TIL Desk/National/Shimla/ Corruption was viewed as an essential part of government before 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday and asserted that India saw a sea of change in the last eight years due to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led dispensation’s zero-tolerance towards graft.
At the rally in Shimla’s Ridge Maidan to mark the eighth anniversary of becoming prime minister, Modi said, “Now our borders are more secure than they were before 2014.”
He said that after coming to power, his government pruned 9 crore fake names from the list of beneficiaries of various schemes.”Be it Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or scholarship or any other scheme, we have eradicated the scope of corruption through direct transfer of benefits.
“We have transferred over Rs 22 lakh crore to the bank accounts of beneficiaries of various schemes through direct benefit transfer,” the prime minister said.
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