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Interim Report card for PM Modi Government

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Received this via a WhatsApp message.
This paints a better story for India than what one normally sees.

Hope the statistics below are accurate.
Have no way to verify the numbers independently



Database Performance of Modi Government

Know your government with all the statistics.

Number of Village left Unelectrified
2014: 18452
2017: 3937
Grameen Vidyutikaran - Minister: Piyush Goyal

Number of new LPG connections
2004 - 2014: 5.3 Cr
2014 - 2017: 6.95 Cr
Ujjawala Yojana - Minister: Dharmendra Pradhan

Electronic manufacturing in India
2014: ₹11,198 Cr.
2017: ₹1,43,000 Cr.
Make In India - Minister: RS Prasad

Mobile Banking in India
2013-14: 94.7 million
2017: 722.2 million
Digital India - Minister: RS Prasad, Manoj Sinha

Sanitation Coverage
2014: 42%
2017: 64%
Swachh Bharat Minister: Narendra Tomor

Ease of doing business in India
(Ranking by World Bank)
2014-15: 142
2016: 130
No Minister, Credit Goes To NITI Ayog led by Amitabh Kant
WEFs Travel and Tourism Ranking
2014: 65th
2017: 40th
Incredible India Minister: Mahesh Sharma

Solar Power Generation
2014: 2,621 MW
2017: 12,277 MW
Renewables Minister: Piyush Goyal

Optical Fibre Network (Including Rural)
2013-14: 358 Kms
2017: 2,05,404 Kms
Best Accomplishment - Minister: Manoj Sinha, Past: RS Prasad

Rural Road Construction
2011 - 2014: 81,095 Kms
2014-2017: 1,20,233 Kms
Super Speed of Road Minister: Nitin Gadkari

Coal Production
2013-14: 462 Million Tones
2016-17: 554 million Tones
You will be happy to know that Now Coal Thermal Project are getting canceled because of Solar, We are surplus in both - Coal and Renewables Minister: Piyush Goyal

New toilets Construction
2013-14: 49.76 Lakh
2016-17: 2.09 Crores
Swachh Bharat - Minister: Narendra Tomor and Vankaiaya Naidu

FDI
2014: 24.2 Bn US $
2017: 56 Bn US $
Liberal and Open Economy Minister: Arun Jaitley

*GDP Growth*
2014: 6.6%
2017: 5.7%
Minister: Arun Jaitley

*Fiscal Deficit*
2013-14: 4.6%
2017: 3.2%
Incredible

Inflation
2014: 11%
2017: 4%
Once again The Boss of Performance Minister: Arun Jaitley

Electrification in Railway doubled
Speed
Super Trains like Mahanama, Gatiman, Tejas and Humsafar launched
Cleanliness to provision of Internet at Stations to Redevelopment of Stations.
Status of Railways has also improved sharply for sure.

Minister: Suresh Prabhu```

Aur zero scam administration is a bumper bonus.
 
The original POV is biased, but then again every post is biased.

The social media is full of statistics concocted as facts.
Not knowing the source of such statistics it is difficult to vouch for it.

Modi had also let slip a golden opportunity to negate lingering concerns over his attitude to Muslims. On July 17, during the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset, a group of BJP-allied Shiv Sena MPs force-fed a Muslim catering staffer. Modi should have taken to national TV to come down hard on the errant MPs and emphasised forcefully that India is a nation of many faiths, he is the PM of all Indians, his government promotes the welfare of all sections, and intolerant incivility has no place in modern India.These are early days still.

Perhaps Modi is replicating his Gujarat model of successful development and good governance – learn to walk before you start to run. Rather than rush headlong and in a headstrong manner; he first wants to study and understand the many and significant problems confronting the country, and then launch sustained drives to address and overcome them. Even so, having talked the talk, he must walk the walk sooner rather than later by drawing on the exceptional mandate given to him: the biggest electoral mandate of any in human history.


http://www.internationalaffairs.org...n-interim-report-card-on-the-modi-government/
 
One year ago today, Narendra Modi was sworn-in as India’s new prime minister. He and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept into power following their crushing electoral victory over the incumbent Congress Party-led government. Mr. Modi campaigned on a message of bringing wholesale change to the world’s largest democracy and improving the lives of its 1.3 billion citizens. The message resonated with the country’s immense electorate, which conferred upon him an unprecedented mandate to deliver on his promises. Raising expectations both at home and abroad, Mr. Modi confidently declared achhe din, or good days, were on the horizon.

