People want Speed ​​and Scale, Determination & Decisiveness : PM Modi

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New Delhi  : Replying to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address in Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 6, 2020, said that President Ram Nath Kovind’s address instils a spirit of hope and it presents a roadmap for taking the nation ahead in the times to come.“ His address comes at a time when we enter the third decade of the century. Rashtrapati Ji’s address instils a spirit of hope and it presents a roadmap for taking the nation ahead in the times to come,” the PM said.

The Prime Minister said that now people of the country are not ready to wait. They want Speed ​​and Scale, Determination and Decisiveness, Sensitivity and Solution. Our Government has worked at a fast pace and the result is that in five years 37 million people have bank account, 11 million people have toilets at their home, 13 million people have cooking gas at their homes. Today dream of 2 crore people to have a  home of their own is realised. Long wait to own a home has ended for 40 lakh people in over 1,700 illegal colonies of Delhi, PM Modi said.

Agriculture budget has risen five times : PM Narendra Modi said that increasing the farmer’s income is our priority. The issues of higher MSP, crop insurance and irrigation related schemes were pending for decades. We raised the MSP to one and half times and spent Rs one lakh crore to complete the stalled irrigation projects.

“More than five and a half crores of farmers joined the Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme; farmers were paid a premium of thirteen and a half crore rupees, insurance claims of more than 56 thousand crores are settled,” the PM added.  He said that the agriculture budget has risen five times during his government’s tenure. “PM-KISAN Samman Yojana is transforming the lives of many farmers. A sum of Rs 45,000 crore have been transferred and several farmers have benefitted due to this. In this scheme there are no middlemen and no extra file-work,” he said.

Our vision is for greater investment, better infrastructure and maximum job creation: PM Modi said that his government has kept the fiscal deficit in check. “Price rise is also under check and there is macro-economic stability,” he added. He dwelt on the many steps taken by the Government to increase the confidence of investors and strengthen the economy of the country. “ We have taken many initiatives in: Industry Irrigation Social infra Rural infra Ports Water ways,” he said.

“Stand up India and Mudra are adding prosperity in the lives of many. Substantial number of the Mudra beneficiaries are women.  Under Mudra Yojana loans of more than Rs 22 crore have been approved benefitting crores of youth. The Government is working on labour reforms and that too after consulting the labour unions,” the PM added.

He said, “For us infrastructure is a combination of aspirations and achievements, about connecting people to their dreams, people’s creativity to consumers. Infrastructure is connecting a child to his/her school, a farmer to the market, a businessman to his customers. It is about connecting people to people.”

“In the earlier days, infrastructure creation brought “economic opportunities” for a select few. Not any more. We have made this sector transparent and are working to boost connectivity,” he said. In the coming days we are going to invest over Rs 100 lakh crore in the Infrastructure Sector and this would boost growth, economy and employment,” he said, according to a PIB release.