In his seven years as prime minister, Narendra Modi is credited to have introduced some long-awaited reforms in the country. However, with four years still remaining in his second term, his government faces a plethora of challenges as well. If we look at the achievements of the Narendra Modi government, India's respect has increased not only in the country but across the world. There are lots of big decisions that were taken by Modi Ji in his tenure of working.
The issue of new Goods and Service Tax (GST) and upper caste reservation in India were pending for a long time. After three years of coming to power, the Modi government got the GST passed by the Parliament and it came into force in the country from July 1, 2017. This was the biggest step towards tax reform in the country. The purpose of implementing GST is the One Nation-One Tax After the implementation of GST, the price of the product has become the same in every state and the central government pays the tax to the states for their share.
The demand for upper caste reservation was going on in the country for a long time, but no government put a hand. In January 2019, the last time of its first term, the Modi government decided to give 10 percent reservation to the upper caste community on economic grounds. This upper caste reservation bill was passed by both the houses and put into legal practice.
The Modi government took the most historic decision regarding Jammu and Kashmir, which has been its priority since the days of Jan Sangh. Along with taking the step of making Article 370 ineffective in Jammu and Kashmir, the work of dividing the state into two parts was also done during this tenure. President Ram Nath Kovind approved the proposal to abrogate Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh into two unions territories.
After this decision of the Modi government, one country, one legislation and one symbol has been implemented in Kashmir. Along with making Article 370 ineffective, the Modi government further tightened the Anti-Terrorism Act by amending the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Under this, any person can now be declared a terrorist, which was already done in many countries
Its origin in the Nirmal Gram mission under Raghuvansh Prasad Singh led rural development ministry of the Manmohan Singh government, the Swachh Bharat campaign is one of the big socio-political achievements of the Modi government. PM Modi's personal push in his speeches from the ramparts of the Red Fort and televised events has given the Swachh Bharat campaign a new dimension.
He is the first prime minister to have successfully conveyed to the public that cleanliness has a direct correlation with their health status and economic well-being. The toilet-construction program under the Swachh Bharat campaign to make India an open-defecation-free (ODF) country played a significant part in the Modi government being voted back to power with a greater majority.
Muslim women took the step of getting rid of triple talaq. The Modi government got the 'Muslim Women's Protection of Marriage Rights Bill-2019' passed from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to ban triple talaq. Giving triple talaq has become a legal offense since August 1, 2019. The Modi government implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act on January 10, 2020.
With this law, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, and Jews living in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries can get Indian citizenship. There were protests across the country regarding the changes made in this law, in which many people also lost their lives. Muslim women took to the streets and agitated against this law. Despite this, the government did not take its steps.
Prime Minister Modi ruled out nationwide lockdown as a measure to curb the Covid-19 pandemic, urging states as well to ensure that lockdowns are only chosen as the last resort. In his address to the nation on the coronavirus disease situation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the nation has fought against the coronavirus pandemic with discipline and patience and must continue to do so.
The government expanded its vaccination strategy, opened it up for all above the age of 18 years starting India is vaccinating people at a world record pace and we will continue this with even greater momentum. 'Samarthya, Sansadhan and Seva Bhaav', urging the vaccine manufacturers to continuously scale up their production capacity
On November 8th, 86% of India's currency was nullified in an effort to clean out "black money" and "counterfeit notes"; This effort resulted in a massive disruption to the existing social, political, and economic functions of the world's second-largest emerging market. As a result of this catastrophic move, 3 lakh crore rupees in national income was lost; a conservative estimate given the informal cash-based economy accounts for nearly 50% of GDP or 65.25 lakh crore rupees.
Some bank managers grew rich from the haircuts they took on people's hard-earned money, quickly forming a sophisticated and organized money laundering racket. Meanwhile, 115 people died as a direct result of the 'note-bandi' almost all were poor. Even after the supportive mainstream media declared demonetization a failure. PM Modi has still not been able to bring himself to condole with their bereaved families or pay them any compensation for the loss of in many cases, their primary breadwinners.
In the Narendra Modi government, the Indian Army demonstrated tremendous might. This showed that India's defense power is no less than any developed country in the world. Along with this, the government also gave a message that we are also not behind in taking tough decisions. So Through surgical and airstrikes, it was told that India is one of the world's professional armies in modern warfare along with conventional warfare.
After the Uri terrorist attack, on 28 September 2016, half of the world was sleeping and the Special Forces of the Indian Army was giving a befitting reply to the nefarious designs of Pakistan. Indian commandos attacked and destroyed the launch pads of terrorists in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. After this there was a terrorist attack in Pulwama, however, the Indian Air Force gave a befitting reply to Pakistan with the Balakot airstrike on 26 February. Indian soldiers had destroyed the hideouts of the terrorists by entering the border of Pakistan.
China had always been a challenge for India but previously it refrained from asserting itself on the borders so blatantly. That left the previous central governments post-Nehru dealing with Pakistan as the biggest foreign policy challenge. The Chinese challenge looms over the Modi government. China is challenging India on the borders, in the neighborhood, and also in potential markets for Indian businesses. The border challenge is immediate.
The soldiers of India and China are in a faceoff at multiple friction points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The situation is particularly worrisome in eastern Ladakh. Soldiers have died in a physical fight for the first time in decades. Shots have been for the first time, again, in several decades. So diplomacy does not (yet) seemed to have worked unlike in 2017, when PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping offered to promise a new era of friendship. However, China is the biggest international or foreign policy challenge to PM Modi.
The government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken many good steps in the direction of public welfare. On 28 August 2014, the Modi government had announced the Jan Dhan Yojana to connect the people of the country with banking. Accounts of 31.31 crore people were opened under this scheme. Banks in the country had done the work of opening. The accounts for the underprivileged people by setting up camps and connecting them with banking facilities. So the Modi government had started the Ujjwala scheme to enable the poor of the country to cook on the gas stove. Under this scheme, free cooking gas was given to poor families living in rural areas.
In the direction of providing Pucca roof to every house, the Modi government has set a target of construction of one crore houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in 2018, which is to be completed in 2022. Under this scheme of the Modi government. So financial help is being given by the government for pucca houses in both rural and urban areas.
