Radhika Barman

Mr.Modi be a game changer not a name changer

60 days are left, for India’s general elections to take place. The last 5 years under the authoritarian government of the NDA, India has gone 70 years backward. Mr. Modi came in power in 2014 with a brute majority and powerful alliances promising vikas, development, super power but ended up becoming a paradoxical prime minister whose last resort is lies and nationalism making India the Imperial Japan of 21st Century.
Wherever he went campaigning he made promises and said blatant lies about his government and the previous government. He insulted India at the Red Fort by claiming that India was sleeping before he came to power. He meant to say that no development took place before 2014 ever since Independence. However, he forget two things. Firstly, that those 67 years have also witnessed Atal Bihari Vajpaee and Moraji Desai as prime minister of India. So he even insulted the developments taken place during the regime of his party. The Second thing mr.modi forgot is that in one hand he is claiming that no progress happened during Congress Era and in another hand he is launching schemes by renaming the schemes of congress. If nothing happened during Congress then from where did those schemes came to existence and why is he renaming them.
The only achievement mr.modi was able to get was fooling people of India by renaming previous schemes and then taking credit.

Here are some schemes which were renamed and how they worked out:

1)Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG, 2013 as PAHAL

Direct Benefit Transfer or DBT is an attempt to change the mechanism of transferring subsidies.This program aimed to transfer subsidies directly to the people through their bank accounts. It is hoped that crediting subsidies into bank accounts will reduce leakages, delays, etc,
Renamed as PAHAL it failed as when the Modi government was been carrying out a high decibel campaign ‘GiveItUp’, calling upon consumers to give up their LPG subsidies. Coupled with the direct bank transfers, the saving has been almost Rs. 22,000 crore, the government claimed. However a CAG audit found out that the saving from people voluntarily giving up LPG subsidy and direct bank transfers adds up to less than Rs. 2,000 crore. The remaining saving is actually thanks to the dramatic fall in the prices of LPG that India annually imports.

2)Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, 2013 as Swach Bharat Mission

Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan’ (NBA) was with the objective of accelerating the sanitation coverage in rural areas so as to comprehensively cover the rural community through renewed strategies and saturation approach. Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) envisages covering the entire community for saturated outcomes with a view to create Nirmal Gram Panchayats with the following priorities:
1) Provision of IHHL to both BPL and Identified APL HHs within a GP
2) GP with access to water to be taken up. Priority should be given to GPs having functional piped water supply
3)Provision of sanitation facilities in Government Schools and Anganwadis
Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM) for proposed and existing Nirmal Grams
4) Extensive capacity building of the stake holders like Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs)
5) Village Water and Sanitation Committees (VWSCs) and field functionaries for sustainable sanitation
6)Appropriate convergence with MNREGS with unskilled man-days and skilled man-days
7) Renamed as Swachh Bharat it failed as
☞76 million people lack clean water.
☞60 percent of the country’s 1.3 billion people still defecate in the open.
☞ 70 percent of households in India don’t have access to toilets.
☞19k villages in India don’t have piped water supply. [till 2018]

3)National Urban Livelihood Mission,2013 as Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-NULM

The National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) was launched by Manmohan Singh Government in 2013 by restructuring the Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) in all district headquarters (irrespective of their population) and all the cities with population of one lakh or more. It is a flagship programme of Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
Renamed as Antyodoya it failed as Rs 1078 crore was spent by the government under the National Urban Livelihood Mission to construct only 208 houses for poor. Modi government came under criticism of the Supreme Court after it found irregularities in the implementation of the housing scheme.

4)Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship Scheme (PPP model),2012 as Prime Minister Fellowship Scheme

Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) for human resource capacity building for industrial R&D was recognized as one of the main deliverable by a Sub-committee of Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry. One of the key recommendations that emerged from the Private Sector is to design, develop and implement a Doctoral Research Scheme under PPP for enhancing trust level in academia, research outfits and industry. It was a special scheme for 100 ‘Doctoral Research Fellowships’ every year was announced during the Inception Ceremony of the Indian Science Congress Association, in June 2012 in Kolkata.
Renamed as fellowship scheme it failed as the Question of eligibility is barbaric.
Are the graduates of these 60+ institutes the very best that this country produces? If yes, we have a much more serious problem of undergraduate education. Thankfully, there are many institutions in India which are better. I know computer science education in this country better than most other disciplines. Is there any doubt that IIIT Hyderabad provides a better CS undergraduate education than almost any NIT (if not all NITs)? Then there is IIIT-Delhi, BITS Pilani, Jadavpur, and I can go on and on with a large number of CSE programme, which will be better than a majority of NITs. The lower half of NITs is really pathetic in computer science education (and I would guess in other disciplines as well). So is this scheme for quality students, or is this scheme for centrally funded technical institutes (CFTI) students? The government should be bold enough and admit that this is to help CFTIs and not about quality. After all, these are their colleges. Of course, being the regulator of the sector and also a player in the sector is nothing new for the government. That it has led to seriously flawed schemes and conflict of interest issues over the past several decades should not deter the government from making the same mistakes.

5)National Optical Fibre Network,2011 as BharatNet

The National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) is a project initiated in 2011 and funded by Universal Service Obligation Fund to provide broadband connectivity to over two lakh (200,000) Gram panchayats of India at an initial cost of ₹20,000 crore ($3 billion). It aimed at using existing fiber optical network of Central utilities – BSNL, RailTel and Power Grid – to provide internet connectivity to gram panchayats. The project intended to enable the government of India to provide e-services and e-applications nationally.
Renamed as BharatNet it failed as the utilization target to provide last mile internet connectivity to rural households from 1.15 lakh service-ready gram panchayats (GPs) has been found to be less than 10%.

6)National Manufacturing Policy,2011 as Make In India

The NMP is based on the principle of industrial growth in partnership with the states. The central government will create the enabling policy framework; provide incentives for infrastructure development on a Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode and seeked to empower rural youth by providing necessary skills to make them employable.
Renamed as Make In India it failed as according to a data released by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India is the world’s largest importer of major arms, accounting for 13% of the global total sales between 2012 and 2016. Lockheed Martin Corp and Saab AB have promised to build products in India, but not much has progressed due to red tape, reliance on state-owned companies and constant delays. While a manufacturing unit for assault rifles, a joint venture between India and Israel, was launched this month in Madhya Pradesh, the Army rejected the indigenous guns built by the Rifle Factory Ichapore after they failed the firing tests last month. This leaves India overwhelmingly reliant on foreign imports, mainly from Russia, the U.S. and Israel.

7)Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana,2010 as Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana

The Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) was a maternity benefit program run by the government of India. It was introduced in 2010 and is implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. It is a conditional cash transfer scheme for pregnant and lactating women of 19 years of age or above for first two live births. It provides a partial wage compensation to women for wage-loss during childbirth and childcare and to provide conditions for safe delivery and good nutrition and feeding practices.
Renamed as Matritva Vandana it failed as the scheme limits maternity assistance to the first birth by a woman. In Uttar Pradesh, where women have an average of three children, giving maternity benefits only for the delivery and care of the first child deprives most pregnant women of their legal entitlements, say health workers.

8)Swavalamban Yojana,2010 as Atal Pension Yojana

Swavalamban Pension Yojana (also known as NPS Swavalamban) was launched by the UPA Government in 2010. Subscribers could contribute Rs 1,000 per month which would be matched by Rs 1,000 per month from the Central Government. The minimum annual contribution by a subscriber was Rs 1,000 and the maximum annual contribution was Rs 12,000. It is administered by the Pension Fund Regulation and Development Authority (PFRDA).
Renamed as Atal Pension Yojana it failed as the government targeted to enroll 2.25 crore people in the first phase, PSU banks could enroll only 13.68 lakh people in the first phase up to December 31, 2015, meeting only 6.07 per cent of the target. In the second phase of January-March 2016, 26.11 lakh people were targeted but got only 3.06 lakh enrollments, or 11.73 per cent of the target, according to figures available from the finance ministry. The government co-contribution was initially available to the subscribers, who join up to December 2015. This was later extended by 3 months up to March 2016. Banks were assigned targets in 2 phases —1st phase was up to December 31 2015 and phase 2 was from February 2016 to March 2016.

