PM Modi completed eight years as Prime Minister on 26 May.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that in the last eight years, his government made a sincere effort to build the India that Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel had dreamed of, and said that the dignity of the poor was protected during this period. worked for.
Modi, who completed eight years as Prime Minister on May 26, also said that he left no stone unturned in serving the country and did nothing that would make the people of the country hang their heads in shame.
He was addressing a gathering after inaugurating a 200-bed multi-specialty hospital at Atkot town in Gujarat’s Rajkot district. During his speech, he gave an account of the work done by his government in the last eight years.
“I have left no stone unturned in the service of the nation in the last eight years. I have neither permitted nor personally done any such act that would make you or any person of India bow down in shame. The last eight Over the years, we have made a sincere effort to build the India of the dreams of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel,” he said.
“Mahatma Gandhi wanted an India in which the poor, downtrodden, tribal and women are empowered, where sanitation and health are part of life, where the economy is based on swadeshi (local) solutions,” Modi said. For all this.
In the last eight years, more than three crore families were provided with pucca houses; 10 crore households were saved from the stigma of open defecation (through toilet construction), nine crore women were saved from the adverse effects of smoke (by providing LPG connections); 2.5 crore families were given electricity connections and six crore families were given tap water connections; Modi said that more than 50 crore people will get free treatment (under PMJAY insurance scheme).
He said, “These are not just statistics, but it is a proof of our commitment to give respect to the poor of the country. In the last eight years, my government has worked for the upliftment of the poor.”
Modi said, with the mantra of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas and Sabka Prayas’, we have given a new direction to the development of the country.
He said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government opened foodgrain stores for the poor.
“As soon as the pandemic started, people faced difficulties in getting food supplies. So we opened the country’s food grain stockpile for the poor people. We provided financial assistance to women’s Jan Dhan bank accounts during the pandemic. We took our Opened health services for all those who are suffering,” Modi said.
“And when the vaccine came, we made sure that every Indian gets vaccinated and that too free of cost,” Modi said. He said that he did not study poverty through books or television as he himself went through it.
Modi, who is traveling to his home state about six months before the assembly elections, said the double engine government (at the Center and the state) has ensured Gujarat’s rapid development, which he said was the case before 2014. was not.
“Because of the double engine government, Gujarat is achieving new heights of development. Before 2014, things were different. If we sent any development project files to the Center (UPA government), they would have rejected them. Any development to them The project did not appear. …,” he said.
Assembly elections are due in Gujarat in December. Modi lauded the Patidar Community Trust for setting up a 200-bed hospital in rural Rajkot and said he wanted the hospital to remain vacant. “No one should fall ill. We have to create a lifestyle that helps us not to get sick,” he said. PTI.
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