The 'per capita income' goal in @AamAadmiParty Delhi budget is a good public target. The simple promise is - the people of Delhi will become much richer, measurably, each year that AAP is in power. Each year, the annual outcomes budget can report on progress to this goal.
AAP has created a positive feedback logic for Delhi Budgets. Public goods and services are provided properly, which means the people don't have to spend their own money for these. They use it instead to spend on other things, which drives local economy and tax revenues.
The 30,000 crores Budget when AAP took over is now at nearly 70,000 crores. And even in a pandemic, the revenue estimates are comfortable enough to allow continuing high investment in health, education, and other public goods.
The 'Singapore level of per-capita income', however, cannot be achieved in Delhi alone. To get there, we'll need to see the states around Delhi also at high levels of income. And that will be possible only when the productivity of public funds is high in those places too.
In various states, examples of good governance can arise. The key for the country will be to turn these into widely implemented choices in other states too, and not have each success remain trapped in the governance of one or two places alone.
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