PROGRAMMES LAUNCHED BY MODI IN 2014

Top five programmes launched by Modi In 2014 includes Digital India, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Make in India and Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana

It was on May 26, 2014, our Prime Minister Narendra Modi took charge of the Government of India. Since the time he has taken office, certain important decisions have been taken by the Cabinet. Just as the year 2014 is about to end, let us try to recollect the important programmes and projects that our new Government announced during the year for the development and welfare of the country.

On August 21, 2014, the “Digital India” campaign was launched. The idea is to change India into an electronically empowered economy. According to this programme, the Government of India wants all

Government departments and the people of India to connect with each other digitally or electronically, so that there is effective governance. It also aims at reducing paperwork by making all the Government

services available to the people electronically. There is also a plan to connect all villages and rural areas through internet networks. There are three major components of Digital India: Digital infrastructure, digital literacy and digital delivery of services. The Government plans to complete this project in five years. That

is, by 2019, the Digital India project is expected to be fully functional.

On August 28, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana. This scheme was announced when he gave his first Independence Day speech on

August 15 , 2014. This is a prestigious financial inclusion programme. On the very first day of the launch of the programme, 15 million bank accounts were opened and each of the

account holders was given Rs 1,00,000 insurance cover. By September 2014, 3.02 crore accounts were opened and around Rs 1,500 crore were deposited. According to the yojana,

anyone can open new bank accounts with zero balance too.

On 24 September 2014, Prime Minister approved the Swachh Bharat campaign, which was a modification of the Nirmal Bharat Programme, launched by the

previous Government. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched formally on October 2, 2014, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The objective is to

make India a clean India by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The plan is to provide toilet and sanitation facilities in all rural and remote areas, to

create public awareness of cleanliness, to clean roads, streets, encroachments and make India one of the cleanest countries of the world.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

This was basically a slogan, coined by Narendra Modi on September 25, 2014 to attract the global world to invest and manufacture in India. It then became an international marketing

campaign. “Make in India” campaign was initiated so that India has ample job opportunities and the economy gets a boost. ‘Make in India’ seeks to make India a self-reliant country. It

also aims to allow FDI in the country as well as bring back to health the loss-making Government firms. The Make in India campaign is completely under the Central

Government, in which the Government has identified 25 major sectors which have the potential of becoming a global leader.

On October 11, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. According to this yojana, each MP will take the responsibility of developing three villages by 2019. The idea is to make India’s villages to be fully developed with physical and institutional infrastructure. There

are certain guidelines for this scheme, which has been formulated by the Department of Rural Development. The Prime Minister released the guidelines on October 11, 2014 and requested all MPs to

develop one model village by year 2016 in their constituency and two more by 2019.