PM says his focus is on boosting speed and scale of development
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his government has launched new development projects worth Rs 9 lakh crore in the past 75 days as part of the brisk efforts to make India a developed nation..
At a TV channel function in New Delhi, the Prime Minister lamented that the time was lost for India’s development for decades as a result of “dynastic politics.”He called for working on unprecedented scale and speed to recover the lost time for the creation of Viksit Bharat or developed India.
Modi highlighted the ongoing development work taking place in all areas of India today and said his focus remains on boosting the speed and scale of the country’s development. Referring to the developments taking place in the country in the last 75 days, the Prime Minister mentioned laying foundation stones and inaugurating projects worth about Rs 9 lakh crores, a figure more than US$ 110 billion.
He underlined that the investment made in the last 75 days towards modern infrastructure is more than the annual budget of many countries in the world. In the last 75 days, the Prime Minister said seven new AIIMS, 3 IIMs, 10 IITs, 5 NITs, 3 IIITs, 2 ICR and 10 central institutions, 4 Medical and nursing colleges and 6 national research labs have been inaugurated or foundation stones have been laid.
Projects worth Rs 1800 crores have been inaugurated in the space infrastructure sector, 54 power projects were inaugurated or the foundation stones were laid, and 2 new reactors of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Plant were dedicated to the nation. Core loading of the indigenous Fast Breeder Reactor was commenced at Kalpakkam, a 1600 MW thermal power plant was inaugurated in Telangana, a 1300 MW thermal power plant was inaugurated in Jharkhand, foundation stones were laid for a 1600 MW thermal power plant, a 300 MW solar power plant and Mega Renewable Park in UP, a hydropower project in Himachal, country’s first green hydrogen fuel cell vessel was launched in Tamil Nadu, Meerut-Simbhavali transmission lines of UP were inaugurated and transmission lines from Wind Energy Zone in Koppal, Karnataka were inaugurated. He further added that in the last 75 days, India’s longest cable-based bridge was inaugurated, work of under-sea optical cable till Lakshadweep was inaugurated, the work of modernizing more than 500 railway stations in the country has started, 33 new trains were flagged off, more than 1500 projects of roads, overbridges and underpasses were inaugurated, 7 metro related projects have been inaugurated in 4 cities of the country and Kolkata has got the gift of the country’s first underwater metro. The foundation stone of 30 port development projects worth Rs 10,000 thousand crore was inaugurated.
He also mentioned the initiation of the world’s largest storage scheme for farmers, the completion of computerization of 18,000 cooperatives and more than Rs 21,000 crores were transferred to the bank accounts of farmers.
No doubt lots of projects have been initiated by PM in last 75 days. Timely completion of these projects with quality matters. Since all projects are initiated at the eve of forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, hence a political undertone is also cannot be ruled out.
Since BJP is confident of returning to power and even common people also want to see Modi 3.0, so definitely these projects will play a major role in India’s development.