India's Modi will struggle to keep promises by 2019
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Subject
Evaluation of the Modi government's performance half-way into its term.
Significance
Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014 on a wave of popular enthusiasm. His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gained the first single-party parliamentary majority for 25 years as he promised to re-energise India's economic and social progress. Nearly half-way into his term, questions are being raised about his record thus far and the direction in which he is taking the country.
Impacts
- Modi's election pledge on job creation will not be fulfilled.
- Water disputes between state authorities will intensify in coming years.
- Some renewable energy goals will be met but coal dependence will not change until at least 2040.
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