“No scheme is perfect, it is impossible to have a scheme which has zero leakage. When you say that they don’t reach at the bottom do you mean that the leakage is 100… absolutely not! Leakage are high, even as high as 30%, but 70% is reaching at people. The other reason people think that the schemes are not having the effect that the effect that were expected, is that the challenges are very complex one… you can have very good schemes but you don’t deliver the result.”
(Gives example of education) and says that
“Pratham brings out a report every year and saw that 37% percent of children in class 5 cannot read a text for class 2. Now if you say that therefore the benefits are not reaching the target population, in a sense you are right. But what can the government do? It sets up schools, it highers teachers… we say that you need to have more parent-teacher involvement, you must have local communities enforcing accountability, techers must be made to teach.
These are things that are not just done by governments, these are things done by social pressure, social awareness, social mobilization and it would not surpeise me that it takes time.
It is not true that nothing is happening, lots is happening! “
“I’m not aware of what it means. There is certainly a concept that we are a global community. There is a concept that each citizen much conduct himself in a manner in which his country is seen as a country to be a good global citizen. But in my view if you don’t have global taxation you don’t have global citizenship. So the argument that there is global citizenship is an exaggerated claim. You can only be citizen of one government, so if you ever had global citizenship then everybody would be a citizen… the question is whether he would be a good citizen or a bad citizen.
Ultimately individuals are citizens of the country they belong to. There may be global values, universal values but each citizen must operate in the confines of the country he or she is a citizen of.”
MDGs refer to commonly shared notions of what constitutes and improvement in human welfare. Our plans have specific programs which deal with deal with each of the Human Development Goals; if these programs are successfully implemented then the Government will end up meeting the MDGs….
There is nothing wrong with making too many promises, it pushes the government to deliver on those promises. The central government has about 150 programs but over 90% of the money goes in the top 20 programs, that is not too many.
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