LATEST UPDATES: PM Narendra Modi's two-day visit to Gujarat
Prime Minister Modi arrived in Gujarat on Saturday for a two-day visit less than a month. During his whirlwind tour, Modi will be addressing as many as six public meetings, launching various schemes and projects at five places in three regions of the state. He laid the foundation of a Rs 2,500-crore Rajkot International Airport and addressed a public rally at Chotila in Surendranagar district. Updates on Narendra Modi Gujarat Visit- If it was election time and I announced to give the 400 acre land to IIT near Sabarmati, they would have said as they are saying about bullet train these days. They would have surely criticised but it wasn’t election time when I granted the land: PM Modi PM says technological innovation is key to unite the nation for ‘New India’. Want to make every village digitally literate. PM says few years ago, people used to quote Marx’s “haves and have-nots”, the thought is now confined to some placards but we have to ensure that there is no digital divide in the country. We have to get rid of the digital divide and launched the scheme among villagers. You all are IITian but I don’t have the double IIs, I was been a Tea-an when I was young- a chaiwala: PM Modi PM distributes laptops to people under the PMGDSA scheme. Prakash Javadekar says this is a young IIT, saw the vibrancy in the campus. This is a smart campus- near the Sabarmati, environment is taken care of, electricity is saved: Javadekar Modi says, “I’m grateful for the love you have showered on me, coming here in big numbers in this heat.” “Water has always been important for Gujarat. Now that water is widely being made available, let us use it responsibly and conserve every drop of water,” says PM. "Aviation cannot be about rich people. We have made aviation affordable and within reach of the lesser privileged. There was no aviation policy post independence. We made those policies and took responsibility to connect smallest of places by air,” says Modi. -PTC News
