BJP must tread tight fiscal path to fulfill poll promises in Uttarakhand

Providing 24X7 power appears doable but road connectivity to every village seems challenging

Going into the Uttarakhand state elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) manifesto made a bunch of promises. From road connectivity to all villages by 2019, to round-the-clock power supply to filling all government vacancies in the first six months of coming to power.

A closer look at some of these main promises suggests that while some are doable, others might prove difficult to fulfill.

Take rural roads. The BJP has promised constructing one to every village by 2019. From the record, a daunting task. In 2016-17, against a sanctioned road length of 1,664 km in the state under the Pradhan