Our calculations made for the upcoming Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh shows people are in the favour of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , Union Health Minister J P Nadda said here on Monday.
Addressing a press conference , the Minister said that development cannot be equated with polls. " We have a commitment towards the country and that is why we are involved in development of the country".
He said that there had been complexity in the farmer related issues and it takes time for them to be resolved. The Government is trying to improve the lot of the farmers.
The BJP Government at the Centre has worked towards reducing unemployment, bringing down inflation and bring back black money stashed abroad, Nadda said.
Persons who have acquired medical qualifications abroad have to appear in an exam again when they come back to India.We would be introducing a bill in the parliament where a person going abroad for medical studies have to appear in NEET exam first in India and qualify.
He said that the the Government at Centre had brought a revolutionary change in the banking and aviation sector.
Citing achievements of the Central Government in banking sector, he said the ‘Jan-Dhan’ scheme had opened bank accounts of the poor and the deprived and now they are directly getting the benefits of Government schemes. The funds are directly transferred to their accounts without any interference of middlemen. This has brought a revolutionary change in the banking sector, he claimed.
Asserting that the country has now attained the number three position in aviation market across the globe said no one had even dreamt that a person in ‘Hawaii Sleepers’ would be able to avail the services in flights, he said.
Talking about health sector, Nadda said the Government opened 1.5 lakh Wellness centers all over the country where the poor would get the facility of five types of tests free of cost. The government also started scheme for concessional rate medicines to poor, he said.
He also claimed that the ‘Swachchhata Mission’ has now taken a form of revolution after awareness was created all over the country.
Regarding infrastructure development, Nadda claimed that the Central Government had laid a wide road network across the country and has attained feather in its cap by dedicating to the public the longest tunnel Chenani-Nashri and largest bridge in Brahmaputra the Dhola Sadia in Assam.