They would say India has sunk and things can not change. There was a mood of hopelessness while there is hope and enthusiasm today. Earlier there was a mood of unease, now it is about moving forward, he said.
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Modi had launched his ambitious multi-purpose and multi-modal platform Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation (PRAGATI) on March 25 previous year. Corruption in high places was the norm.
“My government aims to work with the state governments for the benefit of people”.
“Are governments installed to loot?” “I assure you if our government comes, many sugarcane farmers will go back to growing their original crop”, the BJP veteran, a Rajput from the state and a former chief minister, said. Even if you look at the relationship between China and the USA, there are areas where they have substantial differences but there are also areas where they work closely. Two years ago nobody had the courage to give their report card to lakhs of people like this, he said.
The PM spoke of the decisions taken to empower the poor, including the crop insurance scheme and free gas cylinders for poor families. “Because no poor parent wants to bequeath a legacy of impoverishment to his or her progenies”.
“UPA I and UPA II had brought the situation to such a situation that it appeared that the development journey of the nation has come to a halt”, he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday arrived in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh to address a rally as part of the celebrations to mark two years of the BJP-led government.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published yesterday, his second anniversary in office, Mr Modi said he had set a path for faster growth, including opening up the economy to foreign investment and curbing corruption. On criticism about industry finding it hard to acquire land for projects, Modi said the efforts to amend the land acquisition law at the federal level were “over now” and it is now up to individual states to pursue changes. “We did in two years what Congress governments could not do in 60 years”, its national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.
Since it was impossible to create a doctor in two years, the government was going for another option.
Announcing that his cabinet will soon take a decision on increasing the retirement age of government doctors – both Central and state government – to 65, Modi said, “This was required to help the current shortage of doctors in India”.
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It will allow doctors to serve patients and provide education for a longer period, he said, adding that his government is also working increase the number of medical colleges in the country.
