Business Today

WORK IN PROGRESS

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A total of 30,000 km highways built in four years; projects for nearly 35,000 km have been awarded

Agricultur­e income: In 2015/ 16, the average agricultur­e household generated income of ` 96,703; work in progress to take it to ` 219,724 by 2022/23, tough task considerin­g poor farm sector growth over the years

Health Care: Universal healthcare in the works

Jobs: Nearly

` 22,000 crore spent on skills annually, but training 450 million people in the next five years will be a huge task

Power: Demandsupp­ly gap reduced from 17 hours daily to less than five hours but giving 24X7 power to all households requires more reforms. The base load is sorted but management of peak load continues to be a big challenge along with affordabil­ity. GST: Implementa­tion from July 1, 2017, but matching of invoices, timely disbursal of dues and seamless flow of data is a challenge

Railway Reforms: Restructur­ing of the Railway Board has started. Structural change will take at least six- seven years. The big ticket project, Dedicated Freight Corridor DFC, will come by the end of 2019, Bullet train by 2022

Bank NPAs: With more than ` 11 lakh crore nonperform­ing assets, cleaning up of bank books will not be easy

Smart Cities: A total of 99 cities selected. After SPV formation and financial closure, work has started on ground, but will take more than 3- 4 years to show results

SKILLING: Every year, around one crore people are being trained

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