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Empowering Rural India Cover Story
Special rural India initiatives have
empowered and made villages self-reliant,
while also reducing poverty at the same
rate. These initiatives cover the soul of
India, i.e. more than 83 crore people.
The Union Government has consistently
emphasised promoting quality of life in rural
areas for equitable and inclusive growth. Its
objective has been to bring about a dignified
change in the lives and living standards
of the villagers through socio-economic
inclusion, integration, and empowerment.
It is the result of Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay's
dream of 'Antyodaya' that the number of
people forced to live in poverty has come
down from 22 percent to 10 percent in the
last few years, and the extreme poverty line
rate has also remained below one percent.
"Let me tell you that those who know
me, they also understand me. I am
not for my loved ones or myself. I
am here for the poor. I was born into
poverty and have lived in poverty. I
understand the pain of the poor."
his quote by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
has frequently been reflected in his working
India's development can only style over the last nine years. There is no more
happen when the villages Taccurate example of matching between words
are developed. India can also and deeds in governance or politics than the fact that, in
recent years, the soul of India, i.e., rural India has become
become developed only when
the basis of a developed India's resolution due to the
its villages develop. That is
speed with which it has developed.
why today our government is
"India lives in its villages", said Mahatma Gandhi at the
working to provide every facility
turn of the 20th century. His words are just as relevant
in the villages of India that is
today, in the 21st century. Unfortunately, even after many
available in the cities. decades, our villages continue to lack basic amenities.
Even decades later, lakhs of families still lacked bank
-Narendra Modi, Prime Minister accounts and even an electric bulb in their homes, which
was of great concern to any nation and its leader. The
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