Union Minister of State for Coal and Power Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said that the Modi Government at the Centre was committed to take along every State together in its effort of speedy development of the country as it sees states as important partners in progress.
Goyal was speaking to media persons at the State BJP headquarters here ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Thursday.
“As per the policy of Modi government, I am going to every state holding meeting with the officials concerning my departments of Energy, Coal and Renewable Energy trying to work with the states for development and also try to understand their problems,” said Goyal, who earlier held a high-level meeting with Chief Minister Hemant Soren, on various issues. “There should be no politics in development related matters,” he added.
Referring to the allegations made by the ruling coalition against the state BJP hijacking the central government’s programme, Goyal said that the Government at the Centre is an active ‘Centre sees States as partners in progress’ in the positive direction and is also sensitive towards the people of Jharkhand. “There is no harm if it is being appreciated by the BJP and the people of the State as well,” he said.
Goyal further added that there was a wave of progress and development in the nation and efforts are being made that Jharkhand should also get benefitted from it. “I have come to review that how people of Jharkhand will also get the benefit of the wave of development in the country,” added the Union minister. PM’s pragramme of Thursday is crucial in this regard, he added.
Goyal also assured that he will try to sort out the problems raised by Chief Minister Hemant Soren with regard to the implementation of central programmes and projects being run in the State. “He was ready to discuss on any issue concerning his department, Soren would like to talk on,” added Goyal.
Goyal said that the Prime Minister will inaugurate a project of Power Grid Corporation of India and announce the commencement of work at NTPC’s North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project (3X660 MW) during his visit to Ranchi on Thursday. “The Karnpura project was inaugurated by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2003 which has not yet been completed. The work will again be initiated by the Prime Minister with a commitment that it will start functioning within the next few years,” Goyal added.
He, however, assured to minimize the level of pollution in the environment and is committed to Modi’s mantra of ‘Zero Defects and Zero Effects’ for which the Central government and the state government in the coming days will discuss in detail. “I have given instructions to the officials of my department to study the technologies through which the level of pollution could be lowered down,” he said.