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Cover Story
India Moving Towards Permanent Solution
SOCIAL SECURITY,

HOUSING, RATIONS,

WATER, ELECTRICITY, AND

TOILETS MADE LIFE EASIER

The construction of WATER TO EVERY
11.5 HOUSEHOLD BY 2024

crore new toilets for 9.73
free of open defecation, crore homes began
the country is now free getting running water
of open defecation. By Only about 3.24 In the last eight years, a solid
2025, villages will be crore households foundation has been laid for the
ODF plus, with concrete had access to
work on solid and liquid running water in country's 100th year of independence,
waste management. 2019. Approximately 2047. In this Amrit Kaal, there is only
In seven years, rural 6.5 crore new one mantra for siddhis: everyone's
households' toilet connections. By
coverage increased 2024, every house effort. We must all join, unite, and grow
from 43.8 percent to will have running in this spirit. Our generation has it. How
100 percent.
water. many centuries and generations have
we had this good fortune? So come

Home for everyone on, let us make a pledge. We will all
Under PM Awas Yojana, pucca houses in more than participate actively in this call to 'Hum
3 crore rural and urban areas, constructed, 2.3 crore Sabka Prayas,' performing every duty.
have got their own house. In the current financial NARENDRA MODI, Prime Minister
year, 80 lakh new houses are to be built, a budget of
Rs 48 thousand crore has been kept for this.
system to make it more sensitive to the poor.
FOOD SECURITY, ONE NATION, ONE RATION The use of technology in government schemes
CARD: This scheme now covers approximately has reduced the scope of corruption to a bare
97 percent of the Food Security Act's eligible minimum. The current leadership of the country
population in 35 states and union territories, with is attempting to provide permanent solutions
approximately 77 crore beneficiaries. to problems that were previously considered
ELECTRICITY: If not, everyone is eligible for permanent. In the last eight years, the central
free electricity under the electricity scheme, then government has directly transferred more than
connection for Rs 500, 2.8 crore new electricity Rs 22 lakh crore to citizens' bank accounts via
connections, and 100% household electrification. DBT. Previously, it was stated that after sending
THE PM UJJWALA YOJANA has provided over 100 paisa, 85 paisa would vanish in the middle.
9.1 crore new LPG connections, increasing LPG However, such a permanent solution was
created through technology that the middlemen
coverage from 62 percent in 2016 to 104.1 percent vanished, resulting in the cessation of Rs 2.25
today. lakh crore of leakage and the removal of over
CHEAPER INSURANCE : 8.37 crore people benefit 9 crore false names from the government
from PM Suraksha Bima Yojana and 12.76 crore beneficiary list.
people benefit from, PM Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana.
There is an insurance of two lakh rupees on this.

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