Now, one year later, the question that arises is whether the prime minister’s assured rhetoric matches his record so far. What follows is a brief report card of Mr. Modi’s progress to date.

The Economy: B-

Reviving India’s fledgling economy constituted the central theme of Mr. Modi’s campaign to become prime minister. He pledged to take those steps required to jump start India’s anemic economic growth. These measures included implementing long overdue structural reforms necessary to attract foreign investment to the country. Modi promised “red carpet, not red tape” for those seeking to conduct business in India, while vowing to improve the country’s abysmal ranking within the World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” index.

The results are mixed at best. To be sure, the last twelve months have witnessed Prime Minister Modi preside over a general improvement of the Indian economy. Last year’s spiraling inflation rate has been cut in half, deficits have been slashed, interest rates are down and the country’s once volatile currency has stabilized. The reality, however, is that these positive developments likely have less to do with Prime Minister Modi’s election than with falling oil and gold prices worldwide. Even New Delhi’s revised estimate of India’s GDP growth of 7.5%—a figure surpassing China’s—is the result of changes made to the rate calculation methodology, and is therefore likely inflated.


Exports are down, the country’s stock markets are among the worst performing in Asia and the prime minister’s ambitious “Make in India” campaign has stalled. More troubling still, two of his proposed signature reforms, focused on land acquisition and taxation, are languishing in Parliament.


Civil Liberties and Social Rights: D

Prime Minister Modi’s record on civil liberties and social issues during his first year in office has been far less encouraging. Over the past twelve months, New Delhi has tightened restrictions on the funding of international NGOs, banned the broadcasting of a BBC documentary chronicling the infamous 2012 rape of a New Delhi woman and even forcibly prevented a Greenpeace activist from traveling to London to speak with British lawmakers about India’s coal industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronakdesai/2015/05/26/prime-minister-modis-first-year-in-office-a-report-card/#2ab63b21742f
 
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Early enthusiasm for the BJP government was based on the perceived contrast with its predecessor. Here, at last, was a strong single-party government led by a decisive “man of action,” rather than a fractious coalition led by a reticent octogenarian, who was often unfairly caricatured as uncertain and vacillating.

Modi was marketed to voters through a clever (and lavishly financed) campaign that portrayed him as the business-savvy leader who had transformed the state of Gujarat into a lodestar of development — and who would do the same for the country as a whole. Attracting young people with the promise of jobs, and older voters with the prospect of reform and growth, Modi won a mandate that stunned the country’s pollsters.


Since the election, Modi has energetically strutted the global stage, touting his government as more hospitable to investors and urging foreign manufacturers to “Make in India.” Yet his foreign travels have achieved little, beyond improving his personal standing, which had suffered considerably following accusations that, as chief minister of Gujarat, he had been at least negligentas more than a thousand people were killed in a 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom.

Modi’s domestic performance has also been underwhelming. Although his speeches and sound bites continue to impress fans of his Hindi oratory, the gap between rhetoric and reality widens by the week.

Likewise, Modi has not kept his vow of “minimum government, maximum governance”; on the contrary, he has created the most centralized, top-down, bureaucracy-driven, personality-cult-dominated central government since Indira Gandhi’s emergency rule in the mid-1970s. Those who decried the alleged “paralysis in decision-making” under Modi’s excessively democratic, consultative and consensual predecessor are now faced with a different kind of paralysis, as files pile up in Modi’s office, the only place where decisions are made.With Modi too busy to keep up with all of the decisions he — and only he — can make, the government is adrift. In some cases, it is pursuing blatantly contradictory approaches.


Consider economic policy. Although Modi has declared that “the government has no business to be in business,” he has failed to question his government’s ownership and control of airlines and hotels. Indeed, privatization of major public sector behemoths is no longer mentioned.Likewise, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who once derided “tax terrorism,” has unleashed the taxman on entirely new categories of victims, including the foreign institutional investors Modi is trying to attract. Unsurprisingly, investor sentiment, which perked up during Modi’s campaign, has dampened considerably.


