Socio Economic Caste Census-2021: Lakhs of households to lose benefits?  

Lakhs of households in rural India might lose eligibility to flagship schemes

Government intends to revamp parameters for the Socio Economic Caste Census-2021

The survey defines eligibility of a rural household for various benefits under government schemes.

The new criterion, could lead to exclusion of households from flagship schemes.

The rural development ministry is reworking 25 existing parameters under SECC.

A final decision will be taken by a high-level committee soon

Based on the changes, a fresh questionnaire would be prepared to assess the status of these households

Those covered under the PM pension scheme and the PM Kisan scheme might be excluded automatically

The automatically included criteria of household without shelter could be knocked off.

This will be in the name of construction of rural houses under the PM Awas Yojana.

The SECC-2011 had identified households based on 13 automatic exclusion parameters...

....five automatic inclusion parameters and seven deprivation criteria.

The government wants to omit out large number of households from eligibility

The government claims that the success of development programmes need for a re-look

The rural development ministry will soon kickstart the exercise to compile the updated list

The plan is also to use Aadhaar as a single identifier of beneficiaries for all  schemes

SECC provides the details and status on seven deprivation parameters

The parameters which government thinks it has already fulfilled

SECC-21 intends to reduce the beneficiaries of social and economic benefits drastically.