While contacting rural beneficiaries to inform them about their entitlement for NHPS has been strategically planned, the major task for the government now is finding the actual whereabouts of urban beneficiaries. In rural areas, the government has drafted in the rural development ministry and gram panchayats. The uneven geographic distribution of poor families may make it difficult for government to find out the real targeted beneficiaries of Modicare. The urban space is geographically diffused and the poor population in urban areas is fluid. “In rural areas, most of the panchayats have updated data but in urban areas, family numbers keep on changing as urban India has mobile and migratory population.

Source: Mint April 15, 2018 18:33 UTC