Modi’s government has also revealed a fine talent for announcing grandiose schemes and failing to finance them. Worse, budgets for health, education, sanitation and women’s security — all major talking points of the BJP’s election campaign — have been cut.In a sense, Modi is fortunate that his government’s failings have become so starkly apparent so early in his tenure; he now has time to address them. He showed that he is capable of learning the right lessons when he quickly auctioned the pinstripe suit for charity. Unfortunately, the rest of his errors cannot be so easily undone.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shashi-tharoor/modi-report-card_b_7437314.html



Modi is the best salesman India can have.
Unfortunately he needs CeO to fulfil his promises and there is no one manning the store.
 
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hi

i agreed...its looklike SCAM free govt...may be CAG can more details...but personally i benefitted more....OROP SCHEME AND SEVENTH PAY

COMMISSION ARREARS...thanks to MODI govt...
 
In Post 1 the intent was to seek information from people or sources that can support or contradict the numbers presented.

Concrete metrics are presented in Post 1. Are there learned members here who can cite reputable references in support of or against these metrics?

There are all kinds of biased information in the press but metrics do not lie. Granted there may be more metrics needed to provide a balanced view. But let us talk about metrics which does not include biased analysis. Post 1 provided only metrics (but provided no analysis other than applaud the results).
 
i am just returning from Jharkhand. I did not see what your article says.

The Centre claims to be fulfilling the Prime Minister’s plan for full rural electrification. But a close check of its own real-time data shows that the gap between official claims and ground reality is stark

Haldu Khata, a village in Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, is one of the 7,008 villages that the government claims to have “electrified” in the last year, under the Modi government’s flagship scheme of rural electrification, Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana. However, according to the government’s own field engineers, there is no electrical infrastructure in the village. Similarly, Dimatala in Assam, Kadam Jheriya in Chhattisgarh, Buknari in Bihar and Sunwara in Madhya Pradesh are misclassified as electrified villages in government books. These are not exceptional cases. The Hindu’s analysis of rural electrification data shows that the number of villages said to be electrified in the last year is exaggerated.

One major source of discrepancy is regarding those villages where the GVA has noted that the village is un-electrified, yet it is counted as electrified on the app. The Hindu was able to spot over 30 such villages on the app after scanning through GVAs’ comments. When this discrepancy was pointed out, a senior official of the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC), the nodal agency for rural electrification which functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Power, said: “We put a lot of emphasis on photos. If there is a pole and distribution line visible in the photos, we call it electrified.” This perhaps could be one of the reasons leading to the inflated number, as the presence of electrical infrastructure doesn’t automatically translate into electrification.Conversations with GVAs reflect the gap between official data and ground realities. The Hindu found 342 villages where the status marked by the GVA was ‘e0’, which means un-electrified (‘ee’ and ‘en’ mean electrified). And yet, in the ‘overall’ category, all of these villages have been marked as electrified.Further, as of March 10, 2016, for around 300 villages, the status said: “Village declared electrified by discom [power distribution company]. GVA yet to visit the village for verification.” This indicates that villages have been declared as electrified without waiting for the government’s own representative’s verification, rendering the monitoring system redundant. For many others, a pattern is observed where the date of electrification is way before the first visit made by GVA. And further, if the GVA marks it as un-electrified after visiting, the status is not updated from ‘electrified’ to ‘un-electrified’.

Another concern is that uninhabited villages have been marked as electrified. The villages Panalomali, Kusadangar, Patyetapali in Odisha and Sunwara in Madhya Pradesh — all counted as electrified villages — have no people residing there. Reading comments in the application, more such villages were found by The Hindu, such as Akbarpur in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, which is a forest area.

