‘Over 2 lakh Panchayats now linked by optical fibre’: PM Modi at Panchayati Raj Diwas celebrations in MP’s Rewa

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday acknowledged that the Bharatiya Janata Party authorities ended “injustice” accomplished to the villages by the sooner administrations which “ignored and avoided spending money in the rural areas”. 

The Prime Minister acknowledged that the political occasions to date indulged in “dividing the people of the village”. Addressing the Panchayati Raj Diwas celebrations in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa, PM Modi acknowledged, “Earlier governments used to avoid spending money for the village… so they were ignored. Many political parties were running their shops by dividing the people of the village. BJP has also ended this injustice being done to the villages. Our government has opened the coffers for the development of villages.” 

The Prime Minister acknowledged that the governments after independence destroyed the Panchayati Raj System of India. 

“The system which existed hundreds of years, thousands of years ago, the same Panchayati Raj system was not trusted after independence. I always think, those people of Chhindwara whom you trusted for so long, why were they never serious about your development?…. The party that run the govt the most after independence broke the trust of those villages…”,” he acknowledged. 

Reflecting on the years sooner than 2014, PM Modi acknowledged that solely 6,000 panchayat buildings have been constructed, whereas all through the BJP rule in these eight years, better than 30,000 new panchayat buildings have been constructed. 

“In the 10 years before 2014, around 6,000 panchayat buildings were built with the help of the central government. Only about 6,000 panchayat houses were built in the whole country. Within 8 years, our government has got more than 30,000 new panchayat buildings constructed,” he acknowledged. 

Lauding the work accomplished by the BJP, the Prime Minister acknowledged that better than 2 lakh panchayats of the nation have been linked to optical fibre. 

“The previous government had connected optical fibre to less than 70-gram panchayats. It is our government, which has taken optical fibre to more than 2 lakh panchayats in the country,” he acknowledged. 

He acknowledged that the panchayats of India are rising as a result of the lifeblood of the occasion of villages. 

“Since 2014, the country has taken up the cause of empowerment of its panchayats and the results are visible today. After 2014, the budget allocated for panchayats, which was earlier less than Rs 70,000 crores, has been increased to Rs 2 lakh crores. Today, panchayats of India are emerging as the lifeblood of the development of villages,” PM Modi acknowledged. 

“Our government is constantly working to strengthen the Panchayati Raj system in the country. Whichever schemes the government has made to make life easier for rural India, our panchayats are realizing them on the ground with full dedication,” he added. 

The Prime Minister acknowledged that every panchayat, institution, marketing consultant, and citizen of the nation ought to unite for a developed India. 

“This is possible only when the basic facilities reach 100 per cent beneficiaries expeditiously, without any discrimination. We opened bank accounts of more than 40 crore people of the village by running the Jan Dhan Yojana. We increased the reach of banks to villages through India Post Payments Bank,” he added. 

Launching the e-Gram Swaraj-GeM Integrated Portal, he acknowledged that on this era of a digital revolution, now panchayats are moreover being made good. 

“The e-Gram Swaraj-GeM Integrated Portal has been launched today. This will make the process of procurement done through Panchayats simple and transparent,” he added. 

PM Modi inaugurated and lay the muse stone of various railway initiatives worth spherical Rs 2300 crore. The initiatives embrace 100 per cent rail electrification in Madhya Pradesh, along with various doubling, gauge conversion and electrification initiatives. 

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