Mumbai (IANS) | Presenting the report card of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nine-year tenure, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday described it as full of progress and development. Addressing the media, Sitharaman said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, 80 crore people were given free food grains, while 220 crore people were given doses of the coronavirus vaccine across the country.
In nine years, we have raised the country’s position globally, the poor have got food security with dignity, he said. No other country has achieved so much in renewable energy in such a period.
Discussing the achievements on a larger scale, Sitharaman said that 12 crore households were provided with clean drinking water. 9.60 crore were given free gas connections, and a subsidy of Rs 200 per gas cylinder was given to the poor, despite global price hikes.
The Modi government has built over 3.50 crore pucca houses for the poor and around 12 crore toilets, resulting in 100 per cent coverage of toilets in mofussil areas, compared to only 39 nine years ago (2014). The percentage was
Sitharaman was accompanied by state Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, state BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule and other senior leaders.
–IANS
