Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the nation on its 70th Independence Day from the ramparts of Red Fort in New Delhi and saluted Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Pandit Nehru and all those who sacrificed their lives to attain ‘Swaraj’.He said that from Swaraj we are moving to Suraj.
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Earlier there used to be a lackadaisical approach to government work, but today there is a new energy in government.We have connected 70 crore Indians to Aadhaar and social security schemes.
We take renewable and clean energy very seriously. Before our government, we used to lay 30,000-35,000 km in transmission lines in a year. Today our government lays 50,000 km in transmission lines per year.
The work of village roads started under Atal Behari Vajpayee ji and we have taken that forward. Earlier, we used to make 70-75 kms of roads in a day and today we make over 100 kms in a day.
We have found 9,000 lower ranks in which there will not be any interviews, no need of references and middlemen. These appointments are being done on the basis of merit and the citizen is happy not just with the announcement of projects and unveiling of plans but they have seen the work being done on the ground.
This is the face of an accountable government; transparency and good governance are very important to Su-Rajya.In the past, when someone wanted to start a company, set up a factory it used to take months. Today we are ready to register them within 24 hours.
Earlier the income tax refund used to take forever, but today it takes not more than three weeks. Even getting a passport used to take months, today it takes just a couple of weeks.
People used to face a lot of difficulty in booking train tickets, the website used to take forever to load. Today we can book 15,000 tickets in a second. I want to change the lives of the common people and I am committed to it.
There was a time when you had to wait a long time to go to a good hospital. Today we have been able to change all that through online registrations and appointments. This has been implemented in 40 big government hospitals.
Su-Rajya, the meaning of this is a qualitative and positive change in the lives of the citizens of India.That’s why I don’t just want to speak of Neeti (policy), but also about Niyat (Intent).
Today when I am talking to you from ramparts of the Red Fort, it is only natural I give you an account of what government is doing. More than Karya, I want to talk about Karya Sanskriti of the government. I can give you a long list of what we have done but if I tell you everything, I’ll have to speak from here for a week.
There may be many challenges today, but so are our capabilities. If we have millions of problems, we also have 1.25 billion minds to solve them as well.Today our resolve is to turn the Swaraj (Self-Rule) into Su-Rajya (Good rule). This is the commitment that we have to go ahead with. From the Parliament to panchayats, gram pradhans to the Prime Minister, everyone has to fulfill their responsibility. Only then will the dream of surajya come true.
India’s age is not 70 years but the independence we got after years of servitude, that journey is of 70 years.
Our country is a historic civilisation, our culture is timeless and our independence did not come easy; all Indians were part of the struggle.We remember Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Pandit Nehru, countless people who sacrificed their lives so that we attain Swaraj.
May this energy guide the nation to scale newer heights of progress in the years to come.
It is because of our great freedom fighters who laid their live that we are independent.
Today on this special day, I convey my greetings to 125 crore Indians & the Indian community living overseas.May this energy guide the nation to scale newer heights of progress in the years to come, said Narendra Modi.
He addressed the nation with a colorful pagdi which was flying . He talked about coal scam and other lapses of the earlier government and said that this government will do everything for the welfare of the people in general.