The count of villages being electrified, ticking upward every day in the GARV application — extensively shared by Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on social media and cited by Prime Minister Modi in his speeches — is thus not a guarantee that all villages being claimed as electrified are actually so.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/On-paper-electrified-villages-%E2%80%94-in-reality-darkness/article14176223.ece
 
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Even if a household has an electricity connection, power supply is erratic across states.
In Uttar Pradesh, for instance, three of four households get electricity for less than 12 hours a day. In Jharkhand, only 2% of electrified households get electricity for 20 or more hours; 81% do not get four or more hours in the evenings, while 60% face three or more days of total blackouts every month.

http://factchecker.in/modis-power-statement-electrification-is-not-electricity/

As of May 25, 13,523 villages have been electrified, but 100
per cent household connectivity has been achieved in only 1,089 villages, according to data in the Power Ministry's Grameen Vidyutikaran (GARV) dashboard.

Besides, 25
per cent (45 million) of rural households across the country still have no electricity. In Uttar Pradesh, Nagaland, Jharkhand and Bihar, fewer than 50
per cent of rural households have electricity, three years after the BJP was sworn in at the Centre having promised: "electricity for all".


As per the Modi government's promise, all villages could be electrified by May 2018. However, it remains to be seen how many households will actually have access to reliable electricity supply. Despite villages having an electricity connection, true energy access remains low in many states, marked by poor quality, reliability and duration of supply.

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 
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Nagla Fatela in Hathras district is not the only village in Uttar Pradesh that has been declared as electrified only on paper.

The power ministry has found that 20 of the 25 villages in the district have been declared as energised by the power distribution utility but the households do not have connections.

The ministry has found gross violations of the terms on which funds were released to Uttar Pradesh for rural electrificationBSE 0.81 % under the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana, a senior government official said.

Nagla Fatela came into the limelight after media reports highlighted that the village, referred to as electrified by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech, did not have electricity access.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/on-paper-electrification-does-not-give-power-to-villages-in-hathras/articleshow/54039773.cms


a-TB, I only researched one topic of rural electrification, similar discrepancies are everywhere. I do not have the resources to refute all bogus claims. Nor do I gain anything by pointing out misleading statistics of Mody government.
People who have "Faith" Or "belief" cannot accept rational rejoinders.

I still say that Modi is the best salesman any country can have. The reality on the ground is different than the propaganda numbers.
 
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The Hindustan Times article “‘Only when bill arrives, we know there’s power’: What ails India’s rural electrification scheme?” cites the example of Paraspur village in Uttar Pradesh to argue that India’s rural electrification scheme, the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), falls far short of what it claims and that the challenges facing India’s “grand” rural electrification programme are immense: “Paraspur is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with India’s rural electrification programme, a grand scheme that guzzles thousands of crores of rupees annually but may not guarantee that power actually reaches the people.” The article goes on to question, by implication, if the government’s plan to electrify every village in the country by 2018 and every household by 2022 will succeed at all.

[FONT=&quot]An IndiaSpend report, released this month states that out of the 10,072 newly electrified villages in rural India, 92% do not have electricity.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The electrification of rural villages falls under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana project kick-started by the NDA Government.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]28 villages were electrified from 15th-21st August, 2016, according to an update issued by the Government of India.
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[FONT=&quot][h=3]Discrepancies in the Electrification Scheme[/h][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]There are certain villages, which according to the Gram Vidyut Abhiyantas (GVAs) are un-electrified and yet counted as electrified.
There exists a gap between official data and ground realities; GVA-marked un-electrified villages are marked as electrified in the overall category by senior officials.
Some villages are classified as electrified without even waiting for the GVA to verify the status.


[h=3]17 Mar 2017Rural electrification: 5150 villages still dark[/h]
The deadline for the Centre's rural electrification programme may be missed, as data revealed that over 5150 villages in India are yet to be electrified. It was supposed to be completed by May 2017.
Data suggested that so far, just 60% of the target has been met.
Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar and Chhattisgarh account for the bulk of un-electrified villages.

https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/India/3042/18333/india-s-rural-electrification-situation



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Why mobile banking for the poor failed in India?

NEW DELHI: With the coming of smartphone technology, for many countries across globe, mobile banking has become a popular and preferred channel of communication with banks. For e.g., the number of mobile banking users in the United States has been projected to increase from 57 million in 2011 to 111 million in 2016. However, that is not the case in India.

Despite the efforts to imitate the success of mobile banking programs like Kenya’s M-Pesa, which made it possible for people living in rural and remote areas to access banking services with feature phones, India is still trying to figure out why it has failed.

