Infrastructure is being created to serve all people and not based on political calculations, says PM Modi
The Hindu
‘New India is marching towards a future of science, technology and world class education, as we want that it should be available to every Indian’
New India is marching towards a future of science, technology and world class education, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Dharwad on Sunday.
“We have left behind the past where development had taken a backseat and politics was behind all administrative decisions. Gone are those days of power politics,” he said.
He was speaking after formally inaugurating Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad.
“Our government is committed to universalisation of education. We not only want establishment of good education institutions in the country but we also want education for all. We want world class education to reach to every corner of the country. We not only want high quality education for Indians but we also want that it should be available to every Indian. That is why we have invested heavily in establishing national institutions,” he said.
He said that in the field of medical education, the achievement of the NDA government is historic. “We have achieved what could not be achieved in 70 years. We have trebled the number of AIIMs in India. Since Independence, the country had only 380 medical colleges. But in the last nine years, we have built 250 medical colleges. Similarly, we have built several IITs, IIMs and other national institutions,” he said.
A video shown before his speech mentioned that 16 IIITs, seven IITs, IIMs and Central universities and one National Institute of Technology were built in the last nine years. The video said that IIT Dharwad has a green campus, built at a cost of ₹850 crore.
“All around you, you see development and welfare programmes. We are witnessing infrastructure development on an unprecedented scale. That is because infrastructure development is happening based on the needs of the people and not based on calculations of political profit and loss,” he said.