Modern Infra Being Built at Rapid Pace for Viksit Bharat

A huge "mahayagna" of building modern infrastructure is going on in the country to make India developed and the nation is spending six times more money on these projects than it used to earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, adding that such initiatives not only boost the economy but benefit every household.

- HT Correspondent

JAIPUR:

The PM was in Bikaner where he laid the foundation stones for and inaugurated projects worth ₹26,000 crore, including 103 Amrit Bharat railway stations across 18 states and Union Territories. Modi underlined that infrastructure is required to make Viksit Bharat (developed India) and the government is building it at a rapid pace.

"Today there is a mahayagna going on in the country to create modern infrastructure for achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat. In the last 11 years, work has been done at a rapid pace to make our roads, railways and airports modern. Six times more money is being spent now on infrastructure-related works than was done earlier," he said.

He said crores being spent on infrastructure provided income to labourers, small traders, shopkeepers, factory workers, truck and tempo owners, gravel and sand transporters, and cement companies.