Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a road show in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua on Sunday.
People gathered on both sides of the road showered petals on the PM and yelled slogans as tghe Prime Minister greeted them on his way to the venue of his public gathering in Jhabua.
With only a few months till the Lok Sabha elections, the visit takes on greater significance.
Mohan Yadav, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, accompanied him on the roadshow.
Prior to the roadshow, PM Modi dedicated and placed the cornerstone for a number of Rs 7,500 crore development projects in Jhabua.
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) stated in an official statement that the projects will help the region’s sizable tribal population.
“Prime Minister will dedicate and lay the foundation stone of multiple initiatives that will benefit the significant tribal population of the region. Prime Minister will disburse monthly installments of Aahar Anudan under Aahar Anudan Yojna to about two lakh women beneficiaries. Under this scheme, Rs 1,500 per month is provided for nutritious food to women of various especially backward tribes of Madhya Pradesh,” the PMO said in a statement.
Additionally, 1.75 lakh Adhikar Abhilekh (a record of rights) would be given to SVAMITVA Scheme participants by Prime Minister Modi. “This will provide documentary evidence to people for the right to their land,” the PMO stated earlier.
He is also going to lay the foundation stone of the ‘CM Rise School’ in Jhabua and transfer Rs 55.90 crores for 559 villages under the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana.
“The school will integrate technology to provide modern facilities like smart classes, e-Library etc to students,” stated the PMO.
Prime Minister will also lay the foundation stone of multiple projects that will strengthen the water supply and provisioning of drinking water in Madhya Pradesh.
According to PMO, the projects for which the foundation stone will be laid include the ‘Talavada Project’ which is a drinking water supply scheme for more than one thousand villages of Dhar and Ratlam; and 14 urban water supply schemes under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) 2.0, benefitting more than 50 thousand urban households across multiple districts of Madhya Pradesh.
