Modi’s 8 years of govt unparalleled in many ways: Prahlad Singh Patel
Jammu: The Union Minister of State (MoS) for Food Processing Industries and Jal Shakti, Prahlad Singh Patel on Monday said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s eight years of government were unparalleled with the historical achievements.
He said from abrogation of Article 370, implementation of GST, abolition of Triple Talaq to recognition of Yoga at international level, Modi’s achievement remained unparalleled.
The minister was addressing a press briefing at Udhampur, J&K in connection with the central government’s public outreach program in J&K.
Patel said the government provided free food grains to over 80 crore people during Covid-19 times under PM Garib Kalyan Yojana which is world’s largest food security scheme launched to combat Covid-19 induced economic disruption.
“The biggest achievement of this government was the Made-in-India Covid-19 vaccine made after the relentless efforts of our scientists which has made India self-reliant making it the biggest exporter of it,” the minister said.
He also said the defence sector in the country being important for border areas like J&K was strengthened under PM Narendra Modi to the extent that India was becoming an exporter of defence equipment, BrahMos defence export deals being the best example of it.
“The defence ecosystem that is being built by India through its joint ventures like with Israel is a biggest achievement in itself in defence technology,” he said.
He said the government has brought a lot of transparency in the system that is evident from the fact that the beneficiaries of different central schemes be that the Kissan Samman Nidhi, PM Awas Yojana etc are receiving installments directly into their bank accounts.
“The government has allocated Rs 60000 crore under Jal Jeevan Mission this year to provide tap water to around 3.8 Crore households,” he said.
He said there are 24 lakh food processing units in the country out of which two lakh food processing units will be upgraded with an outlay of 10 thousand crores.
“Need of the hour is to start information campaigns through the media so that people will become aware of the different schemes launched by the government,” he said.
The minister also laid the foundation stone of a water supply scheme of Saddal and Panjal villages to be built at an estimated cost of Rs. 415.68 lakh.
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