AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (TIWN): PM Modi is likely to announce the launch of the Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Scheme (AB-NHPS) on the occasion of Independence Day, with the full-scale roll-out of his pet project expected in September end.Amit Shah, Narendra Modi’s biggest JUMLA ‘Ayushman Bharat’ Health insurance scheme for 10 crores poor people exposed in ABP Ananda TV debate between BJP’s Sambit Patra & Congress’s Manish Tiwari. Modi’s ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme (Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Scheme (AB-NHPS)) requires minimum Rs 1 Lakh crores immediately but Govt didn’t allocate any funding in 2018 Union Finance Budget for 2018-2019. Govt on ad-hoc basis only allocated one time Rs 10,000 crores which is 10% of the required amount but it will not cover the scheme. Only via marketing ‘Ayushman Bharat ‘ scheme for all Indians, it’s a JUMLA / FAKE promise to lure votes before 2019 Lok Sabha Election. ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme is no different than FAKE promise before 2014 LS Election that Rs 15 Lakh to be deposited in every Bank A/C.

So its no surprise that Tripura's Biplab Deb can continue fooling voters by JUMLA promises like 7 lakhs jobs within 30 months.

Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram described the budget announcements by the Narendra Modi government over Minimum Support Price (MSP) for foodgrains, job creation and the Ayushman Bharat scheme as its three "jumlas" (gimmicks) before the 2019 polls.

Initiating a debate in Rajya Sabha over budget 2018-19, the senior Congress leader Chidambaram attacked the Modi government throughout his 40-minute speech amid continuous ruckus and sloganeering by members from the treasury benches demanding apology from the Congress for such disruptions during the Prime Minister's reply in the Lok Sabha on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address.

"The biggest jumla is the world's largest government-funded medical insurance announced as Ayushman Bharat. There is no budgetary allocation. Not even Re 1 has been allotted," Chidambaram said amid thumping of desks from Opposition benches.

"From where will you raise resources of Rs 1 lakh crore? There is no way you can do that in the remainder of the next one year.

( Excerpts below from The Telegrapgh Aug 8,2018 Edition on Modi's JUMLA )

Narendra Modi's " jumla" is getting juicier and juicier, if not trickier and trickier.

The Centre on last Tuesday told Parliament that estimates on black money Indians are said to have stashed abroad - an issue the BJP had played up ahead of the elections in 2014 - were not based on any verifiable data.

"There are no official estimates of black money stashed by Indians in foreign countries," finance minister Piyush Goyal said in a written reply to a question from Congress leader K.V.P. Ramachandra Rao in the Rajya Sabha.

The admission begs the question that on what basis did would-be Prime Minister Modi conclude before the 2014 election that if all the black money stashed abroad was brought back, each poor Indian could get Rs 15-20 lakh "just like that".

Hounded by questions about when the Rs 15 lakh would be deposited, BJP president Amit Shah had later described it as " jumla", which means a figure of speech but now considered synonymous with gimmickry.

On Tuesday, however, Goyal said there was "no verifiable data... available anywhere in the country" on how much black money had been unearthed since the Modi government assumed charge.

The minister said the government had commissioned a study on estimation of unaccounted income and wealth both inside and outside the country, conducted by the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, National Council of Applied Economic Research and the National Institute of Financial Management.

The study reports have been placed before the parliamentary standing committee on finance, which is now seized of the matter, Goyal added.

Congress leader Anand Sharma asked Goyal if the special investigation team (SIT) the government had set up had gathered any information on black money. "The minister has referred to the SIT that was constituted in May 2014.... It is investigating into cases involving substantial black money/undisclosed income, particularly black money. Now, we would like to know what information is available with the SIT," Sharma asked in a supplementary question.

Goyal said: "As regards his question about the amount of black money, all such estimates in the past or even presently available are ultimately estimates drawn on different formulations.... We have left it to the parliamentary standing committee to guide us in the matter; but the explosive data that he is talking about, there is no verifiable data that is available anywhere in the country and, as I said earlier, if it was available, government would have cracked down on anybody who had that kind of money."

The minister said the government had an agreement on automatic sharing of information with several countries, and Switzerland's Supreme Court had recently ordered the Swiss government to share data on black money with India.

"In about a week or ten days that is going to get formalised," Goyal said.

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In Parliamnet, Chidabarmam recalling that even before assuming office, this government had promised 2 crore jobs every year, he said that proper jobs is "employment that is regular, certain and reasonably secure". He them asked how many International Labour Organisation (ILO) defined jobs it has generated in the last four years or the government would suggest the ILO to include those selling pakodas in its definition for employment.

"Ours is the only country that says GDP is falling but employment is increasing. What kind of jumla is this?" he said.

Hitting out at government over its claims of doubling farmers income, Chidambaram said that between 2004 and 2014, MSP increased by 100 per cent. "But for the last four years, you fooled the farmers."