White Paper: White Paper on economic system: Govt says it trumped UPA regime in coverage execution

In a white paper on the economic system, the federal government mentioned it has unlocked the potential of the so-called JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and cellular) Trinity, utilizing which it has transferred as a lot as ₹34 lakh crore on to greater than 11.67 billion beneficiaries.

The white paper, introduced in Parliament, compares the financial efficiency of the UPA regime over 10 years by means of 2014 and that of the NDA over the previous decade.

The ubiquity of user-friendly dashboards and administration info methods throughout main schemes has instilled transparency, it mentioned. As an example, the geo-tagging of property beneath the agricultural employment assure scheme and PM-AWAS Yojana, amongst others, has enabled real-time monitoring of big-ticket programmes, it added.

“Our authorities’s transformative and decisive method culminated in a a lot better observe report of programme supply than its predecessor,” it mentioned, including that it additionally revamped schemes to maximise influence.

The federal government cites numbers to again up its claims. Whereas the UPA constructed 21 million homes in rural areas in simply over a decade, the Modi authorities had constructed 26 million in eight years. About 18 million bathrooms have been constructed within the final three years of the UPA, whereas 115 million have been constructed throughout the NDA’s 10 years. There have been 3.64 million beneficiaries of the inexpensive pension scheme for unorganised sector staff from 2011 to 2014, however the quantity swelled to 61 million in eight years by means of 2023. Equally, 516 million zero-balance financial institution accounts have been opened for the poor beneath the NDA, towards 103 million between 2005 and 2012. About 28.6 million homes obtained entry to electrical energy in NDA’s 5 years (by means of 2022), towards 21.5 million in 9 years of the UPA.

Along with the bodily and digital effectivity of implementation, the NDA authorities additionally utilised “behavioural change and social capital” by means of initiatives like ‘Swachh Bharat’ and ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’. The direct money assist to farmers by way of the PM-Kisan scheme is boosting their revenue, whereas the UPA’s debt aid scheme had damage credit score stream to them, the white paper mentioned.

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