August 15, 2021

India will launch a major infrastructure plan to boost the economy and aim at 100 percent coverage of development schemes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a speech on the country’s 75th independence day.

A 100 trillion rupees ($1.35 trillion) national infrastructure plan called “Gati Shakti” to boost manufacturing and employment will be launched, he said.

“From free cooking gas to health insurance schemes, the poor of the nation know the strength of the government schemes. These schemes have expanded rapidly in recent times, but now we have to move toward saturation,” Modi said in his address from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi.

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