9)National Skill Development Program,2010 as Skill India

Formed in 2010, NSDC is a professionally run not-for-profit company that includes 22 Sector Skill Councils and 87 training partners with over 2500 training centers spread across 352 districts in the country. The objective of NSDC is to fulfill the growing need for skilled manpower in the country, mainly by fostering private sector initiatives in skill development.
Renamed as skill India it failed as Private entities were given roles of skill training centers, no track of their work was kept and the whole thing looked like a wreck. Then, the minister in charge Rajiv Pratap Rudy was unceremoniously sacked and the program was refurbished.

10)Free LPG connection to BPL Families,2010 as Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna

During the UPA govt, consumers had to shell out Rs 1,250 as security deposit for getting a new LPG connection and another Rs 150 for pressure regulator.This Rs 1,400 needed for getting a new connection will be subsidized by the government.
Renamed as Ujjwala it failed as under the scheme, the government provides a subsidy of Rs 1,600 to government-owned oil manufacturing companies for every free LPG gas connection that they install in poor rural households without one. This subsidy is intended to cover the security fee for the cylinder and the fitting charges. The beneficiary has to buy her own cooking stove. To reduce the burden, the scheme allows beneficiaries to pay for the stove and the first refill in monthly installments. However, the cost of all subsequent refills has to be borne by the beneficiary household.

11)Modified National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (MNAIS),2010 as Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

The Government introduced in 1999-2000, a scheme titled “National Agricultural Insurance Scheme” (NAIS) or “Rashtriya Krishi Bima Yojana” (RKBY). NAIS envisages coverage of all food crops (cereals and pulses), oil seeds, horticultural and commercial crops. It covers all farmers, both loaners and non-loaners, under the scheme.The premium rates vary from 1.5 percent to 3.5 percent of sum assured for food crops. In the case of horticultural and commercial crops, actuarial rates are charged. Small and marginal farmers are entitled to a subsidy of 50 percent of the premium charged- the subsidy is shared equally between the Government of India and the States. The subsidy is to be phased out over a period of 5 years.
Renamed as Fasal bima Yojana it failed, as a rapid increase in enrollment was to be the hallmark of the PMFBY. The target was to cover 50% of the cropped area, about 98 million hectares, by 2018-’19.
But in 2017-18, the second year of the PMFBY, the enrollment numbers fell sharply, taking the coverage to below 2015 levels. Against the target of 50% for 2018-’19, the coverage stands at less than 26% in 2017-’18.

12)Rajiv Awas Yojana,2009 as Sardar Patel National Mission for Urban Housing.

In pursuance of this vision of “Slum free India”, Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) was launched in June 2011 in two phases; the preparatory phase for a period of two years which ended in June 2013 and implementation phase. Central Government has approved the implementation phase for the period of 2013-2022. RAY envisages two-step implementation strategy i.e. preparation of Slum free City Plan of Action (SFCPoA) and preparation of projects for selected slum.
Renamed as Sardar Patel National Mission for Urban housing it failed as Less than half the target of nearly one crore homes has been built till now – about 41 lakh out of 95.4 lakh. This is according to latest data put out by the Ministry of Rural Development.

13)National Girl Child Day programs,2008 as Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana

The National Girl Child Day was introduced by the Women and Child Development Ministry in 2008 and since then every year the day is celebrated with great excitement, particularly by the NGOs. The Indian Government has always been quite vocal when it comes to the protection of the girl child. Right from putting a ban on the gender determination to making primary education compulsory for all children up to age 14, and from “Save the Girl Child scheme” to Self Help Groups, there are numerous steps taken by the government to ensure equal rights to the girl child.
Renamed as Beti Bachao Beti Padhao it failed as 56% of the funds were used in publicity.

14)National Project on Management of Soil Health and Fertility,2008 as Soil Health Card

During the UPA tenure the scheme was been approved for implementation during the 11th Five Year Plan with a total outlay of Rs. 429.85 crores for various components. In case of State Government Departments and agencies associated with it, ICAR and SAUs, funds can be released by SDA directly to the institute concerned or agency.
Renamed as soil health card it failed as the number of soil samples collected is astonishingly more than targeted but the real worry is about the number of samples tested, printed and dispatched.

15)Jan Aushadhi Scheme,2008 as Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP)

Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers launched Jan Aushadhi in November, 2008, with a view to make available quality medicines at affordable prices to the economically weaker sections of the society. The first JAS was opened at Amritsar Civil Hospital on 25.11.2008.
Renamed as Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana it failed as The agency implementing the scheme, the Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI), recalled the products after they were declared ‘not of standard quality (NSQ)’ by state-level drug inspectors. Despite the increasing frequency of complaints, BPPI’s quality control department remains without a head.

16)Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana,2007 as Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana

During the UPA tenure, the programme was essentially a State Plan Scheme that seeks to provide the States and Territories of India with the autonomy to draw up plans for increased public investment in Agriculture by incorporating information on local requirements,geographical/climatic conditions, available natural resources/ technology and cropping patterns in their districts so as to significantly increase the productivity of Agriculture and its allied sectors and eventually maximize the returns of farmers in agriculture and its allied sectors.
Renamed as Paramparagat it failed as, In 2016-17, only Rs 153 crore out of the allotted Rs 297 crore were actually spent. In fact, for all years since this scheme was started under the Modi government, the expenditure has been significantly less than the allocation, although this is supposed to be a big priority for the government.

17)Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Program,1996 as Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana

The Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP) was launched during 1996- 1997 to give loan assistance to the States to help them complete some of the incomplete major/medium irrigation projects which were at an advanced stage of completion and to create additional irrigation potential in the country. The Surface Minor Irrigation Schemes of North-Eastern States, Hilly States of Sikkim, Uttranchal, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Koraput, Bolangir and Kalahandi Districts of Odisha have also been provided Central Loan Assistance (CLA) under this programme since 1999-2000. Grant component has been introduced in the programme from April 2004 like other Central Sector Schemes.
Renamed as krishi sanchai Yojana it failed as, the revised estimate for the previous year was significantly less than the budget estimate. There are various components of this scheme under various ministries. Taking all these together, last year’s (2018-19) revised estimate was Rs 8,408 crore compared to the original budget estimate of Rs 9,690 crore. The actual expenditure on this scheme, however, was Rs 10,780 crore in 2015-16 more than the budget estimates for 2018-19 as well as 2019-20.

18)Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana,2007 as Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana

A Social Security Scheme was initiated and excellently administered by the Government of India in the form of the Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana for the citizens settled under 48 identified vocational/ occupational groups /rural areas with landless households. This group insurance scheme was introduced on 2nd October, 2007. It is also administered under the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). The Aam Aadmi Bima Yojana offers insurance coverage to one earning member of the family or the family head.
Renamed as suraksha bima it failed as government-owned insurance companies, mainly, are incurring losses of 80-100% on the prime minister’s accident insurance scheme, Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY). Compared with a premium of Rs 161 crore collected this year, insurance firms have disbursed claims of around Rs 290-320 crore.

19)National e Governance Plan,2006 as Digital India
The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) was an initiative of the Government of India to make all government services available to the citizens of India via electronic media. NeGP was formulated by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) and Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). The Government approved the National e-Governance Plan, consisting of 27 “Mission Mode Projects” (MMPs) and Ten components, on 18 May 2006.This is an enabler of Digital India initiative, and UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) in turn is an enabler of NeGP.
Renamed as Digital India it failed,as one of the major obstacles towards smooth implementation is the gaping digital divide that exists in India. Internet connectivity is extremely low, which gives the process a setback, making its effectiveness highly restricted. Even where the country is connected, network strengths are feeble, resulting in deplorable speed even in 4G networks. Language barriers, poor digital literacy, and lack of understanding of new technologies contributes to this issue.

