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Meritocracy India International 3 October 2015 6 of lakhs of Central and State pensioners who had to travel long distances to render life certificates in person, or forego pension for months. A new Employment Provident Fund had to be opened with every change of job, resulting in harassment and financial losses for the citizens. ElectoMeritocrat Modi initiated the allotment of a permanent EPF number to each employee, which will remain unchanged with change of job. Next, the harassment of standing in long queues at railway stations for unreserved tickets was ended by starting Universal Ticketing Services. Interviews for junior government jobs have been abolished. Sab ka sath, achche din have many dimensions. Toll plazas : Toll bottlenecks, with long queues of trucks, have caused serious damage to economy. A study carried out by Transport Corporation of India and IIM Kolkata revealed a whopping all-India loss of Rs. 60,000 crore every year on account of delays at check posts. Modi Government abolished more than 200 toll plazas in the first six months, while GST legislation is aimed at doing away with toll plazas all over India, making India one big hassel-free market for all. Taming of Prices : “Taming prices a success story for the Modi government” reported The Times of India on 21 May, 2015. End to the 'Inspector raj' : Factories and business premises have st been permitted self certifications and to file returns online. This has put an end to the notorious 'inspector raj' which was misused to extort illegal money. Modi Government did this reform within two months of taking charge, in July 2014. Missing Children : Soon after becoming Prime Minister, Modi expressed his anguish publicly for the parents of missing children. He set in motion a nation-wide hunt. Police teams fanned out to various states and 227 missing children were restored to their parents by October 2014. The mission continues. his Mann Ki Baat on the All India Radio in January 2015, Prime Minister Modi spoke of the sufferings of drug and alcoholic addicts, and spelt out the policy : Drug Demand Reduction and Prevention. He also started the Helpline : 1800-11-0031 to assist the addicts, their suffering families and the communities. Modi and Road Safety of Indians : Moved by the bleeding to death of a youth in a road accident, Electo Meritocrat Prime Minister Modi set in motion Road Safety Policy and Action Plan which will include cashless treatment of road accident victims. Indian Refugees in India : Over 5000 Hindus who had fled Bangladesh because of religious persecution and denied citizenship rights for decades were given citizenship and were rehabilitated by Madhya Pradesh government, led by Modi's ruling party. The case for rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits has been taken up. (Thinker : Does doing yoga and pranayam every day, combined with sattavic diet, result in an energetic mind which is concerned with the welfare of all in India, in SAARC, and in the world ?). Girl Child Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has displayed great concern for the girl child. He launched a campaign Beti Bachao Beti Padhao at a big rally in Panipat, Haryana. As to the skewed sex-ratio, he asked at this rally : “Our mental illness is responsible for this. We give a lot of importance to boys. But for how long will we look at girls as 'paraya dhan' ?” In his Mann Ki Baat broadcast on All India Radio, he advocated selfie-with-daughter, and recommended the gift of a social security scheme to girls on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan festival. The BJP (with 110 million members) was galvanized to persuade brothers to gift a social security scheme to their sisters, during Raksha Bandan 2015. Modi's Personal Saving of Rs. 21 lakh donated for the girl-child On relinquishing the post of Gujarat's Chief Minister, Prime Minister Modi donated his personnel saving of Rs. 21 lakh for the creation of a Trust to help the education and self-employment of the girl-child of class IV employees of the State government. Drug and Alcohol Addicts : In

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