The Jan Dhan Yojana, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and rural electrification that has provided electricity to all villages of India are a few of the flagship government schemes. If one goes by the headline numbers, the record looks very impressive on most counts. Nonetheless, the government’s overall record on flagship schemes, despite the caveats, appears more impressive than its macro-economic record. There are questions about the rural electrification numbers as well. Finally, in some schemes such as the rural roads programme, while there has been impressive progress, the rate of progress is not unprecedented.

Source: Mint May 23, 2018 02:26 UTC