Gujarat to India To World: April 2019

Tuesday, 30 April 2019

Monday, 29 April 2019

Saturday, 27 April 2019

Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Sunday, 21 April 2019

Mega Food Parks

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Saturday, 20 April 2019

200

My friend who is Anti Modi, asked me to give 1 reason to Vote for Modi.

I gave him 200.

Here are 200 reasons to vote for Modi:

1. Fragile five to Fastest growing economy - India

2. 11th largest to 5th largest economy - India

3. Share of world GDP from 2.43% in 2014 to 3.08% in 2018

4. Average GDP 7.3% against 6.7% in previous regime

5. Forex reserves from 300 bn USD in 2014 to 420 bn USD in 2018

6. Doubling of FDI inflow from 36 bn USD in 2014 to 66 billion USD in 2018

7. Inflation less than 2.3 % (Nov 18) against 10.1% in 2014

8. Growth of sensex from 24,121.74 in 2014 to 36,395.03 on 12 Feb 19 (50.88%)

9. Fiscal deficit under control

10. Per capita income increased by 45% from Rs 86,647 in 2014 to Rs 1,25,397

11. IT exemption from 2 lakh in 2014 to 5 lakh (effectively 9.85 lakh with home loan)

12. Restaurant bills tax reduced from 18% in 2014 to 5%

13. Transaction charges through card down from 1% to 0%, domestic money transfer fee down from Rs 5 in 2014 to zero

14. Financial inclusion (32 crore bank accounts with 260 billion worth deposits). Almost 100% coverage from earlier 50%

15. DBT (savings of 83000 crores @ 15000 crore annually), No of govt schemes DBT applied to increased from 34 in 2014 to 433, 2.7 lakh fake mid-day meal students, 3.3 crore fake LPG connections, 87 lakh fake MNREGA job cards, 3 crore fake ration cards eliminated

16. Zero IT for businesses with turnover upto 60 lakhs

17. GST exemplifying cooperative federalism, rates of 83 items down from pre-GST rates, out of 1211 items only 35 items in above 18% slab, 39% reduction of cost of basic household items. Average 1 lk crore monthly revenue through GST collection. Exempted for business upto 40 lk

18. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, constitution of NCLT, 3 lakh crores of NPAs recovered, 66 cases resolved, 260 cases liquidated, resolution of stressed assets, 2100 companies pay back 83000 crore to banks settling their pending loan repayments

19. 75 billion $ or Yen to Rupee exchange agreement with Japan

20. 1 lakh shell companies deregistered, FCRA licenses of 4800 NGOs cancelled

21. Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, properties of economic fugitives seized and auctioned

22. 1.9 lakh km of rural roads. Rural road connectivity at 91% from 55%

23. 36 new airports, from 65 in 7 decades to 106, all states now in air connectivity map

24. Effective international diplomacy following 59 visits to nations, 38 single, 10 double, 3 triple and 2 quadruple visits by PM.(Seen during Airstrikes,No Country opposed India)

25. Benami Act for action against Money Laundering

26. Rural sanitation coverage 95 % up from 39% (8.8 crore toilets)

27. Solar energy capacity increased 8 fold from 2.63 GW to 22 GW, 19. 8.5 GW of biogas grid installed.

28. Ganga waterway transportation, usage by shipping giant Maersk, cost of transportation reduced from 10/ton (road) / Rs 6/ton (rail) to Re 1/ton

29. More than 2.4 crore households lit up, rural electricity coverage to households up from 70 to 95%, only 19836 homes remain (in Chhatisgarh) out of 2,48,09,235

30. Electricity accessibility rank jump from 99 in 2014 to 26 in 2019

31. 7 crore new gas connections to 3.5 crore households @69000 conections per day, coverage 90% from 55%, 82% return for refill, 42% beneficiaries Dalits

32. 14.4 crore mudra loans worth Rs 7 lakh crore disbursed

33. 18000 remote villages connected with electricity

34. 2.92 lakh km of optical fibre laid, 0.02% to 50% gram Panchayat connectivity

35. Swachh bharat mission has saved, according to WHO, 3 lakh lives and will save 1.5 lakh lives per year.

36. IT filers increase from 3.79 crore to 6.08 crore, enterprises registered for indirect tax up from 64 lk to 118 lakh

37. Entry of India in global regimes Missile Technology Control regime (MTCR), WA (Wassenaar Arrangement) and Australia Group

38. 17 crore soil health cards

39. 1.5 crore houses built, 91.37 crore in rural areas and 13.5 lakh in urban areas against 25 lakh houses built between 2010-2014. House for all target year is 2022.

