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The Saubhagya Scheme and other policy of Modi’s ESCR model in India

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Dr. Manish Sharma
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si4.1823

Abstract

The Saubhagya Scheme also known as Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana is the project of the Government of INDIA to provide electricity for all. It was aimed that by March 2019 all people in India has access to electricity. It is reported that by the end of 2018, about 90 percent people in India has the access towards electricity. It aimed at giving advantage to economically poor people having no shelter, destitute, living on alm, manual scavenger,primitive tribal groups, legally released bonded labor, households with one room, in household no literate adult above 25 years old, female headed household with no male adult between age 16-59, landless household, etc. This scheme was launched with basic thought to upgrade the lives of poor people economically as they could not afford to get access with electricity. This scheme was launched together with other policies/programs of the Modi lead Government to fulfillment of ESCR of people in India. This Saubhagya scheme was launched together with other policies, which includes substitution of kerosene, improvement of education, health, communication, public safety, job oportunities and better quality of life. From the ESCR point of view, the Government of India under the present PM Sh. Narendra Modi is very eager to see the thorough problem of the people access towards their ESCR. However, some may think differently. On one hand it is dealing with assistanship towards poor people, but on the other hand it is related to the emergence of dependency of people to get assisted by state. In the long run, it needs to be examined as to whether the scheme is solving the economic problem of the poor or not. As, there were challenges to lessening the gaps between the two opposite economic conditions. The basic question is that, In India; will Saubhagya be the succesfull model for protecting the ESCR for people in India or not? As before the starting of this scheme, the previous Governments lead by Congress party and others, similar kind of schemes were launched with one name or the other name and also achieved some success but the complete task was not achieved by anyone. The complete results were never achieved because of the one reason or the other. The present study is aimed at examining the shortfalls of the Saubhagya Scheme such as the sustainability and effectiveness of the program, reliability and the future of cost burden affected by the Saubhagya, and its justificiability potentials as well as comparing with the past schemes. So, this study will be conducted to seek the answers of the above concerns by using qualitative method and supported by literature review.

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