5. Polio Eradication
Earlier than Covid-19 jabs entered our lives, Polio and pox jabs had been a part of our lives since childhood. On twenty fourth February 2012, the World Well being Group (WHO) eliminated India from the listing of “endemic international locations with energetic poliovirus transmission” when India registered its final Polio case on thirteenth January 2011. Although India is a signatory to world agreements to eradicate polio since 1988, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the well being ministry strove exhausting, since taking workplace in 2004, to make India Polio free.
6. Proper to Data Act (RTI)
A monumental invoice handed by each homes of Parliament, the Proper to Data Act was aimed to carry the citizen and authorities nearer and make the federal government extra clear in sharing info with its residents. “The fundamental object of the Proper to Data Act is to empower the residents, to advertise transparency and accountability within the working of the Authorities, to comprise corruption, and to reinforce folks’s participation within the democratic course of thereby making our democracy work for the folks in an actual sense”.
The requested info is timebound and is required to answer expeditiously or inside thirty days by a authorities entity below the purview of the legislation. The act got here into power on 12-October-2005 and redefined the method of data dissemination when a citizen can demand info from the federal government on issues in regards to the nation, state, or public providers.
7. Particular Financial Zones (SEZ) Act 2005
Receiving the assent of the President of India on the twenty third June 2005, the Particular Financial Zones (SEZ) Act aimed to offer for the institution, growth, and administration of the Particular Financial Zones for the promotion of exports. Earlier than the GST period, India had acknowledged the necessity to arrange devoted export promotion zones to encourage items export to different international locations for invaluable overseas change with the primary Export Processing Zone (EPZ) mannequin in selling exports, with Asia’s first EPZ arrange in Kandla in 1965.
Manmohan Singh conceptualized to arrange Particular Financial Zones with tax holidays to encourage commerce and business to fabricate and export items. Inviting a less complicated course of with a ‘single window clearance system’, the act aimed to make stronger the burgeoning Indian financial system.
8. Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Scheme (NREGA) Act 2005:
The Manmohan Singh authorities launched the revolutionary initiative, Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Scheme (MGNREGA) that grew to become legislation on 2nd February 2006 aspiring to make use of rural India for a set variety of 100 days for particular wages in a monetary 12 months.
The invoice inspired the dual advantages of rural employment and rural infrastructure growth with its launch in 200 districts initially and its success prompted the federal government to increase this system to extra 130 districts in 2007. Manmohan Singh in his remarks on the NREGA mentioned “The Mahatma Gandhi NREGA story in numbers is a narrative price telling…. the scheme scores excessive on inclusiveness…no welfare scheme in latest reminiscence has caught the creativeness of the folks as a lot as NREGA has”, Singh mentioned alluding to the truth that the act redefined rural infrastructure tasks like roads, wells, canals, bridges within the villages and talukas.