40. 1,78,346 houses built in NE over existing 2875 houses built till 2014

41. Home loan interest rate down from 10.3 % in 2014 to 8.4% in 2018, annual savings of Rs 47,160 for 30 lakhs over 30 years, no GST on affordable housing, 5% on remaining

42. Trading agreement in rupee with Iran and UAE

43. Common service centres up from 84k to 3 Lakh

44. OROP implemented after 43 years, 35000 crores disbursed to 8 crore veterans

45. India's vaccination programme Indradhanush amongst 12 best practices of world

46. 5035 Jan Aushadhi and - 1054 medicines under price control (60-90% discounts).

47. More than 150 Amrit stores, reduction of cost of cromium cobalt Knee implant from 1.58-2.5 lakh to 54,720 and high flex implant from Rs181728 to 56490 (69%), 85% reduction in cardiac stent price to Rs 28000

48. 87% reduction in 400 cancer drugs

49. Rate of Interest on higher education loans dropped from 14.75 in 2013 to 10.88% in 2019, savings of 1.18 lakh on 10 lakh loan over tenure of 60 months, Rs 2000 savings on EMI

50. Data revolution: Cost of 1 GB $0.26 in India against $12.37 in US, $6.66 in UK and $75.2 in Zimbabwe. Unlimited mobile+ 45 Gb data = Rs 150 against Rs 1000 in 2013; annual savings of 10,200

51. Katra rail line work completed after 16 years

52. Dhola Sadiya bridge work completed after 16 years

53. Sardar Sarovar Dam work completed after 15 years

54. Aadhaar act

55. Pakyong airport completed after 10 years

56. Chennai Nashri Tunnel after 10 years

57. Assam NRC after 40 years

58. National War Memorial after 50 years

59. NE cpas after 60 years

60. Kollam bypass after 43 years

61. Indo-Bangladesh enclaves after 42 years

62. Bansagar canal project after 40 years

63. Bogibeel bridge after 23 years

64. Western peri expressway after 15 years

65. Kota Chambal bridge after 11 years

66. Maibang-Lumding Stretch completed

67. Delhi Meerut Expressway completed

68. Ganga Expressway project (world's longest) underway

69. Metros in Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Jaipur, Lucknow, Washermenpet

70. All umanned level crossings eliminated

71. Ayushman Bharat: annual 5 lakh health care to every family, 15.05 lakh hospital admissions for secondary/ tertiary treatment, 2.4 crore e-cards generated as on 10 Mar 19 in 170 days. Target 50 crore people.

72. 59minutes loan portal: 92,000 loan applications of MSME amounting to 30,000 crores approved, 6000 crores sanctioned till Nov 18

73. 87% of farming house (owning land of 2 hctrs) or 12 cr ppl to get kisaan sammaan nidhi of Rs 6000 pr year. Rs 5215 cr transferred directly to 2.6 crore farmers in 37 days (for households with holding less than 0.01 hectares incm per month so far was Rs 8136 agnst exp of 6594

74. 1.5 million electric rickshaws

75. Procurement of 36 Rafale on Government to Government Basis avoiding middlemen

76. 05 billion$ S 400 Triumf air defence missile system deal with Russia

77. 145 M777 howitzer deal

78. 22 Apache AH 64E multi-role combat helos

79. 200 KA-226T helicopters

80. 56 EADS CASA C-295 transport aircraft

81. 15 CH 47 Chinook tactical transport helicopters

82. 2.3 lakh Bullet proof jackets

83. 1.6 lakh Bullet-proof helmets

84. 777 mn USD Barak 8 LRSAM contract

85. 5 bn USD S-400 air defence systems

86. 10 Heron TP armed drones

87. 4 additional P8I MR aircraft

88. 40 units of Laser sensor border fence installed

89. 72,400 Sig Sauer Assault rifles

90. 100 self-propelled K9 Vajra howitzers

91. 700000 AK-103 Kalashnikov assault rifles indigenous facility

92. Surgical strikes in Myanmar, across LoC and in Pakistan. Only Country to bomb a Nuclear Powered Country

93. 240 million visitors at Kumbh Mela 2019, cost 4236 crores @ Rs 177 per tourist, revenue 1.2 Lakh crores

