Download or read book Who Benefits from India's Public Services? written by Samuel Paul and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering independent effort to assess the state of India's public services from a user's perspective brings together the responses of citizens from 37,000 rural and urban households on the delivery, quality, and responsiveness of public services. While the state's monitoring of service delivery seldom goes beyond tracking public expenditure and physical outputs, this study fills that gap and provides unique benchmarks with respect to five basic services: drinking water, primary health care, primary education, public distribution of food, and public transportation across the major states.