Union Minister for Home and Cooperation, Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi placed a new vision for rural development before the Nation and the world. The village does not develop until the development of the individual takes place.
Addressing the 41st Annual Convocation of the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) on the third day of his Gujarat visit on Sunday, he said that unless an area is developed, the village cannot develop. Only after development of the people, making their life convenient, development of the village and the area, the dream of rural development can be fulfilled.
He asserted that the government led by NarendraModi has done much in 8 years for the development of the individual, the village and the region. There were 60 crore people who did not have a bank account and they were not connected with the economy. Today there is no family which does not have a bank account in the last 8 years.
He said that there were many such families in Purvanchal where electricity had not reached even after 70 years of Independence. The task of providing electricity to every household was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Even minimum requirements like a toilet in every house was not fulfilled and Narendra Modi started the campaign of cleanliness and today every house has a toilet.
Arrangements have been made to supply fluoride-free pure water from taps in every house. The government led by Modi has provided cooking gas to every poor household. Along with this, the government has provided health facilities up to Rs. 5 lakh to the 60 crore poor, by issuing health cards under the Pradhan MantriAyushman Bharat Yojana. To make life comfortable and to improve their standard of living, the government has done much work, Amit Shah added.
Amit Shah said that for regional development also, 100 such districts of the country have been identified in which development is lagging. The parameters include such metrics as number of illiterate persons, where the dropout ratio is high, where there is malnutrition, where people have less number of houses.
He made it clear that without rural development, the village cannot become a contributor to the national economy, and until this happens, 70 percent of the country’s talent will be deprived of the benefits of economic development. Only 30 percent of the population cannot contribute to speeding up economy development, because the load of the remaining 70 percent will stop that momentum, he said.
