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Promises, Claims and Reality On 28th February, 2016,  Prime Minister Narendra Modi  made  a  promise to ‘double farmers’  income’  (DFI) by 2022,  as  India completes 75 years of independence. The Ashok Dalwai Committee on DFI was set up on April 13, 2016 with a claim to increase farmers’ income to Read more…

Claim “By the 75th year of India’s Independence – that is, by 2022 – all Indians will have houses of their own” – NarendraModi in 2014 Reality: As per a report published by the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN)in 2023,“A large section of the population in urban and rural Read more…

Claim: “… in the last ten years, holistic healthcare has been one of the top priorities of the government” Reality Ayushman Bharat- PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojana Under the Modi regime, there is basic shift in the health sector.  India’s National Health Policy based on WHO’s declaration to achieve ‘Health for All’ Read more…

Promise/Claims: “No person should go to bed hungry” – This PM Narendra Modi’s promise on ensuring Food and Nutrition to all Indians. Reality: The POSHAN abhiyaan and ‘Anaemia Mukt Bharat’ campaigns were launched with the characteristic fanfare by the Modi government in 2018. However, anaemia among children under five increased Read more…

Promise: We will provide 2 crore new job each year– Narendra Modi in 2014 Reality: The number of fully employed persons in absolute numbers in 2024 is less than that in 2014.The number of people employed in 2022-23 was less than that in 2016-17 by 50.2 lakh in urban India Read more…

The Communist Party of India which played an important role in the liberation struggle of Mahe (Puducherry) which was under the rule of France, lost two precious lives on April 27, 1954 of  Comrade P.P. Ananthan and Comrade M. Achuthan. Although India was liberated from British rule in 1947, Mahe Read more…

Demand arrest of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh Press Release The following statement was released to the press by the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions today, i.e. on 8th May, 2023 Trade unions extend support to Wrestlers’ Agitation Demand arrest of Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh The Joint Platform of Central Read more…

The Central Government has issued an order dated 24th September, 2021 to dissolve the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) with effect from 1st October, 2021. Accordingly the OFB with its inter-dependent and inter-connected network of 41 Ordnance Factories would be converted, for the time being into seven separate companies registered under Read more…

The revised Public Sector Policy announced in the budget 2021-22 is fully oriented towards total Privatization of Public Sector Enterprises. It is no longer mere ‘divestment of equity’ of CPSUs. Now it is whole-hog privatization.  The Congress (I) Government led by Narasimha Rao with Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister started Read more…

The BJP government led by Modi recently unveiled a four year National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) claiming to garner Rs 6 lakh crore for infrastructure development. In reality,the NMP is aimed to hand over huge functional infrastructural assets of the country to private corporates and big business houses, including foreign MNCs. Read more…