Question

Conduct a survey on government welfare schemes on health. List the beneficiaries in your area.​

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The State Government is expected to bring about radical changes in the implementation of social security measures to ensure that the benefits reach the target groups and simultaneously enable a higher degree of transparency and accountability in the administration.

Sources close to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa told The Hindu here on Friday that the changes are expected to be announced in the ensuing budget to be presented to the Legislative Assembly in the first week of March. The Government is spending nearly Rs. 2,000 crore a year on a variety of welfare schemes and most of the schemes are classified as poverty alleviation measures.

The Chief Minister plans to conduct a survey of the beneficiaries of various schemes and bring about changes in the schemes, if need be. The mammoth survey will be outsourced as there are nearly 40 lakh beneficiaries of the various schemes. Inputs will come from the Department of Planning and Statistics on the nature of information to be gathered from the beneficiaries. Based on the survey findings, the Government is planning to either strengthen the welfare schemes or scrap some of those that are wasteful.