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From 2006-07 to 2012, the Centre approved 1,361 projects for various cities under the urban renewal mission. Of those, just a fourth got completed. In the process, 66 per cent of the money was used up. These are government statistics that show why Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can get a lot done simply by getting his ministers to do their jobs, rather than wait for the elusive political consensus on reforms that he blamed for the growth slowdown in his Independence Day speech.

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