20)National Maritime Development Programme,2005 as Sagarmala

The National Maritime Development Programme (NMDP) was formulated by the Ministry of Shipping, Govt. of India. 276 projects to be taken up for implementation over the period from 1.4.2005 to 31.3.2012 were identified under this programme. These projects are namely construction/up-gradation of berths, deepening of channels, rail/road connectivity projects, equipment up-gradation/modernization schemes and other related schemes for creation of backup facilities. Total investment involved under the Programme is Rs.1,00,339 crores at 2004-05 prices. Out of this, Rs.55,804 crores is for the Port Sector and the balance is for the Shipping and Inland Water Transport Sectors.
Renamed as Sagarmala it failed as, the traditional livelihood of fisher people and the coastal communities living within the CRZ area (500 m. from the sea) was facing threat owing to industrialization proposals along the coast as part of the Sagarmala programme, activists associated with the National Fish-workers’ Forum have said.

21)National Rural Livelihood Mission (Ajeevika),2005 as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Yojana

National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) was a poverty alleviation project implemented by Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. This scheme is focused on promoting self-employment and organization of rural poor. The basic idea behind this programme is to organize the poor into SHG (Self Help Groups) groups and make them capable for self-employment.
Renamed as Grameen Yojana it failed, as Kerala was allotted a target of building 42,431 houses under the PMAY(G) but it has completed only 13,825 houses so far, as per the PMAY(G) online dashboard.

22)Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana,2005 as Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana

RGGVY or Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana was greatly launched in the month of April in 2005 especially by mixing all kinds of ongoing popular schemes.Hence, under this scheme, the central government provides ninety percent of grant and ten percent as a loan which is provided by REC or rural electrification corporation to all states’ governments.The REC or rural electrification corporation is the main nodal working agency for this scheme.
Renamed as gram jyoti it failed as, data showed there has not been much impact on the country’s electricity consumption. As per data compiled by the Union power ministry, India saw just 5.66% average annual growth in generation between 2014-15 and 2017-18, compared to 5.9% between 2010-11 and 2013-14. This despite the fact that thermal power plants have been operating at historically low levels in recent years.

23)Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission,2005 as AMRUT

Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was a massive city-modernization scheme launched by the Government of India under Ministry of Urban Development. It envisaged a total investment of over $20 billion over seven years. Named after Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, the scheme was officially inaugurated by prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on 3 December 2005.
Renamed as AMRUT it failed as, the policy and planning community for Indian cities is yet to integrate the potential of NBS for building resilience and achieving sustainability goals. Concrete examples of such solutions, especially relevant to rapidly growing cities, include conservation of urban wetlands as a form of flood control; promotion of urban agriculture toward food security, which also generates livelihood options for migrants coming to the city; and regenerating urban forestry to combat air pollution.

24)Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account,2005 as Jan Dhan Yojana

In India, financial inclusion programmes have seriously started with the launch of No Frills account by the RBI in 2005. This account offered minimum banking facilities to the new account holder by having a zero balance account. Hence this account became known as zero balance account.Later, in 2012, with financial inclusion drive getting higher momentum the RBI has replaced No Frills account with Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA). The significant feature of BSBDA is that basic banking services like money transfer and savings can be availed with a simplified KYC norm. Account can be started and maintained with nil balance.
Renamed as Jan Dhan Yojana it failed as, the Global Findex Database report, stated that almost half of the account owners have an account that remained inactive in the past year — highest in the world.

25)Universal immunization Programme,1985 as Mission Indradhanush

Universal Immunization Programme is a vaccination program launched by the Government of India in 1985. It became a part of Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme in 1992 and is currently one of the key areas under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) since 2005. The program consists of vaccination for 12 diseases- tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis(whooping cough), tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, hepatitis B, diarrhoea, Japanese encephalitis, rubella, pneumonia (Heamophilus Influenza Type B)and Pneumococcal diseases (Pneumococcal Pneumonia and Meningitis).
Renamed as Indradhanush it failed as, India has only succeeded in achieving 65 percent coverage in basic immunization. According to WHO, these rates are significantly low with countries with similar or lower per capita GDP.

26)Services under ICDS,1975 as National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyan)

Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a government programme in India which provides food, preschool education,primary healthcare, immunization, health check-up and referral services to children under 6 years of age and their mothers.
Renamed as poshan Abhiyan it failed, as Anganwadi centers (AWCs) are the focal point of delivery of health and nutrition services for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children. There have been improvements in the quantity, quality and coverage of services provided to the beneficiaries. These have reflected positively in maternal and child health indicators. However, many of the AWCs lack basic amenities and face infrastructure problems. Around 24% of them lacked their own building and operated from small rented premises, and around 14% lacked pucca buildings. Only 86%, 67% and 68% of AWCs had drinking water facilities, electricity connections and toilets respectively, some of which are either dysfunctional or could not be used due to conditions imposed by landlords. The cumulative effect was that children were forced into cramped, poorly lit and unhygienic spaces, often in searing heat.

There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone. Mr. Modi wanted to be a saviour of 1.3 billions by using congress schemed as a proxy for his own incompetent treacheries. However, he even failed to do so successfully, ultimately the truth came out because they thought voters are foolish. But Voter’s are the ultimate rulers.

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Women Prime Minister- Requisite of an hour

India’s educated women represent the paradox of the country. Women are the change this society needs. They are the point from where all other powers radiate out. They are the most strongest minds this world runs on.

Mirror representation stems from the barriers female political candidates often face, these include:stereotyping, political socialization, lack of preparation for political activity, and balancing work and family. In the media, women are often asked how they would balance the responsibilities of elected office with those to their families, something men are never asked.

Indira Gandhi, was the first women prime minister of India but unfortunately the only women to be prime minister in the past 72 years. Indira Gandhi became the prime minister of India in the year 1966 by breaking the barriers of social patriarchy and showed a way forward of women power in forms of economic, agricultural, educational, social and civil development. Indira Gandhi has set the benchmark of a strong Prime Minister so imposingly that even today Indian populace remember her whenever they get even a faint hint of any strong contender for Prime Minister post.

However, we didn’t get another Indira Gandhi mostly due to the lack of women representations in Indian politics. What is really needed is a nuanced approach that tackles the underlying, interconnected barriers that women face in getting nominated for elected office and conducting successful campaigns. Women face high social and cultural barriers to political participation. In particular, greater care obligations, reinforced by public perceptions of a “woman’s role,” severely undermine women’s ability to run for public office. Increasing women’s representation in the government can empower women and is necessary to achieve gender parity. This notion of women’s empowerment is rooted in the human capabilities approach, in which individuals are empowered to choose the functioning that they deem valuable. A women prime minister will add a bonus.
When we think about a capable women who can be prime minister of India in present days? No name comes to our mind especially because of the fact that nobody can match up with Indira Gandhi’s potential and dignity as when it comes to a women being the prime minister of India, civilians have huge expectations because of the historical achievements of women in India.

Let’s talk about the some powerful women politicians now who can be a nominee for prime minister. India has witnessed many women in high posts in the past 72 years but not many women chief ministers. Ever since Independence, we had Sixteen women serving as the chief minister of an Indian state. Currently, one is in office — Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal. Of the thirteen states to have been headed by a female chief minister, only three—Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh—have had two woman chief ministers. Five of the woman chief ministers belonged to the Indian National Congress, four to the Bharatiya Janata Party and two to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Sucheta Kriplani was the first women chief minister to represent and Indian state(Uttar pradesh) in the year 1963 from Indian National Congress.
When we talk about strong women politicians only 4 names comes to our mind, Priyanka Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Sushma Swaraj and Mayawati who can be the prime minister of India nominee.

Priyanka Gandhi–
Priyanka Gandhi, a scion of India’s most powerful party who has rebuffed calls to enter politics for years, had been recently appointed as an official in the Congress party just months before India’s national polls. She is considered a more charismatic campaigner than her brother, the current Congress party chief, Rahul Gandhi, with presence and an appearance that are often compared to that of her grandmother Indira Gandhi, a formidable and controversial prime minister, who was assassinated in 1984. She is currently serving as general secretary of the AICC in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh.
She is a popular figure in the constituency, drawing large crowds everywhere; a popular slogan in Amethi in every election has been Amethi ka danka, bitiya Priyanka (the clarion call from Amethi is for Priyanka [to stand elections]). She represents “hope”, “promise” and the belief of the elderly and aspirations of the youth for the state which has been battered by divisive communal, anti development politics since 2014.

