What India Needs: The Next Chapter of the Indian Welfare State with Arshi Aadil

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India has proved it can scale welfare. The next challenge is ensuring that scale translates into real outcomes.

In this episode of What India Needs, Shutapa Paul speaks with Arshi Aadil, Senior Manager, Government Advisory at MSC (MicroSave Consulting), about India’s welfare delivery systems and what comes next.

The conversation explores the shift from scale to substance, last-mile delivery, digital public infrastructure, social protection, financial inclusion, data systems, and building welfare systems that are more resilient, inclusive, and outcome-focused.

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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:33 - Building welfare systems at scale
00:05:49 - Convergence and welfare delivery
00:09:10 - Adaptive social protection
00:10:46 - e-Shram, informal workers and migrants
00:12:57 - Data quality and beneficiary databases
00:15:08 - MSC's work on delayed payments and just-in-time funding
00:18:13 - Unified social registries and MSC's work in Indonesia
00:20:53 - AgriStack and Bihar Krishi
00:22:10 - Awareness and access to welfare schemes
00:24:23 - Women's financial agency and lessons from Bangladesh
00:29:24 - Welfare, equity and social protection
00:30:38 - Measuring outcomes beyond enrollments
00:32:45 - The future of India's welfare state
00:34:46 - Outro

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