5 Years of AAP Government in Delhi, a case why it should be re elected.
Elections are around in Delhi and the people of Delhi would choose its servants for the next 5 years on 8th February. The most interesting feature of the election festival is the opinion polls. And interestingly all them are suggesting a comfortable majority for the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party for a straight 3rd time to form the government .
Elections are around in Delhi and the people of Delhi would choose its servants for the next 5 years on 8th February. The most interesting feature of the election festival is the opinion polls. And interestingly all them are suggesting a comfortable majority for the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party for a straight 3rd time to form the government .
Why are the voters, according to these polls, resolved to to continue the batton of governance in the hands AAP. Is it because of the culture that they prefer to re elect the same government as was with Congress under shiela Dixit regime or any thing more to it. The opinion of the people on ground tells us why they prefer AAP.
Indian economy is, even after 73 years of Independence, not a facilitator but a provider in the form of Food, Education, Health and Employment and other basic needs for existence. The average population look upon the government for these facilities. And AAP has exactly done this. Lets examine the same in detail
1. Free & Quality Health Care system
2. Free & Quality Education system
3. Free Drinking water up to 20,000 liters
4. Electricity bills reduces to Half (from the previous govt) and recently announced Free Electricity up till 200 units
5. Installation of 3 lac CC Cameras across Delhi
6. Reduced corruption by 81% (Report of CVC (Chief Vigilance Commission, submitted in the Parliament)
7. Increased Revenue from 30,000cr to 60,000cr
Pollution
Could reduce Pollution by 25%
1) Out of the total 1,542 industries in the city, at least 1,457 had switched to CNG over the last one year.
2) Three (thermal) power plants were shut equalling 1,245 mw of generating capacity including Badarpur.
3) Green cover in the NCT of Delhi rose from 188.7 sq km in 2015 to 192. 4 sq km in 2017.
4) Dirty fuels like pet coke, furnace oil and coal were also banned.
5) A ban on 10-year-old trucks and environmental cess on them.
6) Reduction in the use of diesel generators due to 24*7 power.
Health - Low cost, highly efficient
Mohalla Clinics
1. Low Cost - to 75% (20lacs now instead of 5cr in previous govts) Housed in portacabins (can be dismantled any time, set up even in narrow, crowded, unauthorized slums, Air Conditioned, Mechanized Process Doctors consultation is done through an Tablet where in the concerned medical history is maintained in a server and thereby can be accessed from any where and by any doctor. Automatic Medicine Vendor Machine
2. Treated 1.25 lacs patients (Oct 31, 2019). 95% of the patients are treaded at this level and only 5% are referred to higher hospitals
3. Around 200 tests are free. (Previously these tests used to cost the govt Rs.100 but now it’s costs only Rs.15)
4. All the medicines (130) are free. Previously only 32% of the prescribed medicines use to free.
5. In Delhi, any state-resident who cannot get any treatment done within 30 days at a government hospital can receive cashless treatment for over 1,100 procedures at ‘empaneled private hospitals without any insurance intermediary’ (whereas Ayushman Bharat insurance plan is means-focused being applicable for the poor)
6. Increased savings Right from consultations to medicines to even major surgeries being free the savings of the average Delhiite has increased. Provides for ‘Preventive services’ which in mid to long run saves the health costs of a family
7. Savings to the Govt as well The cost of a single OPD (our patient department) in a Hospital is Rs.600 where as it is only Rs.100 in Mohalla clinic. So the govt has saved Rs.6cr straight away by treating 1.25 lacs patients in Mohalla Clinics. This in addition to the savings of Man hours, travelling expenses, loss of wages, pollution when a patient travels to the far away hospitals.
8. Healthy Family A family is healthy and happy when the mother of that family is healthy. In the Mohalla clinics 80% of the patients are women, Children and elderly people. This gives us the picture is a healthy family.
9. Largest Health network in the world in the words of Kejriwal “Delhi is spread over 1500 Km of which 500km is forest areas. The target of setting up 1 Mohalla clinic per KM tally the count to 1000 Mohalla clinics.” This makes the Delhi health care network the largest not only in India but the world as well.