Mamata Banerjee-
The first woman CM of West Bengal and became the first lady CM to win two consecutive terms in 2016. Banerjee is the founder of the All India Trinamool Congress. Popularly known as ‘didi’, Mamata Banerjee created history in the 2011 elections, uprooting the 34-year-long rule of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the state. She is also the first woman railway minister of the country and has held this post twice. She received the 2017 UN Public Service Award on the behalf of her government for the ‘Kanyashree Prakalpa’ initiative aimed at reducing high child marriage rates and increasing female education rate in the state of West Bengal.

Sushma Swaraj–
Minister of External Affairs, held the position of the first woman CM of New Delhi in 1998. Swaraj, a woman of wit and bureaucratic proficiency, joined politics as a student leader of ABVP in 1970, organizing protests against corruption and the tyranny of Indira Gandhi’s government. She joined JP Narayan’s for ‘total revolution’ and gave free legal advice to those detained by police for anti-Emergency activities. A prominent BJP member, she has been elected 7 times as a Member of Parliament and 3 times as a Member of Legislative Assembly.

Mayawati–
A leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, has served as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Popularly hailed as ‘Behenji’, in June 1995 she became first Dalit woman CM of India. Mayawati was introduced into politics by a prominent Dalit politician Kanshi Ram. Narasimha Rao, a former PM of India, had called her rise from humble beginnings a ‘miracle of democracy’. Her appointment to the office was always followed by implementation of policies for uplifting her vote-base, primarily Dalits. These policies included job guarantees, debt waivers, land redistribution and shuffling of bureaucracy to promote Dalit officers.

Among all of them Priyanka Gandhi seems to a hope as a postulate of women prime minister.
She really holds the power as a strong woman. She is the face of woman of India. She has a strong legacy of powerful women in India. Her appointment as a General secretary shows woman are still larger part of India and without including them nothing is possible. A woman just need to break the web of the negativity surrounding them and this is what she shows. Ever since her entry in Indian politics, she has got immense love and support for them people of India. For 4 days continuously after her entry, the only hashtags trending in India at all ranks in social media was #PriyankaEntersPolitics, #PriyankaKiAandhi, #NayiUmeedPriyanka and etc; along celebrations going on Uttar Pradesh. Even her allocation right next to her brother’s room in the Congress headquarters shows the cardeur she holds in the party. Priyanka Gandhi has also witnessed several sexist remarks and fake news ever since she joined politics. After all, In India misogynous is synonymous to women be it in power or not. When it comes to belittling women leaders, no party can claim a 100% clean record. The love and affection she received highlighted India’s hope in women capability, the trolls she faced highlighted the existence xenophobia in men from women’s aptitude, and the abuses she faced highlights the zealous fact that despite such obvious challenges, India has many women politicians, who are still emerging as champions.

No matter who ever it is a coming of an women as prime minister of India will give a befitting reply to the blatant social patriarchy, sexism and gender inequality. The suffering of Indian women may not be over anytime soon, but the silence that masked it for millennia is gone.

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Single party or coalition? Which is exemplary for India?

The real essence of democracy can be captured only by governments that are accountable, transparent and representational of not just majority opinions but a cross-section of opinions. They should reflect the modern principles of accommodation and co-existence. India over the years has tested many coalition governments and single party governments.

Now the question is not which is good for democracy but how much successful they were in past. I think India deserves coalition and that’s also what which is possible in 2019 as people of this nation are no longer fools and voters are the ultimate rulers. History repeats success and we must learn from the failures and achievements of India’s tryst with it’s coalition governments.

The representation of diverse masses is also fulfilled through coalition governments, depending on the basis of such alliances – political ideology or sheer convenience. Jammu and Kashmir is just as diverse with its plurality of geographical regions, religions, ethnicity and languages. These interests are best served not by parties with concentration in specific areas of the state but with several parties coming together to give maximum representation to the masses.

The truth is that, there really is no empirical evidence to show the greatness of majoritarian single party governments nor prove the failure of coalition governments. They are good or bad as per the set of people who govern, the policies they frame, the plans they draft and their ability to deliver.

Single party governments are often known to be dictatorial and whimsical, as demonstrated by Narendra Modi led regime which rules by unleashing and patronizing majoritarian fascist forces. BJP was given brute majority by the electorate in 2014; such a majority may have ensured a full term to the present government but has been unable to ensure political, social or economic stability. The current social fabric is elastic: cauterize & insensate. Although slavery may have been abolished,the crippling poison of fascism still persists in our nation!

In striking contrast, India achieved its best economic growth during the coalition government of UPA I. Maximum economic reforms were introduced during the Narasimha Rao led minority government and economic stability was achieved also by the National Front government. Now with regards to a coalition government, it is often believed that the coalition government is not stable, is anarchist and it generally collapses at frequent intervals.

Arun Jaitley also described the Janata Dal-led United Front government between 1996 to 1998 as the worst period for India, calling it anarchy.But was this period really anarchic? World Bank data indicates that India’s GDP and annual GDP growth didn’t suffer due to a minority coalition government at the Centre. India didn’t collapse as a country, no foreign country attacked it and communal riots did not break out. This was the time that India’s IT industry also took off. In comparison to the authoritarian rule by a single party majority government the difference is pellucid. Narendra Modi being unanswerable to the cabinet, his party, the NDA allies or the media – unanimously took a major policy decision like demonetization that adversely impacted all of us. Hence, anarchy does not depend on whether this is a coalition government or a single party one; it depends on the decisions made by the cabinet.

It is also a myth that lack of a prime ministerial contender means everybody is pulling everybody else down “Who will be the face of the opposition for 2019?” “Modi versus Who?” Is a common question. However, India is a parliamentary democracy, not a presidential one. Also please remember it is the local members of the legislative assembly and the members of the parliament who will solve your problems. Speeches do not matter ; it is the implementation which matters in ground level. The prime minister is not going to work on ground level. And if the team is great then the party will work efficiently ; we need to have effective members of the parliament and members of the legislative assembly’s.

BJP in Maharashtra alone, has four alliance partners – the Shiv Sena, the Shetkari Sanghatana, Republican Party of India (A) and Rashtriya Samaj Paksha. In Bihar, it has three partners. So Modi isn’t a lone warrior and depends on regional satraps. A clear majority doesn’t automatically guarantee good governance. Despite not being in a true coalition government, Modi still has enough problems like Shiv Sena and dissenters within his own party like Arun Shourie, Shatrughna Sinha and Kirti Azad, who leave no opportunity to criticize his policies.

The flip-side of coalitions, however, is that they are rarely dictated by a sense of commitment and will to serve for welfare. They are often guided by an appetite for power. They could also be brazenly illogical sometimes, like the coming together of the ideological opposites, BJP and PDP, in 2015.

In case of almost all the coalition governments, the majority of citizens of the country have voted for the parties that are part of the government. As a wide consensus of opinion is related in this case, all the policies are debated thoroughly by the government before they are implemented. On the other hand, it is much more likely in case of a single party government that badly thought policies could be implemented by the government, probably due to narrow ideological reasons. The concept of coalition government is good, however, its success depends on the manner in which the coalitions are forged and how governance percolates down. That is equally true of single party governments.

With all their ills, coalition governments are actually far more inclusive than single party majority governments. Just like how all politicians are same and we must vote the one who sucks are blood less, same should happen with government structure as coalition is parallel with internal problems and single with dictatorship. However, both can be two sides of the same coin of fascism as long as the will of the people is not strong enough.

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Rafale facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored

The Rafale deal controversy is related to the purchase of 36 multi-role fighter aircraft for a price estimated at €7.8 billion by the Defense Ministry of India from France’s Dassault Aviation. The origin of the deal lies in the Indian MRCA competition, a multi-billion dollar contract to supply 126 multi-role combat aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

The Rafale Scam is one of the most polemical scam in the History of India ,also the most
opprobrious act as it has direct capitalism of the prime minister of a nation which implies to a zero intent of nation development.

On April 2015, the PM announced the Rafale deal as a “critical operational ‘necessity’ “, then why was the the price increased if it is a necessity? If Rahul Gandhi is lying then why cannot the defence minister reveal the details regarding the price increment? In the signing of IGA between France and India. There was an escalation of per-aircraft cost from ₹715 crore to ₹1,600 crore. Couple of months later in November 2016, minister of state for defence Subhash Bhamre informed the Lok Sabha that the cost of each Rafale aircraft acquired under the IGA was approximately ₹670 crore.
Why did the price become ₹1600 when the NDA came in power, why MORE than a ‘double’ of the UPA price? Why was Anil Ambani present during the announcement of the acquirement of 36 fully built aircraft?

