Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Panchayati Raj Institutions are effectively implementing on ground the schemes made by the Central Government to make life easier for the rural poor personnel. Today, projects worth more than 17 thousand crores related to the development of Madhya Pradesh are being dedicated.
These projects will help in making life easier for the people of the state. Along with this, new opportunities for employment generation will also be created. The Prime Minister said that the Madhya Pradesh government has done excellent work by registering remarkable progress in the Pradhan Mantri Swamitva Yojana. More than 50 lakh women of Madhya Pradesh are associated with self-help groups.
I congratulate the women power of Madhya Pradesh in the direction of women empowerment. The Prime Minister told that today more than 30 lakh panchayat representatives of the country are associated with this programme of National Panchayati Raj Day. This is a powerful picture of India's democracy. We all are the representatives of the people and are dedicated to the country and democracy. "Jan Seva Se Rashtra Seva" (serving nation through serving people) is the goal of all of us.
Prime Minister Modi was addressing special Gram Sabhas along with elected representatives and office bearers of all Panchayati Raj Institutions of the country on National Panchayati Raj Day at Rewa's Special Armed Forces Ground.
The Prime Minister conducted virtual griha pravesh of 4 lakh 11 thousand beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana at the National Panchayati Raj Day celebration in the presence of Governor Mangubhai Patel, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh and other Union Ministers and Ministers of Madhya Pradesh.
Along with this, he also laid the foundation stone of five big group water supply schemes approved for Rewa, Satna and Sidhi districts under Jal Jeevan Mission in Madhya Pradesh costing 7853 crores. Modi dedicated 100 percent electrification of Madhya Pradesh’s rail network to the nation and also dedicated, laid the foundation stone and inaugurated the railway projects worth more than 2300 crores. All the Gram Sabhas of the country joined the programme virtually to witness the National Panchayati Raj Day celebrations in the presence of the Prime Minister.
Modi said that we are continuously working with dedication to make the dream of a developed India come true. For a developed India, it is necessary to improve the social and economic system of the villages and strengthen the Panchayat Raj system.
Our government is continuously working in this direction. Before the year 2014, the Finance Commission's grant for the panchayats in the country was only 70 thousand crores, which has increased to more than two lakh crores during our government. In the direction of strengthening the panchayats, more than 30 thousand panchayat buildings have been constructed in the last 8 years. Extending optical fiber connectivity to panchayats, optical fiber network has been laid in more than two lakh villages.
The previous governments did not trust the Panchayati Raj institutions, which were the basis of the system in the country since before independence. Only formality was done in the name of Panchayats. After the year 2014, our government took the initiative of empowering the panchayats and today the results are visible.
