India spends roughly 13% of its GDP or close to $256 billion on social welfare schemes. These schemes are crucial for sustenance and upliftment of half of the country’s 1.3 billion population, which lives in vulnerable economic conditions. A new era of ‘machine governance’ is increasingly replacing traditional methodologies for deciding welfare entitlements of the poor. This project aims to explore how algorithmic systems are transforming the citizen-state relationship in India.
