Note Ban is a Major ‘Safai Abhiyan’, Says PM Modi in Uttarakhand

Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of a project for all-weather roads to ‘Chardham’ in Uttarakhand.

PM Modi being felicitated by party workers in Dehradun on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Promising huge employment opportunities for all, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of an ambitious project for all-weather roads to 'Chardham' in Uttarakhand.

I want to take Uttarakhand to new peaks of development where people are not forced by circumstances to leave their homes in the Himalayas and spend their lives in the dirty streets of cities in search of work.

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

The 900-km Chardham Highway Development programme will entail an investment of Rs 12,000 crore. The project will ensure uninterrupted all-weather safe journey for pilgrims to the four Himalayan shrines – Badrinath, Gangotri, Yamunotri and Kedarnath – which bore the brunt of the 2013 natural calamity.

He also spoke of what he had done for the implementation of OROP, his campaign against corruption and black money and sought the blessings of people of the state in his fight against graft.

Note ban has revealed the identities of big black money hoarders. This is a big cash clean-up drive.

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

(With inputs from PTI.)

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