BJP Sankalp Patra: Key takeaways for the Economy

Today BJP released its Sankalp Patra (manifasto) in New Delhi for upcoming  2019 general elections.

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 a􀄏er 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

Youth and Education

• Aim to cover all the secondary schools under Operation Digital Board.
• Enable investment of ₹ 1 lakh crore in higher education through Revitalising of Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE).
• Establish at least one Atal Tinkering Lab in every block.
• Under a new 'Entrepreneurial Northeast' scheme, provide financial support to MSMEs and for employment generation in northeastern states.

Health

• Establish 1.5 lakh health and wellness centres under Ayushman Bharat.

Good Governance

• Ensure the availability of banking services within 5 kms of every individual.
• Achieve complete digitisation and modernisation of courts.
• Promote and increase digital transactions.
• Ensure end-to-end digitisation of government processes.
• Enable digital delivery of government services.

Inclusive Development

• Expand the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan scheme to cover all small shopkeepers.
• Ensure comprehensive social security coverage for all unorganised labourers including insurance, pension etc.

Women

• Work towards increasing female workforce participation rate.
• Cultural Heritage
• Complete the development of all projects under Swadesh Darshan, PRASAD and HRIDAY schemes.
• Work towards digitisation of collections in all national museums.