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The Bare Necessities Index measures quality and accessibility of basic needs in India. It is based on 26 indicators across five dimensions: water, sanitation, housing, microenvironment, and other facilities.
The working paper analysed the data of two rounds of the National Family Health Surveys 2015-16 and 2019-21 on six amenities — electricity, water on the premises, toilet facility, mobile phone, bank account and use of LPG as cooking fuel.
The study, 'A Secular Democracy in Practice: Objective Assessment of Amenities Programs in India’, by EAC-PM member and economist Shamika Ravi looked at a nationally representative sample of more than 1.2 million households across 2015-16 and 2019-21, citing data to bust the perception of ‘dwindling democracy’ in India as alleged by the opposition parties
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There is no evidence that the government catered only to one community and in some instances, minorities have gained more than the majority through schemes for providing access to electricity and bank accounts, an Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister(EAC-PM) working paper has said. The paper titled 'A Secular Democracy in Practice: Objective Assessment of Amenities