Welfare Schemes

The NDA government delivered on a large number of important public goods schemes, some of which were built on the initiatives of the previous government, and others of

its own design. The major positive aspect of the programmes conducted by the NDA government lay in its implementation which was more efficient.

As part of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana initiative, the number of rural houses built increased considerably with several beneficiaries getting their due. There was also a large push on rural electrification to ensure all villages had an electricity connection by 2018 under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana. Under the Ujjwala Yojana, the government aimed to provide LPG connections to below poverty line households in the country to replace polluting cooking fuels used in rural India with the clean and more efficient liquefied petroleum gas.

The Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme was launched in 2015 with the aim of reducing the female infanticide rate by encouraging education and welfare of the girl child. Also launched in 2015 was the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, the primary objective of the scheme being the promotion and implementation of the welfare programmes for the girl child. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) had been criticised by Modi when the UPA was implementing it. But after coming to power, the Modi government did not discontinue the scheme, but improved it in various ways, especially by focusing on productive work to be undertaken, geo-tagging the assets created under the scheme in an attempt to bring

transparency at the click of a button and check leakages.

Several pension schemes which had been initiated by earlier governments were continued with modifications, and some new ones were begun.