94. 833 teraflop supercomputer Param Shivay by IIT BHU at Rs 32.5 crores

95. Divisional status to Ladakh

96. 470 bed ESIC hospital in Ennore

97. 100 bed ESIC hospital in Tiruppur

98. Namami Gange - Ganga is 30% cleaner, 83 out of 97 ganga towns and 4456 villages achieved ODF status, 08 out of 16 drains emptying 16 crore l sewage into Ganga tapped. Target date Mar 2020

99. 5,45,122 ODF villages, 598 ODF districts, 27 ODF states/ villages

101. RERA implementation

102. Udaan scheme - flight cost down from Rs 5000/1000 km in 2013 to 3400/1000 km in 2018, 34 airports operationalised, small towns connected, all states on aerial

103. Preventive conservation of 39275570 folios, curative conservation of 3656863 filios, digitisation of 2.83 lakh manuscripts consisting of 2.93 crore pages

104. India is now world's largest 2-wheeler manufacturer, 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer (94% of mobiles sold now made in India), 4th largest automaker, 2nd largest steel producer

105. 5100 m Mandvi Bridge in Goa in 3.5 years

106. Ease of doing Business ranking jump from 134 in 2014 to 77 in 2019

107. Therubali - Singapur Bridge No 588

108. Restoration of Asurgarh Fort, Kalahandi

109. GeM portal with 731431 product categories, 180,862 registered sellers and 32114 govt buyers

110. 10% EWS reservation

111. 40% of ongoing 700 NH projects completed, adding 40,039 km between 2014-18 against 91,287 km between 1947-2014

112. Highway construction rate jumped from 12 km/day in 2014 to 27 km/day in 2019

113. 101 terrorists and 11 offenders extradited

114. 90,000 ex-partite Indians evacuated

115. Chabahar port, Sittwe port and Duqm port

116. Military installation in Seychelles

117. International logistics agreements with US, France and Singapore

118. Work underway on 25 MLD ZLD Common Effluent Treatment Plant at Gujarat Eco Textile Park and will save 25 million litres of water per day

119. Beautification of 65 railway stations, all stations fitted with LED lights, wi-fi, multi-brand food centres, kiosks, executive lounges, lifts (445 from 97 in 2014), escalators (603 from 199 in 2014), travellators and ramps

120. Record number of foot over bridges built

121. 871 new train services

122. 180 new rail lines

123. Dedicated railway freight corridor - 2 sections completed

124. 100% electrification of railways underway, first solar powered railway station (Guwahati). First solar powered train (world's second), savings of Rs 40 Lakhs and 90,000 ltrs diesel per year

125. Make in India semi-high-speed trains - Tejas, Gatiman and Vande Bharat

126. Humsafar and Antodaya trains, Deen Dayalu and Anubhuti coaches, UDAY double decker, glass dome Vistadome coaches

127. Project Swarn and Project Utkrisht to upgrade Rajdhani/Shatabdi and Mail/Express respectively

128. Largest coach production in world at ICF, Chennai

129. No more human extreta on railway tracks. Installation of 1.37 lakh out of 2.5 lakh completed in Jun 18.

130. 400 wi-fi railway stations (Aug 18)

131. 80% reduction in rail accidents

132. 10 high speed rail corridors underway, target date 2025-26

133. Export of world class customised coaches from MCF, Rae Bareli

134. LIC and Air India register profit

135. 2300 km rail tracks constructed, speed jumped from 4.1 km/day in 2014 to 6.53 km/day in 2018

