Five crore houses to be built for poor by 2022, says PM Modi
BY M Post Bureau23 Feb 2016 4:54 AM IST
M Post Bureau23 Feb 2016 4:54 AM IST
He stressed on the need for skill development and asked the youth to be job creators.
Modi said that years after Independence, there are still five crore families in the country who don’t have a house for themselves.
“Two crore of them are in the cities and three crore of them are in the villages. Every Indian should think what kind of India they want in 2022, when India will celebrate 75 years of Independence,” he said.
He said that the Centre and the state governments will work together to ensure that five crore houses are built by 2022 for the poor.
“This is not an infrastructure project. This is a project being undertaken to strengthen the dreams of the poor,” the Prime Minister said.
He said that the initiative will create a lot of jobs as sale of building materials like cement, bricks and others will increase.
He also spoke about skill development initiatives taken by the Chhattisgarh government and said, “Only talking about demographic dividend won’t do.” “Our youth must have skills and must be job creators,” he said.
“Skill development brings so many opportunities for the youth. ‘Mudra Yojana’ is creating new entrepreneurs and helping existing ones grow,” he said.
Modi said for economic progress, there is the private and public sector, “but the third and crucial one that I am attaching importance to is personal sector, where every person becomes an entrepreneur.”
The Prime Minister said that under the ‘Mudra Yojana’, so far about two crore people have been provided over Rs one lakh crore and the aim is that people grow their businesses and also provide job opportunities to the poor. He said that out of the nearly two crore people who have got benefits under the yojana, 70 per cent are from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Classes.
Women entrepreneurs have also come forward in a large number, Modi said, adding that they are hopeful that the youth of Chhattisgarh will also be able to avail benefits of this scheme.
The PM also said that during the last 50 years, the countries which have registered growth, have one basic drive and that is innovation.
Innovation became beneficial for the society, and also the reason for the financial progress, he said. When there is no innovation, there comes a pause and that causes hinderance, he said.
A lively society should keep making discoveries, he said, adding a continuous effort should be on how these inventions become useful for the people.
PM arrives in Varanasi, to visit Ravidas temple, BHU today: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to arrive in his Lok Sabha constituency here on Sunday night for taking part in birth anniversary celebrations of 15th century Dalit poet Shri Ravidas besides attending the convocation ceremony at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Monday.
As per the revised protocol, the Prime Minister will reach Varanasi airport from Kolkata.
In the morning, the Prime Minister is scheduled to pay a visit to the Ravidas Mandir a temple dedicated to the mystic who holds a special place in the hearts of Dalits where he may partake ‘langar’ (food prepared in the community kitchen).
Modi is also expected to meet NRIs belonging to the ‘Ravidasiya’ sect, comprising mostly Sikhs from Punjab, who are devotees of the Varanasi-born poet-mystic.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is also expected to visit the shrine later in the day in an apparent bid to woo the Sikhs belonging to this sect, with an eye on the upcoming Punjab elections.
The sect has played an important role in construction of the temple, a few kilometres from here, and every year the celebration of the birth anniversary of Shri Ravidas in this eastern UP town, better known for the myriad Hindu temples dotting its landscape, is marked by a large turnout of devotees from Punjab.
After spending some time at the temple, Modi will return to BHU to attend the convocation ceremony.
Earlier, varsity authorities had expressed their desire to confer an honorary doctorate on the Prime Minister.
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