10. People who appreciated the model includes A)Washington post which said it could be the solution for the U.S health care; B)Former UN Secretary Generals Kofi Annan & Ban Ki Moon; C) King William Alexander of Netherlands
11. Critics - Amartya Sen was nervous about the rise in budgets to accommodate free health care. Others said that the free bees will only burden the ex chequer and as result will compensated by taxing others. But as we see now the health care facilities are free; low set up cost for govt which attracted the praise of the world over. On the other hand the taxes in place increase actually were decreased and the income of Delhi has doubled from Rs.30,000 cr in 2015 to Rs.60,000cr in 2019.
2. Free & Quality Education system
3. Free Drinking water up to 20,000 liters
4. Electricity bills reduces to Half (from the previous govt) and recently announced Free Electricity up till 200 units
5. Installation of 3 lac CC Cameras across Delhi
6. Reduced corruption by 81% (Report of CVC (Chief Vigilance Commission, submitted in the Parliament)
7. Increased Revenue from 30,000cr to 60,000cr
Pollution
Could reduce Pollution by 25%
1) Out of the total 1,542 industries in the city, at least 1,457 had switched to CNG over the last one year.
2) Three (thermal) power plants were shut equalling 1,245 mw of generating capacity including Badarpur.
3) Green cover in the NCT of Delhi rose from 188.7 sq km in 2015 to 192. 4 sq km in 2017.
4) Dirty fuels like pet coke, furnace oil and coal were also banned.
5) A ban on 10-year-old trucks and environmental cess on them.
6) Reduction in the use of diesel generators due to 24*7 power.
Health - Low cost, highly efficient
Mohalla Clinics
1. Low Cost - to 75% (20lacs now instead of 5cr in previous govts) Housed in portacabins (can be dismantled any time, set up even in narrow, crowded, unauthorized slums, Air Conditioned, Mechanized Process Doctors consultation is done through an Tablet where in the concerned medical history is maintained in a server and thereby can be accessed from any where and by any doctor. Automatic Medicine Vendor Machine
2. Treated 1.25 lacs patients (Oct 31, 2019). 95% of the patients are treaded at this level and only 5% are referred to higher hospitals
3. Around 200 tests are free. (Previously these tests used to cost the govt Rs.100 but now it’s costs only Rs.15)
4. All the medicines (130) are free. Previously only 32% of the prescribed medicines use to free.
5. In Delhi, any state-resident who cannot get any treatment done within 30 days at a government hospital can receive cashless treatment for over 1,100 procedures at ‘empaneled private hospitals without any insurance intermediary’ (whereas Ayushman Bharat insurance plan is means-focused being applicable for the poor)
6. Increased savings Right from consultations to medicines to even major surgeries being free the savings of the average Delhiite has increased. Provides for ‘Preventive services’ which in mid to long run saves the health costs of a family
7. Savings to the Govt as well The cost of a single OPD (our patient department) in a Hospital is Rs.600 where as it is only Rs.100 in Mohalla clinic. So the govt has saved Rs.6cr straight away by treating 1.25 lacs patients in Mohalla Clinics. This in addition to the savings of Man hours, travelling expenses, loss of wages, pollution when a patient travels to the far away hospitals.
8. Healthy Family A family is healthy and happy when the mother of that family is healthy. In the Mohalla clinics 80% of the patients are women, Children and elderly people. This gives us the picture is a healthy family.
9. Largest Health network in the world in the words of Kejriwal “Delhi is spread over 1500 Km of which 500km is forest areas. The target of setting up 1 Mohalla clinic per KM tally the count to 1000 Mohalla clinics.” This makes the Delhi health care network the largest not only in India but the world as well.
10. People who appreciated the model includes A)Washington post which said it could be the solution for the U.S health care; B)Former UN Secretary Generals Kofi Annan & Ban Ki Moon; C) King William Alexander of Netherlands
11. Critics - Amartya Sen was nervous about the rise in budgets to accommodate free health care. Others said that the free bees will only burden the ex chequer and as result will compensated by taxing others. But as we see now the health care facilities are free; low set up cost for govt which attracted the praise of the world over. On the other hand the taxes in place increase actually were decreased and the income of Delhi has doubled from Rs.30,000 cr in 2015 to Rs.60,000cr in 2019.
