Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants 140 crore people including the poor of the country to become self-reliant and he is working for it with dedication. Addressing the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Swanidhi Yojana here, Shah said that the Prime Minister wants India to become self-reliant in the space technology and defense sector and his goal is to make the poor people self-reliant as well. Pradhan Mantri Swanidhi Yojana helps the poor to get loans easily. The Home Minister said that the poor people have benefited the most during the tenure of the Modi government. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was also present in the ceremony of distributing loans to the beneficiaries under this scheme. Shah said, “During the last nine years, about three crore people got their own house, four crore people got electricity connection, 10 crore people got gas cylinders, 12 crore people got toilets, 80 crore people got free ration and 60 crore people got five A health insurance benefit of Rs.1 lakh has been given. Shah said that many schemes have been implemented to lift the poor out of poverty. He said, ‘More than 1.5 lakh people in my constituency (Gandhinagar in Gujarat) have benefited from the PM-Swainidhi scheme. Under this scheme, financial help is given to those people who are running small business and handicraft work without any assistance.
Modi wants to make the countrymen self-reliant: Shah
