The government wants to provide housing and electricity to everyone by 2022, three years beyond its current tenure

The Narendra Modi government seems to have shifted its focus from 2019 and is now looking beyond it. Some of the initiatives are now aligned to be completed by 2022.

One need not read too much into the 2022 goal, simply because these are government programmes and it does not necessarily have to be the BJP that must meet those commitments. Any party or alliance that romps home in 2019 will have to tackle it.

Prime minister Narendra Modi said in March that the assembly election results in which BJP won in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand – and later went on to form the government in Goa and Manipur -- are a foundation for a “New India”. He asked people to take a pledge to build it by 2022, which was three years beyong his government’s current tenure.

Let us take a quick look at the government efforts that have a target of being completed five years hence.

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana: This is only for urban areas. The scheme does not apply to rural areas, leaving out a huge chunk of people.

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