The document discusses a survey conducted to understand the "information gap" among target populations about government welfare schemes in rural India. Key findings from the survey include: - Many farmers are unaware of schemes like Kisan Credit Card, MNREGA, Soil Health Card, and Sinchai Yojana due to a lack of information dissemination by local officials. - Even among those aware, many do not utilize the schemes due to complex paperwork, unwillingness to initiate applications, and corruption within local bureaucracies. - Upper caste farmers tend to be better informed than lower caste farmers, and educated farmers know more than illiterate farmers. The document concludes more awareness programs using banners,

1. Presented By
Mohit Shubham Sumit Harsha

2. Motivation
 In the welfare state of India, government is abide by rules and
regulations of Indian constitution (DPSP) to make public welfare
policies and the same we can see how government actively making
new policies to improve the living status of its citizens.
 Each of these looks fancy and promising for “ideal development” but
still we are not able to observe appealing changes in basic
development parameters specially in rural population of India. This
motivated us to gaze upon one of the loopholes in implementation of
these welfare schemes. (‘being two of our team members from
villages and agriculture background we observed lack of info as a
shortcoming’)
 Which we observe as lack of pertaining information about the welfare
schemes among the targeted population which we have called as
“INFORMATION GAP” in this survey study.

3. Information Gap exists when the target beneficiaries don’t
have adequate knowledge about government schemes that
have been launched for their social, economical and life style
development.
•Improper utilization of funds .
•The intended economic and social development of the target
community is not achieved.
•It encourages corruption, nepotism .
•Increasing suicide in agrarian societies and degradation of
quality of life.
Above mentioned factors affect the efficiency of govt. schemes
and are a major factor for failure of any development plan.

5. The KCC allows cash credit to farmers
to take care of crop related expenses
like seeds, fertilizers, pesticides,
electricity and diesel charges etc. It
also offers term credit for allied
activities like buying equipment, land
development and drip irrigation.

6. MNREGA(MAHATMA GANDHI
NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT
GUARANTEE ACT)
MNREGA is an employment scheme
which provides social security by
guaranteeing a minimum of 100
days paid work per year to all the
families whose adult members opt
for unskilled labor-intensive work.

7. SOIL HEALTH CARD SCHEME
Under the scheme, the
government plans to issue soil
cards to farmers which will carry
crop-wise recommendations of
nutrients and fertilisers required
for the individual farms to help
farmers to improve productivity
through judicious use of inputs.

8. The programme introduced a
National Policy for Social Assistance
for the poor and aims at ensuring
minimum national standard for
social assistance in addition to the
benefits that states are currently
providing or might provide in
future.
NSAP at present, comprises of
Indira Gandhi National Old Age
Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS), Indira
Gandhi National Widow Pension
Scheme (IGNWPS), Indira Gandhi
National Disability Pension Scheme
(IGNDPS), National Family Benefit
Scheme (NFBS) and Annapurna.
NATIONAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
PROGRAMME

9. • Aimed at irrigating the field of
every farmer.’HAR KHET KO PANI’
•Will improving water use
efficiency to provide,’PER DROP
MORE CROP’
•Will enhance recharge of aquifers
SINCHAI YOJANA

10. We recorded the responses of the
locals in this form.
The following questions were
asked regarding the schemes –
1. Do you know about it ?
2. How did you come to know about
this scheme?
3. Have they used it ?
4. Do they know the procedure to
avail the scheme
And we asked them to rate its
effectiveness .

12. Know about it
and used it
31%
Know a little bit
about it and never
used it
46%
Don't Know
About It
23%
KISSAN CREDIT CARD
SCHEME
Lots of
paperwork
involved.

13. Know about it
and used it
31%
Know a little bit
about it and
never used it
54%
Don't Know
About It
15%
MNREGAPrefer to work as
labors in
construction
projects and/or
farming

14. Know about it
and used it
62%
Know a little bit
about it and
never used it
23%
Don't Know About
It
15%
NSAP
Consists of various
popular schemes ,
which target the
various sections of
society like
widows, old
person, physically
disabled etc

15. Know about it
and used it
15%
Know a little bit
about it and
never used it
46%
Don't Know
About It
39%
SOIL HEALTH CARD
Farmers have on
field experience,
don't want to
complicate &
not willing to
take initiative .

16. Know about it
and used it
8%
Know about
it but never
used it
34%
Don't Know
About It
58%
SINCHAI YOJANA
Locals use electric
motor for
irrigation.

17.  W i d e s p r e a d c o r r u p t i o n a t l o w e r l e v e l s o f b u r e a u c r a c y ,
 L o t s o f p a p e r w o r k i n v o l v e d i n a v a i l i n g s c h e m e s ,
 F a r m i n g i s n o l o n g e r p r o f i t a b l e ,
 D o m i n a t i o n o f u p p e r c a s t e s ,
 W r o n g i n f o r m a t i o n b e i n g r e l a y e d t o t h e p e o p l e w h o
s h o u l d b e b e n e f i t t e d b y t h e s e s c h e m e s .
 P e o p l e n o t w i l l i n g t o t a k e t o i n i t i a t i v e ,
 F a r m i n g i s l a b o r i n t e n s i v e a n d r e q u i r e s c o n t i n u e d
a t t e n t i o n ,
 F a r m e r A d v i s e r s ( K i s a n S a l a h k a r ) a r e n o t a v a i l a b l e
d u r i n g t h e i r o f f i c e h o u r s ,
 F a r m e r s h a v e p r i o r f i e l d e x p e r i e n c e a n d d o n ’ t w a n t t o
a v a i l S o i l H e a l t h C a r d t o i n c r e a s e c o m p l i c a t i o n s ,
 C o r r u p t i o n w i t h i n p a n c h a y a t i s y s t e m .
A f t er t a l k ing t o t h e l o c als a n d l i s t ening t o t h e i s s ues
t h at p l a gue t h em , w e s ummar iz ed t h e f o l lowing
p r o blems t h at e x is t i n t h i s d e v elopment m o del -

18. CONCLUSION
From the data we collected and responses we recorded ,the following conclusions can
be made-
1. Main sources of information for farmers are television programs, newspaper and
interaction among themselves,
2. Although significant no. of people knew about the welfare programs and schemes
;they don’t utilize them as they can’t afford to bribe govt. officials, lots of
paperwork involved in availing those schemes and people are not willing to take
initiative to visit the block office.
3. From the data obtained from survey , many farmers don’t know about welfare
schemes . The main reason for lack of information is that Kisan Salahkars are
reaching out for all farmers
4. We also observed that farmers belonging to upper castes better informed than
those from lower castes ,
5. Educated people are getting more information than the illiterate one .

19.  Weekly awareness programs can be organized
and schemes can be popularized by means of
hoardings and banners,
 Making then aware by use of modern
technology
 Farmer advisors should visit and meet with the
farmers regularly.
 Farmers should be encouraged to visit block
offices and take initiative on their own .