Monday 8 April 2019

BJP manifesto highlights: Rs 25-trn agri push, pension for small traders

BJP manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elections promises Rs 25-trillion expenditure on rural economy. Small traders to be given pension benefits after 60 years of age
Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah (Photo: PTI)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its poll manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections 2019. BJP president Amit Shah highlighted the government’s achievements while Home Minister Rajnath Singh read out the key promises in the manifesto. He also headed the committee that drafted it.
Here are the key takeaways of the BJP’s manifesto for Lok Sabha elections 2019:
  • Agri loans available on credit cards up to Rs 1 lakh at zero per cent rate of interest
  • Collateral-free credit up to Rs 50 lakh for entrepreneurs
  • Promotion of Startups through creation of a ‘Seed Startup Fund’ of Rs 20,000 crore.
  • 10 per cent material procurement for the government by MSMEs having at least 50 per cent women in their workforce
  • Micro, small and medium enterprises to given Rs 1 trillion worth of credit by 2024.
  • A pucca house to every family who are either living in a kuchha house or have no access to housing by 2022.
  • Expand Ayushman Bharat to include all Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers
  • ‘Jal Jivan Mission’ to be launched to ensure piped water supply to every household in India by 2024
  • Double the number of MBBS doctors by 2024
  • Expenditure of up to Rs 25 trillion on rural economy
  • manifesto says it is committed to ensuring 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state Assemblies through a constitutional amendment.
  • Every Gram Panchayat to be connected through a high speed optical fibre network by 2022.
  • Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM KISAN) that provides Rs 6,000 a year to landholding farmers owning up to 2 hectares of land will be extended to all land-owning farmers irrespective of their landholdings.
  • manifesto also reiterates the party’s position for the abrogation of Article 370. Committed to scrap Article 35A

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