Ensuring justice reach all priority of Govt: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi blesses a differently-abled woman after distributing assistive aids and devices during a programme at Parade Ground in Prayagraj on Saturday (PTI)

ALLAHABAD :

Modi said serving 130 crore people of the country is the priority of his Government

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said ensuring that all citizens get benefit and justice is the Government’s responsibility and also the base of ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas and sabka vishwas’. “It is the responsibility of the Government that every person is benefitted and every person gets justice. This is the base of sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas,” he said reciting a Sanskrit shloka at a mega camp for distribution of assistive devices among people with disabilities and senior citizens.

Modi said serving 130 crore people of the country is the priority of his Government. Hitting out at previous Governments, he said they did not care for the people with disabilities but his dispensation was thinking about their problems and finding ways to reduce their issues. During previous Governments, very few such camps used to be organised, he said. “In the last five years, our Government held around 9,000 camps in various parts of the country. In the five years of the previous Government, equipment to people with disabilities worth less than Rs 380 crore were distributed, while our Government gave equipment worth more than Rs 900 crore, which is two-and-half times more,” he said.

“I am of the view that these equipment will only assist your ‘buland hausla’ (strong confidence). Your real strength is your patience, capacity (saamarthya) and mind (maanas),” he said, adding that he has been told that many records are being created at this camp. In building a “new India”, the partnership of every youth and child with disability is essential. “Be it industry, service sector or sports, the skills of the divyaangjan are being continuously encouraged,” he said. During his over 30-minute address, the Prime Minister gave an account of Government schemes for the differently-abled and senior citizens.

‘Bundelkhand Expressway will prove to be devpt expressway’

CHITRAKOOT :

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation stone of the 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway and said it will prove to be the development expressway of the region. The expressway will pass through Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur and Jalaun districts. It will link the Bundelkhand region, considered to be one of the most backward areas of the country, to national capital Delhi through the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and the Yamuna Expressway.

“This project will take Bundelkhand on the path of development, it will prove to be the development expressway of the region and definitely change peoples lives in this entire region,” the Prime Minister said after laying the foundation of the expressway here by pressing a button.

“To come up at a cost of around Rs 15,000 crores, this project will create thousands of job opportunities and connect the common people with facilities in bigger cities,” he said. Be it the Bundelkhand Expressway, the Purvanchal Expressway or the proposed Ganga Expressway, they will all increase connectivity in Uttar Pradesh and increase job avenues, Modi said. Recalling the state of affairs in the Bundelkhand region in the past, he said, “You must have seen in the past decades how in the name of Bundelkhand and farmers, packages worth thousand of crores of rupees were announced but farmers did not benefit.”