1. Aadhar and NPR:
a. Though Standing Committee of Parliament headed by BJP had thrown out Aadahar Bill and everyone thought that Aadhar will be dumped by the new Government, The new Govt merged the two into one. . Technologically Aadhar is very superior and ensures uniqueness of individuals to the extent of nearly 99 percent. NPR on the other hand ensures the citizenship of persons. With Aadhar and NPR merged, separate colored Aadhar Cards to be issued to Citizens and Non-citizens.
b. Allotted 100 crores Aadhar alloted as against target of 110 crores ( maximum possible number of person for 100% coverage) by December 2016
2. Financial Inclusion: Linking of Aadhar, Bank Account, Direct Bank Transfer and Health and Life Insurance
i. Jan Dhan –Bank Account
a. Total number of household (2011): 191.96 million
b. New accounts opened till April, 2016 127.80 million
c. Total number of households in the country with at least one individual
bank account : 210.5 million.
ii. All bank accounts to be linked to Aadhar Number. So far 35% linked
ii. Direct Bank Transfer of subsidies to bank account of beneficiaries
3. Insurance:
a. Atal Pension Yojana
b. Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana 94.2 million person
c. Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana 26.4 million person
d. Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme
4, Agriculture:
a. Crop Innsurance
4. Ease of Doing Business: E-filing, E-payment and E-approvals
a. 98 point questionnaire December 2014
Assessment Report (I January, 2015 to 30 June 2015): http://dipp.nic.in/English/Investor/Ease_DoingBusiness/StateAssessmentReport_14September2015.pdf
b. 285 point in 2015
c. 340 points questionnaire on Ease of Doing Business by States, October, 2015
(http://dipp.nic.in/English/Investor/Ease_DoingBusiness/StateRecommendations_26102015.pdf )
d. Favourable Ecosystem for Start –ups: http://dipp.nic.in/English/Investor/Ease_DoingBusiness/recommendations_StartUps_01Januar0216.pdf
e. Prior Permission and Regulatory Mechanism: http://dipp.nic.in/English/Investor/Ease_DoingBusiness/expertCommitteeReport_RegulatoryApprovals_26February2016.pdf
f. One day registration of Companies
g. 100% FDI allowed to processed food retailing provided they are manufactured in India
h. Lower the average time for clearing pending IPR applications to 18 months from 5-7 years. This involves bringing down the time for registering trademarks from 13 months at present to one month by 2017. Commerce ministry data showed more than 2, 37,000 patents were pending approval.
5. Labour
a. 45 laws relating to labour to be merged into just three laws
b. Single return for all labour laws, self/third party certification and 10 year validity for Factory licence
c. Number of workers requiring approval before closure-Earlier 50 labour, now 300 labour
6. Power
a. Power Transmission Rs 48,000 crores for improving transmission
b. LED Bulbs: So far 13.5 million power saving LED bulbs have been distributed under Domestic Efficient Lighting Project. By 2018, the program aims to save 20 gigawatts -- or enough electricity to meet Chile’s power demand -- by replacing incandescent bulbs with 770 million LED lamps. According to government estimates, the program will cut annual electricity bills by as much as 400 billion rupees ($5.9 billion).
c. Stress on Solar Power 100 GW to be added by 2022 as against only 2. 40 GW of power in total currently in the country in 2014.
d. Tesla – invited to set up storage battery for solar energy
e. Coal Allocation rationalized – costal power plants allotted imported coal and domestic coal to inland plants.
f. Thermal coal production is being increased with the result there will be no need for import of coal in next 2-3 years.
g. Separate power grid for agriculture and domestic use. To ensure power to agriculture in day time and domestic users in night time.
h. UDAY for Power Utilities
7. Petroleum Gas
a. The Govt’s gas allocation policy for domestically produce gas gave first priority to Fertilizer industry followed by Power generation and then others. Since there are not enough gas produced there was hardly any gas left for allocation after allocation to fertilizer industry. There were a number of gas based power plant which were ready for commissioning for more than 6 months to 18 months but were idle for want of gas allocation. The new gas allocation policy of the Govt allowed private gas based power plants to bid for new small gas finds. As a result atleast two gas based power plants, which were idle for 12 to 18 months could get gas and could produce electricity to the extent 50 to 70 percent.
