Thu Jan 02 03:23:08 UTC 2025: ## Modi Government Faces 25 Key Challenges Heading into 2025

**NEW DELHI** – As the Narendra Modi-led coalition government begins its new year, it faces a daunting list of 25 critical challenges, according to a recent analysis by Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien. The analysis, drawing on various economic and social indicators, highlights the need for immediate and effective action across a broad spectrum of issues.

Economic concerns dominate the list, with calls for controlling soaring inflation (reaching a 14-month high in October 2024), boosting GDP growth (revised downwards by the RBI), attracting foreign investment (which has declined), and strengthening the weakening rupee. The report also highlights alarming unemployment figures, particularly among youth, and the stagnation of real wages.

Beyond economic woes, the analysis underscores serious social issues. These include addressing widespread farmer distress (with a daily average of 30 farmer suicides), ensuring women’s safety (with concerns raised about the exception for marital rape in the new criminal code), protecting the marginalized (highlighting deaths in manual scavenging), and safeguarding the press from attacks.

Other key challenges include: ensuring equitable representation in parliament, improving legislative scrutiny, protecting the independence of institutions, fulfilling commitments to Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, and Other Backward Classes, completing delayed projects like the 2021 census, and improving the utilization of public funds.

The report also draws attention to the ongoing violence in Manipur, the rise in communal violence and hate speech, the need for safer public infrastructure following recent accidents, and the urgent need to combat online fraud and implement data protection rules. The author emphasizes the urgent need for the government to address these issues to improve the lives of ordinary Indians. The analysis concludes with a call to action for the government to prioritize these crucial areas in the coming year.

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