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Beneficiary Perspectives on Welfare Schemes in Telangana: Issues and Challenges

Author(s) Dr. Kyasaram Kishtaiah
Country India
Abstract Since its formation in 2014, Telangana has assembled one of the most extensive welfare portfolios among Indian states, combining agricultural investment support (Rythu Bandhu), social security pensions (Aasara), marriage and maternity assistance, subsidised housing, piped drinking water and targeted asset transfers. Most appraisals of these schemes focus on budgets, coverage and policy design; far less attention has been paid to how the people who receive, or fail to receive, these benefits experience them. This paper examines welfare delivery from the beneficiary's standpoint. It asks how recipients perceive awareness, ease of access, timeliness, adequacy, and grievance redress, and which structural issues explain the gaps they report. Using a descriptive-analytical design that draws on official scheme documents, published scholarship, and a beneficiary perception framework, the paper finds that satisfaction is highest for schemes built on automated direct benefit transfer with simple eligibility rules, and lowest for schemes that depend on discretionary selection, multi-stage verification, or the delivery of physical assets. Recurring challenges include documentation and administrative burden, digital and banking exclusion, delayed payments, errors of inclusion and exclusion, the exclusion of tenant cultivators, weak grievance redress, perceived political targeting and long-term fiscal sustainability. The paper argues for a shift from a supply-centred to a citizen-centred model of welfare governance and proposes reforms in proactive enrolment, transparent selection, time-bound service guarantees, independent social audit and layered grievance systems.
Keywords Welfare schemes; beneficiary perception; Telangana; Rythu Bandhu; direct benefit transfer; administrative burden; social security; welfare governance
Published In Volume 15, Issue 1, January-June 2024
Published On 2024-01-02
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJAIDR.v15.i1.2171
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