Thread by @ShashankGoyal01

Thread on some of the work delivered by Modi government since 2014 across the sectors of Education, Healthcare, Social Welfare, Infrastructure development, Finance & Economy

Education:

6 new IITs, 7 new IIMs, 20 new AIIMS, 2 IISERs & 8000 new CBSE schools were approved

Other than the first AIIMS in New Delhi (in 1956), the only other working AIIMS in India are the 6 started by the previous BJP govt of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (completed during UPA)

5400+ schools got Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs)

ATLs are equipped with futurist technologies like 3D Printing, Robotics, IoT, sensors and microprocessors. School children are being exposed to these techs to create future "Indian innovators of tomorrow"

economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-…

Healthcare:

10 crore (100 million) poor families given free health insurance cover of up to INR 5 lakh under Ayushman Bharat

16 lakh (1.6 million) people already benefited by free healthcare till March 2019

expresshealthcare.in/governance/nea…

3.8 crore (38 million) children vaccinated against all preventable diseases under Mission Indradhanush

financialexpress.com/economy/modis-…

Social Welfare:

7 crore (70 million) poor women got free LPG gas connections under Ujjwala scheme. Cleaner fuel enables smoke free cooking

LPG coverage increased from 56% to 80% within 4 years

economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/i…

1.5 crore (15 million) houses constructed for poor families under PMAY scheme

On target to achieve “housing for all” by 2022

theprint.in/india/governan…

9.2 crore (92 million) toilets constructed to eliminate Open Defecation

More toilets constructed in 4 years than by all previous govts put together in 67 years.

Sanitation coverage soared from 38% to 98%

On target to make India 100% Open Defecation Free by October 2019

Infrastructure development:

73% more highways built in four years of BJP government than UPA’s last four years

Highway construction data under Congress -
2008 to 2014: 4000+ km per year

Highway construction data under BJP -
2016: 6,000 km
2017: 8,000 km
2018: 10,000 km

15 new cities started Metro construction projects

Includes Indore, Bhopal, Kanpur, Agra, Meerut, Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Vijayawada, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, Patna, Guwahati, Visakhapatnam and Varanasi

Metro network in India being expanded by 660+ km

livemint.com/Companies/jXD7…

24 new airports and helipads added under Regional Connectivity (RCS) scheme out of which 22 are in North East

Arunachal Pradesh to have airports in 9 locations, Assam 5, Manipur 5 and 1 each in Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim

time8.in/northeast-to-h…

Solar Power Generation Capacity increased by 8 times from 2.6 GW in 2014 to 20 GW by 2018 (4 yrs ahead of 2022 target)

Under UPA, total solar power generation capacity installed in 5 yrs from 2009 to 2014 was only 2.6 GW

2022 target is now upped by 5x

financialexpress.com/infrastructure…

Finance & Economy:

Rs. 3 lakh crore ($43 Billion) recovered from bank defaults due to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) launched by Modi govt in 2016

"43 BILLION dollars"!! This is the amount returned to system which was lost in defaults

financialexpress.com/industry/defau…

34 lakh (3.4 million) new tax payers registered within 1 year of launching GST (Goods and Services Tax).

Increased formalization of economy.

Direct tax buoyancy has tripled (indicates increasing tax compliance)

from FY08 to FY14, direct tax buoyancy had hovered between 0.5 and 1.1

FY 16 - 0.6
FY 17 - 1.3
FY 18 - 1.9

with more people paying taxes, govt now collects 3 times more tax money for each 1% rise in GDP

Total Tax to GDP ratio soared by 1.5% to touch 11.5%

For more than 50 years, India’s tax to GDP ratio was stuck at 10% or less

Number of mobile manufacturing companies in India increased by 60 times

companies in 2014 – 2
companies in 2018 – 120
Jobs created – 400,000

Global mobile phones produced in India
2014 – 3%
2018 – 11%

India became world’s second largest mobile producer within 3 years

India’s home grown card payments network RuPay snatched market share from American giants MasterCard and Visa

RuPay card nmbr of transactions:
FY 2016 – 195 million
FY 2017 - 459 million (up by 135%)

RuPay cards in circulation:
2017 – 365 million
2018 – 494 million (up 35%)

India’s rank in “Ease of Doing Business” improved from 142 to 77. Jump of 65 places – most by any country ever

After cracking “Top 100”, India is now targeting “Top 50”

India’s rank in “Global Competitiveness Index” improved from 71 to 39 - now next to only China in BRICS

Fiscal Deficit steadily brought down from 4.5% to 3.5% of GDP

In last four years of UPA, Fiscal deficit was stuck at 4.6% to 4.8% of GDP

Foreign Exchange Reserves steadily surged from $280 billion (in 2014) to $400 billion (in 2019)

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