Prime Minister Narendra Modi, main the 78th Independence Day celebrations, on Thursday introduced that the federal government will create 75,000 new seats in medical schools in India within the subsequent 5 years. He stated that as a result of a scarcity of seats, college students must go to overseas nations. To cease this, he stated, the federal government will create extra seats within the nation.
Throughout his hour-long tackle, the Prime Minister touched upon a number of points such because the ‘VIshit Bharat’ objective, welfare schemes, pure disasters, ladies’s safety, and overseas funding.
Addressing the nation from Pink Fort, he stated India can turn into ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047 if 140 crore folks moved in a single path. “We’re proud that we stock the blood of the 40 crore individuals who had uprooted the colonial rule from India. Right now, we’re 140 crore folks, if we resolve and transfer collectively in a single path, then we will turn into ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047 by overcoming all obstacles in the best way,” he stated.
The Prime Minister additionally spoke on atrocities on ladies and stated he was pained by such developments. “As a society, we must suppose severely in regards to the atrocities in opposition to ladies which might be taking place – there’s outrage in opposition to this within the nation. I can really feel this outrage. The nation, society, and State Governments must take this severely. Speedy investigation of crimes in opposition to ladies, these executing these monstrous deeds be awarded strict punishment on the earliest – that is necessary to instil confidence in society.”
“I’d additionally wish to say that when rapes and incidents of atrocities on ladies happen, it’s broadly mentioned. However when an individual of such monstrous tendency is punished, it’s not seen in information however restricted to a nook. It’s the want of the hour, that in depth dialogue on these receiving punishment be held in order that these committing this sin perceive that this results in hanging. I believe it is rather necessary to instil this concern.”
The Prime Minister started his speech with pure disasters which have struck the nation up to now few years. “This yr and for the previous few years, as a result of pure calamity, our considerations have been mounting. A number of folks have misplaced their members of the family, and property in pure calamity; the nation too has suffered losses. Right now, I specific my sympathy to all of them and I guarantee them that this nation stands with them on this hour of disaster.”
The PM unfurled the nationwide flag for the eleventh time in a row on Independence Day. His first Independence Day tackle of his third time period took him previous Manmohan Singh, who unfurled the tricolour 10 instances from the ramparts of Pink Fort throughout 2004-2014, and positioned him behind Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, who did the honours 17 and 16 instances respectively.
In the course of the tackle, he spoke on his authorities’s mantra for ‘Vocal for Native’. “Right now, I’m comfortable that Vocal for Native has turn into a brand new mantra for the financial system. Each district has began taking delight in its produce. There’s an surroundings of ‘One District One Product’.”
Whereas the theme of ‘Viksit Bharat’ was anticipated to animate his tackle, there was a view that the disaster in Bangladesh, particularly the focusing on of minority Hindus, might discover a point out in his speech. It was additionally anticipated that Modi can also communicate in regards to the mandate for his authorities for a 3rd straight time period, although with a diminished majority, and dwell at size on how reforms, improvement programmes and welfare measures rolled out within the final 10 years have impacted the lives of the folks.
Jammu and Kashmir has typically figured in his August 15 speeches as the federal government has labored time beyond regulation to reconfigure the safety and improvement paradigms within the erstwhile state, now a Union territory, since scrapping Article 370 in 2019.
Of late, the area, particularly the Jammu division, has seen a number of terror incidents, resulting in the deaths of a number of safety personnel. The Supreme Courtroom has set September 30 because the deadline for the holding of meeting elections there.
There’s additionally an anticipation that a few of the key selections taken by the federal government since he assumed the workplace in June for a 3rd time period could also be highlighted by him. Such selections embrace an enlargement of the housing scheme for the poor, main increase to highway and rail infra, and a proposed change within the regulation regulating Waqf boards and properties, which have drawn vehement criticism from opposition events.
(With inputs from PTI)
