Gwalior: Union minister for information technology and law Ravi Shankar Prasad said here on Sunday that by 2022, a ‘New India’ will be in place through ‘Sankalp Se Siddhi’ (attainment through resolve) campaign. Prasad was addressing a press conference here during his visit to the city to attend a series of programmes for promotion of ‘New India Movement’ (2017-2022).
“We are celebrating the 75th anniversary of ‘Quit India Movement’ this year. India had achieved Independence in 1947 within five years of the launch of the movement. By 2022, we will make India terrorism-free, naxalism-free, casteism-free, corruption-free, poverty-free and communalism-free”, he said.
“Mahatma Gandhi understood the importance of cleanliness and turned it into a campaign. I am thankful to our Narendra Modi who accepted Bapu’s cleanliness drive and converted it into a mass movement”, said Prasad. Prasad said that the ‘New India’ will be an India where there will be no poverty or illiteracy, every person will have a roof over his head and no one will die for want of medicines.
Talking about corruption, Prasad said, “Since the NDA government came to power, no scam has surfaced in the country. We have saved Rs 57,000 crores which were gobbled up by middlemen in the earlier regimes”.
He announced that the district hospital of Gwalior would be made ‘e-hospital’ and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) centres would also be established here to provide employment to youths.
The incharge of ‘New India Movement’ and Union minister for urban development, Narendra Singh Tomar, state urban development minister, Maya Singh and Gwalior Mayor Vivek Narayan Sejwalkar were also present at the press conference. On this occasion, Tomar administered oath to those present for making India ‘swachh’ (clean), poverty-free, corruption-free, terrorism-free, communalism-free and casteism-free.
