1. While Prime Minister Modi has been travelling incessantly to cover political grounds in Assembly elections in five states, only intense diplomacy punctuates his hectic campaign schedule. 2. Notwithstanding intense travel and incessant electioneering in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi made time to visit Singapore and Maldives during these campaign. 3. And, now the prime minister is travelling to Argentina to attend the G20 summit, in the midst of campaigning for the Rajasthan and Telangana elections.

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       29/11/2018
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SUB : 1. While Prime Minister Modi has been travelling incessantly to cover political grounds in Assembly elections in five states, only intense diplomacy punctuates his hectic campaign schedule. 2. Notwithstanding intense travel and incessant electioneering in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi made time to visit Singapore and Maldives during these campaign. 3. And, now the prime minister is travelling to Argentina to attend the G20 summit, in the midst of campaigning for the Rajasthan and Telangana elections.

REF : PM Modi packed for Buenos Aires: 50 hours in flight, 50 hours stay, 25 engagements, G20 sessions, meetings with world leaders on sidelines :  Siddhartha Rai : 28, Nov 2018 : MYNATION

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While Prime Minister Modi has been travelling incessantly to cover political grounds in Assembly elections in five states, only intense diplomacy punctuates his hectic campaign schedule.

New Delhi: Saddled with carrying his party in five state Assembly elections, Prime Minister Modi has kept a busy schedule on the diplomatic front too.

Notwithstanding intense travel and incessant electioneering in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi made time to visit Singapore and Maldives during these campaign. And, now the prime minister is travelling to Argentina to attend the G20 summit, in the midst of campaigning for the Rajasthan and Telangana elections.

While PM Modi started his campaign on November 23 from Mizoram, he has been on the campaign trail every day. Since Mizoram, PM Modi has campaigned across Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana in the last six days.

Wednesday saw him address two election rallies in Rajasthan covering seven hours’ distance by both plane and chopper. Barely ninety minutes after landing back in Delhi, the prime minister emplaned for Argentina.

The PM’s plane would land in Buenos Aires after a 25-hour flight, punctuated by a short technical halt in Cape Town in South Africa.

Incidentally, PM Modi would be in Buenos Aires only for so many hours as he would be flying in and out. His stay would last for just over 50 hours, over two nights. In these 50 hours, the prime minister has crunched in over 25 scheduled engagements and meetings.

His engagements in the Argentine capital would include several sessions of the G20 summit, meetings on the sidelines of the summit, including the BRICS informal meeting, and bilateral meetings with various world leaders.

Besides the scheduled time table of the PM, he is expected to engage informally with several leaders as well. An important item on his itinerary is to attend and address a “Yoga for Peace” event in Buenos Aires.

PM Modi would return to India in the wee hours of December 3, only to take off again within 12 hours to resume his political campaigning in Rajasthan and Telangana for the next two days. The prime minister would recommence campaigning from Jodhpur and Hyderabad on his day of arrival.

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*1. 'Ayushman Bharat' registers more than one million verified beneficiaries : November 28, 2018 : IANS | New Delhi : Business Standard

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship healthcare scheme 'Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)' has now more that one million verified beneficiaries since its inception.



"We've crossed the 1 million mark for verified beneficiaries! More than 10,00,000 Ayushman Bharat beneficiary e-cards have been generated. Removing fear of hospital bills and instilling confidence in the poor to fearlessly seek healthcare," Indu Bhushan, chief executive officer of the Ayushman Bharat, on Wednesday tweeted.

Launched by PM Modi from Ranchi, Jharkhand in September 23, the scheme, targets more than 50 crore people providing a cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year, for secondary and tertiary care hospitalisation through a network of Empanelled Health Care Providers (EHCP).

"Today more than 64,000 Ayushman Bharat beneficiary e-cards were generated, bringing the total to 10.22 lakh e-cards so far, and 7,100 hospital admissions across the country bringing the total to 3.72 lakh since the launch," he added.

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Ayushman Bharat has two components -- creation of 150,000 health and wellness centres which will provide Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) and the PMJAY which provides health protection cover to poor and vulnerable families for secondary and tertiary care.

Pilot launch of the scheme has already been done in around 22 states and Union Territories. About 30 states and Union Territories have signed an MoU and started working on implementing the mission.

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2.  President Ram Nath Kovind praises PM Narendra Modi government for ‘inclusiveness’ : November 28, 2018 : IANS : Financial Express.

Transformation under Modi Government', President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday remarked that the term 'inclusiveness' is no more a slogan, but an idea on the make, due to the Narendra Modi government's role in "giving shape and form to an all-inclusive idea of 'New India'".

President Ram Nath Kovind praises PM Narendra Modi government for ‘inclusiveness’
Transformation under Modi Government’, President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday remarked that the term ‘inclusiveness’ is no more a slogan, but an idea on the make, due to the Narendra Modi government’s role in “giving shape and form to an all-inclusive idea of ‘New India'”.

He received the copy of the book from Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. The book is a compilation of 51 essays and is edited by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, NITI Aayog official Kishore Desai, and Director of BJP-affiliated Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, Anirban Ganguly.

Speaking on the occasion, the President said “contemporary governance has played a vital role in giving shape and form to an all-inclusive idea of ‘New India’. ‘Inclusiveness’ is more than just a slogan. The government has taken this philosophy to the centre of its policy making” as reported in a statement issued by his office.

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