UPA - 10 Year Rule - Claimed Achievements and Criticism

Ten years of UPA: The achievements and failures - Rajya Sabha TV
6 Jan 2014
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Interview of Jairam Ramesh in Livemint 30 Jan 2014

Top Five Achievements of UPA
1. 7.8% growth rate in 10 year period. Growth deceleration only in last few years.
2. Social agenda deepened with resources generated by growth.
3. Unprecedented resource devolution to states and panchayats.
4. Rights based approach bringing about legal entitlements as opposed to programmes.
5. We defined India's place in the world, India's place in the regional economy and India's place in the world economy.


Communist leaders like Sitaram Yechury warned the Congress before 2009 not to become growth hawks and create social problems. Today, there is very high inflation and deceleration in growth. Congress mismanaged economy to push growth when it should not have done. At that growth helped rich people to become more rich.

Social agenda did not culminate with positive numbers. The misfortune of 60 years of Congress rule is that positive claims are not being done on social welfare.

Rights based approach instead of programme based has probably made government unaccountable. A programme needs benefits which can be evaluated subsequently. A rights based approach results in a crisis situation wherein people in positions are responding to comply with the law.
NREGA - MGNREGA - India - Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Projects


Six achievements of the UPA 2 By Sunil Rajguru
Jan 14, 2014
http://www.sify.com/news/six-achievements-of-the-upa-2-news-columns-oboh0ijjiac.html

India's success story under the UPA
Jan 13,2014
Priyanka Chaturvedi is a blogger, columnist and is on the panel of spokespersons of the All India Congress Committee.
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/standpoint-indias-success-story-under-the-upa-1950057

Failing to build on success
January 6, 2014
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/c-p-chandrasekhar/failing-to-build-on-success/article5545764.ece

Failures and successes of four years of UPA-II
ET Bureau May 23, 2013,
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-23/news/39475710_1_upa-government-power-lines-upa-ii