Highlights of UPA-II's Achievments

5 crore post office accounts have been opened for MNREGA workers:

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is a law in which employments are given to any adult within the 15 days from the date he applies. Anyone who applies gets local public work and if the government fails to provide this, unemployment allowance will be given to whoever has applied. This was a UPA brought job guarantee scheme, with the support of left parties in 2005.

MNREGA’s main objective is to protect rural households from poverty and hunger. The successful scheme has provided employment to 4.1 crore households in 2010-11. The UPA government sees the 5 crore post office accounts which have been opened for MNREGA workers as one of the key achievements in the second term.

Remarkable change in J&K and Northeast, Lowest no. of causalities in the last 20 years and NE virtually every militant group is in talks:

Chidambaram claimed that there has been a remarkable change in the security of the country. He pointed at the improvements in Jammu & Kashmir. In his view governments rule has made considerable change in reducing the violence and causalities. The lowest number of incidents and causalities in J&K in last 20 years was specifically mentioned by him. He also said that in North East matters Centre government is holding talks with every group including ULFA in the North-east.