What Worked...

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana: The last batch of 19,000 villages gets electricity; the next plan is to connect the remaining 3.8 crore households

PM Ujjwala Yojana; 3.6 crore below poverty line households have got LPG connections; the target is to reach eight crore households by 2020

Road connectivity: Construction of national highways touches an all- time high of 10,000 km in 2017/ 18 ( 28 km a day). The earlier record was 8,231 km in 2016/ 17. A total of 24,800 km roads planned in Phase I of the Bharatmala project Access to banks: Nearly 32 crore new bank accounts opened, all connected with mobiles. Direct benefit transfers now account for more than half the social sector expenditure. The government claims 15 per cent savings in expenditure due to this

Skills India, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana: The reach of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra extended to all districts. Disbursements under Mudra since the scheme started in 2015/ 16 amount to

` 5 lakh crore