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Empowering Rural India Cover Story

SC-ST and OBC classes are top priorities

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India can definitely develop. India can
SC and ST entrepreneurs receives bank loans and
remove poverty. And the basis behind my
business facilities under Stand Up India.
belief is that it has been revealed in the
report of NITI Aayog that in just five years,
thirteen and a half crore people in India have
come out of poverty. Other international
agencies are also saying that extreme
poverty in India is on the verge of ending.
That is, the policies made by the country
in the last 9 years, the decisions taken are
taking the country in the right direction. The
development of the country can happen
only when the intention is clear, the policy
n 60% ministers are from SC, ST or OBC category in the is right, there is a suitable policy to bring
present central government.
meaningful change in the country.
n Reservation of All India Quota seats in Medical
Education for OBCs and EWS.
-Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
n The National Commission for Backward Classes was
given constitutional status.
n 80% small and marginal farmers getting advantages
from PM-Kisan are mostly from SC, ST and OBC
across six states: Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya
category.
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, and Odisha. Even
n 71% farmers covered under PM Fasal Bima Yojana from
then, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said in an
SC, ST and OBC category. interaction with the villagers, "Talking to you gave
45.45% 58% me a sense of your energy, respect, and trust that
I am feeling. Such a big crisis as Corona, in front
of which the whole world shook, suffered, but you
houses allotted to SCs of the scholarship
and STs under PMAY recipients are from SC, stood firm. The way Corona has been fought in the
(Rural). ST and OBC category. villages of India; it has also given a big lesson to
the cities."

Social Justice and the Welfare of the Poor
Realising the pledges of 'Garib Kalyan' made by
More than half Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, several
40 Government have transformed the lives of the
of the beneficiary welfare schemes of the Central

around the world, poverty in India has decreased
crore Mudra village and the poor. According to reliable reports
loan recipients
rapidly. From bank accounts under Jan-Dhan
are SC, ST Yojana to smoke-free kitchens under PM Ujjwala
and OBC
Yojana, from toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission
entrepreneurs.
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