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) consultation paper, India’s adoption rates have been pretty poor. In May 2016 only 3.7 million “attempts” at mobile banking transactions were recorded, which is extremely short of traffic expectations based on the 450 million mobile connections in rural India.

The paper points out few causes for this outcome including the prices it allowed carriers to charge for the service.


http://www.voicendata.com/why-mobile-banking-for-the-poor-failed-in-india/


Modi Government has great ideas and very poor execution.
But they have great Public Relations and propaganda apparatus. So people are fooled easily.

 
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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day speech, vowed to eliminate open defecation, India took notice.
After all, it was unusual for a prime minister to use the bully pulpit in India to exhort people to end this appalling practice and build more toilets.
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.

But building toilets may not be enough to end open defecation in India, a new study has found.


A team of researchers asked people in 3,235 rural households in five north Indian states where they defecate and their attitudes to it.

Some 40% of Indians live in these states - Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. They also account for 45% of households without a toilet. Also, a third of all people worldwide who defecate in the open live in these five states.

The study found that people in households with working toilets continue to defecate in the open, and that toilets provided by the state are especially unlikely to be used.

Mr Modi has announced plans to build more than 100 million toilets in the country to end a shameful practice. But many believe the money will not be well spent unless it's accompanied by a massive awareness campaign, involving the government, non-profit groups and citizens.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502603

Indians need water to clean themselves, toilets without water are of no use to them.
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A farmer in Peepli Khera heads into a sugarcane field to defecate, carrying a container of water to rinse with. In his village, north of Delhi, only one family has a toilet. The others go in the fields—men on one side of the village, women on the other.
 
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Modi Government has great ideas and very poor execution.
But they have great Public Relations and propaganda apparatus. So people are fooled easily.


Disagree with such hasty pronouncements. An extraordinarily difficult sets of problems are being addressed. I do not know much about Indian politics. After 60+ years of corrupt rule major changes are being implemented. To say something is a failure already is short sighted. There are many fund managers that are upbeat about India. I came across a youtube segment sent to me by a friend to make this point further.
 
Post 1 was all about metrics. I have not heard numbers being challenged in any major way so far.

Often major financial funds do their own independent research as to how to bet on an industry or a company or even a country.

Here is a Youtube link - MD of a major fund in India is talking about progress made in the last 3 years using hard data.

Audience can judge if his analysis is on the mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TwqSoShVCg&feature=youtu.be
 
Nagla Fatela in Hathras district is not the only village in Uttar Pradesh that has been declared as electrified only on paper.

The power ministry has found that 20 of the 25 villages in the district have been declared as energised by the power distribution utility but the households do not have connections.

The ministry has found gross violations of the terms on which funds were released to Uttar Pradesh for rural electrificationBSE 0.81 % under the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana, a senior government official said.

Nagla Fatela came into the limelight after media reports highlighted that the village, referred to as electrified by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech, did not have electricity access.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/on-paper-electrification-does-not-give-power-to-villages-in-hathras/articleshow/54039773.cms


a-TB, I only researched one topic of rural electrification, similar discrepancies are everywhere. I do not have the resources to refute all bogus claims. Nor do I gain anything by pointing out misleading statistics of Mody government.
People who have "Faith" Or "belief" cannot accept rational rejoinders.

I still say that Modi is the best salesman any country can have. The reality on the ground is different than the propaganda numbers.

Dear Mr Prasad,
No one and certainly not I asked you to use your time and resources to do opposition research. There may be discrepancies based on how certain things are accounted for but general trend is what I was looking for. In 60+ years number of villages electrified vs those in the last 3 years is the basis for comparison. On that these errors are small even if they are true.

I like India to succeed but do not want to be fooled by wrong information -neither by naysayers nor by bogus claims. But I know a balanced analysis when I see one.
 
Disagree with such hasty pronouncements. An extraordinarily difficult sets of problems are being addressed. I do not know much about Indian politics. After 60+ years of corrupt rule major changes are being implemented. To say something is a failure already is short sighted. There are many fund managers that are upbeat about India. I came across a youtube segment sent to me by a friend to make this point further.

