Modi 3.0 Agenda

With important decisions in almost every area affecting daily life, including development of agriculture and welfare of farmers, highways, metro, ports, airports, environment, houses for the poor and middle class, research and development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started his third innings in the same manner as he had promised, despite the coalition government.

With the announcement of seven schemes worth about 14000 crores for farmers on Monday, the central government continued the process of giving political messages along with development. Since taking oath on June 9, within 85 days till now, the Modi government has approved projects worth more than 2.5 lakh crores for infrastructure development.

Even before the general elections, the Prime Minister had said that after the results are out on June 4, the officers will have so much work that they will not get any free time. In the first hundred days itself, the government has given a new edge to the rural economy as well as taken important decisions related to the new economy. The cabinet meeting for the third time in the last one week and the discussion with the entire council of ministers during the same period is a sample of fast paced work. The latest announcement is to set up another semiconductor unit in Gujarat.

Informing about the decisions of the cabinet, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that the pace of work has been maintained and this is proved by the series of approvals of infrastructure projects. 15 cabinet meetings have been held in about three months after the formation of the government. The government started its third innings by announcing the construction of three crore new houses in cities and villages under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Under this, two crore houses are to be built in villages alone in the next five years, on which Rs 2.30 lakh crore will be spent. The remaining one crore houses will be built in cities.

All crops with MSP for farmers have been increased from Rs 100 to Rs 550. Continuing its agenda of fast-paced development with the construction of highways and expressways, eight corridors worth more than Rs 50 thousand crore have been approved in the first hundred days, including a bypass in Ayodhya and a ring road in Kanpur.

In the first 100 days, approval has been given to spend Rs 2869 crore on the development of Varanasi airport. Several important metro projects have received government approval, including two new corridors in Bengaluru, integral metro rail in Thane and expansion of the metro project in Pune. More than Rs 30,000 crore will be spent on these.