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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Gujarat, made a stop at his hometown Vadnagar on 8 October and paid a nostalgic visit to his school, a first since coming to power in 2014. He also visited Bharuch, where he laid the foundation of a barrage over Narmada river.
In Vadnagar, the PM launched the ‘Intensified Mission Indradhanush’ and lambasted the previous Congress-led UPA over the state of the healthcare sector.
He said his government was committed to making healthcare affordable to the poor and accused the earlier governments of not having cared to evolve a comprehensive health policy and were not concerned about increasing the number of seats in the medical colleges in the country.
Later in the day, while laying the foundation stone for the barrage over Narmada river in Bharuch, he said that it will save people “money, time and petrol”. The barrage, he said, will connect south Gujarat with Bharuch. He also flagged off the Antyodaya Express, which will commute between Surat and Jaynagar in Bihar.
He also added that “political will” helped the government build the Sardar Sarovar Dam, while taking a dig at the Opposition by saying that no “matter how many thieves come and go, truth and sincerity will win.”
(With inputs from IANS)
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