I agree with this post. To change 60+ years of mismanagement is not an overnight task. It will take time to get things improved. But in case there is false claims that also is not going to do any good to the country. Best thing is to concentrate on doing what you are capable of to improve the standard of life in the country.
 
hi


see the latest report.....



[h=1]இந்தியப் பொருளாதாரம் சரிந்துள்ளது உண்மைதான்: எஸ்பிஐ ஆய்வறிக்கையில் தகவல்[/h][h=1]இந்தியப் பொருளாதாரம் சரிந்துள்ளது உண்மைதான்: எஸ்பிஐ ஆய்வறிக்கையில் தகவல்[/h]


http://www.dinamani.com/india/2017/...தான்-எஸ்பிஐ-ஆய்வறிக்கையில்-தகவல்-2776020.html
 
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Received this via a WhatsApp message.
This paints a better story for India than what one normally sees.

Hope the statistics below are accurate.
Have no way to verify the numbers independently



Database Performance of Modi Government

Know your government with all the statistics.

Number of Village left Unelectrified
2014: 18452
2017: 3937
Grameen Vidyutikaran - Minister: Piyush Goyal

Number of new LPG connections
2004 - 2014: 5.3 Cr
2014 - 2017: 6.95 Cr
Ujjawala Yojana - Minister: Dharmendra Pradhan

Electronic manufacturing in India
2014: ₹11,198 Cr.
2017: ₹1,43,000 Cr.
Make In India - Minister: RS Prasad

Mobile Banking in India
2013-14: 94.7 million
2017: 722.2 million
Digital India - Minister: RS Prasad, Manoj Sinha

Sanitation Coverage
2014: 42%
2017: 64%
Swachh Bharat Minister: Narendra Tomor

Ease of doing business in India
(Ranking by World Bank)
2014-15: 142
2016: 130
No Minister, Credit Goes To NITI Ayog led by Amitabh Kant
WEFs Travel and Tourism Ranking
2014: 65th
2017: 40th
Incredible India Minister: Mahesh Sharma

Solar Power Generation
2014: 2,621 MW
2017: 12,277 MW
Renewables Minister: Piyush Goyal

Optical Fibre Network (Including Rural)
2013-14: 358 Kms
2017: 2,05,404 Kms
Best Accomplishment - Minister: Manoj Sinha, Past: RS Prasad

Rural Road Construction
2011 - 2014: 81,095 Kms
2014-2017: 1,20,233 Kms
Super Speed of Road Minister: Nitin Gadkari

Coal Production
2013-14: 462 Million Tones
2016-17: 554 million Tones
You will be happy to know that Now Coal Thermal Project are getting canceled because of Solar, We are surplus in both - Coal and Renewables Minister: Piyush Goyal

New toilets Construction
2013-14: 49.76 Lakh
2016-17: 2.09 Crores
Swachh Bharat - Minister: Narendra Tomor and Vankaiaya Naidu

FDI
2014: 24.2 Bn US $
2017: 56 Bn US $
Liberal and Open Economy Minister: Arun Jaitley

*GDP Growth*
2014: 6.6%
2017: 5.7%
Minister: Arun Jaitley

*Fiscal Deficit*
2013-14: 4.6%
2017: 3.2%
Incredible

Inflation
2014: 11%
2017: 4%
Once again The Boss of Performance Minister: Arun Jaitley

Electrification in Railway doubled
Speed
Super Trains like Mahanama, Gatiman, Tejas and Humsafar launched
Cleanliness to provision of Internet at Stations to Redevelopment of Stations.
Status of Railways has also improved sharply for sure.

Minister: Suresh Prabhu```

Aur zero scam administration is a bumper bonus.

Appears to be on the whole a credible set of numbers, except in case of electronics manufacturing and laying of optical fibre network. Optical fibre network was surely more than 358 kms prior to 2014 and 1300% increase in electronics manufacturing seems unbelievable. Fresh employment generation/increased employment in electronics industry does not indicate such an astounding growth. Most probably there is either a typo or computation of wrong base figure.

Performance of Sri Nitin Gadkari in road construction, Sri Dharmendra Pradhan in LPG distribution (Ujwala scheme) and Sri Piyush Goyal in power generation/distribution have been really outstanding and not even the opposition party is in a position to distract their performance.

