Special Social Development Corridor Can Ensure Inclusive Growth

Although most of the problems are state specific, it has already taken a shape of a national crisis and requires urgent national attention.

If the current state-specific pattern of implementation is continued, India cannot probably be able to make any major headway in reaching minimum development goals in the next 10 years.

To speed up the progress, there is need for a concentrated and apolitical and honest push to develop a Special Social Development Corridor (SSDC).

 This will encompass at least 200 such districts as a single unit of implementation within the corridor.

The SSDC will provide national solutions in areas where the states have failed to showcase tangible results even after huge investments.

The SSDC can initiate a special result-oriented campaign to reach the targets expected in the MDG.

It can be promoted as a new implementing entity with a pool of experts being outsourced from government departments and the private sector to focus their energy and resources in the areas like infant mortality, maternal mortality, sanitation and toilet use.

The SSDC will be an apolitical implementing entity and concentrate on social development efforts in the selected 200 most-underdeveloped regions from a single central operational point in close coordination with the state administrations. When there is a crime or corruption, there are central agencies to counter this.

 However, when there is no development happening and no timeframe is fixed to achieve human development indicators, why cannot the country experiment with a new model that can take national responsibilities on issues that affect the people the most and the image of the country at worst?

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