Good Practice

The Indian education and social arrangements are very inflexible on kids and completely ignore their feelings, thoughts, and ambitions. As per UNESCO data, India has one of the lowest public expenditure rates on education per student, especially compared to other Asian countries like China. 

Agriculture sector challenges will be critical to India’s overall development and the improved welfare of its rural poor. Governments and local administration have taken initiatives to improve the overall results. 

Environmental protection is protecting the natural environment by individuals, groups, and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair damage and reverse trends. Administration in districts and states took measures to protect the resources and increase their efficiency.

Women’s empowerment can be defined as promoting women’s sense of self-worth, their ability to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves and others. To empower women in every sense government of India and state governments have taken several initiatives. 

Decades of misuse, poor management, over-extraction of groundwater, and contamination of freshwater supplies have exacerbated water stress. Governments and administrations have started various initiatives to handle water and sanitation-related issues.

Infrastructure development has a multiplier effect on the demand and efficiency of transport and increases commercial and entrepreneurship opportunities. Similarly, local planning is essential from the point of view of inclusive development. 

The Indian public health system is organized into three tiers with primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.10 At the primary level, are subcentres and primary health centers. SCs are tasked with spreading messages on behavioral changes for better health among the rural population and also provide services related to maternal and child health, family welfare, nutrition, immunization, diarrhea control, and control of communicable diseases. The central, state, and local government has taken initiatives in this regard.

Public Distribution System substantially contributed to the containment of the rise in food grain prices and ensured access to food for urban consumers. The government's target is to facilitate food grain availability to every consumer. To this end local, state, and central government has initiated programs to ensure the last mile availability.

Social security in India includes a variety of statutory insurances and social grant schemes bundled into a formerly complex and fragmented system run by the Indian government at the federal and state level.

Environment conservation and preservation have been significant from the perspective of the security of our current as well as future generations. To this end, governments have started initiatives that made a mark of success.

Gender inequality, low quality of education, teacher absenteeism, lack of adequate public investment, underqualified teachers, a lack of capacity utilization, poor infrastructure, lack of quality curricula, and insufficient monitoring collectively impact the quality of education in schools.  To tackle these issues, government initiative programs and schemes.

This GS SCORE's document on ‘Good Practices in Urban Water Supply' seeks to showcase select good practices from Indian cities and countries worldwide on various sub-themes in the water and sanitation sector.