Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated and laid the inspiration stone of 75 city growth tasks of Uttar Pradesh below Smart Cities Mission and AMRUT in Lucknow. He digitally handed over the keys of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U) homes to 75,000 beneficiaries.
Addressing the programme, PM Modi stated, “Under PM Awas Yojana, greater than 80% of the homes are both owned by girls or they’re joint homeowners of those homes. After 2014, our authorities has given permission to construct greater than 1.13 crore homes below PM Awas Yojana within the metropolis. Of these, greater than 50 lakh homes have been constructed and given to the poor.
“Under PM Awas Yojana, the central government has transferred around Rs 1 lakh crore to the accounts of the poor. 3 crore families, who were living in slum areas and who did not have pucca houses, got a chance to become ‘lakhpati’ with the same plan. The big deal… these people are ‘lakhpati’ Now,” he stated.
Attacking the earlier Uttar Pradesh authorities, Modi stated, “The previous UP government did not want to build houses for the poor people.”
Prime Minister Puri and Governor Anandiben arrive at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan to take part in ‘Azadi@75-New Urban India: Transforming the Urban Landscape’ conference-cum-expo with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Union Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Patel visited three exhibitions being put up on the expo.
He flagged off 75 buses below FAME-II for 7 cities together with Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Jhansi and Ghaziabad. PM Modi additionally inquired concerning the Ayodhya Development Masterplan.
Meanwhile, forward of PM Modi’s Lucknow go to at the moment, Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted a viral video An incident of an SUV operating over farmers throughout a protest in Lakhimpur Kheri district of the state.
Gandhi, who was detained on Monday, questioned the prime minister, asking: “Have you seen this video? (He had a mobile phone in which a jeep was seen running over a group of farmers, whom Gandhi claimed belonged to Lakhimpur Kheri) Why was this man not arrested? Leaders like us who want to go to Lakhimpur Kheri have been taken into custody without any FIR, I want to know why this man is free?”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
