At an event at Vadodara in Gujarat, PM Narendra Modi unveiled and launched Rs 35,000-crore projects and mocked critics as 'naraz fufa ji' (an angry uncle).
He used the dedicated freight corridor to contrast his government's record with the UPA and to underline self-reliance in manufacturing.
“The truth is that for seven or eight years, not even one kilometre of the freight corridor was completed,” Modi said.
“If they had run the country like that, I don’t know if three or four generations would have passed and it still wouldn’t have happened,” he said.
PM Modi urges youth to embrace AI
PM said the government’s push for artificial intelligence would open up new opportunities in agriculture, healthcare, manufacturing and robotics, while youth to adopt the technology.
“You know, for farming, new AI solutions can be created. In the field of health, technology can be developed. Manufacturing productivity can be increased. You can start your own startup in robotics.
"That’s why it’s important that our country and the world’s industry understand AI and our youth use AI. So, the government is starting a big campaign for this. Friends, this is India’s unprecedented era.
"This is the power of India’s youth flourishing. This is the time for India to return to its life. It will not return. And that’s why we need to make 2047 a developed India’s goal paramount. We have to make India developed," he said.
PM Modi takes dig at Rahul Gandhi, says echo of lies misleading people -- says
"The roar of the truth" ,,,, shall prevail Jhoot ki Goonj !!
Referring to Rahul Gandhi's 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' (Echo of Students) events, said "echo of lies" being spread to mislead people, saying India’s youth could distinguish between misinformation and the truth.
“The echo of lies is misleading those who are at every intersection. You will find them,” PM told the students.
“But India is a young country now and knows the roar of the truth. It moves with the roar of the truth. The roar of the truth is what it moves with,” he added.
Modi blasts Congress : "They couldn't event built 50,000 toilets in 10 years"
The Prime Minister highlighted India’s expanding rail manufacturing capacity and used the figures to take a swipe at the previous government while contrasting its record with his government’s infrastructure push.
He said India had emerged as a major manufacturer of railway coaches, metro coaches and locomotives over the past decade.
"In the past decade, India has become a big manufacturer of rail coaches, metro coaches and rail engines. From 2014 onwards, India has so far built about 50,000 modern trains.
The previous government, in 10 years, built 50,000 toilets," he said.
Prime Minister Modi said the development projects inaugurated and dedicated to the nation in Vadodara would give fresh momentum to India’s growth journey, while thanking people for their participation in the “development festival”.
“Today, to give momentum to India’s development journey, projects related to development worth crores of rupees have been inaugurated and dedicated to the nation," he said.
“Through this development festival, all of you have shown such a spirit of service,” PM added, thanking the people for their participation.
Projects dedicated/inaugurated:
Sanand (North)–Makarpura
New Umbergaon–New Saphale
New Saphale–JNPT
Total: 326 route km
Cost: More than Rs 20,700 crore
Will provide direct connectivity to JNPA and facilitate faster EXIM cargo movement.
Freight train services
New Sanand (North)
New Makarpura
New Umbergaon
New JNPT, Mumbai
Vadodara–Tanda Road train service
New passenger train service benefiting Vadodara, Chhota Udepur and Alirajpur districts.
Projects for which PM Modi will lay foundation stones
^^ Three railway projects
*** Vadodara–Ratlam third and fourth railway lines
Miyagam Karjan–Choranda–Malsar gauge conversion
Vishwamitri–Dabhoi railway doubling
Total: 329 km
Cost: More than Rs 9,700 crore
Three national highway projects
Cost: Around Rs 1,780 crore
Gujarat government development projects
Various projects to be inaugurated and have foundation stones laid
Total value: Around Rs 2,600 crore
PM Modi receives cow-dung Ganesh idol, bonsai byan tree
Representatives of sanitation and civic initiatives presented Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a bonsai of Vadodara’s heritage banyan tree.
Namo says freight corridor idea was stuck in files until BJP came to power
The PM criticised the delay in implementing the Dedicated Freight Corridor, saying the project remained stuck in files for years after the idea was first proposed in 2004. He said the idea was conceived in 2004 and a special company was set up in 2006 to undertake the work.
“Those of you who are young here today, when this idea was first conceived, many of you were probably not even born yet,” Modi said. “Until 2014, the file was just there. It went from here to there; the files were travelling on the table,” PM Modi said.
He contrasted the delay with the pace of infrastructure development under his government, saying the Dedicated Freight Corridor was an example of the change in the country’s working culture over the past 12 years.
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