Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Monday the world is now listening to India with rapt attention and seriousness, and everyone is looking at the country with new hope and discussing the vast possibilities it presents in different fields.
Addressing a gathering at Lathi in Amreli district of Gujarat after launching development projects worth Rs 4,800 crore, he said countries that participated in the recent Brics summit (held in the Russian city of Kazan) expressed their eagerness to join hands with India and become partners in its development journey. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, during his visit to New Delhi last week, announced that his country will issue visas to 90,000 Indians every year, and it is now up to the country's youth to develop skills for the same, said Modi. "As we continue to develop, India's pride and influence on the world stage is increasing. The whole world is looking at India with new hope, and a new vision. People have started recognizing India's potential. Today, the whole world listens to India seriously and attentively, and everyone discusses the possibilities present within India," the PM affirmed. "Every country is asking about the possibility of investment in India," he told the gathering. Modi said when a dairy cooperative was started in Amreli district in 2007, there were only 25 villages associated with it, but now that number has grown to 700. Ports of Amreli district will be developed under the central government's port-led growth initiative, he emphasised.
Prime Minister Modi on Monday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various road, rail, water supply and tourism-related projects worth Rs 4,800 crore in Amreli in Gujarat.
PM Modi inaugurated the Bharat Mata Sarovar at Dudhala, Amreli. He launched various development works at Lathi in Amreli district.
PM Modi addressed the gathering after launching various development projects.
PM Modi said, "Today I got the opportunity to lay the foundation stone and inaugurate the development projects in Amreli. On one side there is culture and on the other side there is celebration of development, this is the picture of India. I got the opportunity to inaugurate Bharat Mata Sarovar at Dudhala."
He further said that when he was the Chief Minister, he started the Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI) scheme in Saurashtra.
"People were not ready to accept it but today because of the same scheme, water has reached the villages. Water was brought from Narmada to dams. Effort was made to distribute water to every farm and every village. Water reached 1300 villages. It is reaching 35 cities. Empty dams were filled with water," PM Modi said.
He further said that now the Ministry of Water Resources has been created and the C R Patil is the Minister of Jal Shakti.
"He too knows about the scarcity of water in Gujarat and the importance of water and in the coming days, a plan has been made to give a new shape to special schemes in terms of water not only in Gujarat but also in other states," he further said.
PM Modi said that Amreli will become a big tourist spot in the coming days.
"Tourists will come here in such large numbers that it cannot be imagined. There are lions here and now there is also a lake. When we built the Statue of Unity in Narmada, more than 50 lakh tourists came in a year. When I went to Russia for BRICS, the heads of all the countries were saying that they wanted to conduct business with India. The German Chancellor also brought a delegation to Delhi and is ready to invest. Spain also wants to invest here," he further added.
Earlier PM Modi held productive discussions with Spanish President Pedro Sanchez and the two leaders took stock of the bilateral ties across diverse sectors.
The leaders also discussed ways to add momentum to ties across sectors such as trade, commerce, culture, innovation, and technology.
"In Vadodara, held productive discussions with the President of the Government of Spain, Mr. Pedro Sanchez. We took stock of the progress in India-Spain relations across diverse sectors. We wish to add even more momentum in our bilateral ties, especially in trade, commerce, culture, innovation, technology and more," PM Modi said in a post on X.
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