PM to protect hard-earned money |
From the opulent opera house and glitzy World Government Summit in Dubai to the massive Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat, India`s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made three speeches with pronounced pro-poor, pro-middle class tones, saying that the honest, hard-earned money of the country has been saved by the government through the use of technology and proactive decision making. Addressing the Indian community in Muscat ahead of his bilateral talks with Sultan Qaboos, Modi said that his government had saved a total of about Rs 1.4 lakh crore in four schemes over the last three years. Through Direct Benefit Transfers, the government had saved about Rs 57,000 crore, Modi said. Aadhaar saved Rs 56,000 crore were being sent to middlemen, to fake accounts. He has ended this game. He then cited LED electrification of households, which he said had contributed to savings of Rs 60,000 crore, and said Rs 12,000 crore each had been saved on account of fertilisers through policy intervention and renegotiating old loss-making oil pacts with countries like Qatar and Australia. To the cheering crowd of mostly blue-collar Indian workers, he spoke directly, and said that the remittances they sent, that money should be well spent… that`s their hard-earned, honest money, and should be honestly spent by the government.
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