An aspirational journey for India’s underdeveloped pockets
The three-year-old Aspirational Districts Programme—following a triple-C framework of convergence, collaboration and competition—has set an example for state governments to extend this template of development to the block or gram panchayat level. The ADP extends evidence-based policymaking to 112 ‘aspirational districts’, monitors these on 49 KPIs and 81 data points, and ranks these across multiple sectors every month