136. Neem coating of urea

137. Gokul mission - record 160 million ton milk production

138. Online availability of CBSE and NCERT books

139. 10 crore LED bulbs distributed, 5000 crore savings

140. Investment in urban infrastructure jumped from 157703 crores to 795500 crores

141. Statue of Unity to commemorate Iron Man of India

142. Rs 2509 crore sales in Khadi

143. 482.36 million digital transactions worth Rs 74,978 crores in Oct 2018 against 0.3 million transactions worth Rs 90 crores in Nov 2016

144. 30% increase in ATMs, 208% increase of PoS machines from 10.81 lakh in May 14 to 33.32 lakh in Aug 18, 111% increase in credit cards from 1.94 crore in May 14 to 4.10 crore in Aug 18, 144% increase in debit cards from 40.17 crore to 98.02 crore

145. Ease of Doing Business Index 142 (2014) to 100 (2018)

146. Ease of getting electricity index 99 (2014) to 26 (2018)

147. UN's e-govt index 118 (2014) to 97(2018)

148. Globalisation index 112 to 107 (2018)

149. Innovation index 76 to 60 (2018)
150. Competitiveness index 71 to 39

151. Logistics performance index 54 to 35

152. Global peace index 141 to 137

153. DBR ranking 100 to 77

154. India ranks 3rd in global start up ecosystem

155. 06 crore jobs in MSME sector based on CII data

156. 448 million formal jobs based on EPFO, NPS and PPF data

157. 10 crore jobs in entrepreneurship via mudra and other schemes

158. 80% increase in tax payers, 51.3 % increase in gross tax revenue

159. Black Money report card - Voluntary income declaration scheme (Rs 65250 crore), IT search and survey operations (35,460 crore), Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana(5000 crore), Benami transactions Act (4300 crore), Black Money and Imposition of Tax Act (4100 crore)

160 Rs 6000 financial assiatence for pregnant women

161/1 . Sagarmala: port capacity increase from 8 to 14.7 lakh ton, cargo up from 89 to 116 MMT 8 new national waterways including ganga waterway NW-1 and Brahmaputra waterway NW-2.

161/2. domestic cruise service between Mumbai and Goa, ro-ro services on Ghoga-Dahej reducing travel distance from 294 to 31 km

161/3. New international cruise terminals at Chennai and Goa, railway line between Haridaspur and Paradip underway, LNG import terminal at Kamarajar port, Oil berth ai Jawahar Dweep,Coal berth at Mangalore port

161/4 . deep draft Iron ore berth at Paradip berth, JNPT SEZ, Kandla and Paradip smart industrial port city, largest dry dock and international ship repair facility at CSL, modernisation of 17 fishing harbours

162. 800 km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway underway

163. Replacement of bio-toilets with upgraded vacuum bio toilets in trains underway. Order for 500 placed on experimental basis.

164. No terror strikes in hinterland

165. 103 new KVs

166. 62 new Navodaya Vidyalayas

167. 6 new IITs against 16 in previous 57 years

168. 6 new IIMs against 13 in previous 57 years

169. 7 IIITs against 7 in previous 57 years

170. 02 new IISER

171. 12 new AIIMS against 7 in previous 57 years.

172. 141 new universities against 30 in previous 57 years

173. 01 new NIT

174. Life Insurances @ Rs 12 annual and @ Rs 12 monthly premiums

175. Atal Pension Yojana

176. Pension to 42 crore people of unorganised sector

177. Ambedkar memorial

178. BHIM application for digital payments

179. Khelo India Initiative for tracking of athletes' development, Rs 5 lk per annum scholarship for 1000 budding athletes per year for eight years each; monthly Rs 50000 out-of -pocket exptr, 2000 PETs, salary cap of coaches doubled from Rs 1-2 lk per month, target 15 yrs

180. Special Task Force for Olympics

180. RERA Act

181. Bullet train maiden project

182/1.
Rs 6.92 lakh crore Bharatmala project, 44 economic corridors with 9000 km road, 2000 km port connectivity, 9000km roads to connect district HQs with NH,

182/2.
2000 km road with Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, opening up of 185 choke points, road development to char dham, 12 greenfield expressways spanning 1900 km

