PM Narendra Modi launches scheme for Member of Parliaments to adopt villages
12 Oct 2014 8:12 AM IST
Modi on Saturday launched Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
New Delhi: Pitching for a demand-driven village development model, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched “Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana”, a scheme which requires an MP to take the responsibility of the infrastructural development of three villages by 2019.
Mr Modi hoped that the scheme will set in a “viral effect” across the nation for rural development. Launching the scheme, the PM said that debate has been going on “from top to bottom” and “from bottom to top” model of development.
“Discussions do help. But those who are working have to begin work somewhere. The talk about bottom to top and top to bottom will continue in the academic world,” said Mr Modi.
Incidentally, the scheme has been unveiled while the existing Centrally sponsored scheme “Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojna” had been a non-starter during the UPA regime. The PMAGY was launched earlier as a pilot project in UP, Bihar, Rajsthan and Assam.
Mr Modi said that if one village is developed in a block, it is also likely that development would permeate in other villages also.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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