Covid-19 problem greater than final yr, must cease it from hitting villages: PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stated the COVID-19 problem earlier than the nation now could be greater than the final yr and known as for making efforts to make sure that the infectious illness is stopped from hitting villages “by all means”.
Addressing a ceremony on Panchayati Raj Diwas throughout which Modi launched the distribution of e-property playing cards beneath the ‘SWAMITVA scheme, he stated the pandemic was prevented from affecting rural areas final yr and exuded confidence that the success will be replicated as native management now have expertise in addition to data.

Chief ministers of eight states joined the occasion, held just about, whereas a lot of native physique representatives additionally linked to the ceremony.

“I have this confidence that if someone is going to emerge victorious first in this fight against the coronavirus, then it is going to be India’s villages, the leadership of these villages… The people of the villages will show the way to the country and the world,” the prime minister stated.
Right now, the mantra of the panchayats must be “dawai bhi, kadai bhi” (medication in addition to warning), he pressured.

Addressing a programme on #PanchayatiRajDiwas. Watch. https://t.co/8oZuBNWf37
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 24, 2021
Modi stated villages ought to observe the rules issued by the federal government and other people must also get themselves vaccinated.
To assist the poor get meals, his authorities has determined to offer them free ration for May and June, the prime minister famous, including it will profit over 80 crore folks and price the federal government Rs 26,000 cr.
As many as 4.09 lakh property house owners have been be given their e-property playing cards, which additionally marked the rolling out of the SWAMITVA scheme for implementation throughout the nation.
Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar attended the occasion.
Modi additionally conferred the National Panchayat Awards 2021 on the event.
The National Panchayat Awards 2021 have been conferred beneath the next classes — Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar to 224 panchayats, Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar to 30 gram panchayats, Gram Panchayat Development Plan Award to 29 gram panchayats, child-friendly Gram Panchayat Award to 30 Gram Panchayats and e-Panchayat Puraskar to 12 states.

The prime minister transferred the award cash, starting from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 50 lakh, as grants-in-aid, by clicking a button, the PMO stated.
The quantity might be immediately transferred to the checking account of the panchayats involved in real-time, the federal government stated, including that that is being carried out for the primary time.
The SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) scheme was launched by the prime minister on April 24, 2020, as a central scheme to advertise a socio-economically empowered and self-reliant rural India.
The scheme has the potential to rework rural India utilizing fashionable technical instruments of mapping and surveying. It paves the best way for utilizing the property as a monetary asset by villagers for availing loans and different monetary advantages, a press release stated.
The scheme will cowl round 6.62 lakh villages of your entire nation between 2021 and 2025, it stated.

The pilot part of the scheme was applied throughout 2020-2021 in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and choose villages of Punjab and Rajasthan.