Top 15 achievements in India under Narendra Modi’s 10-year PM role
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a great example of a decisive leader who can deliver what he promises. The most fundamental of needs, the poorest of today have been saturated with flagship government welfare programs by the Modi government. Twenty-five crore people have been lifted out of multi-dimensional poverty even as PM Modi provides free food grains to 80 crore people via PM Garib Anna Yojana. This guarantee ensures no one sleeps hungry.
In a bid to provide a roof over each head, the Modi government guarantees “Housing For All” through the PM Awas Yojana for the millions living in urban and rural areas. Today, over four crore houses have been sanctioned under the scheme. 100% electrification of villagers is also a part of this promise. Water today is reaching over 14 crore rural households under the Jal Jeevan Mission, which guarantees safe and potable tap water connections to all rural households in India.
Ensuring ‘Health for All’ is the PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), the world’s largest health insurance plan funded by a government, covering nearly 55 crore individuals belonging to 12 crore vulnerable families.
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The top 15 achievements
- The corporate sector adopts the Prime Minister’s ‘Swachch Bharat’ mission with the promise of total sanitation by 2019
- Cooking gas is now under a direct-cash-benefit transfer scheme, with potential savings of $5 billion annually in subsidies, plus Diesel prices de-regulated
- Foreign equity in rail infrastructure allowed, without limit
- Foreign equity cap in defense raised to 49 percent; 74 percent in case of technology transfer
- Fast-tracking of defense purchases: 36 Rafale fighters are being bought, and orders for several long-pending purchases placed
- Foreign equity cap in insurance and pension sectors increased to 49 percent
- Nod for IPOs/FPOs by banks to raise funds, as long as government equity remains 52 percent or over
- Nod for real estate and infrastructure investment trusts, with tax benefits
- Cabinet nod for Prime Minister’s 100 Smart Cities Project
- $130 billion proposed spending on railways over five years on schemes including high-speed trains
- Definitive steps forward in introducing pan-India goods and services regime
- The successful conclusion of two rounds of coal block auctions, more lined up
- The impasse in the mining sector ended with the passage of the new bill for regulation and development
- The successful conclusion of auctions for telecom spectrum for mobile telephony and broadband
- Launch of ‘Make-in-India’, ‘Digital India’ and ‘Skill India’ initiatives with a focus on defense and electronics, primarily to create jobs
