NEW TOOLS FOR JUDGING THE PERFORMANCE OF STATE GOVERNMENTS IN INDIA

In India many State Governments perform poorly, but the political parties go before voters with tall promises every time. It is necessary to let the people judge the performance of each State Government on a continuing basis with the following tools.
India has a majority of poor people who have no access to clean drinking water, reasonable shelter and affordable health care and job opportunities are critical for the development of the country. Unless the benefits of progress reach the masses there is no point in claiming that lot of development is taking place. It is not suffice to emerge as a major nation with respect to GDP or Purchasing power parity. It is only when the number of poor out of the poverty circle that must be performance yard stick for each government. So far the development is judged on all India basis.
Each State Government should set up a completely autonomous body of eminent people to assess the progress with respect to the following parameters on monthly basis.
No of Poor in the State
No of peole with safe drinking water facility
No of people with reasonable shelter
No of people who can access affordable medical care
Inflation index must contain elements of consumer prices and not wholesale prices.
The items covered must include essential food commodities and vegetables, housing cost, price of power and petroleum products and food items like the prices in Hotels etc. on weekly basis.
The periodicity of publication of all the above key parameters must be on monthly basis.
If such a performance report reaches public hands every month in each state, people can judge what their government is doing. If for three months there is negative reporting on the key parameters, such state government must be dismissed. People want governments that perform and not the governments that promise but keep them poor. Unless such monitoring is introduced, majority of the Indians remain in Poverty for the next 60 years too.