Not far away from the next general elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the schemes launched by the incumbent NDA dispensation at the Centre for their role in empowering the poor without any prejudice. The PM named some like Ujjawala, PMAY, Saubhagya, Swachcch Bharat Mission while adding the latest Ayushman Bharat he launched on Sunday from Jharkhand.
The Prime Minister opening his address in local dialect Nagpuri and remembering the land of great sons of the soil remained critical of the previous regimes, particularly of the Congress while accusing them of discrimination in implementing welfare measures.
“All the schemes we have launched have been empowering to the poor. For the first time any Government is treating the poor not as vote bank based on their caste, religion and regional identity. For the last 40-50 years, the Governments have been using public funds to garner vote bank. We have shunned the path and I don’t want the country to return to that again,” said the Prime Minister after inaugurating the universal health insurance scheme hailed critically as ‘Modicare’.
With the rollout of the Centre’s flagship scheme which has been renamed as PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government aims to provide healthcare facilities to over 10 crore families covering urban and rural poor.
