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Cover Story Middle Class

was no one to look after them, and whatever this
class has to do they have to do it on their own.
They used to expend their all energy. The central We are inspired by the
government has recognized the candour of the Constitution and the
middle class and has provided them with security. tricolour of India – the poor
Today the hardworking middle class is taking the get justice, the people get
country to new heights. There are many examples
of how much the middle class has benefited from the opportunity to move
various schemes of the government. Before 2014, forward, the lower-middle
the cost of 1 GB of data was Rs 250, which is less class, the middle class,
than Rs 10 today. Today a citizen in the country and the upper-middle class
uses an average of 20 GB. If it is calculated, then
on average a person is saving 5,000 rupees. While should not face any
the middle-class family used to spend Rs 1,000 to hindrances in moving
Rs 3,000 on medicines every month for the elders forward. Let there be no
of their household, the medicines which were
available for Rs 100 in the market are available obstacles from the
for Rs 10-20 at the Jan Aushadhi Kendras. Today, government.
20,000 crore rupees are saved by the middle class - Narendra Modi,
through these Jan Aushadhi Kendras. To fulfill the
dream of a home by middle class, a large number of Prime Minister
home loans were started in urban areas. Due to the
enactment of the RERA law, now a special section
cannot suppress the hard-earned money of the prices of plane tickets under the UDAN scheme,
middle class for years. RERA has worked to give new be it highways, or different ways of information,
confidence to the middle class. Every middle-class all these things are going to increase the power
family has a dream of giving higher education to of the middle class. GST has reduced many daily
their child for a secure future. Keeping this in mind, expenses of consumers.
medical, engineering, and professional colleges
and the number of seats in these institutions have FULFILLMENT OF ASPIRATIONS
been increased. This effort has given a boost to WITH HOLISTIC THINKING
fulfill the aspirations of the middle class. According to experts associated with management
Taxation has been reduced rapidly due to and the economic sector, the middle class can be
GST, income tax has also been reduced. Linking divided into three categories. The aspirational middle
cooperative banks with the Reserve Bank, in itself, class, upper middle class, and middle class. .
is a guarantee of keeping the money of middle- Although the aspirational middle class is
class families safe. The reforms that have taken economically weak and faces a lot of uncertainties
place in the MSME sector and the agriculture in daily life, it aspires to a better standard of living.
sector are directly benefiting working middle-class It is greatly influenced by TV, radio, newspapers as
families. Due to these reforms, traders and small well as social media and the consumption pattern
entrepreneurs are getting the benefit of special of the high-income group.
funds worth thousands of crores. The power This class has benefited from government
and energy of the common Indian are powering schemes in urban and rural areas. These schemes
Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. The middle-class include Direct Benefit Transfer (eg, PM Kisan
today has the power to turnaround things. If any Yojana), financial inclusion (JAM Trinity), LPG
one section which is entitled to get the biggest subsidy, affordable housing, construction of
benefit from the social planning initiative for ease toilets on a large scale, micro-health insurance,
of living, then it has to be middle-class families. Be and micro-pension schemes. This class has also
it cheap internet or cheap smartphones or the low benefited from the expansion of employment in

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