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Aspirational district

Aspirational Districts Programme

Aspirational Districts Programme What is Aspirational Districts Programme? It aims to quickly and effectively transform some of India's most underdeveloped districts. It will identify areas of immediate improvement, measure progress, and rank districts. The broad ideas of the programme include - convergence of central and state schemes collaboration of central, state level ‘Prabhari’ (in-charge) officers and district collectors competition among districts The states are the main drivers in the programme. Deliberately, the districts have been described as aspirational rather than backward. The motive is to view them as areas of opportunity and hope rather than of distress and hopelessness. How are the Aspirational districts…

28 October, 2021 Aspirational district

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Transformation of aspirational districts program

Transformation of aspirational districts program GS-PAPER-2 Governance Fourteen districts from the Northeast have been identified for "Aspirational Development" under the program. The "Transformation of Aspirational Districts" programme is under the aegis of NITI Aayog, under the guidance of the Prime minister of India. The main factors determining whether the given district is backward or not will be based on sectors like health, nutrition, education and agriculture. For each district, a four-tier supervisory mechanism has been put in place with a Central Nodal Officer from the Union Government, a State Nodal Officer from the concerned State Govt, a District Nodal Officer / District…

17 June, 2020 Aspirational district