Highlighting various structural changes brought by the government, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said that the government’s digitization initiative will bring more transparency in the system and further gave an example that benefits of over 500 Government schemes is being directly credited in the accounts of the beneficiaries using the Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT).
Kant also mentioned that the government has done away with many of the obsolete rules to drive the ease of doing business. Besides, he said that complex rules and regulations operating in India in the past was a constraint and added that the country’s growth can only be sustainable only if it is inclusive. Further, he listed various factors like significant variation in inter-state and inter-district parameters, which are contributing to the unsustainable growth in India and expressed need to address them.
Talking about the success stories of various districts which have performed to bring their ranking up amongst these aspirational districts, Niti Aayog CEO said that there should be a team spirit among states and the Centre to achieve the growth on a sustainable basis.