Anti-Poverty Programs — Revision Notes

⚡ 30-Second Revision

June 2011: DAY-NRLM launch; institutions, finance and livelihoods.
1 July 2026: VB–G RAM G commencement; 125-day household framework.
Enrolment ≠ receipt ≠ adequate support ≠ poverty exit.
Exclusion omits eligible people; inclusion admits ineligible recipients.

2-Minute Revision

Trace one household through identification → application → approval → delivery → outcome. At each step identify a possible failure and a correction. Separate current consumption protection from future earning capacity. Retain the date and method of any poverty estimate. A causal claim requires more than a before-and-after improvement because other economic changes may also matter.

5-Minute Revision

A hypothetical programme has 1,000 eligible households, 800 approved and 600 paid on time. Approval coverage is 80%; timely-payment coverage of eligible households is 60%; timely payment among approved households is 75%.

Explain why each percentage answers a different question. Then identify what is still unknown: adequacy, exclusion reasons, delayed receipts and the effect on deprivation. Propose an evaluation that collects those missing facts rather than treating the largest percentage as the programme's success rate.

Vyyuha Quick Recall

MADO: Match the instrument, Access, Delivery, Outcomes. These are four checks on an anti-poverty programme; they are not names of schemes.