Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the Interim Budget which was announced earlier this week guarantees the development of every section of the society.
“The country’s new budget has come just two days ago. This budget further strengthens the policy following which 25 crore people of the country have come out of poverty in the last 10 years. The budget announcement is a guarantee of empowering the poor. Be it our youth, women, farmers, fishermen, this budget guarantees everyone’s development. Guarantee of fulfilling guarantees is the meaning of Modi guarantee,” the PM said while addressing a public meeting in Odisha’s Sambalpur.
“In the last 10 years, we provided electricity even to those villages which were in darkness even after the independence of the country. Now our effort is that the electricity bill of the poor of the country also becomes zero and in this budget, rooftop solar power scheme has been announced for 1 crore families,” he added.
Earlier on Saturday, PM Modi inaugurated the permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Sambalpur.
The PM also laid the foundation stone of projects worth more than Rs 68,000 crore in Sambalpur aimed at boosting the energy sector involving natural gas, coal and power generation apart from important projects of road, railway and higher education sector.
