Managing the Regional Inequalities in India with Particular Reference to the Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme

Sarkar, Tanmoy; Mishra, Mukunda; Singh, Rajeev

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“…In India, all major underlying indicators for development policies and interventions are available at the administrative units of the district (eg, the District Level Household & Facility Survey and Health Management Information System). 28 , 29 Resource allocation is also currently decided at the district level, without further taking into account variation among smaller areas within each district. Our findings, in contrast, do not support this current policy approach.…”

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“…Household & Facility Survey and Health Management Information System). 28,29 Resource allocation is also currently decided at the district level, without further taking into account variation among smaller areas within each district. Our findings, in contrast, do not support this current policy approach.…”

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“…As a result, identifying the most relevant policy units is crucial for designing policy that makes the most efficient use of limited resources. In India, all major underlying indicators for development policies and interventions are available at the administrative units of the district (eg, the District Level Household & Facility Survey and Health Management Information System) . Resource allocation is also currently decided at the district level, without further taking into account variation among smaller areas within each district.…”

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Small Area Variation in the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in India

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ImportanceIn India, the district serves as the primary policy unit for implementing and allocating resources for various programs aimed at improving key developmental and health indicators. Recent evidence highlights that high-quality care for mothers and newborns is critical to reduce preventable mortality. However, the geographic variation in maternal and newborn health service quality has never been investigated.ObjectiveTo examine the variation between smaller areas within districts in the quality of maternal and newborn care in India.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsThis cross-sectional study assessed data from women aged 15 to 49 years on the most recent birth (singleton or multiples) in the 5 years that preceded the fifth National Family Health Survey (June 17, 2019, to April 30, 2021).ExposuresMaternal and newborn care in 36 states and union territories (UTs), 707 districts, and 28 113 clusters (small areas) in India.Main Outcomes and MeasuresThe composite quality score of maternal and newborn care was defined as the proportion of components of care received of the total 11 essential components of antenatal and postnatal care. Four-level logistic and linear regression was used for analyses of individual components of care and composite score, respectively. Precision-weighted prevalence of each component of care and mean composite score across districts as well as their between–small area SD were calculated.ResultsThe final analytic sample for the composite score was composed of 123 257 births nested in 28 113 small areas, 707 districts, and 36 states/UTs. For the composite score, 58.3% of the total geographic variance was attributable to small areas, 29.3% to states and UTs, and 12.4% to districts. Of 11 individual components of care, the small areas accounted for the largest proportion of geographic variation for 6 individual components of care (ranging from 42.3% for blood pressure taken to 73.0% for tetanus injection), and the state/UT was the largest contributor for 4 components of care (ranging from 41.7% for being weighed to 52.3% for ultrasound test taken). District-level composite score and prevalence of individual care components and their variation across small areas within the districts showed a consistently strong negative correlation (Spearman rank correlation ρ = −0.981 to −0.886). Low-quality scores and large between–small area disparities were not necessarily concentrated in aspirational districts (mean district composite score [SD within districts], 92.7% [2.1%] among aspirational districts and 93.7% [1.8%] among nonaspirational districts).Conclusions and RelevanceThe findings of this cross-sectional study suggest that the policy around maternal and child health care needs to be designed more precisely to consider district mean and between–small area heterogeneity in India. This study may have implications for other low- and middle-income countries seeking to improve maternal and newborn outcomes, particularly for large countries with geographic heterogeneity.

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“…The program aims to reduce disparity across regions, and improve baseline rankings of district-level development using real-time data on 49 indicators across five thematic sectors including Health & Nutrition, Education, Infrastructure, Financial Inclusion, and Skill Development. Of particular relevance to our assessment is the program’s thrust towards increasing road connectivity and intensification of agriculture (Sarkar et al 2022; additional details available at www.niti.gov.in/aspirational-districts-programme). Our maps were generated with the goal of directly offering prescriptive management actions for the governments of the corresponding administrative units.…”

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Prioritizing landscapes to reconcile biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and human well-being in India

Srivathsa

Vasudev²,

Nair

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Biodiversity conservation and human well-being are tightly interlinked; yet mismatches in the scale at which both priorities are planned have led to biodiversity loss, erosion of ecosystem services, and declining human quality of life. In India, <5% of the land area is effectively protected for conservation, while the rest is impacted by the second largest human population on the planet. This warrants landscape-level conservation planning through a judicious mix of land-sharing and land-sparing approaches, and co-production of ecosystem services. Through a multi-faceted assessment, we prioritize spatial extents of land parcels that, in the face of anthropogenic threats, can safeguard conservation landscapes across India's biogeographic zones. We find that only a fraction (~15%) of such priority areas identified here are encompassed under India's extant PA network, and several landscapes of high importance were omitted in all previous global-scale assessments. We then examined the spatial congruence of priority areas with administrative units earmarked for economic development by the Indian government, and propose management-zoning through State-driven and participatory approaches. Our spatially explicit insights can help meet the twin goals of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in a strategically important country for Asia.

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“…The regional, economic, social, and cultural diversity in India has remained a problem for policymakers when drafting development policies as planning initiatives for sustainable practices in this instance Sarkar et al (2022). To have sustainable development goals, the Government of India, through its newly established think tank, the National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, launched the Aspirational Districts Program in 2018 Puri (2018).…”

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Cognizing Non-Toxic Practices in the Print Processes: A Study of Varanasi

Kalyani,

Gupta

2023

ShodhKosh J. Vis. Per. Arts

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Ecology, which is one of the essential practices of sustainable practice, is the talk of the town these days, and professionals from every domain are involved in such practices. This has also been observed in the print medium, where some artists and printmakers take prints using non-toxic materials. Since the ecological aspects of printing have been addressed in many research commentaries, most practitioners still use conventional printing methods and techniques, including materials (toxic), which derive from this research to investigate the significant reasons and construct the practicable framework for the non-practicing professionals and artists. It is well known that Varanasi is a city older than History; as Mark Twain said, thus on other cities can be a better option for conducting a comparative analysis of traditional and ecological print practices. After the argument, this paper reviews the advancements in printing processes used in Varanasi, focusing on toxic and non-toxic methods. It attempts to answer whether traditional printing practices are ecologically friendly. The first part of the paper briefly examines the spread of print media, the different trends and prevalent practices, and their impact on ecology in Varanasi. This part of the research and discussion is based on descriptive analysis. The second section of the paper focuses on current issues in ecology under three broad headings: theory and ecology, practice issues, and ecological effectiveness using discourse analysis to obtain responses from printmakers, and later it would be used to construct the research argument. An important thread running through the second part of the paper is related to discussions about the theory of ecology that is common in print practices and how these practices affect the various areas of ecology and their evaluation.

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Managing the Regional Inequalities in India with Particular Reference to the Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme

Cited by 6 publications

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Small Area Variation in the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in India

Small Area Variation in the Quality of Maternal and Newborn Care in India

Prioritizing landscapes to reconcile biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and human well-being in India

Cognizing Non-Toxic Practices in the Print Processes: A Study of Varanasi

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