What change can you bring
after being elected ?list
down any two promises
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An election promise or campaign promise is a promise or guarantee made to the public by a candidate or political party that is trying to
Across the Western world, political parties are highly likely to fulfill their election promises. In the United States, platform positions offer important clues as to the policies that U.S. parties will enact. Over the past 30 years, Democratic and Republican congresspeople voted in line with their respective party platforms 74% and 89% of the time, respectively.
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Employment & entrepreneurship
Promise: Encouraging and empowering youth via self-employment. Focus on agriculture, allied industries and retail through modernisation as well as stronger credit and market linkages. Initiating a multi-skill development programme, with focus on job creation and entrepreneurship.
Delivery: Several financial schemes, such as StartUp India, Mudra, 59-Minute loan started. Skill India launched. EPFO data claims that nearly 2 crore jobs have been created in 16 months till December 2018.
Open government and accountable administration
Promise: Digitisation of government records, opening up government for drawing experts from the industry, academia and society. Focus on increasing the penetration and usage of broadband, leveraging technology for e-governance, generating ITbased jobs in rural and semi-urban areas, using mobile and e-banking to ensure financial inclusion.
Delivery: Digital India has been one of the major thrust areas of the government, remarkable job done in digitisation of records, including of land. Special impetus to online banking and payment system after demonetisation. Launch of payment apps such as BHIM has enabled money transfer in rural areas in quick time.
Equal opportunity for minorities
Promise: Madrasa Modernisation. Improving traditional artisanship and entrepreneurial skills. Ensuring peaceful and secure environment.
Delivery: No significant improvement in Madrasas. Government launched ‘Ustaad’ scheme to promote minority artisans and craftsmen.
Women
Promise: 33% reservation for women through constitutional amendment. Launch of ‘beti bachao beti padhao’ for protection of girl child.
Delivery: Reservation for women a distant dream. ‘Beti bachao beti padhao’ scheme launched.
Corruption
Promise: Black money task force, initiating process to bring back black money held abroad. Rationalisation and simplification of tax regime.
Delivery: A task force was set up immediately after the government took over but no significant progress in bringing the black money stashed abroad. GST has simplified the tax regime.
Rural and urban development
Promise: Improving village level infrastructure — roads, potable water, education, health, supply chain, electricity. Building 100 new cities. Focus on modernisation, sanitation and improved infrastructure.
Delivery: Under Subhagya Yojana, electricity for all ensured; the progress on this front is significant. Major focus on villages. Also, visible change in urban road connectivity. Under Ujjwala, around 7 crore households have received free LPG connections (one of the major achievements of the government). Significant work done under PM Awas, also in construction of toilets in villages. Work has begun on 100 smart cities project and initial few installments have been released to the selected city administration.
Ram temple
Promise: Exploring all possibilities within the framework of the Constitution to facilitate the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya.
Delivery: Several consultations have happened. Current status — the Supreme Court has ordered a mediation through a three-member panel.
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