Five Years of #Modi Vs 55 years of Congress

MODI: Man of Divine Inspiration  

or  

Modi: Man of Dividing India

Shri Narendra Damodar Modi, Popularly known as Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India is a man who can be loved, who can be hated but cannot be ignored. PM Modi is known for his honesty, stretched working hours, speech delivery, visionary and charismatic leadership. The seer reason for such contrasting experience lies in silence of previous PM Shri Manmohan singh, sarcastically known as “Maun Mohan Singh”. While analyzing performance of PM Narendra Modi we will have to take stock of following initiatives taken by him. I am providing you some insight to reflect upon, verify, and make a well informed opinion than to make perception based opinion. I have placed the following initiatives taken by Modi Sarakar before you all for your critical appreciation and necessary comments:

1.     Make in India

2.     GST

3.     Demonitization

4.     Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission)

5.     Jan Dhan Yojna

6.     MUDRA Bank Yojana: MUDRA stands for Micro Unit Development and Refinance Agency. MUDRA Bank yojana act as regulator of Micro finance institutions and provide credit up to Rs.10 lakh to small entrepreneurs. There are three categories under MUDRA bank scheme: Shishu - the starters-covers loan up to Rs.50,000, Kishor - the mid stage finance seekers-covers loan above Rs.50,000 and up to Rs.5,00,000 and Tarun - growth seekers- covers loan above Rs.5,00,000 and up to Rs. 10,00,000

7.     Start Up India- Stand Up India

8.     Compaign on building toilets

9.     Gram Uday se Bharat Uday

10.                       Ujjwala Scheme: almost 6 crores poor houses have got free LPG connections.

11.                       Pradhanmantri Jeevan Jyoti beema Yojna- This is a life insurance scheme with age limit of 18 to 50 years. The annual premium is under this scheme for life cover of Rs.2, 00,000 is Rs.330 per year.

12.                       Pradhanmantri  Suraksha beema Yojna- This is a life insurance scheme with age limit of 18 to 70 years and here the annual premium is Rs.12 per year. It covers accidental death and full disability of Rs.2, 00, 00 and Rs.1, 00,000 for partial disability.

13.                       Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojna (Skill development Plan)

14.                       Pradhan Mantri Aavaas Yojna

15.                       Pradhan Mantri Phasal Beema Yojna

16.                       Soil Health Card Scheme- This scheme provides every farmer a soil health card. The card will carry crop wise recommendations of nutrients/ fertilizers required for farmers to improve productivity. The budget allotted Rs.100 crore for issuing cards.

17.                       Ensuring availability of Neem coated urea to farmers

18.                       Highest ever increase in MSP

19.                       Beti Bachaao Beti padhaao

20.                       Sukanya Samridhi Account-  the account can be opened in the name of girl child it will get highest interest rate of 9.2%, exemption from Tax u/s 80c. The maturity of account is 21 years from date of opening account or marriage of girl child whichever is earlier. Initial deposit of Rs.1000 and thereafter any amount in multiple of Rs.100 can be deposited to maximum of 1.5lakhs.

21.                       Indradhanush- Immunize all children against seven vaccine preventable diseases namely diphtheria, whooping cough (Pertussis), tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B

22.                       PM Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana- the Members of Parliament who are made responsible for developing the socio-economic and physical infrastructure of at least three villages by 2019 and total eight villages by 2024. The goal of this scheme is to create 6,433 model villages (Adarsh Grams) by 2024.

23.                       Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana- The aim of DDUGJY is to provide continuous power supply to rural India. Under this scheme government plans to invest Rs 75,600 crore for rural electrification.

24.                       "Ayushman Bharat": Health for all flagship scheme

25.                       Promotion of Digital and cashless India

26.                       Atal Pension Yojna- This is targeted at unorganized sector workers with age limit of 18 to 40 years. Depending on the contribution, pension will start at the age of 60 years. Government will contribute 50% of total contribution or Rs.1000 whichever is lower.The beneficiary will get guaranteed pension of Rs.1000 to Rs.5000 per month.

27.                       Udaan Project: Udaan, is the Special Industry Initiative (SII) for J&K state. This scheme is to provide skills and enhance employability of 40,000 youth over a period of five years in key high growth sector

28.                       Namami Gange

29.                       India's entry into the export control regimes - Wassenaar Arrangement, the Australia Group and the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)

30.                       One Rank One Pension (OROP)

31.                       Pandit DeenDayal Upadhyaya Shramev Yojana- A dedicated Shram Suvidha Portal that would allot Labour Identification Number (LIN) to nearly 6 lakhs units and allow them to file online compliance for 16 out of 44 labour laws

Universal Account Number will enable 4.17 crore employees to have their Provident Fund account, hassle-free and universally accessible. 

32.                       Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana: MGPSY is a special social security scheme for the overseas Indian workers in possession of Emigration Check Required (ECR) passports. It is a voluntary scheme which includes Pension and Life Insurance and designed to help workers to meet their three financial needs: saving for retirement, saving for their return and resettlement, and providing free life insurance offering coverage for death from natural causes.

33.                       AMRUT: This stands for Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Development. The focus of AMRUT scheme is on water supply, sewerage facilities and management, storm water drains to reduce flooding, strengthening of public transport facilities and creating public amenities like parks and recreation clubs etc.

34.                       HRIDAY Yojana: HRIDAY stands for National Heritage City Development and Augmentation. The focus of this scheme is holistic development of heritage cities in the country. The Scheme is being implemented in 12 identified cities namely; Ajmer, Amaravati, Amritsar, Badami, Dwarka, Gaya, Kanchipuram, Mathura, Puri, Varanasi, Velankanni and Warangal. With a total outlay of Rs.500 crores, the scheme has to be completed within the duration of 27 months i.e. in March 2017.

I have left the ground open for readers to make opinion based on their observations and experiences about present government.