The development language: BPL category and the poverty discourse in contemporary India

Tripathy, Jyotirmaya

doi:10.1080/10350330.2017.1329972

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“…That instability is productive and brings possibilities for new waves of group or community formation when opportunities arise. Terms such as displaced, homeless or BPL (i.e., Below Poverty Line) are not frozen categories but are created in response to various development schemes (Tripathy, 2018). Thus, 'the people' as a category is constantly made and remade; it is also indefinitely deferred and pushed to another place to be integrated into the developmental state, as Mathur (2016, pp.…”

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Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India

Tripathy

Mahaprashasta

2022

Journal of South Asian Development

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The Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship (PMRDF), a flagship programme of the Ministry of Rural Development to facilitate development programme delivery in districts affected by Maoist violence, was introduced in 2011 and suspended in 2014. Though in a state of limbo at present, PMRDF created a complex template where binaries such as state/people, top-down/participatory and security/development were transcended and new ways of belonging generated, so as to make the developmental state an everyday reality in the lives of people. In this potential of PMRDF as a knowledge field to move beyond developmental platitudes, we encounter the limits of academic vocabulary to adequately capture how development matters on the ground. The article draws from critical literature on the postcolonial developmental state, secondary material on the experience of the PMRD Fellows as well as primary sources drawn from the authors’ interaction with a Fellow from Odisha. It is proposed that through PMRDF, the developmental state established its legitimacy by reaching out to people in underdeveloped regions even as it vernacularized its authority and undermined its own bureaucratic institutions. And the Fellows, far from being carriers of state power, and contrary to their representation in available literature, imagined themselves primarily as champions of people in need of development.

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Section: The State and The Peoplementioning

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Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India

Tripathy

Mahaprashasta

2022

Journal of South Asian Development

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“…India does not have a centralized list of households below the poverty line. The designation of the categories of above poverty line (APL) and below poverty line (BPL) is often a subject of political contestation [54]. As part of efforts to address this issue, the Indian government relied on the Socio-Economic Caste Census conducted in 2011 (SECC-2011).…”

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Digitalized Welfare for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Examining the Policy Design Aspects of the Cooking Gas Cash Transfers in India

2022

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This article examines the extent to which digitalized welfare harmonizes the socio-economic goals of economic reform and low-carbon energy transitions in an emerging democratic context. It analyzes digitalized welfare’s effectiveness in facilitating sustainable energy transitions through market mechanisms using a centralized approach to welfare delivery. Using narrative analysis, this article describes the shift to the direct benefits transfers regime from a regime of indirect subsidies for cooking gas in India. It describes the design aspects of various government programs through which target populations are socially constructed, as part of the policy of cooking gas cash transfers in India. Further, it analyzes the role of the practices of communicative governance and digitalization in calibrating the key policy characteristics to strengthen policy legitimacy. The insights from this article contribute to the emerging body of the theory and practice of digitalized welfare for sustainable energy transitions.

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The development language: BPL category and the poverty discourse in contemporary India

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India

Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India

Digitalized Welfare for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Examining the Policy Design Aspects of the Cooking Gas Cash Transfers in India

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