More than 360 million LED bulbs have been distributed across the country which contributes to 47 million kWh savings of energy per years as well as CO2 emission reduction of almost 39 million tons per year.
Installed solar energy capacity has grown by over 1,900% since 2014 and India's overall green energy installed capacity now stands at 164 GW. Prime Minister Modi's LIFE (Lifestyle for Environment) mission has given a global template to mitigate climate change.
But how and why has this been possible?
A question that can arise looking at these numbers is how has Modi been able to pull off such humongous feats in the past 8 years? Two paradigm changing philosophies by Prime Minister Modi have fundamentally altered the Indian governance landscape.
First is Modi's model of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' (Together, for Everyone's Growth, with Everyone's Trust). This may sound simplistic and anodyne at first glance but that has had profound impact in the way India is now governed.
Before Modi, for sixty years after independence, the governance and delivery mechanisms were geared to deliver for specific groups, depending on the inclinations of the government of the day. Those groups could be religious, regional, caste or class driven or any other such construct.
The priority was to target the blocks that voted for the then ruling party without focusing too much on other groups. It was the result of such partisan approach that in 2014 only 58% people had bank accounts, only 38% had clean sanitation access, more than 18,000 villages and more than 40 million homes were still without electricity connection, and similar other lopsided parameters across a range of basic services.
What 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas' does is that instead of prioritising vote bank blocks, it focuses on delivery for everyone. It also goes with Modi's personal branding of delivering big on numbers.
The number will be big at a world scale, the percentage coverage will be 100% only if it focuses on delivery for all. It is this fundamental shift in mindset that has enabled these humongous achievements.
Second, is Modi's model of 'Jan Bhagidari' (Participative Governance). It is this participatory model which motivated the country to observe a voluntary lockdown, without mandate or coercion, on a mere call by Modi. The same model enabled India to vaccinate almost a billion people without any mandate.
Participative governance builds stake for everyone to contribute in their own way for the nation to succeed and then the success is also of anyone rather than of any one party or family.
In sum, in the last 8 years, Modi has given a model of governance that can serve as a case model for other countries in a democratic set up to chart their path of growth and development even while navigating diversity and entrenched challenges.
In the year 2022, India's 75th year of Independence, one can assert with some sense of confidence that India has finally presented a model of good governance which is completely home-grown.
..........concluded.
- Akhilesh Mishra in Op-Eds on Opinion.
My take
Narendra Modi's win in the 2014 General Elections was sensational, with the BJP getting absolute majority. The opposition and the Congress, in particular, had doubted about the way he'd conduct the country's foreign policy because of lack of experience and not to forget, there was an existent ban on his entry into the US - mischievously put in place by the Congress, through their lackeys in the American Senate, citing the Gujarat riots of 2002, post-Godra.
Despite the opposition, he was able to steer landmark bills in Parliament and without majority for his party in the Rajya Sabha, like the abolition of the triple talaaq bill, scrapping of Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution - thereby knocking off the special privileges of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and reducing it to three Union Territories of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh! The combined opposition, Pakistan and the toothless, mischief mongering trio of Farooq Abdullah, his son, Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti - of suspect loyalty towards India but enjoying all privileges of the state, like their personal security - were dumbstruck! The All Party Hurriyat Conference was in tatters and consigned into the dustbin of history!
Once the Supreme Court's ruling on the Ram Janmabhoomi at Ayodhya was announced, the construction of the Sri Ram temple was begun in right earnest, with the Prime Minister, himself, conducting the 'bhoomi poojan'.
Surgical strikes by the Indian Armed forces in PoK and by the IAF at Balakot, deep in Pakistan territory were other major accomplishments.
He won the 2019 General Elections in a thumping manner and with a greater majority.
The amendment to the CAA was yet another accomplishment but the very same fifth columnists tried to torpedo it by having a foreign-funded, prolonged agitation at Shaheen Bagh, in Delhi. Ruckus - in the form of Delhi riots - was created during the then US President Donald Trump's visit! Even these were overcome.
The three farm bills were agitated against by supposedly, farmers from Punjab, along with their tractors - but as has been brought out subsequently - had an overdose of Khalistani elements and the rogue, Rakesh Tikait - for almost a year. The PM had overcome their defiance by going on national television saying that the bills were being withdrawn. The reality is that the actual farmers of Punjab, Haryana and other states now want the farm bills back! The ruckus caused by the agitators at the Red Fort, during the Republic Day celebrations, can never be forgiven by the people of this country.
It had become a ploy of the entire opposition to disrupt the proceedings of Parliament - session after session - to stop the government from doing meaningful legislative business.
He makes it a point to interact with the Indian diaspora in every foreign country that he has visited and the image of this nation has been enhanced. The leaders of the world look up to him to provide leadership and that was most visible during the days of the pandemic, Covid-19!
It is despite all the hurdles, cited above, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been able to provide good governance to his people. His sincerity and devotion towards his country is understood by the people of India and therefore, he has a special place in their hearts!
Tailpiece.
Got up at 6, the chores and was ready by 10.
It was a quiet Thursday.
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