183. 36 murtis retrieved and brought back to India in 2014-2019 under India Pride Project against 02 between 2000-2013, 02 in 90s, 03 in 80s, 01 in 70s and nil in 50s and 60s

184. Unemployment rate 3.8% against 13.8 % in 2013

185. India is a less-cash society now

186. Develpment of Trincomalee and Columbo port while checkmating China's Hambantota by taking operations of near by (15 km away) Mattala Rajapaksha International Airport

187. Plugging the 'double taxation avoidance' black money loophole through a new tax agreement with Mauritius

188. Deal with Switzerland for automatic tax data sharing from 01 Jan 2019

189/1
Varanasi - Varanasi ring road phase 1 completed, phase 2 underway, inland waterways terminal, Babatpur airport highway, 140 MLD Dinaput STP, facelift to railway station, big cow shelter for stray cattle, BPO centre, piped gas project, Varanasi-Balia rail project,

189/2.
Vande Bharat Express, Kashi Vishwanath temple - Ganga Ghat corridor project, renovation of all bathings ghats, LED illuminations of ghats and major roads, underground electricity cabling,

189/3.
new sewage plants, 02 cancer treatment facilities, 65th to 29th rank in swachhata sarvekshan (2016), 90% ODF district.

190. Creation of 100 Smart cities, 100 crore per year per city for 05 years, 500 acres for retrofitting, 50 acres for redevelopment, 250 acres for green field projects, 10% of energy from renewable resources, 80% of green building construction, special purpose vehicles.

191/1
Development of 500 AMRUT cities underway, urbanization project of rejuvenation and transformation which includes beach front development, prevention of beach erosion, improvement of water supply, replacement of pipelines,

191/2.
New sewerage connections, greenery and open spaces, digital and smart facilities, e-governance, LED streetlights, public transport, storm water drainage projects in a phased manner, Target date 2022

192. Increase in Child Sex Ratio (CSR) in 104 BBBP (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao) districts, anti-natal care registration in 119 districts and institutional deliveries in 146 out of total 640 districts as in Mar 18. CSR of Haryana increased from 871 to 914.

193. International Yoga Day

194. Aspirational Districts Programme: 115 'backward' districts placed under 'prabharis' and for competitive development on the basis of 49 performance indicators, target year 2022.

195/1.
Make in India: 16.4 lakh crore investment committments, 1.5 lakh crore investment inquiries, 60 bn USD FDI, 26 sectors covered, 23 positions jump in World Bank's Doing Business Report (DBR), 32 places in WEF's Global Competitiveness Index (GCI),

195/2
19 places in Logistics Performance Index, 42 places in Ease of Doing Business index, schemes include Bharatmala, Sagarmala, dedicate freight corridors, industrial corridors, UDAN-RCS, Bharat Broadband Network, Digital India.

196. 251 Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) and Post Office Passport Seva kendras (POPSKs) against 77 till 2014, target of one PSK every 50 km across India.

197. Unanimous election of Justice Dalveer Bhandari to ICJ forcing UK to pull out own nominee Christopher Greenwood, demonstrating India's clout in international arena.

198. India Post Payments Bank: India's biggest banking outreach with 1.55 lakh post offices (2.5 times banking network) linked to IPPB system

199. Philip Kotler award, Seoul Peace prize, Champion of the Earth Award, Grand Collar of the State of Palestine, Amir Abdulla Khan Award, King Abdulaziz Sash award, Amir Amanullah Khan award.

200. 1900 gifts and memorabilia received by Modi auctioned and 11.7 crores added to Namami Gange fund, 1.4 c of Seoul Peace award also to Nammami Gange.

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Magic

Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Ramesh credited Modi for affecting a generational shift in his Cabinet

"It is inconceivable in Congress that first-time MPs like

Nirmala Sitharaman,
Dharminder Pradhan,
Piyush Goyal or
Smriti Irani can become ministers independently handling major ministries,"

Ramesh said. "I became minister of state, then minister of state with independent charge and then full minister. I worked up the ladder, I was 50 years when I became MoS and people said I was young." He said he hoped Congress would eighties emulate this model.
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