New Delhi: Today BJP released its Sankalp Patra (manifasto) in New Delhi for upcoming 2019 general elections .The key takeawys are :
AGRICULTURE :
- Achieve the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022.
- Enable the creation of 10,000 new Farmer Producer Organizations.Ensure adequate market avenues for the realisation of MSP through e-NAM, GrAMs and Pradhan Mantri AASHA Yojana.
- Work towards ensuring that maximum farmers get income support under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana.
- Increase the cropped area under irrigation.
- Provide short -term new agriculture loans up to ₹ 1 lakh at 0% interest rate for 1-5 years on the condition of prompt repayment of the principal amount.
- Launch a pension scheme for small and marginal farmers to ensure social security aer 60 years of age.
- Work towards completing all irrigation projects under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayi Yojana.
- Increase the cropped area under irrigation.
- Work towards digitising land records.
- Strive to ensure all-weather connectivity for every village.
- Enable investment of ₹ 1 lakh crore in higher education through Revitalising of Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE).
- Ensure access to safe and potable drinking water for all households.
- Ensure a toilet in every household.
- Ensure 100% disposal of liquid waste and reuse of waste water.
- Work towards assisting the maximum number of shermen by ensuring the availability of storage and other infrastructure under a new ‘Matsya Sampada Yojana.
ECONOMY:
- Further improve India’s rank in ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking.
- Strive to ensure reduced tax rates, higher tax collection and greater compliance.
- Work towards ensuring a stable taxation regime..
- Establish National Traders’ Welfare Board and create a National Policy for Retail Trade for the growth of retail business.
- Work towards improving GDP share from manufacturing sector.
- Work towards doubling the total exports.
- Work towards creating a single-window compliance and dispute resolution mechanism for MSMEs.
- Strive to ensure reduced tax rates, higher tax collection and greater compliance.
- Work towards ensuring a stable taxation regime.
- In order to incentivise compliance of law and ease of doing business, amend the Companies Act to impose civil liability for technical and procedural defaults of a minor nature, thus unclogging the majority of cases from courts.
INFRASTRUTURE:
- Ensure the LPG gas cylinder connection to all poor rural households.
- Ensure 100% electrification of all households.
- Ensure every citizen has access to a bank account.
- Double the length of national highways.
- Achieve 175 GW of renewable energy capacity.
- Strive to achieve 10% blending of ethanol in petrol.
- Ensure the supply of piped cooking gas in major Tier 1 and 2 cities.
- Aim to increase the number of operational airports to 150 for better air connectivity.
- Increase port capacity to 2,500 MTPA.
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises:
- Under the Credit Guarantee Scheme, loans worth Rs. 1 lakh crore to be provided to the SME enterprises by 2024.
- National Traders’ Welfare Board will be established and a National Policy for Retail Trade for the growth of retail businesses will be unveiled.
- To protect the interests of small traders, an accident insurance of 10 lakh rupees to all those traders registered under GST will be provided.
- On the lines of Kisan credit card, a scheme to give merchant credit card to registered merchants will be unveiled.
RAILWAYS :
- Work towards equipping all main railway stations with Wi-Fi facility.
- Ensure conversion of all viable rail tracks to broad gauge by 2022.
- Ensure the supply of piped cooking gas in major Tier 1 and 2 cities.
- Make all efforts to ensure electrification of all railway tracks by 2022.
- Start developing smart railway stations across India.
- Complete the dedicated freight corridor project by 2022