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esolving the problems left in these regions as legacies of long
Congress misrule.
We have finally left behind our years of stagnation and slow economic
growth that marked most of the first fifty years of our independence. A
GDP growth rate of 8%, which our opponents had cynically derided as
"Mungeri Lal ke haseen sapne", has become real and will be exceeded,
despite the country having faced a string of natural calamities. Last
year, our efficient and effective management, of severe drought
situation in fourteen States, was without precedent. Prices of essential
commodities remain under control.
Agricultural production will surpass all previous records. Our forex
reserves exceed the $ 110 billion mark.
Many areas of India's manufacturing sector, earlier written off by
critics, have now attained global competitiveness. The past five years
have not only brought pride to the "Made in India" label, but have also
made "Served from India" the first choice of global companies. This
sunrise sector has generated new employment. This new offshoot of
the Knowledge Economy complements India's globally recognized
strengths in software exports, which have grown more than five times
in the last five years to cross Rs. 48,000 crore.
Poor and inadequate infrastructure, which was the debilitating legacy of
the Congress years, has been replaced by a world-class infrastructure
for India, built by Indians, in India. We have set in motion what the
Prime Minister has aptly termed as a "Connectivity Revolution".
Telecom connectivity, Internet connectivity, highway connectivity, and
rural roads connectivity are just the initial, visible successes of this
revolution. We are determined to replicate these successes in other
critical areas of infrastructure power, railways, airports, ports,
irrigation, etc. where bottlenecks have severely constrained economic
growth and employment generation.
The past five years has seen a huge boom in housing construction. We
have over-fulfilled our promise, made in 1999, of facilitating
construction of twenty lakh new houses each year. We take pride in the
fact that the Vajpayee Government built more houses for the rural poor
under the Indira Awaas Yojana in the last five years than the Congress
or Congress-supported governments did in the previous fourteen years
since the inception of the scheme.
"Our common manifesto in the 1999 elections was called, 'An Agenda
For a Proud, Prosperous India'. Today, India is more prosperous than
ever before. There is greater pride, hope, and self-confidence among
Indians than ever earlier. Today, India stands tall on the international
stage, with greater prestige and recognition."
Creating one crore additional employment opportunities a year was an
important promise contained in our 1999 manifesto. We have
substantially fulfilled that promise. Between 2000-2003, 82 lakh
employment and self-employment opportunities were created on
average each year. The Rs. 1,000-crore Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar
Yojana, started by our Government, is the biggest food-for-work
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