| SOCIAL SECTOR SCHEMES: Primary education as a fundamental right yet to be enforced, National Rural Health Mission wins applause.
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| The Economic Survey holds a mirror to social spending schemes. The spend on these may have doubled in the last four years but the efficacy leaves much to be desired.
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| The share of Central government expenditure on social services in total expenditure has increased from 11 per cent in 2001-02 to 16.4 per cent in 2007-08.
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| The survey calls for greater emphasis on governance. Better governance and improved service delivery is essential to ensure that leakages are plugged and funds reach the intended beneficiaries, it says.
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| It cites the example of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to stress that the government should learn lessons from the experiences of the scheme to prevent implementation failures.
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| The survey says the government has failed to enact a follow-up legislation envisaged in Article 21-A pending which the 86th Amendment making free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 years a fundamental right cannot be enforced.
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| The National Rural Health Mission has come in for special applause as an attempt to involve the community to make the system accountable.
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| With the establishment of Village Health and Sanitation Committees, Hospital Development Committees and Panchayati Raj institution-led-committees, it is the civil society to which the health system is being made increasingly accountable, the survey says. |
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