Providing electricity to everybody across the country is that the top priority of the Union Govt.
Pradhan Mantri January Dhan Yojana to be launched on August twenty eighth.
PM’s perfervid charm in Vidarbha: exhorts farmers to avail the advantages of the new theme.
Dedicates to the state the Mouda Super Thermal Power Project Stage-1 (1000 MW); announces Stage-2 (1330 MW).
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, these days declared that providing electricity to everybody across the country is that the top priority of his Government. He was addressing a gathering once dedicating to the state the a thousand MW Mouda Super Thermal Power Project Stage-1.
He said that for any country to progress, priority must be to infrastructure. If we are able to deliver sturdy infrastructure, prospects of development increase, he added, stating that even among every kind of infrastructure, power is most significant, because it may be a crucial element in bringing concerning modification within the quality of lifetime of the individuals.
The Prime Minister said that even so a few years once independence, power had not reached each nook and corner of the country, and in several areas there have been acute power shortages. however he reiterated his Government’s resolve to produce power to all or any. The Prime Minister mentioned the strain he had arranged on hydropower throughout his recent visits to Bhutan and Nepal, likewise on the state of Jammu and Kashmir. He said the aim of the govt was to faucet all sources of energy, with stress on clean energy, particularly alternative energy.
The Prime Minister recalled the plight of debt-ridden farmers in Vidarbha, who were forced to kill. He said, if that they had access to electricity, they might have pumped-up the water necessary to irrigate their fields, saved their crop, and thence avoided falling into debt.
The Prime Minister declared the launch of the Pradhan Mantri January Dhan Yojana on August twenty eighth, and appealed to the farmers to avail of the advantages of the theme, including a checking account, a positive identification, associated an insurance quantity of Rs. One lakh. He additionally spoke of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana, that aimed toward providing enough water to the farmer for irrigation.
The Governor of Maharashtra Shri K. Sankaranarayanan, Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari, and MoS(I/c) for Power Shri Piyush Goyal were gift on the occasion.