Achievements of Sri Suresh Prabhu has unfortunately been scarred because of series of rail accidents and this has taken the sheen off his other stellar achievements. Sri Suresh Prabhu is being targeted for achieving 130-140% capacity utilisation of railway tracks and this is being dumped on his head for railway accidents though non-modernization of railways and sabotage of railway tracks are the main causes. The Government cant effectively put forth its claims of developments when discussion is veered towards emotional issue of loss of lives in accidents. Otherwise Sri Prabhu was one of the best performing ministers. Indians would have been very happy with 60-70% capacity utilization and 130-140% was simply unheard of.

Achievements under Mobile Banking got subsumed because of demonetization and the narrative is that increased mobile banking is due to forced digital economy due to demonetization, so even though the achievement is stellar the Government cant show case the achievement because of people jumping to note bandhi narrative and attributing slowdown of growth in GDP to it, although the GDP was slowing even earlier.

It will take awhile for commoners to appreciate mobile and internet banking over cash transactions, as was the case when online internet train bookings was mooted, when initially people mocked at it.

The biggest achievements are No Big Ticket Scams at the ministry level and very low inflation rate. Ironically this has freed up a lot of space in media for the critics to barb at the Government on sundry issues and making a mountain of mole-hill on some minor misreporting or wrong claims.
 
I like India to succeed but do not want to be fooled by wrong information -neither by naysayers nor by bogus claims. But I know a balanced analysis when I see one.

There are some funny ways in which issues are structured in India which prevents one from gaining right information. As an example:

For low inflation rates, the media narrative would be that the cost of crude oil is at historical lows and less than $ 50 a barrel etc. etc. which could be a fair comment, except for the fact that the cost of petrol/diesel at retail is in the same band of Rs.60/- to Rs. 70/-. It is common sense that if the retail price of transportation is at the same level the lower inflation cant be attributed to lower level of oil prices but they will keep at the same argument none-the-less though most people do not buy that argument.

The issue will very very soon veer into the discussion of High taxes on petroleum products with everyone flashing statistics that India has the highest rate of taxes on petroleum products and the achievement of Government on inflation will be given a nice burial till inflation raises its head.
 
[h=1]Ratan Tata votes for Narendra Modi; says, Prime Minister capable of delivering New India[/h][h=2]Ratan Tata, the veteran industrialist, expressed faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ability to transform the fate of India. In a rare interview with a TV news channel, Ratan Tata revealed his candid conversation with Narendra Modi, which led to shifting of Nano factory from West Bengal to Gujarat in 2007[/h]
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[FONT=&quot]Ratan [/FONT]Tata[FONT=&quot], the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons has reposed his faith in the current Prime Minister [/FONT]Narendra Modi[FONT=&quot] and says that he will certainly deliver a ‘New India’. In an interview to CNBC TV18, the renowned industrialist said, “He (Narendra Modi) is able, capable and innovative enough to look at India afresh. I, for one, am optimistic that India will be the ‘New India’ that he has promised.”
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[FONT=&quot]Elaborating why he believes so, Ratan Tata said that as Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi had helped him by providing a “home” to set up a factory in the state, after the company shut down a Nano car manufacturing unit in Singur, West Bengal back in 2007. Recollecting the anecdote, Ratan Tata said, “I’ve known Mr Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. I turned to him when we had to change factories from Singur in West Bengal to Gujarat. I’ve seen him, will never forget the way he found solutions for a company that was looking for a home.”


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[FONT=&quot]Further, Ratan Tata said that Narendra Modi kept his promise to provide land for the factory within ‘three days’ — a practice very uncommon in a country like India. He said, “Mr Modi invited me to move the factory to Gujarat, and I said, we we’ll come if we had a home. He said I’ll get you the land you want in three days. He delivered that! On the 3rd (day) morning, he said Ratan ji, here’s the land that I promised. That just doesn’t happen in India!”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ratan Tata is highly optimistic about the Prime Minister’s new India initiative. “As Prime Minister now, he is offering to the Indian people a new India. I think we need to give him that opportunity to offer that new India,” he told the TV channel.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Meanwhile, yesterday Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, bought equity stakes in various group companies from each other in order to consolidate and simplify the cross-holdings, as part of a larger corporate restructuring exercise. Tata Sons bought equity stakes in Tata Motors, Tata Beverages and Tata Chemicals by picking up shares of these companies from other group outfits. Tata Sons bought 43.18 million shares at Rs 213.35 apiece in Tata Global Beverages from Tata Chemicals.

