India
Now next generation growth will happen at places where there are high-speed corridors: PM Modi
Updated : Sep 14, 2017, 11:44 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe laid the foundation stone for India's first bullet train project on Thursday at a ceremony near the Sabarmati Railway Station in Gujarat. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on day 2 of his visit to India said: PM Modi and I will work towards realising 'Jai Japan- Jai India'. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his gratitude towards Japan by saying: Thank my friend Shinzo Abe, he took a personal interest and assured that there should be no glitches in the project. Here're other important statements made by Narendra Modi:
1. Travel time between Mumbai and Ahmedabad will come down to 2 hrs, almost the hour it takes to reach the airport: PM Modi
2. Now next generation growth will happen at places where there are high-speed corridors: PM Modi
3. Transport system is of prime importance for a nation's development: PM Modi
4. A new bullet-train economic zone will be created in the zone after the project kicks off: PM Modi
5. Bullet train project brings direct and indirect employment opportunities and thousands will get employment: PM Modi
6. Be it the railways, the highways or the airways, we have given same focus to all those sectors. We have done unprecedented work on all the networks: PM Modi
7. If technology is used to empower the poor we can win the fight against poverty: PM Modi
8. If one says take loan & return it in 50 yrs, is it believable?But Japan is such a friend, they gave us loan of 88,000 crores at 0.1% interest: PM Modi
9. Our railway network is so huge that number of people travelling in trains every week in India is equal to Japan's total
population: PM Modi
10. On 75 years of India's independence around the year 2022-23, wish that both PM Shinzo Abe and I inaugurate the BulletTrain: PM Modi
Japanese Prime Minister expressed confidence that this partnership between India and Japan will extend to other areas and turn out beneficial for both the nations.
1. If we work together nothing is impossible: Japanese PM Shinzo Abe
2. I hope to enjoy the beauty of India through the windows of the Bullet Train when I come to India in a few years: Shinzo Abe
3. I wish that when I come here next I come with PM Modi in a Shinkansen: Shinzo Abe
4. Japan is committed to supporting Make In India. Our industries are working with India to give a boost to manufacturing in India: Shinzo Abe