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Rs 100L Cr to be spent on 7K infra projects: Modi
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Aug, 2020
Aimed at eliminating silos, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday
announced that India will spend Rs 100 lakh crore on 7,000 National
Infrastructure projects.
For this, the Prime Minister said, a
very big plan has been prepared to connect the entire country with
Multi-Modal Connectivity.
"About 7,000 projects of different
sectors have also been identified. It would be like a new revolution in
infrastructure. The country is moving towards spending more than Rs 100
lakh crore on this project," Modi said during his speech from the Red
Fort on the 74th Independence Day.
Mentioning the need to
eliminate silos in the era of infrastructure, Modi said there is a need
to give a new direction to the overall infrastructure so that India
moves towards modernity at a fast pace.
"This need will be met
with the National Infrastructure Pipeline Project." He said many big
companies of the world are turning to India presently and that "we have
to move forward with the mantra of Make in India as well as Make for
World".
At the event, the Prime Minister also announced that a
new national cyber security strategy has been drafted in the country. He
said India is alert, cautious and is taking decisions to counter these
threats and is constantly developing new systems.
Modi further
announced that every village in the country will be connected with
optical fibre in the coming 1,000 days and that the goal will be met.
Informing
that only five dozen panchayats in the country were connected with
optical fibre before 2014, Modi said 1.5 lakh gram panchayats in the
country have since been connected with optical fibre in the last few
years.
He said Lakshadweep will also be connected to submarine optical fibre cable.
To
give modern infrastructure to the farmers of the country, he said, an
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund of Rs 1 lakh crore has been created.
The
Prime Minister stressed on border and coastal infrastructure mentioning
its big role in the security of the country, saying "be it the
Himalayan peaks or the islands of the Indian Ocean, today there is an
unprecedented expansion of road and internet connectivity in the
country, expanding rapidly".
"There are more than 1,300 islands
in our country. In view of their geographical location, considering
their importance in the development of the country, work is underway to
start new development schemes in some of these selected islands," he
said.
He mentioned a special campaign was also being worked on
with a holistic approach to reduce pollution in 100 selected cities of
the country.
The Prime Minister also announced that another big
campaign, National Digital Health Mission, is going to be launched in
the country from Saturday to bring a new revolution in India's health
sector.
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