ASPIRATIONAL DISTRICTS

About:

• Background: In keeping with the PM Modi’s vision of a New India by 2022, Government of India launched the ‘Transformation of Aspirational Districts’ in January 2018.
  
  
• Objective: To transform some of the most underdeveloped districts of the country.
  
  
• 3C Strategy: The broad contours of the programme are –
  • Convergence (of Central & State Schemes),
    
    
  • Collaboration (of Central, State level ‘Prabhari’ Officers & District Collectors), and
    
    
  • Competition (among districts driven by a Mass Movement or a Jan Andolan).
    
    
  
  
  
• How many? 115 districts have been identified on the basis of objective criteria such as education, health, rural road connectivity etc. Of these 35 are affected by Left Wing Violence.
  
  
• Prabhari Officers:
  • Senior level Government officers (Additional Secretary/Joint Secretary) have been nominated as Prabhari officers.
    
    
  • Their task is to coordinate the efforts of the Centre and the states in addressing the needs of the districts.