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EVERY DAY, EVERY MOMENT

DEDICATED TO NATION-BUILDING

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is committed to using every day and every moment
for nation-building, resumed his scheduled programme shortly after mother Heeraben's

death and cremation. Prime Minister Modi believes that we can continue to serve the nation
without stopping. With this resolution, he laid the foundation and inaugurated projects
worth more than Rs 7,800 crore in West Bengal, as well as presided over the second
meeting of the National Ganga Council on December 30, 2022. He also launched the Vande
Bharat Express, which connects Howrah and New Jalpaiguri, and inaugurated the Kolkata
Metro's Joka-Taratla Purple Line.

ecember 30th is a significant date in Indian December 30, 2022, as part of a series of initiatives
history. On this day, Netaji Subhash Chandra to promote cooperative federalism in the country.
DBose hoisted the tricolour in Andaman, The National Ganga Council has been given the
raising the flag of India's independence. Every responsibility to check pollution in the Ganga
particle of Bengal contains the history of the and its tributaries and ensuring their continuity.
freedom movement. Prime Minister Narendra Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, "More than 25
Modi chose this date to present the Vande sewerage projects have been approved in West
Bharat train to the land where the phrase "Vande Bengal under the Namami Gange Mission." Nine of
Mataram" was coined. After flagging off the the eleven projects have already been completed,
Vande Bharat Express connecting Howrah to New and seven are currently being completed. Work
Jalpaiguri, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, on five new projects worth Rs 1.5 thousand crore
"Indian Railways has worked on the foundation of begins today. The revival of the Adi Ganga river
modernity in the last 8 years." is the most important of these. Unfortunately, the
Indian Railways will embark on a new Adi Ganga river is in poor condition right now.
modernization journey over the next eight years. Garbage and sewage-contaminated water flow
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over the into it, and modern infrastructure worth more than
second meeting of the National Ganga Council on Rs 600 crore is being constructed to clean it.

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