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Why Covid is a reality check for Modi’s flagship welfare schemes -Harish Damodaran

-The Indian Express

While 10.35 crore PM-JAY Cards have been issued since the launch of ‘the world’s largest health assurance scheme’ in September 2018, it has proved to be of little use in the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 303 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, more than the 282 it got in 2014. This return to power with a larger majority was significantly enabled by the various programmes undertaken during the Narendra Modi government’s first term for fulfilling the basic needs (“zindagi ki aavashyaktayen”) of ordinary people (“saamanya maanav”).

Modi’s tenure as prime minister has generally been marked by slowing growth — from 8 per cent in 2016-17 to 6.2 per cent, 5.9 per cent, 4.1 per cent and minus 6.5 per cent in the subsequent four years — and worsening terms of trade for agriculture. Rural wages, too, have grown just 4.8 per cent annually in nominal and 0.1 per cent in real (inflation-adjusted) terms over the last seven years, as against an average of 15.3 per cent and 5.1 per cent during 2007-08 to 2013-14.

But these negatives have been largely offset by the Modi government’s relative success at targeted delivery of benefits and asset creation through its flagship schemes.

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