Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that in future the country will not suffer from any oxygen shortage, however big a pandemic. The Minister said after the second wave of COVID-19 when there was a shortage of medical oxygen, steps were taken to turn the crisis into opportunity and hospitals that have more than 100 beds were asked to install oxygen plants.
Mr. Shah said Modi government has taken decisions that are good for the people and not which people would like, even at the cost of political damage.
Addressing a function organised on the occasion of Good Governance Day, Mr. Shah said people have long been waiting for good governance which was delivered by the Modi government in the last seven years.
“People have kept saying that we have got Independence long ago but when will we get good governance,” the Minister said, adding that due to lack of good governance, people's faith in the country’s democratic system was gradually eroding.
“But Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought back people’s faith in democracy by taking the good governance up to the grassroots level... people have realised that Mr. Modi came to power in 2014 not to run the government but to provide a clean, transparent and welfare administration, thus changing the face of the country,” he said.
He said people's faith in democracy has enhanced since 2014 as they started getting benefits of development undertaken by the Modi government.
Mr. Shah said some earlier governments on some occasions took decisions keeping the vote banks in mind.
“But Prime Minister Narendra Modi or the Modi government has never taken decisions which the people would like. He has taken decisions which are good for the people. There is a big difference between the two. Some decisions may bring you popularity for a short time but this means keeping the country in problems,” he said.
Giving an example of good governance, the Minister said there has not been a single corruption charge against the Modi government in last seven years as it is a clean and transparent administration.
Mr. Shah said in the last seven years, the government has taken the benefits of development to 60 crore population who were otherwise deprived of all welfare programmes in last so many decades.
