Vision document was released in a glittering ceremony chaired by former Prime Minister and world’s renowned economist Manmohan Singh in presence of Chief Minister Kamal Nath at Minto Hall.
Essence of ‘Vision-to-Delivery Roadmap 2020-25’
The roadmap document has been developed through envisioning short, medium as well as long term objectives of people-centric development in accordance with the socio-economic and psychological needs of people, particularly the women, children, farmers and other marginalised groups.
The envisioning of the five years roadmap was a comprehensive and consultative process with the primary (the citizens and related departments), as well as secondary (political leadership, people in decision making, research and academic institutions) stakeholders.
The developmental priorities, in consonance with the needs of different socio-economic groups, have been assimilated in a systematic manner and roadmap for their implementation in phased manner at different levels have been charted out.
Chief Minister Kamal Nath and his government is committed to translate the vision into reality through delivery. The developmental parametres and targets earmarked in the vision document have been decided with the objective of Madhya Pradesh becoming as one of the top performers on human development indicators by 2025.
It would supplement the initiatives and the innovative programmes started by government in the last one year across various sectors of human development to ensure health, education, security and empowerment of various categories specially farmers, women and children.
The focus in the roadmap is on making Madhya Pradesh ‘The Developmentally Enriched and Prosperous State’, and to achieve it, the State is committed to make the legal and administrative arrangements better, people-friendly and create a facilitative environment to attract more investments.
The roadmap contains 06 human development themes of economic prosperity, social equity, cultural harmony, environmental sustainability, infrastructure development and good governance that is further expanded in 11 sectors such as industrial growth, agriculture and allied sectors, education, public health and nutrition, inclusive growth, culture, heritage and tourism, youth welfare and sports, irrigation, energy and environment, urban development, rural development and good governance.
The roadmap document contains an empirical analysis of strengths, weaknesses and opportunities; then a gist has been provided on the principles followed in developing the document.
The approach adopted, and keys areas of the vision has been explained in detail i.e. background work for vision development, framework for development, setting overarching agenda and thrust areas, identifying core themes for vision 2025, aspirations for each thematic area, translating aspirations into sectoral priorities and creating the final vision document.
The methodology for developing the vision document that deals with stakeholder interactions, department level interactions and desk research is also given.
The main components of the document—background, vision, mission and goals, implementation and monitoring plan and key performance indicators, and index are also given.
This roadmap document would be accompanied by comprehensive ‘Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)’ for each sector and department to make the progress measurable through ongoing monitoring undertaking necessary corrective actions wherever needed.
The ‘Madhya Pradesh Vision-to-Delivery Roadmap 2020-2025’ is Government’s commitment to people for making Madhya Pradesh a thriving and prosperous State where everybody is cared, their livelihoods are strengthened, and interests protected’.