What's New

One database for all welfare schemes in the works

Why in News?

• Recently, the federal government has decided to merge two of its flagship beneficiary identification schemes to finish an asset-based classification of the poor for focused social and financial advantages supply.
• The Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) can be rolled into the Social Registry being collectively developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and NITI Aayog.
• After this merger, the Social Registry will develop into a single-source database register for all welfare programs that can be up to date on a real-time foundation.

Key Points:

• SECC will move from being only a census-like economic database to becoming the core of a functioning social registry information system.
• The SECC knowledge compiled by the rural development ministry has been used since 2014 for the identification of beneficiaries for numerous social sector schemes.
• It gives for the automated exclusion of beneficiaries based mostly on 14 parameters, computerized inclusion on the premise of 5 parameters, and grading of deprivation on the premise of seven standards.
• Under the Social Registry, the federal government is amassing real-time knowledge on homelessness, landlessness, employment standing, and advantages being acquired by the household moreover the variety of individuals in it assist implement welfare schemes extra successfully.

The Social Registry, however, can have family data on property and advantages availed by way of authorities schemes. It is being drawn up utilizing the family knowledge collected beneath the continuing inhabitant’s census.