The tenure of the current Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has come to an end and the quest for electing the next PM of India has begun with the inception of the general elections 2019. Our current Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi took the oath on 26th May 2014 and served the nation for 5 long years. Now the biggest question that almost every Indian is discussing is Bharat ke pradhan mantri kaun hai (who is the current PM of India) and Bharat ke agle pradhan Mantri Kaun Honge (who will be the next PM of India).
The 17th Lok Sabha Elections are going in full flow and the elections will be contested in 7 phases that will take place from 11th April to 19th May and the results will be announced on 23rd May 2019.
In the 5 years of working, the current PM of India took many initiatives that helped people in making their lives better and hence improved their lifestyle. Let us look at 3 such initiatives taken by the PM Narendra Modi, which have been very helpful for the people of India.
1) Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana was announced by PM Narendra Modi on 15th August 2014 during his first speech on Independence Day. The motive of the scheme was to connect the common and underprivileged people of India with the banks so that the banking services can be taken to every household in India. With this scheme, it is ensured that everyone can get the chance to open a bank account and avail the services such as the opening of savings bank account, facility of remittance, providing required based credit and insurance and pension plans. The impact of the PMJDY has been on a very large scale and it has been able to reach to people living in remote areas. More than 30 crore bank accounts have been opened since the scheme has been launched. Out of these, more than 60% accounts are from the rural area and the remaining are from the urban area. The share of the female account holders is more than half, which is an astonishing achievement for the people of India. One of the biggest achievements of the PMJDY is that it got its name in the Guinness World Records as “Most Bank Accounts Opened within one week”. The total number of bank accounts that were opened during this week was 18,096,130.
2) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
The clean India Campaign aka Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was announced on 15th August 2014 and its mission was to make India clean. The movement began on 2nd October 2014, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. This was the first ever campaign that focused on the cleanliness and was launched at a huge scale. PM Modi himself took the initiative and appealed people to help in making India a clean country. He put his emphasis on the importance of sanitation and how many people fall ill because of bad hygiene. Many hashtags became trending on Twitter after the launch of this event, like “MyCleanIndia”, “Na Gandagi Karenge, Na Gandagi Karne Denge” and so on. One of the biggest positive that emerged after the launch of this campaign was that the people became aware of the importance of cleanliness. Now, everyone thinks twice before throwing anything on the public place. Another milestone that has been achieved under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is the construction of toilets in India. Our country has been facing this major challenge of lack of basic sanitation. But, with the strong initiative taken by the present government, this issue has been resolved to a major extent and close to 10 crore toilets have been built in the last 5 years.
3) Make in India
The highly ambitious plan of “Make In India” was launched with the mission to promote the Indian market to the global audience. This plan began with a lot of collaborations. It comprises of the Union Ministers, leaders from the Industry, state governments and many knowledge partners. A detailed roadmap was created with the vision to make India the largest manufacturing hub in the world and promote the tag of “Make In India” at the international market. The highlighting areas of this scheme have been the defence sector, Railways, Insurance and Medical Equipment. With the support of technology and the ease of doing business processes, the method of executing things has become superfast under the Make in India campaign and the economic growth of the nation has quickened up after the launch of the Make in India scheme.
There have been many other schemes launched by the current government, such as the Ayushmann Bharat Scheme, Start-Up India Stand Up India Scheme, Niti Aayog and many more. It will be interesting to see how much these schemes will attract the voters and help the current government to regain power back in 2019 again.