If the approval from Cabinet Committee on Security had been obtained before signing of IGA then why is the Cabinet committee now silent? If HAL is not economically feasible in a smaller contract for 36 aircraft then why didn’t the NDA opposed that during the UPA?

If the new agreement had better logistics package then why did the Ex.French President have a say on the issue?Both Manmohan Singh and and current PM had praised the Ex.French President previously, so why is the allegation made by Ex.French President being considered delusive?
Why is Reliance a substitute for HAL why not any other company? How is Reliance related to Aeronautics? Former HAL chief said that they could have made the aircraft then why was the contract taken away from them? Why wasn’t the consent of HAL taken during the deal?
What made the government think that Anil Ambani can make it? The contract with HAL could have produced many jobs, so why is unemployment issue being overlooked? Why is the government not opposing the Ex.French president’s claim if it is not true?
Why can’t the defence minister reveal all the details and end the controversy if NDA’s intentions are redeeming?

Sign To Probe Rafale Scam
https://t.co/c0swr8QPU0

A Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the Rafale Deal is the only option before us now to hold the government accountable. Modi government will not get away.
The Rafale Deal was then held in supreme Court. Rafale Deal was supposed to be investigated by the Parliament and not by the judiciary. Despite this, a PIL was filed in the SC (knowing very well that it’d get rejected) which would prevent any further appeal process once the top court rules against a probe. Rafale Verdict is totally unconstitutional. Articles 112-117 of Constitution requires Parliamentary approval of every rupee spent by the Govt. In fact that is a basic principle of every modern democracy. Supreme Court said that pricing details are ‘sensitive’ and so need not be disclosed to Parliament is totally unconstitutional. If that view is accepted, any govt deal can be simply declared ‘sensitive’ and be hushed up.

Whether sensitive or not, details of every rupee of govt expenditure has to be disclosed to Parliament and approved by it before it is incurred. The judgement clearly indicates that the SC wanted the government to answer its conscience which holds them accountable to the people of India.The spurge was from Tax payer’s money and they should be answered.
Now the narrative should be, when even when Supreme Court isn’t forcing its hand and everything is clear. Why doesn’t the BJP answer valid questions raised by the opposition?

It is insidious to select Reliance Defense as partner to Dassault. In a neighborhood with two not so friendly nuclear powers at our borders, national security takes paramount importance!
Is this your NATIONALISM, Mr. Modi?
This is a clear-cut intent of ravagement!

On Rafale discussion in parliament Arun Jaitley said that the audio clip is “false and fabricated’ he (Rahul Gandhi) is a liar he lies 5 time’s a day and is breaking the rules of the parliament!” without any evidence from his side.
Is that the way how a elected member of the parliament speaks!?
Who is now breaking the parliamentary rules?
The Rafale Audio Leak played before reporters by Randeep Singh Surjewala divulged Vishwajit Rane speaking to Mr.‘X’, saying Manohar Parrikar has all files in his bedroom of the Rafale agreement & is holding the Modi govt to ransom & not leaving his post despite illness.
In mr. Modi’s interview with Smita Prakash it was pellucid that Mr. Modi’s statement in the interview (no one is questioning me) is a informal fallacy for refuting (so called) the Rafale subject.

Also, Mr. Modi’s absence in the parliament during Rafale discussion proves his reluctance towards Rafale details dissemination. If bjp is not guilty then why Modi Bunks Rafale Exam?
The thing about Rafale Scam truth is that it is an evil but a necessary evil.
Mr. Modi wants a political life without any difficulties and hardships but truth will make him face the reality for which he is not mentally prepared.
Even though deep in his 56″inch chest he knows the truth about the Rafale Deal, but still ignores that part just so that he can live peacefully till May 2019 before RSS kicks him out from their candidate list for general elections.
All this lying and averting from the truth, will backfire Mr. Jaitley in 2019 regarding the Rafale Deal.

Even Mr. Modi was honest then he would have done a press conference on Rafale but answering the Press requires a huge technical, constitutional and legislative knowledge for the answers to be satisfactory, mere emotional appeals, sympathy seeking and blatant lies don’t work there.
On 9th February 2019, a leaked note of the Rafale came out.

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Only inclusive not divisive politics will keep assamese united. -Citizenship bill analysis

The increased violence & turbulence in the North East where religion & ethnicity are being used as weapons by the BJP to polarize the region for political gain is disturbing. This type of politics, that pitches brother against brother & fans hatred, is evil & must be stopped. Tolerance is not a synonym of Weakness.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Itself it is a form of violence & an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance.

We shouldn’t believe 2 two types of people in this world:

1)A religious leader who promotes politics.
2)A politician who promotes a particular religion.

Both are equally perilous because when religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

Scrap the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016. Religious affiliation has nothing to do with citizenship. Stand by the people of Assam, observe all-India protest day on 11 June to demand withdrawal of the Citizenship Amendment Bill.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which aims to provide citizenship to people forced to seek shelter in India because of religious persecution or fear of persecution in their home countries, has led to incidents of violence in the North-East. Mr. Modi should speak about this. It is impossible for a common man to provide his nationality prove since 1951.

I am shocked beyond belief that something like this could be passed in any House of Parliament. It is the duty of every Indian to oppose it.
Despite the brute majority BJP could not pass Women’s reservation bill in Loksabha! But they can pass 10% reservation bill in 3 days. This clearly shows the mindset of Regressive Specimen of Sangh, “Let’s appease the upper caste first…Women can wait”!

It would mean a breach of the Assam Accord of 1985 where it was promised that those illegal migrants who entered India after 24 March 1971 will be detected and declared as foreigners. Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, which was signed in 1985, envisages that appropriate constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards shall be provided to protect, preserve and promote the cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people.

However, several people as well as political parties in Assam have termed the move implement the clause as “pointless” and a mere “political gimmick” due to the citizenship bill, which was passed in Lok Sabha on January 8 and has led to widespread protests in the entire northeastern region, especially Assam.

Every resident of the North-East, including the Hindus, are the ones who fear this. We are risking peace in the North-East and are being unjust to them. And to do this just to gain traction in one parliamentary election. There is no point proving nationalism when citizens are under tremendous fear which is palpable.

Northeast is burning and all insurgent groups have geared up to incite the indigenous people of the all seven states to reject the BJP and if needed take the route of violent movement. This is a harrowing act! This is not just a murderous madness it is, an awful politics that promises a utopia beyond politics. Unfortunately, it has become the temptation of dictators now.

The violence in Assam is the result of communal polarization being done by Narendra Modi and BJP. The politics of hatred and communal polarization is irreparably damaging our social fabric. The politics of hatred and communal polarization is irreparably damaging our social fabric.

Every Indian regardless of their race/gender/ethnicity/language/religion, deserves liberty of all forms including civil,economic,political & social rights. Prejudice always ponders on the person judging not the person being judged.

This kind of religious violence is unbearable. India runs with unity in diversity not hatred. Mr. Modi must understand, the only way you can defeat hate is by love. The power of love is efficacious You might not support someone but you don’t require to hate him ; hatred only kills,love cures.
Have love for all!

BJP knows that they will have losses in Assam because they have lost an alliance member. BJP’s main support in Assam are Bengali. If Assam can be made their laboratory and they can ignite fire there, then you can get dividends in the rest of the country. But mr.modi we Bengali’s will never let you destroy our heritage!!
Reminds me of the fact that Mr. Modi couldn’t stay even 30 minutes in Thakurnagar. He ran away from the stage after 18 minutes after being welcomed by shoes from the crowd. Mr. Modi Bengal is not intolerant but gives respect to only those who deserve it!

