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His bigger achievements were on the economic front. .When Manmohan Singh took over from Vajpayee in 2004, the economy was in a great shape—the GDP rate was above 8 per cent, inflation was below 4 per cent and foreign exchange reserves were overflowing.

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His most memorable achievement was the ambitious roads projects he launched—the Goldern Quadrilateral and the Pradhanmantri Gramin Sadak Yojna. The Golden Quadrilateral connected Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai through a network of highways

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while the Pradhanmantri Gramin Sadak Yojna was planned as a network of all-weather roads for unconnected villages across India. Both the projects proved to be immense success and contributed to India's economic growth majorly.
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His commitment to reducing the government role in running businesses was reflected in the formation of a separate disinvestment ministry. The most important disinvesments were BALCO and Hindustan Zinc, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited and VSNL
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His government made another beginning by introducing the Fiscal Responsibility Act that aimed to bring down fiscal deficit. It boosted public-sector savings which rose from -0.8% of GDP in FY 2000, to 2.3% in FY 2005.

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The Vajpayee government's New Telecom Policy unleashed the telecom revolution in India by replacing fixed license fees for telecom firms with a revenue-sharing arrangement.
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Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
It was a social scheme to provide universal access to free elementary education for children aged 6-14 years. Within four years of its launch in 2001, the number of out-of-school children dropped by 60 per cent.

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"We have the capacity for a big bomb now. Ours will never be weapons of aggression." Atal Bihari Vajpayee

This was in 1998, when India conducted 5 Indian nuclear tests in one week.

We got into league of Nuclear nations. congress wud have never done

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Columbia University’s Professor Arvind Panagariya also gives Vajpayee due credit for his role in ramping up our telecom success story in his book 'India — The Emerging Giant'.

@INCIndia always credited Rajiv Gandhi falsely

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India saw a devastating earthquake (2001), two cyclones (1999 and 2000), the worst drought in thirty years (2002-2003), Gulf War II and an oil crisis from 2003, the Kargil conflict of 1999, and a Parliament attack. Yet, our GDP didn't falter during his time

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Strategic and military cooperation with Israel
With the 2000 Bill Clinton visit (the first US President to visit India since Jimmy Carter), there was a thaw in India's Cold War-era distant relationship with America, leading to improved trade and cooperation

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While Sheila Dixit claims credit for possibly India's best mass transit public transport system, that is not true! The Delhi Metro project was approved, and the first line inaugurated, by HIM He boarded the first line at Kashmiri Gate, en-route Seelampur

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"Our country is now ready to fly high in the field of science. I am pleased to announce that India will send her own spacecraft to the moon by 2008. It is being named Chandrayaan-1"
56th Indian Independence Day, Aug 15 2003

Chandrayaan Project passed by him

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