Eradicating poverty requires a data revolution

[Shashank Srinivasan]

One of the authors (Varad Pande) is an OSD to the Minister of Rural Development.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/fSMdzpHz3PNfBTiJjPQJVP/Eradicating-poverty-requires-a-data-revolution.html

[Rushabh Mehta]

I hope it does not become another veil for the government to hide behind. If you see our poverty indicators, we clearly know the regions and the communities that are left behind. For example: UP, Bihar, Orissa. This chart is particularly indicative:

http://codeformumbai.org/index.py?page=dataset&fname=Shortfall_In_Health_Infra_As_Per_2011_Population_Prov_In_India_2.csv

What clearly lacks is the "conviction" to tackle poverty or in other words - to create basic infrastructure and assets (roads, school, hospitals, power plants) in the regions that need them the most. If you read papers like Mint, you get the impression that FDI is the most important topic in our national agenda.

I would love to see a newspaper that collects, prints poverty statistics by region, community on a month by month basis and actively tracks creation of community assets.

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Shashank Srinivasan <srinivasa...@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the authors (Varad Pande) is an OSD to the Minister of Rural Development.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/fSMdzpHz3PNfBTiJjPQJVP/Eradicating-poverty-requires-a-data-revolution.html

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