The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated various projects under 'Namami Gange' Yojana and 'AMRUT' Yojana in Bihar. Four schemes inaugurated today include sewerage treatment plants at Beur and Karam-Leechak in Patna city, as well as water-related projects in Siwan and Chhapra under the 'AMRUT' Yojana. Apart from this, foundation stones were laid today for water supply projects in Munger and Jamalpur and River Front Development Scheme under Namami Gange in Muzaffarpur.
The Prime Minister said that even during the times of Corona, the work on various development projects progressed uninterrupted in Bihar.
He referred to the projects worth hundreds of crores of rupees which were inaugurated in the recent past in the state which would benefit the farmers of Bihar along with development of infrastructure.
The Prime Minister lauded the contribution of the Engineers to the development of the country on the occasion of Engineer’s Day, which is celebrated in the memory of India’s pioneering modern civil engineer, Sir M. Visvesvaraya. Shri Modi said Bihar also significantly contributed towards development of the country by producing millions of engineers.
Shri Modi said Bihar is the land of historical cities and has a rich heritage of thousands of years. After independence, Bihar was led by visionary leaders who tried their best to remove the distortions which developed during the era of slavery. He added thereafter there was a lopsided development with changed priorities which resulted in urban infrastructure degradation and collapse of the rural infrastructure in the state.
The Prime Minister said when selfishness overtakes governance and the vote bank politics come into play then the already marginalised and deprived would be the most affected. He said people of Bihar have endured this pain for decades when the basic needs like water and sewerage are not met. He said that People contract diseases by drinking dirty water under compulsion and a large part of his earnings goes to treatment. Under these circumstances, a very large section in Bihar had accepted debt, disease, helplessness, illiteracy as their fate.
The Prime Minister said for the past few years efforts are on to reverse the system and bring back the confidence to the most affected section of the society. The way the education of daughters has been given priority, the participation of disadvantaged in local bodies including Panchayati Raj is increasing and their confidence is growing. Since 2014, almost complete control of infrastructure related schemes has been given to Gram Panchayats or local bodies. Now, from the planning to implementation, and the maintenance of the schemes, the local bodies are able to meet the local needs and this is the reason that there is a continuous improvement in the infrastructure of basic amenities like drinking water and sewer in the cities of Bihar.
The Prime Minister said in the last 4-5 years, lakhs of families have been provided access to drinking water in the urban areas of Bihar under the Mission AMRUT and State Government schemes. In the coming years, Bihar will be among those states of the country, where every house will have piped water supply. The people of Bihar have also worked continuously in this crisis of Corona to achieve this big goal. He added Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan played a big role in providing water connections to more than 57 lakh families in the last few months, in rural areas of Bihar due to the work of the migrant labor, who returned to Bihar from other states.
The Prime Minister said this Jal Jeevan Mission is dedicated to these hard working colleagues of Bihar. In the last one year, more than two crore water connections have been given all over the country under the Jal Jeevan Mission. Today, more than one lakh houses are being connected through pipes to new connections of water every day. Clean water not only improves the life of the poor, but also protects them from many serious diseases. He said in urban areas also, the work for providing pure water to 12 lakh families in Bihar under AMRUT Yojana is fast progressing and out of this about 6 lakh families have already been provided connection.
The Prime Minister said the number of urban settlements is fast increasing and urbanization has become a reality today but for many decades urbanization was considered as a hindrance. Quoting Baba Saheb Ambedkar who was a great supporter of urbanization, the Prime Minister said Ambedkar did not consider urbanization to be a problem, he had imagined cities where even the poorest of the poor get opportunities, opening the way for the betterment of life. He added that the cities should be such that everyone, especially our youth, get new and limitless possibilities to move forward. There should be cities where every family can live life with prosperity and happiness. Cities should be where everyone, poor, dalit, backward, women get a respectable life.
The Prime Minister said we are witnessing a new urbanization in the country today and the cities are also making their presence felt today. Until a few years ago urbanization meant developing a few areas in a few selected cities. But now this thinking is changing. And, the people of Bihar are making their full contribution to this new urbanization of India. He said it is very important to prepare the cities according to the needs of the future and not the present, to give impetus to the mission of Atma-Nirbhar Bihar, Atma-Nirbhar Bharat. With this thinking, under the AMRUT Mission, emphasis is being laid on the development of basic facilities in many cities of Bihar.
Shri Modi said in Bihar, over 4.5 lakh LED street lights have been installed in more than 100 municipal bodies. Due to this, the lights in the streets and streets of our small cities are getting better, electricity is being saved for hundreds of crores and the lives of people are getting easier. He said about 20 big and important cities of the state are located on the banks of Ganga river. Cleanliness of Ganga river, cleanliness of Ganga water has a direct effect on crores of people living in these cities. Keeping in mind the cleanliness of Ganga river, the Prime Minister said more than 50 projects worth more than Rs.6000 crores have been approved in Bihar. He said the government is making efforts to install many water treatment plants, in all the cities along the banks of the Ganges, to prevent the water of dirty drains from falling directly into the Ganges.
He said the scheme of Beur and Karam-Lichchak inaugurated in Patna today, will benefit millions of people of this region. Along with this, the villages on the banks of Ganga are also being developed as 'Ganga Gram'.