Education
Govt allocated 26% of the budget to Education
22K New Class Rooms Constructed
Around 50 New Schools built
Pass % of the govt Schools increased from around 50-60% (National Average) to 96%. Whereas the Private school % is 94
Teachers are sent to Harvard, Singapore, IIMs for training
Excess Fees Refund
198 Schools have refunded Excess Fees to students in last 4 years in Delhi
No of Schools : 198
Amount Refunded : 32 crores+
No of Students benefited : 78,000
No of Schools : 198
Amount Refunded : 32 crores+
No of Students benefited : 78,000
Welfare
1. Increased Old age and Widow Pensions from Rs.1000 to Rs.2500
2. Theerth Yathra
3. Labour Welfare – doubled Minimum Wages from Rs.8K to 16K
Doorstep Service Delivery system
With 100 services
16lacs calls received till 2019
Success rate comparison with,
Office visit of applicants - 57%
Online - 45%
DSDS - 91%
Applications services wise - number wise
1. OBC Certificate - 21%
2. SC Certificate - 19%
3. Income certificate - 17%
4. License - 8%
5. Domicile - 5%
6. Marriage - 2.5%
These figures says a lot.
57% of the services are used by downtrodden sections - Social & Economic, of the society who neither have influence nor the money to get the work done.
delivered on 99.5% of doorstep service requests
Services success rate in comparison
Slum Development
Sewer lines in 830 slums.
Certificates of Residence
Kejriwal also distributed 65,000 certificates of residence proof to jhuggi dwellers which entitles them to a flat each in the vicinity of their existing habitation.
AAP provided permanent houses to over 5,000 jhuggi dwellers
Kejriwal also distributed 65,000 certificates of residence proof to jhuggi dwellers which entitles them to a flat each in the vicinity of their existing habitation.
AAP provided permanent houses to over 5,000 jhuggi dwellers
Economy of Delhi
Delhi budget doubled from 30,000crs in 2014 to 60,000 crs in 2019 Vs. an increase of just 5,000 crs from 25,000 in 2009 to 30,000 in 2014
The increase is in spite of Centre reducing the grant in aid to Delhi by 23%
How the income increased?
Revenues increased because of
1. Easier compliance of Tax
2. More money in the hands of lower income groups (saving from education, health, free power and water)
3. less wastage in public spending. Decrease in corruption
Revenues increased because of
1. Easier compliance of Tax
2. More money in the hands of lower income groups (saving from education, health, free power and water)
3. less wastage in public spending. Decrease in corruption
Electricity
Free electricity upto 200 units/month
The losses of Delhi Discom reduced from Rs.11, 000 crs to Rs.8000 crs (Rs.3000crs)
Water
Households who had access to water in 2014 - 58%
In 2019 - 93%
Contaminated water supply spots in,
2014 - 2300
2019 - 120
The Revenue of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) increased by 50% since 2015
Between 2012-13 and 2014-15, DJB's annual revenue was declining at the rate of 7 per cent per annum
1. Reduction in leakage and theft,
1. Reduction in leakage and theft,
2. Improving billing efficiencies
3. Installation of Flow Meters (increased the efficiency of water distribution; improved the quality of water provided at adequate pressure)
3. Installation of Flow Meters (increased the efficiency of water distribution; improved the quality of water provided at adequate pressure)
Transport & Infrastrucure
Delhi Metro corridors have increased from 173 km to 290 km in the last five years;
Farishtey Dilli Ke
3,000 lives of road accident victims have been saved through introduction of the ‘Farishtey Dilli Ke’ scheme in which good samaritans who take victims to hospital are honoured.
Vote share demographics
Migrants from UP, Bihar constitute about 30% of Delhi’s electorate
Source: Delhi Governance Survey, F/wk 22 Nov-3 Dec 2019.
Vote Share of Migrant workers in 2015 Elections
Vote Share of Migrant workers in 2015 Elections
Source: 2015 Post Poll
Vote choice of castes/communities in 2015 Delhi Assembly polls
How had Delhi’s voters assessed the performance of the Modi govt (MG) and the Kejriwal govt (KG) during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
Delhi Govt’s Year wise Priorities
