‘Step towards making India’s villages self-reliant’: PM Modi inaugurates nine infrastructure development projects for Bihar
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- Published: September 21, 2020 13:47
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ine infrastructure development projects, worth Rs 14,000 crores in poll-bound Bihar through video conferencing today. The Prime Minister also inaugurated the ‘Ghar Tak Fibre’ Project under which all 45,945 villages of Bihar will be connected through optical fibre internet service.
“Nine-projects have been inaugurated today which include making six-lane highways, and three bridges on rivers. I congratulate the people of Bihar for getting these projects. Today is not only important for Bihar but for the whole country, today India is taking a big step to make its villages a basis of Atmanirbhar Bharat and I am happy that it is starting from Bihar,” Modi said.
these nine highway projects involve a road length of about 350 kilometers at a cost of ₹14,258 crore. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also attended the ceremony.
“Under this project in the next 1,000 days one lakh villages in the country will be connected through optical fibre. I have full faith that with Nitish Ji’s good governance, strong will the work will be completed fast in a rapidly developing Bihar,” he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone of nine highway projects in Bihar, through video conference.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar also attends the ceremony. pic.twitter.com/YFf6l6wRGO
— ANI (@ANI) September 21, 2020
The Prime Minister said just a few days back nobody would have imagined that the number of internet users in villages would have exceeded those in cities.
“Our farmers will benefit a lot from this, they will get real-time information about weather conditions, new techniques, seeds, crops and practices. They will also be able to sell their produce anywhere in the country and abroad,” Modi added.
The PM said that the passing of the agriculture reform bills by the Upper House of the Parliament was a massive step towards giving farmers the freedom to sell their produce anywhere.
Yesterday, two farm bills were passed in the Parliament. I congratulate my farmers. This change in the farming sector is the need of the present hour and our government has brought this reform for the farmers: Prime Minister Narendra Modi pic.twitter.com/EOSCtbfJaP
— ANI (@ANI) September 21, 2020
“The new agriculture reforms have given freedom to every farmer in the country to sell their produce anywhere. If he gets more profits in the mandi, he will sell it there. If apart from this he gets more profit anywhere else then he is not obstructed from selling them there too,” Modi said.
“The earlier system of selling the produce, the laws which existed, had kept the farmers’ hands tied. Acting under the garb of these laws such powerful groups had formed in the country which were benefitting from the farmers’ misery. How long should have this allowed to go on ?” he added.
I want to assure every farmer that the Minimum Support Price system will continue as before: PM Narendra Modi on agriculture Bills pic.twitter.com/YJvFxT4JzB
— ANI (@ANI) September 21, 2020
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, his deputy Sushil Kumar Modi, Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Raj Kumar Singh, along with other officials also participated in the meeting through video conferencing.
During the course of the meeting, Kumar also thanked PM Modi for passing the agriculture reform bills in the Rajya Sabha, adding that once implemented everybody on the ground would benefit from them.