Opinion Mining of Saubhagya Yojna for Digital India

Abstract

A government policy is an ideology of principles, ethics, regulations, and set of rules introduced or constituted by government in interest of normal citizens across country. The purpose of making a policy or scheme is to explore and strengthen the favourable outcomes or profits and to minimize the adverse effects noticed by government. On the flip side, all the government policies are destined to be efficacious but on the contrary may affect the routine life of a common man. An efficient and endless process of policy evaluation may leads to accurate assessment of progress graph or outcomes of policy in order to improve the social and economic conditions of different stakeholders. The aim of this paper is to evaluate one of the recent government policy, Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya initiated by Indian government to accomplish global electrification across country. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the public perception of this scheme by using opinion mining techniques to understand the positive and negative impact of this policy over Indian citizen. Twitter as a social media tool has been used for collecting and extracting public opinion or sentiments over this scheme.