No Census, No Jobs Data, No Answers: Inside the Modi Govt’s Data Denial | The Quint | The Quint

Описание: From 2011 to 2024, the Modi government had no official, up-to-date household consumption or poverty dataset even as it continued to dole out scheme after welfare scheme for the country’s poor. This prolonged vacuum includes the Covid-19 pandemic years from 2020 to 2022, when such data was needed the most.
The question is, without an updated census or household consumption survey, how was the Modi government identifying vulnerable groups and ensuring that the welfare schemes (which are funded by the taxpayers' money) were reaching the intended beneficiaries?

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