{"id":38452,"date":"2018-12-10T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=38452"},"modified":"2018-12-10T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T13:06:31","slug":"can-mobile-phones-improve-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/can-mobile-phones-improve-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Can mobile phones improve governance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Politics\/iwgstVqIIj4ykB7tZu3B0K\/Can-mobile-phones-improve-governance.html\">Can mobile phones improve governance?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Improving last-mile service delivery using phone-based monitoring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Government claims as mobile phone penetration increases across India, it can directly reach out to beneficiaries to generate quick, independent feedback about program delivery.<\/li>\n<li>Currently mobile phone-based monitoring project is being used to assess scheme performance of Rythu Bandhu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Rythu Bandhu Scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under this scheme, <strong>the Government of Telangana<\/strong> (GoTS) provided Rs 4000\/acre to farmers per agricultural season to help pay for key inputs like seeds and fertiliser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Significance:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Informing Mandal Agricultural Officers about phone-based monitoring led to a 1.5% increase in the number of farmers receiving the scheme\u2019s benefits, with the effect more pronounced for poorer farmers.<\/li>\n<li>Phone-based monitoring was also highly cost-effective: costing only \u20b936 for every additional \u20b91,000 delivered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can mobile phones improve governance? News: Improving last-mile service delivery using phone-based monitoring. Facts: Government claims as mobile phone penetration increases across India, it can directly reach out to beneficiaries to generate quick, independent feedback about program delivery. Currently mobile phone-based monitoring project is being used to assess scheme performance of Rythu Bandhu. About Rythu&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/can-mobile-phones-improve-governance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can mobile phones improve governance?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700104356},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}