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2. Provision to be made for the use of weightages for State and District and sub-district level PDIs if they would
want to assign differential weights for their use to draw focus as needed.

3. For calculation of Block, District, State and National scores, population can be used as the weightage.

10) Priority Indicators

Every stakeholder would have a different perception of the priorities. Ministries have flagship schemes and
Missions that they closely monitor on priority basis. States have priorities. Districts and blocks may need to take
up their issues on priority. GPs have their local priorities and scope and space of influence. The priority indicators
should hence be left to the GPs themselves and system provision made for enabling them to identify them and

seen separately and also assessed.

11) Scope of PDI
1. PDI is not to be seen as a one-time annual exercise, but looked at as an evolving and continuous process
providing the leads into GPDP & outcomes on the scale of development. The LIF on which it rests provides

actionable points.

2. PDI from GP level needs to move to hamlet & household levels.

3. States may aspire to have a comprehensive data base for household level, like State of Karnataka has
developed under Kutumba using relevant data available at various departments database or as Madhya
Pradesh had developed with the Samagra application. This can feed into the LIF and thus PDI.

4. PDI and LIF can well be used in policy and programme, planning and focus for actions at level of Ministries,
States, Districts and Sub-district level.

5. As SDGII is spoken at National & State level, PDI has the scope to be the gamechanger at GP level localizing

SDGs and enabling achieving of local targets and national goals.
6. PDI needs to also be seen and understood in the context of developmental status in relation to the parameters
covering the endowed advantageous and disadvantaged GPs, in the next level of calculation. (A peri-urban GP
versus an interior GP on the scale of development would need a slightly different set of Indicators in addition

to the LIF for such assessments.)

7. Analysis of the large volume of data that has gone into the PDI, needs to be done using various other data and
correlations to provide all stakeholders with variety of relevant analysis that will enable addressing the issues
in an intersectoral manner.

8. Platform for use of emerging technologies like AI ML, Big Data Analytics in policy making: As the PDI
exercise will generate huge amount of data, in the future, if we can build programmes to analyze this data, we

can get interesting macro and micro insights on this data.
12) PDI use for Aspirational Panchayats

PDI gives the overall status of Gram Panchayats and can throw light on the least developed which can be
identified as Aspirational Panchayats for support and focused attention in line with Aspirational Districts

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