Govt’s focus is on Tripura’s all-round improvement: Modi – The Dispatch

AGARTALA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a slew of improvement tasks in poll-bound Tripura, asserting that the “double-engine authorities” is working laborious so that individuals of the northeastern state are benefitted.

Addressing a public rally within the Vivekananda Floor right here, he stated that the main focus of the federal government is on all-round improvement of Tripura and the tasks launched will give a fillip to the state’s development trajectory.

“Over 2 lakh poor households are getting their very own houses at present and nearly all of them are moms and sisters of Tripura,” he stated.

From the rally floor, the Prime Minister launched the “Grih Pravesh” programme for greater than two lakh beneficiaries below the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – City and Rural – schemes.

“Cleanliness turned a mass motion within the final 5 years and, because of this, Tripura emerged because the cleanest amongst small states of the nation,” Modi stated.

Tripura bagged the highest rank amongst states among the many states having lower than 100 native our bodies in a survey performed by the central authorities.

Nearly all of beneficiaries of welfare schemes are ladies from Tripura, the Prime Minister stated.

By means of the PM Matru Vandana Yojana, each lactating mom is getting cash of their financial institution accounts, he stated including that institutional supply is being completed in order that the mom, in addition to the kid, is wholesome.

The PM stated that hundreds of crores of rupees are being spent on connectivity and infrastructure tasks in Tripura.

Tripura is rising as the brand new gateway of commerce within the North-East, which might be linked with Thailand, Myanmar and different nations, he stated.

“Double engine authorities is working laborious for the betterment of the individuals of Tripura,” Modi stated.

The Prime Minister apologised to the assembled individuals as he landed right here round two hours late from Meghalaya capital Shillong.

He went there to attend programmes on the event of the golden jubilee of the North Jap Council.