The D N Ghosh Prize for the Best Papers in EPW
To Link or Not to Link: How Aadhaar Impacts the Delivery of Welfare by Anjor Bhaskar, Arpita Sarkar and Preeti Singh has won Economic & Political Weekly’s Best Paper Award for 2024 in the Young Scholar category.
The Dhruba and Tapasi Social Ventures Foundation instituted ‘The D N Ghosh Prize for the Best Papers in EPW’, in honour of the late Dhruba Narayan Ghosh, a former trustee of the Sameeksha Trust, publishers of EPW.
The research paper can be accessed from here:
Article
To Link or Not to Link: How Aadhaar Impacts the Delivery of Welfare
in Economic and Political Weekly
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Abstract
According to the Government of India, linking Aadhaar with the delivery of welfare schemes has saved nearly INR 2,73,093 crore till March 2022 due to, apparently, the removal of duplicate/fake beneficiaries and plugging of leakages, etc. What is the overall impact of Aadhaar on welfare delivery? We try to understand this through a case study of MGNREGA in Jharkhand. Surveying nearly 3,000 workers in eight villages in Jharkhand to assess both the costs and benefits of linking MGNREGA with Aadhaar, the paper focuses on its impact on errors of inclusion and exclusion.
Authors:
Anjor Bhaskar, Arpita Sarkar, Preeti Singh
Anjor Bhaskar and Preeti Singh are members of the Azim Premji Foundation.
Arpita Sarkar works for the Monitoring and Evaluation vertical at the Antara Foundation.