b. Well off persons were requested to surrender LPG connections. As a result persons surrendered LPG connection and thus saving Rs …… crores in LPG subsidy.
c. It is proposed to discontinue supply of subsidized LPG to persons having income of Rs 10 lakh or more. This will save further subsidy
8. Road
a. Target to construct 40 KM of highway per day as against 12 KM per day in 2014 and 16 KM in 2015.
b. Target of constructing 41 km of national highways every day in 2016-17, up from more than 16 km per day of highways it built in 2015-16.
c. Award contracts for 25,000 km national highway projects, two-and-a-half times more than the projects it had sanctioned in the previous year.
d. Set a target of constructing 15,000 km of national highways in 2016-17 as against 6,000 km built last year.
e. Set a target of building 30 km (?) of highways everyday.
f. Breaking the deadlock The government had met bankers and road contractors in January this year in a bid to move forward over stalled highway projects worth Rs 40,000 crore. The number of stalled projects had come down from 384 to 74. To resolve disputes over such projects, proposed to the Finance Ministry that a four-member panel led by a former High Court judge be formed.
g. Targets and Performance
Sr. Parameter Target (2014-15) Achievement
i. (April – October, 2014
1 Road Length to be Awarded (Km) 8500 3419
2 Completion of Construction (Km) 6300 1984
3 Highway Length Tolled (Km) 3730 435
4 Collection of Toll Revenue
by NHAI (Rs. Crore) 6500 3584
h. Bharatmala linking ports
i. Construction of roads in Border areas of strategic stalled due to no environment clearance. Now no environment clearance required for roads within 200 KM of international border.
9. Environment
a.
10. Fertilizers
a. Subsidized Urea used to be diverted to industrial use and for preparing adulterated milk. Production of Neem-coated urea by producers was earlier restricted to 10% of its production. Now all urea produced in the country and imported urea has to be 100% Neem coated and thus saving diversion of subsidized urea.
11. Railways
a. Investment of Rs…………. cores to be made by 2018
b. Bullet Trains
c. Other faster trains
d. Modernisation of 100 railway stations
e. Construction of Electric and Diesel Engine factories at Siwan and Madhepura sanctioned by previous Govt fast tracked
12. Ports
a. Investment of Rs…………. cores to be made by 2018
b.
13. Taxation
a. Direct Taxes
b. GST
14. Responsiveness of Bureaucrat:
a. Biometric Attendance introduced in all Ministries.
b. Time bound delivery of services to public
15. MNREGA: It is common knowledge that earlier employment for 100 days were provided to needy persons. The entire amount was spent on wages and not on material which could lead to construction of durable infrastructure. The persons worked on construction of Katcha roads and digging of ponds. These roads and ponds were never visible as most were said to have washed away by rains-the real fact being the money paid as wages were siphoned off by unscrupulous elements depriving the needy and loss to nation. Now 60% of the money under MNERGA is to be spent on material and thus creation of durable infrastructure.
16. Cleanliness
a. Littering
b. Separate Toilets for girls and boys with water for cleaning hands are being provided (numbers built …………)
c. Open Defecation- So far ……. crore toilets(being …% of the households) have been constructed
d. Though hygine and cleanliness and municipalities are constitutionally under the State Government, the Central Govt has issued instructions to follow the model of Rajasthan where the Municipalities have started imposinf fine of Rs … for littering and Rs … for open defeacation. Urinating or Littering in public places could invite penalties ranging between Rs 200 and Rs 5,000. In a communication to all chief secretaries, the urban development ministry has asked states to impose penalties in at least one ward in each city by April 30, 2016 all wards in 10-15 cities by the end of the year and all wards in all cities by September 30, 2018. States have been told to ensure there are public toilets, door-to-door garbage collection facilities and adequate dustbins at public places in wards where the fines kick in. more