If citizens access all their eligible entitlements, there will be no one in extreme poverty in India. A bulk of the poverty in India is created and sustained by caste and gender based violence. In its institutionalised form, it is extortion by the government officials.

We estimate that if a household accesses all their eligible entitlements, they would have a house with a toilet, running water, electric connection, and land. Excluding land, which has a varying cost, this would come to about ₹1 million. The cost of the household land would vary between ₹0.5 million to ₹1 million, and the agricultural land about ₹2 to ₹3 million. The cash flow would be enhanced by free electricity, rations, subsidised cooking gas. Actual cash in hand from pensions, scholarships, right to work would come to about ₹5,000 per month. So each family would get about ₹2 million in touch and feel assets, about ₹5,000 free cash flow per month, basic needs free, insurance of ₹0.5 million for life.

These can be accessed by systematically acquiring, correcting, and harmonising eligibility documents, then systematically applying for all eligible entitlements in sequence, consistent follow-up, and need based escalation to the appropriate authority.

By this method, about 55,000 households were able to access ₹350 million worth of hard assets, ₹400 million worth of 10 year projected cashflow, and ₹650 million worth of insurance cover in just over 15 months.