GANDHINAGAR: Union home minister Amit Shah said here on Sunday that PM Narendra Modi has been dedicatedly working on his aim to make 140 crore people in the country, including the poor, self-reliant.
Addressing a gathering of beneficiaries of the PM SVANidhi scheme, which helps street vendors get easy loans, Shah said, “PM Modi wants to make 140 crore people including all the poor people ‘atmanirbhar’ (self reliant).Besides space technology, research and development, among other things, the Prime Minister has worked with complete dedication to improve the standard of life of 60 crore poor people.”

Shah said that poor people have benefited the most under the Modi government. “In the last nine years, around 3 crore people got their own homes, 4 crore people got electricity connections, 10 crore got gas cylinders, 12 crore gotoilets, 80 crore got free ration and 60 crore people have been covered under the Rs 5 lakh health insurance scheme,” Amit Shah added.

Talking about Gandhinagar, Shah said, “In my constituency, over 1.5 lakh people have availed the benefit of PM-SVANidhi scheme, under which financial assistance is given without any collateral to those who own small businesses and run hand carts.”