Assam is the land where the mind is without fear, head is held high, where knowledge is free and where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.Parts of Assam including the districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia witnessed violence when protesters pelted stones at moving vehicles, burnt tyres and blocked railway lines. An exercise massive in scale, controversial in methodology and debatable on potential outcomes, the NRC update has divided Assam on religious and linguistic lines.There are Continuous human rights violations happening in detention camps where the police is keeping anyone whom they find outsiders without having a concrete parameter to filter out. To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Monitored by the Supreme Court, many consider the NRC as the holy grail of all efforts to resolve an issue that has brutalized Assam and structured its polity for years by the previous governments.

“Never have I felt so helpless,” 79-year-old farmer At the fag end of my life, I am running from court to police station just to prove I am an Indian. I was born in this village, grew up here…how can a piece of paper determine my fate? Where will I go now?” -Mr. Modi is this your ache din?

Around 1,000 of the D-voters and foreigners are lodged in six detention camps in the state. Activists say the number of D-voters could be highly inflated as some names are repeated multiple times.These suspected people are served notice to prove their citizenship in the 100-odd FTs. The border police are allegedly given “targets” to meet every month.

There are bigger questions. What will happen to those deemed ‘illegal’? They will have the option of appealing, but what if their final appeal is also turned down? Detention camps? Deportation?

Hypothetically, after 25 years, citizenship will be demanded for these people. It’s a question of identity for the indigenous Assamese. We cannot live like second-class citizens in our own motherland,” The politics of hatred and division by BJP which is trying to polarize the NE region for their political gains, must be stopped. Hatred can never triumph love as India runs by brotherhood.

By allowing immigrants from Bangladesh, based on their religion, BJP is trying to create a communal as well as demographic disturbance in the North-Eastern part of India.
Dear citizens of Assam, don’t be slaves of politicians. Your identity is being an Indian!
The term Indian is a philosophic idea that is beyond the essence Geographical demography. And unity in diversity is our ideology with compassion being our motto. India is not a cage with it’s citizens like parrots. It is open instrument of ideas. The idea which can make the world a better place to live in.

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Why death penalty is not a solution!

Capital punishment has been the most polemical subject in India over the decades. This article is not for the motion or against the motion. Its an amalgamation of several angles of viewing death penalty. In India, death penalty is prescribed for murder, gang robbery with murder, abetting the suicide of a child or insane person, waging war against the government and abetting mutiny by a member of the armed forces. Capital punishment is also awarded under some anti-terror laws for those convicted of terrorist activities. Death sentence is imposed on the convict only when the court comes to the conclusion that life imprisonment is inadequate having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case.

In 1980, in the Bachan Singh case, the Supreme Court propounded the “rarest of rare” doctrine and since then, life sentence is the rule and the death sentence the exception. There is no statutory definition of “rarest of rare”. It depends upon facts and circumstances of a particular case, brutality of the crime, conduct of the offender, previous history of his involvement in crime, chances of reforming and integrating him into the society etc. The crime has to be viewed from various angles – manner of commission of murder, motive for commission of murder, anti-social or socially abhorrent nature of crime and magnitude and personality of victim of murder.

The manner in which death penalty is being given in a large number of cases raises a serious question. Are trial courts in India giving a go by to the ‘rarest of rare’ doctrine? The number of death sentences pronounced has been very high despite the “rarest of rare” doctrine that limits the scope of awarding capital punishment. According to an Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) report — The State of Death Penalty in India 2013 — Uttar Pradesh topped the list with 370 death sentences, followed by Bihar (132). But sentences for 4,321 convicts were commuted from death penalty to life imprisonment during this period.

The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is Do we deserve to kill? India is the largest democracy in the world with the privilege of having a parliamentary form. The history of actual executions divorces India’s strength. When we talk about heinous crimes like rape, terrorism or serial killing, the first thing which comes to our mind is to hang them. But, hanging is neither the solution nor a trademark for justice in India.

April 27, 1995, Auto Shankar, a serial killer, was executed in Salem, Tamil Nadu. Dhananjoy Chatterjee (2004) was hanged for the murder and rape of a 14-year old girl in Kolkata. It’s saddening that only 1 rapist has being hanged in India till now and then so called Beti Bachao and women empowerment slogans are chanted. Thereafter, there have been only three executions – Mumbai terror attack case convict Ajmal Kasab in 2012, Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru in 2013 and Mumbai serial blasts case convict Yakub Memon in 2015.

Also another disturbing fact is the first execution in Independent India was on 1995. Why no criminal was hanged between the period of 1947-1995? Nobody has answers to this question. Don’t we Indians believe that actions speak louder than words then why only 4 criminals were executed out of those thousands waiting in death row. This just shows India’s vulnerability by letting the criminals free. Most of the criminal cases in India are also led free in the court by so called medical pending and bribery where not abolishing death penalty forms a utopia of justice.

Even the 4 executions which took place did not make a difference in the society. You might argue that it’s quite obvious as the quantity is very less. However, it should have created a certain amount of fear in the citizens before committing such barbarity. Even after the hanging of a child rapist cum murderer in 2004 about 17,728 rapes were reported in 2004 itself. Whereas, most of the cases of rape are unreported. Even after the execution of other criminals, did the crimes stop? Did the heinous individual think twice before committing? No, rather the crime got increased in respective years of the 4 executions.

So what difference is death penalty creating? None because the history of India’s interaction with death penalty governance has lost the common man’s faith perhaps has embarrassed the ideology of 1.3 billions. Until and unless Indian Courts will improve its dealings and governments of central and state level will improve its tracking, death penalty is like icing on a half baked cake. In this critical scenario, in a country like India the debate shouldn’t be on how brutal or how deserving death penalty is for a criminal, the debate should be on the misuse and implementation by death penalty.

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The budget treachery

This election season let us remind ourselves the failure of the budget over the past 5 years. So that next government can get some ideas for modification in interim budget for the financial year for which the incumbent finance minister doesn’t even have a mandate yet.

Education:
Share of education in total expenditure has been declining since 2014 budget.
Utilization levels are low either due to delays in the release of fund by Center or by low absorption of resources by states. It has a direct bearing on the entire school education system!!

Housing:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, “Budget proposes National Housing Banking program; sets aside ₹80 billion (US$1.1 billion)”. However, lets go through some facts;
Homeless people in India=1.7 million
Why no national moratorium on forced evictions & demolitions?Why not a policy coherence and convergence between housing schemes in urban & rural for the provision of water & sanitation? Why no timely mechanisms to collect data on eviction?

Healthcare:
In 2015, Budget Arun Jaitley had said, ‘The expenditure on healthcare was set at ₹33,152 crore for 2015-16, a reduction from ₹39,238 crore in 2014-15.’
However,
•36 million households incur health expenses that exceed the annual per capita consumption of those households.
•Polio is also back.
India during the UPA reign was declared polio free, infact the government of India had made it a condition that Indians who visit countries which have polio have to take polio vaccine in advance before their visits.Polio has crippled many Indians making them dependent on other for their entire lives.Many children lost their childhood; they had to, with pain in their hearts, crawl clumsily on the floor or lump along with a stick as support,while other children ran about and played.It was a great achievement for a country as large as India to have successfully eradicated polio but unfortunately the acchedin government couldn’t maintain a polio free status in the nation. Mr. Modi what is the agenda? What is the strategy?
Do you condemn this failure?

Banks: In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said ‘Our Banking system needs to be further strengthened. Need to infuse ₹2.4 trillion (US$33 billion) in our banks.’ But today neither does RBI nor does ATMs have cash.

Smart City:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, ‘Govt proposes to set up 100 Smart Cities in India. Govt to provide ₹70.6 billion (US$980 million) for development of such cities’. However, 5% of the proposed projects are completed so far, according to Anarock Property Consultants. Why doesn’t India has any Smart city? How are we going to become so called superpower like this? Why only 5% finished?

Sanitation:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, “Total sanitation by 2019” However, in India, in the year 2016,some 1,02,813 die of diarrhea – a disease that can be easily prevented by improving sanitation conditions,providing better habitats for children and families & giving them access to clean drinking water.
Mr. Modi what’s the agenda to solve this? Also, a staggering 70% of Indians living in villages – or some 550 million people – defecate in the open. Even 13% of urban households do so. Open defecation continues to be high despite decades of sustained economic growth – and despite the obvious and glaring health hazards.
The situation is so bad that open defecation is more common in India than in that are poorer countries such as Bangladesh, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Burundi and Rwanda. Mr. Modi only creating toilets won’t make India clean. And most of the toilets don’t have water and proper waste management technique. If something really needs to be sanitized then that is your mindset towards the vulnerable Indians.