http://www.financialexpress.com/eco...minister-capable-to-deliver-new-india/862871/

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The problem is, rising above party and partisan politics, viewing matters with circumspection and objectivity, and thinking seriously about changing the condition of the poor, the labourer, the struggling artisan, or the welder and the small shop keeper. We are being heaped with statistics from all sides. What will it help? To write erudite papers? To inundate the statistical bureau with more information, with no action taken? For example we are hearing again and again, that the gross enrolment ratio in education is abysmally low. But what about retention, after this ? Can anyone quote the actual figures?

So the battle of wits, is transformed into the battle of half wits or nit wits. Can anyone tell us whether a study on GST has been done to show who are affected, or who actually benefits? A shop keeper says he has been paying to the company, but the wholesaler in guise of the middleman can be a constant shadow. All these must be clearly specified, in terms of a white paper, or whatever you call it. Intellectuals, economists, must go into a mode of enquiry, dispassionately, forgetting the other, a syndrome haunting the country in all measures. The rancorous arguments continue. The poor man continues to suffer. In this midst we have catapulting figures of growth. Of what, poverty?


” Lies, damned lies, statistics”. The country continues- to suffer and bleed. Damn it, diversity and unity! and let the idiot box continue to spawn more idiots.

https://www.slguardian.org/2017/08/india-under-modi-lies-damned-lies-statistics/
 
Appears to be on the whole a credible set of numbers, except in case of electronics manufacturing and laying of optical fibre network. Optical fibre network was surely more than 358 kms prior to 2014 and 1300% increase in electronics manufacturing seems unbelievable. Fresh employment generation/increased employment in electronics industry does not indicate such an astounding growth. Most probably there is either a typo or computation of wrong base figure.

Performance of Sri Nitin Gadkari in road construction, Sri Dharmendra Pradhan in LPG distribution (Ujwala scheme) and Sri Piyush Goyal in power generation/distribution have been really outstanding and not even the opposition party is in a position to distract their performance.

Achievements of Sri Suresh Prabhu has unfortunately been scarred because of series of rail accidents and this has taken the sheen off his other stellar achievements. Sri Suresh Prabhu is being targeted for achieving 130-140% capacity utilisation of railway tracks and this is being dumped on his head for railway accidents though non-modernization of railways and sabotage of railway tracks are the main causes. The Government cant effectively put forth its claims of developments when discussion is veered towards emotional issue of loss of lives in accidents. Otherwise Sri Prabhu was one of the best performing ministers. Indians would have been very happy with 60-70% capacity utilization and 130-140% was simply unheard of.

Achievements under Mobile Banking got subsumed because of demonetization and the narrative is that increased mobile banking is due to forced digital economy due to demonetization, so even though the achievement is stellar the Government cant show case the achievement because of people jumping to note bandhi narrative and attributing slowdown of growth in GDP to it, although the GDP was slowing even earlier.

It will take awhile for commoners to appreciate mobile and internet banking over cash transactions, as was the case when online internet train bookings was mooted, when initially people mocked at it.

The biggest achievements are No Big Ticket Scams at the ministry level and very low inflation rate. Ironically this has freed up a lot of space in media for the critics to barb at the Government on sundry issues and making a mountain of mole-hill on some minor misreporting or wrong claims.


Dear Mr Zebra16,

Thank you for your in depth and balanced analysis. Hope you had a chance to view the full Youtube segment I posted earlier. I think there are many in India and outside India voting with their money on India's future.

Snippets of news paper clippings we find here are not giving a balanced view but projects only bad news about India. I cant understand the reasons.

A developing economy with over billion people is not easy to lead and change. Some of the changes will hurt in the near term. It appears ordinary people have faith in what the government is trying to do. The media reports sensationalize bad news and we have gullible eating it all up.

By the way, you write really well - I am practicing to write better .....
 
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