Citing a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that said that the Centre’s flagship UDAN scheme did not not work on 93% of the routes, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said that the common people only got “lies and jumlas [empty rhetoric]” from the Narendra Modi government.
The UDAN scheme – an acronym for Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik (A common man takes flight) – was launched in October 2016 to provide air connectivity to tier-2 and tier-3 cities and towns at an affordable cost. In a post on social media platform X, Mr. Kharge said that the Modi government’s promise of enabling the common people to travel by air has not been fulfilled “just like all their promises”.
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