Skill Development:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, ” National multi-scale program ‘Skill India’ to be introduced to provide training and support for employment”.
However, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), has trained 41.3 lakh persons in the past three years. Only 6.15 lakh of them have got jobs, according to a reply given by Dharmendra Pradhan, minister for skill development, in the Rajya Sabha on 28th March, 2018. That’s a placement rate of a measly 15%.

Statue:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, ‘ 2 billion (US$28 million) set aside for the Sardar Patel statue project in Gujarat’. However, Why wasn’t Rs.2 Billion spend over women’s safety & farmers? Why CHINESE company as subsidiary? Promoting jobs for China by”Made IN India”drama?Why no Environmental clearance from ministry?Decentralization will be the best form of “Unity”. Statue of liberty cost was 1 crore. Not a single leader from the Opposition was invited to attend the opening of the Statue of UNITY? That’s how unity is going to be achieved?
Ironic that a statue of Sardar Patel is being inaugurated, but every institution he helped build is being smashed. The systematic destruction of India’s institutions is nothing short of treason.

Rural Development:
In 2014 Budget Arun Jaitley had said, ‘143.89 billion (US$2.0 billion) provided for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.’ However, With two and a half months to go for the end of this financial year, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Grameen) scheme to provide housing for the rural poor has achieved only 66% of its target to complete one crore houses. No home for the poor in Modi’s ‘New India’.
PMAY has failed to meet its deadline to provide housing for the rural poor.
Let us see some more facts;
•Number of villages in India: 640,867 (census 2011)
•Electrified villages in 1947: 1500
•Electrified under previous governments: ~621,000 (97%)
•Electrified under Modi govt: ~18000 (3%)
•Rural accounts for 25 million of the 36 million households,which faced catastrophic health shocks,while urban accounts for the remaining 11 million.

Is this Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas?What is the agenda for rural development?

Women Safety:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, “Govt to launch ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme; sets aside ₹1 billion (US$14 million) for it”. However, Over 56 percent of the funds allocated under the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ scheme from 2014-15 to 2018-19, were spent on “media related activities”. In contrast to this, less than 25 percent of the funds were disbursed to districts and states. Over 19 percent of the funds weren’t released by the government in the first place. Till now the government has allocated Rs 644 crore for the scheme, out of which only about Rs 159 crore have been sent to districts and states. This is the year-wise break-up of the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ funds, as stated by government in its answer in the Lok Sabha.
Myth= Beti Bachao
Reality= BJP se Betiyan Bachao

“Desh ko naamdar nahi kaamdaar chahiye…
Joh sarkar mahila ko samman nahi dila sakta woh sarkar kabhi bhi satta pe nahi aa sakta!!!!!!!”
Also read this news

https://t.co/sFr9J7xNKF

What is the agenda for safety? Does the PM condemn? Why is PM silent? Why are infants getting raped? Why are women not safe?
Beti Bachao ; Beti Padhao!?
We don’t want speeches ; We want enforcement.

Economy:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said that two years of sub-five per cent growth has led to challenges to the economy however, large parts of the economy, such as petrol, diesel, electricity, land and real estate, still lie outside GST ambit. When the prices of petrol and diesel rose steeply in 2018,such items should be included under the GST.
He had also said, ‘Aim to achieve 7-8 per cent economic growth rate in next 3-4 years’.
However, India is currently facing the worst economic crisis now. The economy is decimated. The rupee is on its knees. Petrol is at an all time high. Twelve Lakh crore in nonperforming assets and the banking system is jammed shut.
Infact, BJP received 12 times more donations than all national parties. Mr. Modi must explain why the Indian Economy is suffering by heavy taxes,punitive GST, Lethal Demonetization ,flawed currency, foreign funding and in efficacious donations?
Answer is simple-#ChowkidarHiChorHai
Such money thirst is measles of mankind!
There is also failure of economy digitization. The RBI report shows the cash transfer of market was increased about 37% after currency ban.
The cost of printing new notes was 21000 crore rupees. The non-return currency is just Rs. 10720 crore. RBI governors are resigning. Urjit Patel was meant to be the low key RBI governor who doesn’t seek fame or controversy. Keeps his head down and does his work. Modi government couldn’t work with even such a guy. Who can they work with? Regardless of which party or leaders you support, we must all be worried about whether the Indian economy is in the right hands. The quacks are taking over India’s central bank.

Tax:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, ‘We are committed to providing stable tax regime which is investor friendly’.
But the NDA moth-eaten GST is wrecked with holes, flawed in its structure, thereby punitive in its design. It has destroyed small and medium sized business. The informal sector was decimated as a result of demonetization and an extremely complex multi layered GST. Millions of small and medium business have been wiped out.

Poverty:
In 2014 Budget Arun Jaitley had said, ‘Anti-poverty programs will be targeted well.’ However, in today’s India there is more discussion on religion than hunger and poverty. We have enough religion to hate each other but not enough to live each other.
An Oxford Study
The population of poor decreased from 630 million in 2005 to 360 million in 2015.
The decrease has driven by access to better nutrition,sanitation & cooking fuel facilities.
Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh & Uttar Pradesh have the majority of poor.
India has the lowest poverty ratio.

Then they give us a Reservation lollipop. Reservation essence was historical inequality and under representation, not poverty. It is a question of representation of people who have been denied that in institutions for millennia.
By 2018, India is the home to 7 crore citizens living under BPL.

Pollution:
In 2018 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, ‘A special scheme to tackle air pollution in Delhi will also be introduced.’ However, At least 73% of Delhi residents are ‘not satisfied’ with the air quality in the city, while 43% of them found it to be ‘better’ than last year, according to a new survey released last year. The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let’s not go overboard in setting & enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Stock Market:
Both of India’s national indices, the BSE SENSEX and NIFTY 50, fell sharply in the aftermath of the 2018 budget. However, the The stock market has imploded ; by mid-January Sen-sex ends up 106 points… while the BJP was loosing alliances!

Black Money:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, ‘We must address the problem of black money fully’.
However, do you remember that catastrophic event?
Yups! Demonetization
Let’s recall our memories regarding Demonetization
☞Over 99% of banned notes back.
☞Cash at home with a 7 year high rate.
☞Bank deposits have fallen sharply.
☞Corruption still going.
☞Swiss bank matters not solved.
☞ Patients suffered because hospitals refused cash.
☞People died in queues. (150+)
November 2016: “I have only asked for 50 days. Give me time till December 30. After that, if any fault is found in my intentions or my actions, I am willing to suffer any punishment given by the country.”~NaMo
August 2018: “99.3% demonetized notes back with RBI.”~Central bank
…..wait there is a lot more to hear! Let’s hear what the ‘Chowkidaar’ wants to say after 2 years of regarding the lethal(Demonetization)
“Even an old man who loses his son, recovers in a year but not congress.”-PM Modi
The PM of India is going to the extent of mocking the Dead children of others! Mr. Modi aren’t the Young Indians your children too? Are you able to recover? How will that family forget?
What was the fault of the citizens? What benefit did his life sacrifice give to India?

The bitter truth
Demonetization wasn’t a failure. It achieved what Modi wanted – agriculture, jobs & small businesses destroyed for the benefit of his friends like Ambani-Adani. In the yr after demo, while economy collapsed, Ambani & Adani’s turnover increased by 77% & 125%
Why were we innocent citizens standing on the line? Why crony capitalists not in the line? When is mr.modi going to take action? Why can’t he give the details of the holders of black money in Swiss banks? Does he condemn the demonetization failure?

Foreign Deposit:
In 2014 Budget, Arun Jaitley had said, ‘Budget proposes 49 per cent FDI in insurance through FIPB route.’ However, A decline of 4 billion has been shown in the Foreign Deposit Index. What was the Make in India strategy for economic growth? Also China has attracted 37 billion. How are we going to compete with China? In 2012 Modi made a statement that the FDI is the overturn for foreign countries in 2016 After Modi came into power 100% FDI allowed by BJP. India cannot sustain development like this.
Between 2000 and 2017, India received Rs 8,300 crore FDI from Cayman Islands but post demonetization, India received an equal amount from the tax haven, in one year alone. Is this progress? There has been only 3% Foreign Deposit Index growth along being 5 year low.

