A new Bengal growth story begins: PM
Modi releases 23rd installment of PM-Kisan scheme of Rs 18,880 crore
In his first public address after the formation of a BJP Government in West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the double-engine Government in the State has started working at “superfast speed” to take West Bengal toward recovery and development, while unveiling various projects in the State.
Participating in the ‘Paschimbanga Divas’ or West Bengal Day celebrations at Tarakeswar in Hooghly district, he also released the 23rd installment of PM-Kisan scheme worth Rs 18,880 crore, benefiting over 9.44 crore farmers across the country. The PM participated in a grand function to celebrate the State Day, along with Governor RN Ravi, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, ministers, MLAs, Government functionaries and the general public.
Earlier in the day, during his Odisha visit, Modi said Eastern India, which remained backward during the Congress rule, was now emerging as a gateway to progress and development. Addressing a public meeting at Rairangpur in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district after unveiling projects worth over Rs 47,600 crore, Modi said the State was rapidly moving ahead on the path of development.
Addressing a public meeting in Hooghly, PM alleged that the previous Left Front and TMC Governments in the State had created obstacles in the path of development over the last several decades. While the CPI(M)-led Left Front ruled the State for 34 years from 1977, the Trinamool Congress was at the helm for 15 years from 2011, till it was defeated in the April Assembly election by the BJP.
Modi said that decades of misgovernance have pushed West Bengal back by miles. Modi lamented that West Bengal, once a land of opportunities, had turned into a source of migration. PM said that soon after the BJP Government took over in West Bengal, the stalled work at Chingrighata crossing in Kolkata for the Metro Railway’s Orange line commenced and was completed within a few days.
The previous Mamata Banerjee Government had not introduced the PM Fasal Bima Yojana in the State and instead came up with the State’s own crop insurance scheme for farmers, Modi alleged.
After a visit to President Droupadi Murmu’s in-laws’ village of Pahadpur in Mayurbhanj district earlier in the day on her 68th birthday, Modi announced it will be developed as a ‘solar village’, ensuring solar power generation in every household. Modi extended heartfelt birthday greetings to Murmu and described her rise from the soil of Mayurbhanj to the highest constitutional office of the nation as a matter of immense pride for Odisha and the country.
The PM said that West Bengal is also being attached to the Digital Agriculture Mission, maintaining that a farmers’ registry will be created by way of “Agristat.”
PM said that village maps and knowledge of sown crops will be available digitally. Maintaining that the state will not stop now on the path of development, the PM asserted that Bengal will “now create history.
Addressing the people in Odisha, Modi said the Centre’s vision was to develop the country through the progress of eastern India, and that the Government was working on the policy of ‘Purvodaya’.
The PM said the BJP Government in Odisha was converting the state’s resources into opportunities and claimed that investment proposals worth nearly Rs 20 lakh crore have been received so far.
“Odisha is rapidly progressing on the path of development. The Centre’s vision is to develop India through the growth of the eastern region. That is why we are working on the policy of ‘Purvodaya’,” he said.
