OdishaPlus Bureau
Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi on Tuesday said the Social Registry and Integrated Social Protection Delivery Platform (SPDP) in Odisha is based on the 5-T principle of the State government to cater to citizen’s need more efficiently.
Padhi, addressing a national level workshop which was attended by experts from World Bank, various States, and the Union Government to share knowledge, experience and best practices in the matter, also emphasized on appropriate and ethical use of the data incorporated in Social Registry.”SPDP is based on 5T principles of the Government and this will help in catering to citizen’s need more efficiently,” Padhi said adding, “SPDP needs building up a Social Registry of the Citizens with concrete and authenticated database.”
Outlining the objectives of the Workshop, Principal Secretary Finance Ashok Kumar Meena said, “State has a wide variety of social assistance programs which account for a large share of GSDP annually. These are administered by concerned departments with their own database and beneficiary registers”. Development of an integrated Social Registry would make identification of beneficiaries more transparent, quicker and accountable, he said. This would also reduce the costs involved in the transmission of benefits and services to the targeted beneficiaries, he added.
The workshop is intended to capture the requirements of respective departments and other stakeholders for establishing a Social Registry. The practices adopted by some States within India and countries abroad would also be looked into for working out the best suited method in Odishan context.
World Bank’s John Blanquest presented the practices of social protection platform being followed in some countries. Joint Secretary, Central DBT Mission Saurabh Tiwari shared the national perspectives on DBT implementation. Senior officers from Telangana and Rajasthan shared the experience of their respective states with regard to development of social registry and DBT.
Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner Asit Kumar Tripathy, Agriculture Production Commissioner GK Dhal, Principal Secretary IT CJ Venugopal, Principal Secretary Agriculture & Farmers Empowerment Saurabh Garag participated in the deliberations.
Odisha has been implementing DBT since last three years. Presently, the State DBT Cell is functioning under the administrative control of Finance department. An online portal entitled has been made operational.
So far 17 schemes of both the State and Central Government have been boarded in the portal. The schemes like Seed subsidy, National food security, Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA), Post-Matric scholarship for ST,Sc , OBC and EBC students, MGNREGA, PMAY ( Gramin and Urban), ASHA workers Incentive, Angan Wadi Workers honorarium, Supplementary Nutrition Programme, Urban Livelihood mission, Sarva Sikshya Yojana ( SSA) Rashtriya Swastya Bima Yojana ( RSBY) , Biju Pucca Ghar Yojana, Odisha Input subsidy for seed, Biju Krushak Kalyan Yojana, KALIA, Paddy procurement, MAMATA, Medhabruti Scholarship have been undertaken under DBT. Steps are being taken to bring more schemes under DBT fold.
