NewDelhi: The first edition of Grameen Bharat Mahotsav 2025 was also launched on Saturday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. While interacting with artists and artisans, he had stressed on the event as signifying India’s developmental journey. To support this, Modi said that if India has to progress, then the villages should progress, as a self-sufficient village is a vision for a self-sufficient nation.
Comparing an urbanite to a villager, Modi attempted to build up the potential in villages by stating that the person who has lived in a village knows how to live for the village. He emphasised the need to improve the quality of life in rural areas as a way of making the country achieve self-sufficiency. He pointed out that poverty levels in India are registering a slight decline.
Modi argued that for over half a decade, from 2014 up to now, he has been focusing on the rural population. ”My government’s goal is to provide a dignified life for the villagers,” he said. The government of the country has a plan in this that is to help most of the people in rural areas so that they are able to find good, productive jobs right in their home areas, hence limiting migration. To achieve this, the government has embarked on programs to ensure all the villages have their fundamental needs met.
The PM also talked about the other recent cabinet clearances, among them being the extension of the PM Fasal Bima Yojana for another year. He put a word to farmers that although the price of DAP fertiliser has gone up world over, his government would not allow the price to go up by removing subsidies to farm input prices for the inconvenience of burdening farmers.
Noting how traditional individual arts and skills still sustain the rural economy, Modi set out a new PM Vishwakarma scheme for an opportunity for millions of artisans. He admitted that the earlier government did not pay attention to the rights of SC/ST/OBC organisations, which caused the shift to rural areas and more degradation of poverty.
New government data from the State Bank of India points to the rural poverty rate in India falling to below 5% in 2024, down from about 26% in 2012. The latter is due to the continuing governmental activity to transform previously deserted territories and promote equal rights for everyone.
Grameen Bharat Mahotsav, starting from 4 January to 9 January, is initiated to focus on rural business and culture and uplift innovation to make rural people financially sound. This year’s theme for the festival is “Building a Resilient Rural India for the Developed Bharat in 2047” with the tagline “When villages grow, the nation grows.”
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