NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi-led NDA government is all set to revamp and rename the Twenty Point Programme, a poverty eradication initiative which was the cornerstone of Indira Gandhi’s ‘Garibi Hatao’ programme. After restructuring several of the previous Congress-led UPA government’s schemes and naming them after national icons such as Deendayal Upadhyaya, BR Ambedkar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Modi government is considering five options for Twenty Point Programme. Social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy tops the list, officials said, with the government considering renaming the Twenty Point Programme as Raja Ram Mohan Roy Jan Kalyan Prativedan Lakshya. The other four options include Deendayal Upadhyaya Social Development Goals, Veer Savarkar Samajik Vikas Lakshya, Dr BR Ambedkar Samajik Uthan Lakshya and Sardar Patel National Statistical Reporting Mechanism, officials said. The programme, which was launched by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975 and was restructured in 1982, 1986 and 2006, rates states on their performance under different targets for below poverty line beneficiaries. The scheme is monitored by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, which compiles monthly and quarterly reports. However, along with the name, the Narendra Modi government is planning to change the indicators of the scheme as well as the reporting mechanism which is being followed. According to officials, the ministry had proposed wrapping up the Twenty Point Programme. In a report to the Prime Minister’s Office, the ministry had said that the programme had outlived its utility and instead of renaming the initiative it should be wrapped up. However, Prime Minister Modi decided to continue the poverty eradication initiative but asked the ministry to restructure it. At present, the Twenty Point Programme tracks progress of each state under schemes such as job creation, urban poor families assisted under Seven Point Charter, food security, number of houses constructed for economically weaker sections, electrification of villages, number of seedlings planted, roads constructed under Prime Minister’s Gramin Sadak Yojana, food security and number of self-help groups promoted. These indicators will be changed and the scheme is likely to be tracked state-wise and at all-India basis, officials said. An inter-ministerial group has been formed under director general, Central Statistics Office, for identification and development of social indicators for the states and the entire country. The group is examining developing a comprehensive national statistical reporting framework by identifying suitable statistical indicators, developing a methodology for compilation of indicators, suggesting institutional mechanism for collection, compiling data by ministries concerned in respect of the identified indicators and deciding on the periodicity of measuring these indicators. The group has to submit its report by September 30.