The Indian government has around forty schemes to provide welfare to its poor: uplift their economic conditions, provide toilets, drinking water, roads, schools and hospitals, guarantee employment and other assistance. It spends about 1.7 per cent of its GDP in the social sector – the health and education sectors receive 1 per cent of the GDP, while rural development gets 0.7 per cent. In the budget for 2016–17, this totalled to a whopping Rs 2,53,356 crore. All the schemes have grand names, mostly after famous Indian leaders from the past, but none of them assure a better future for the
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