Progress of Social Schemes by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Updated Jan 27, 2019 11:18 am

Jan 27, 2019

The numbers show that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's social schemes have progressed very well even though they also present future challenges.

The following table created by Dr. Anit Mukherjee who is an adjunct fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS and a policy fellow with the Center for Global Development. For complete article, click here

Name	Program Activity	Announced	Target	Latest numbers (GoI)	Independent Validation
Aadhaar	Biometric ID number for Indian residents	Aug 2014	1.33 billion	1.20 billion	More than 90 percent of India’s population is covered. Source: State of Aadhaar Report 2017-18.
Jan Dhan Scheme	Opening bank accounts	Aug 2014	210.6 million	210.6 million	82 percent of Indians over age 15 have a bank account. Source: World Bank Global Findex Database 2017.
Swachh Bharat	Household toilet building	Oct 2014	110 million (2019)	91.8 million (98.7 percent of rural households covered)	N/A
Ujjwala LPG scheme	LPG cooking gas for rural households	May 2016	50 million (2019)	60.7 million	Program well targeted; 90 percent genuine beneficiaries. Source: MicroSave.
Saubhagya	Household electricity connection	Sep 2017	24.9 million (Rural)	24.4 million (as of January 17, 2019)	N/A
PM Awaas Yojana	Affordable housing	Jun 2015	Demand driven – not specified	Urban Sanctioned: 6.88 million Completed: 1.36 million (As of January 7, 2019)	N/A

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