Corruption was seen as essential part of govt before: PM
Corruption was viewed as an essential part of government before 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday and asserted that India saw a sea change in the last eight years due to the BJP-led dispensation’s zero-tolerance towards graft.
At a rally in Shimla’s Ridge Maidan to mark the eighth anniversary of becoming prime minister, Modi said, “Now our borders are more secure than they were before 2014.”
He said after coming to power, his government pruned nine crore fake names from the list of beneficiaries of various schemes.
“Be it Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or scholarship or any other scheme, we have eradicated the scope of corruption through direct transfer of benefits. “We have transferred over Rs 22 lakh crore to the bank accounts of beneficiaries of various schemes through direct benefit transfer,” the Prime Minister said.
He claimed that poverty was on the decline in the country and even the international
agencies were admitting it.
Modi said that before 2014, there was news about various scams but now his government’s
development schemes and zero-tolerance against corruption are discussed. Before 2014, corruption was viewed as an essential part of government, he alleged.
About his government’s measures to combat the Covid pandemic, the prime minister said nearly 200 crore vaccine doses have been administered in India so far.
India exported COVID vaccines to various countries and Himachal Pradesh’s Baddi industrial unit played a vital role in manufacturing those jabs, he told the rally.
“Now India extends a hand of friendship not under compulsion but to help others as was done by providing Covid vaccines to several countries,” the prime minister added.