Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that his Government was committed to bring positive changes in the lives of fishermen through ‘blue revolution’.
Addressing huge rally at the coastal town Daman after launching projects worth Rs 1000 crore including Prime Minister insisted fishermen to avail benefits of blue revolution. Modi further said that the Central Government would provide long boats to fishermen so that they could venture inside the deep sea get large chunk of fish.
Modi also kicked-off helicopter services connecting Union Territories – Daman and Diu as well as a flight connecting Diu with Ahmedabad under Udaan scheme. Road distance between Daman and Diu is more than 630 km but it is being administered by the same administrator. Terming Daman as industrial town having huge potential to become tourism hub, he said that with air-connectivity in place in Daman and Diu, tourists flow not only from within India but from across the globe would increase.
Modi laid foundation tones for projects including a water treatment, an electric sub-station, a municipal market, a footbridge among others. He also inaugurated inaugurate anganwadis and schools constructed under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), launch development projects and hand over certificates to beneficiaries of various official schemes. The Prime Minister among other projects did ground breaking for modernization of roads, seafront development and flagged off ambulance services.
Praising the Daman & Diu administrator Praful Patel for his efforts to make the UT Open Defecation Free (ODF) Modi said that both the coastal towns were much ahead of other parts of country in cleanliness.