India. State to develop social protection delivery platform

To make delivery of G2C services (government to citizen) more accurate and quicker, the state government has initiated the development of Social Registry and Integrated Social Protection Delivery Platform (SPDP).

A national level workshop to this effect was held here Tuesday wherein experts from World Bank, Central government and various states shared their expertise and best practices in the field.

Inaugurating the workshop, Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said, “SPDP is based on 5Ts (Teamwork, Technology, Transparency, Transformation and Time limit) principles of the state government and this will help in catering to citizens’ needs more efficiently”.

He said SPDP needs building up a social registry of the citizens with concrete and authenticated data base and emphasised appropriate and ethical use of the data incorporated in the social registry.

Outlining the objectives of the workshop, Finance Secretary Ashok Kumar Meena said, “The state has a wide variety of social assistance programmes which account for a large share of GSDP annually. These programmes are administered by concerned departments with their own data base and beneficiary registers.”

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