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PM Modi urges TN BJP workers to enroll more people for central schemes
In the run-up to next year's Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday told BJP workers in Tamil Nadu it was their duty to create awareness about the Centre's welfare schemes and hold meetings as well so that benefits of such initiatives reached more people.
Updated : Dec 16, 2018, 12:15 AM IST
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In the run-up to next year's Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday told BJP workers in Tamil Nadu it was their duty to create awareness about the Centre's welfare schemes and hold meetings as well so that benefits of such initiatives reached more people.
"The BJP believes in sabka saath sabka vikas," he said in an interaction with party workers from Tamil Nadu via video conferencing from New Delhi.
"Imagine the kind of contribution we can make if we get a chance to serve people of Tamil Nadu," he said.
"It is the duty of karyakartas to create awareness on these (central government schemes) and also enrol more people in these schemes and make them partners in the development journey," the prime minister added.
No government at the Centre has done so much for Tamil Nadu as the BJP has done, he said.
"From health to housing and from skill to sanitation, lives of people are being improved across all sectors," Modi said.
Citing examples, the prime minister said more than 70,000 people from Tamil Nadu have received free treatment under Ayushman Bharat, a National Health Protection scheme.
In less than three months more than 47 lakh toilets were constructed in Tamil Nadu and more than 12,000 villages were declared open defecation-free in four years, he said.
More than 3,000 km of rural roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana were constructed in Tamil Nadu in the last four years, Modi said.
He said over four lakh youths have got skill training in the last four years, while lakhs of people have benefited from the loan schemes.
In the last four years, over four lakh families have got a "pucca ghar" (home), the prime minister said.
He also said under the 'Sagarmala' programme, three major port development works were awarded to Tamil Nadu.
Modi, while beginning his address, said he was 'bowing' to the rich culture of Tamil Nadu.
Describing Tamil as one of the most beautiful languages, he said Tamil culture and language were among the oldest in the history of mankind.