And finally,
The Budget 2019:
Farmers: The 6,000 rupees a year for a family of 5 translates to Rs. 3.3 a day. Why so low?
Tokens: Rs 12,500/- relief annually means Rs 1000/- a months. That is the price of two multiplex tickets.

Unemployment: Policy unavailable just like 15 lakhs.

Tax: This 5 lakhs exemption is not correct! Slabs have NOT been changed !
Pension for unorganized sector: If worker in the unorganized sector earns less than RS 15,000, will need to contribute RS 100 a month to receive a pension of Rs 3000 per month at the age of 60. But for how many years!? Lacks political transparency.

Piyush Goyal underlined 10 important dimensions of Government’s ‘Vision 2030’
Love how the BJP keeps shifting the goalpost to hide their failures. In 2014, Modi ji said “give me 60 months to change India’s future”. Then they pushed this to 2022. Now 2030.

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Unemployment is the integral part of 56 inch capitalism

BJP promised the youth 2 crore jobs a year, development & a bright future. Instead, their jobs were ripped away by demonetization, their futures were destroyed by lies, & they were told to fry pakoras.

The unemployment rate has gone up from 3.41% in 2014 to 6.23% in 2018. Instead of the 8 crore jobs that were promised, only 8.23 Lakh jobs have been delivered in the last 4 years (till October 2017) that also of vulnerable employment.Based on its estimate of the number of people aged 15 and above, the report projects that to even maintain constant employment rates up to 2025, India will need to create at least 80 lakh jobs every year!

Hey, what about his constituency!?
On 11th July 2012, Mr. Modi the then chief minister of Gujarat had tweeted that Gujarat has the lowest unemployment rate compared to all states and national average and considered it to be a vibrant and throbbing economy.However, in 2018- 2018: Gujarat ranks 6th in unemployment. Infact, youths are being forced to hold menial jobs because of lack of opportunities in the employment market. With gold medals in MA, B.Ed & M Phil degree several residents are earning ₹7000/month.

No longer a vibrant & throbbing economy!
Lets see some more facts regarding unemployment situation in India;
●Only 4 Lakh Jobs produced till date.
●Only 44 people are employed per minute.
●31 million citizens are jobless, according to CMIE.
●Tripura has the highest unemployment rate.(30.😎
●92% of women earn <10,000/month.

The Modi government is smart enough to hide data of unemployment so that the opposition or public does not question him on this issue. But facts are facts and won’t disappear on account of your likes.

And then came the pakodanomics nonsense as an excuse. No Prime Minister, Earning Rs 200 a Day By Selling Pakoras is Not Employment.
No citizen (educated or uneducated) can ever dream to sell pakoda’s for a living. Nobody sells pakoda’s for choice they sell for circumstances. If you had to make us sell pakoda as employment then why did you promise to give 2 crore jobs per year. Did you plan to promote 10 crore pakoda walas oh what?😜 The fact that the prime minister actually celebrates this kind of ’employment’ as a major success of his Mudra scheme is even more worrisome.

While earning something as meager as Rs 200 a day may come as some solace to an unemployed person and she or he may clutch at it as the proverbial straw, the government must acknowledge that it only reflects under-employment and these earnings are just not enough to live life with dignity. Many would argue that the core objective behind education is to gainful employ-ability. They are not far from the truth. Indeed, many organizations that evaluate the return on investment in education do so on the basis of the employ-ability quotient.

There will be estimate 18.9 million jobless people in India next year. Also another big challenge the government faces is how education may be rewired to focus on imparting knowledge that responds to market demand. In other words, how can education make students future-ready. Unless it does this, education and employ-ability cannot be correlated. It would fail to transform lives and create a just and equitable society. Governance, consequently, would have failed. It is worth recalling that a recent report by the World Bank (WB) red-flagged India asks to create at least 8.1 million jobs a year to match up to the employment rate of the country. This is a monumental asking, especially because over the past seven decades, education has never truly been a national priority.

Gainful employment is among the grand challenges that India faces. It is critical for India to develop workable paradigms that addresses the knowledge revolution and the challenges the future workforce that would need to address.

The reasons for this Unemployment scenario are: high population, defective education system, excessive burden on agriculture, low productivity in agriculture sector combined with lack of alternative opportunities for agricultural worker, unskilled workforce etc. Though education level in the recent years has improved, skill development is still a crucial issue. India has the largest population of youth in the world.

Apart from the usual solutions of controlling the rising population or increasing the quality of our education to include skill based learning. Government should also encourage and develop Industrialization and agriculture based industries especially in rural areas so that the rural candidates don’t migrate to the urban areas.

But the best solution to the problem of unemployment is encouraging entrepreneurship among the youth of country. Entrepreneurs generate employments to many in a country. They also promote capital formation and employ resources leading to add the value to a specific industry. They don’t let wealth concentrate in a few hands, there is more equity in the distribution of wealth. Since 65 per cent of the population is below 35 in age, and if this young population would get into entrepreneurship, then more than half of unemployed population of India will get employed. So, I would like to conclude that entrepreneurship not only creates wealth creating but jobs too.

The Modi government is the first government ever who has changed the methodology for calculating GDP to make its number artificially higher! No government or any nation has ever done this. This proves their incompetence. The GDP growth rate fell post-2012, the investment-to-GDP rate fell, capacity utilization fell to 70% in industry, the plant load factor in energy plants fell to 60%, and credit off take fell. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that job growth rate fell, and not just for women. While between 2005 and 2012 the number of youth (and adults) engaged in agriculture had fallen for the first time in India’s history, the opposite happened after 2012. About 24 million youth joined the agriculture sector during 2011-12 and 2015-16 (even as agricultural output growth slowed). This could be purely distress-driven, owing to unavailability of jobs in non-farm sectors. At the same time, the number of youth in the manufacturing sector declined by 3 million. This should be a subject of current debate—but is not. The overall employment growth in services improved from 2.8 million per annum (during 2004-05 and 2011-12) to 3.4 million (during 2011-12 and 2015-16). About 3.9 million youth per annum entered the services sector. However, the growth of jobs in this sector cannot be considered as a progressive development, because a large proportion of them (about 74%) were engaged in low-paid informal jobs without any social security (46% as self-employed, 10% as casual workers, and about 18% regular workers). As of October 2018, only 42.6% of the adult population was willing to work. In the last one year, the number of job seekers went from 14 million to 29.5 million. India’s unemployment rate jumped to a two-year high to 6.9% in October 2018, according to a report by the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy, showing a worrying trend in the labor market.

Only 39.5% of the Indian adult population was employed as of October, the lowest employment percentage, said the report. An estimated 397 million people were employed in October 2018, down 2.4% compared to last year. According to the report, India’s unemployment rate has been rising steadily since July last year spiking recently in October.

Finally, instead of giving jobs they gave a reservation lollipop to us. Reservation essence was historical inequality and under representation, not poverty. It is a question of representation of people who have been denied that in institutions for millennia. After badly implemented GST and Demonetization which has destroyed the economy of India.10% Upper Caste Quota is nothing but a Lollipop in hands of small and medium size business. If there are no jobs, reservation in jobs is just another Jumla.

Also lethal demonetization catastrophe had impacted jobs, jobs & small businesses were destroyed for the benefit of Mr. Modi’s friends like Ambani-Adani. In the year after demonetization, while economy collapsed, Ambani & Adani’s turnover increased by 77% & 125%.

Even in the Rafale scam, 40,000 employees of Hindustan Aeronautics lost their jobs due to lack of salary. The Rafale deal could have also produced many jobs but Modi government decided to overlook the unemployment crisis in this nation.

By the Sardar Vallabhai Statue also mr.modi overlooked employment issue. Why was a Chinese company made as a subsidiary. This promoted jobs for China by the ‘Make In India’ Drama.

As we entered the election season when one thinks of the past year, one must see it as a culmination of the five years gone by—when the Narendra Modi government was swept to power. That was when the markets were euphoric and rose in a crescendo. They too liked the promises that were made during the election season

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