
representing actual cumulative achievement ) below the solid line (
representing cumulative targets ) for each month of 2018-19 :
GRAPH
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06 Feb 2018
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