PM engaged corporates, coops to boost development: Shah

Gandhinagar: Union home minister Amit Shah said the pace of the country’s development increased in the last nine years as PM Narendra Modi engaged cooperatives, corporates, NGOs and individuals to participate in the process of growth. He said this on Friday while virtually addressing a gathering at Mehsana during the foundation stone laying ceremony of a Sainik School which is being set up in public-private partnership (PPP) mode. The Sainik School at Boriyavi village in Mehsana district is part of the Centre’s initiative to set up 100 such schools under the PPP mode. The school has been named after former MLA Motibhai Chaudhary. Shah said PM Modi gave a call to set up 100 Sainik Schools in partnership model, and the Motibhai Chaudhary Sagar Sainik School being set up in Mehsana under the PPP model will be the 20th such school to provide students a simple and easy path to enter the armed forces. The pace of development during the tenure of the past governments was slow, he said. “In nine years of his rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi not just worked for the security and development of the country, but also engaged a large number of cooperatives, corporates, NGOs and individuals in the process of development which helped the country develop at a fast pace,” Shah said. Shah said the Sainik School will help students learn about security, patriotism and bravery. The Union minister congratulated Dudhsagar Dairy milk cooperative, its chairman Ashok Chaudhary and the entire board for coming forward to the set up the new school. Shah also said PM Modi took several initiatives to remove water scarcity in north Gujarat which faced an acute crisis due to depletion of the groundwater level. The region had turned into a dark zone and people feared it would turn into a desert like Kutch, he said.