आज का ये कार्यक्रम, एक विशेष दिन पर हो रहा है।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
आज हम Engineers Day मनाते हैं।
ये दिन देश के महान इंजीनियर एम विश्वेश्वरैया जी की जन्म-जयंती का है, उन्हीं की स्मृति को समर्पित है: PM#TransformingUrbanBihar
हमारे भारतीय इंजीनियरों ने हमारे देश के निर्माण में और दुनिया के निर्माण में भी अभूतपूर्व योगदान किया है।
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चाहे काम को लेकर समर्पण हो, या बारीक नज़र, भारतीय इंजीनियरों की दुनिया में एक अलग ही पहचान है।
हमें गर्व है कि हमारे इंजीनियर देश के विकास को मजबूती से आगे बढ़ा रहे हैं: PM
बिहार तो देश के विकास को नई ऊंचाई देने वाले लाखों इंजीनियर देता है।
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बिहार की धरती तो आविष्कार और इनोवेशन की पर्याय रही है।
बिहार के कितने ही बेटे हर साल देश के सबसे बड़े इंजीन्यरिंग संस्थानों में पहुँचते हैं, अपनी चमक बिखेरते हैं: PM
एक दौर ऐसा आया, जब बिहार में मूल सुविधाओं के निर्माण के बजाय, प्राथमिकताएं और प्रतिबद्धतताएं बदल गईं।
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राज्य में गवर्नेंस से फोकस ही हट गया।
इसका परिणाम ये हुआ कि बिहार के गांव पिछड़ते गए और जो शहर कभी समृद्धि का प्रतीक थे, उनका इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर अपग्रेड हो ही नहीं पाया: PM
सड़कें हो,
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
गलियां हों,
पीने का पानी हो,
सीवरेज हो,
ऐसी अनेक मूल समस्याओं को या तो टाल दिया गया या फिर जब भी इनसे जुड़े काम हुए वो घोटालों की भेंट चढ़ गए: PM
जब शासन पर स्वार्थनीति हावी हो जाती है,
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
वोटबैंक का तंत्र सिस्टम को दबाने लगता है,
तो सबसे ज्यादा असर समाज के उस वर्ग को पड़ता है,
जो प्रताड़ित है, वंचित है, शोषित है।
बिहार के लोगों ने इस दर्द को दशकों तक सहा है: PM
बीते डेढ़ दशक से नीतीश जी, सुशील जी और उनकी टीम समाज के सबसे कमज़ोर वर्ग के आत्मविश्वास को लौटाने का प्रयास कर रही है।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
जिस प्रकार बेटियों की पढ़ाई को, पंचायती राज सहित स्थानीय निकाय में वंचित, शोषित समाज की भागीदारी को प्राथमिकता दी गई है, उससे उनका आत्मविश्वास बढ़ रहा है: PM
अब केंद्र और बिहार सरकार के साझा प्रयासों से बिहार के शहरों में पीने के पानी और सीवर जैसी मूल सुविधाओं में निरंतर सुधार हो रहा है।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
मिशन अमृत और राज्य सरकार की योजनाओं के तहत बीते 4-5 सालों में बिहार के शहरी क्षेत्र में लाखों परिवारों को पानी की सुविधा से जोड़ा गया है: PM
बीते 1 साल में, जल जीवन मिशन के तहत पूरे देश में 2 करोड़ से ज्यादा पानी के कनेक्शन दिए जा चुके हैं।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
आज देश में हर दिन 1 लाख से ज्यादा घरों को पाइप से पानी के नए कनेक्शन से जोड़ा जा रहा है।
स्वच्छ पानी, न सिर्फ जीवन बेहतर बनाता है बल्कि अनेक गंभीर बीमारियों से भी बचाता है: PM
शहरीकरण आज के दौर की सच्चाई है।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
लेकिन कई दशकों से हमारी एक मानसिकता बन गई थी, हमने ये मान लिया था जैसे कि शहरीकरण खुद में कोई समस्या है, कोई बाधा है!
लेकिन मेरा मानना है, ऐसा नहीं है। ऐसा बिलकुल भी नहीं है: PM
आज आवश्यक है कि हमारे शहरों में संभावनाएं हों,
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
समृद्धि हो,
सम्मान हो,
सुरक्षा हो,
सशक्त समाज हो और
आधुनिक सुविधाएं हों: PM#TransformingUrbanBihar
बिहार के लोगों का तो गंगा जी से बहुत ही गहरा नाता है।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
गंगा जल की स्वच्छता का सीधा प्रभाव करोड़ों लोगों पर पड़ता है।
गंगा जी की स्वच्छता को ध्यान में रखते हुए ही बिहार में 6 हज़ार करोड़ रुपए से अधिक की 50 से ज्यादा परियोजनाएं स्वीकृत की गई हैं: PM
सरकार का प्रयास है कि गंगा के किनारे बसे जितने भी शहर हैं, वहां गंदे नालों का पानी सीधे गंगा जी में गिरने से रोका जाए।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
इसके लिए अनेकों वॉटर ट्रीटमेंट प्लांटस् लगाए जा रहे हैं।
आज जो बेऊर और करम-लीचक की योजना का उद्घाटन हुआ है, उससे इस क्षेत्र के लाखों लोगों को लाभ होगा: PM
गंगा जी को निर्मल और अविरल बनाने का अभियान जैसे-जैसे आगे बढ़ता जा रहा है, वैसे-वैसे इसमें पर्यटन के आधुनिक आयाम भी जुड़ते जा रहे हैं।
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) September 15, 2020
नमामि गंगे मिशन के तहत बिहार सहित पूरे देश में 180 से अधिक घाटों के निर्माण का काम चल रहा है।
इसमें से 130 घाट पूरे भी हो चुके हैं: PM
