1.#Opinion : Thursday, 28 Dec 2023. 06:00. 3380./ / 1.#PMINDIA: News Updates: PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra: 27 Dec, 2023: Print News.

 

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1.#Opinion : Thursday, 28 Dec 2023. 06:00. 3380./ / 

1.#PMINDIA: News Updates: PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra: 27 Dec, 2023: Print News.

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VIDEO: PM Narendra Modi addresses Vikasit Bharat Yatra via VC

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#PM interacts with beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra

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Thousands of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra beneficiaries from across the country join the event

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COMMENTS:

“’Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra’ focuses on saturation of government schemes”

“I am continuously searching for people who have been left out”

“Wherever Modi ki Guarantee ki Gaadi is going it is increasing people’s confidence and fulfilling the hopes of the people”

“I have set a target of creating 2 crore Lakhpati Didis”

“’One District, One Product’ initiative will go a long way in furthering prosperity in the lives of many”

“It is our endeavor that cooperatives emerges as a strong aspect of rural life in India”

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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today interacted with beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra via video conferencing. The Prime Minister also addressed the gathering on the occasion.

Thousands of beneficiaries of Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra from across the country joined the event. The programme was joined by Union Ministers, MPs, MLAs and local level representatives.

Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said “this campaign to connect with the resolve of a developed India is continuously expanding. It has not been even 50 days since the Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra started, but till now this Yatra has reached 2.25 lakh villages. This is a record in itself.” he thanked everyone, especially women and youth for making it a success. He said “the aim of Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra is to reach that person who, due to some reason, has been deprived of the schemes of the Government of India.” The Prime Minister said that this proactive outreach to people is meant to assure them that the government schemes are available to all and without any favour or discrimination. “I am searching for people who have been left out”, he added. The Prime Minister noted the unprecedented confidence among the beneficiaries and said “every beneficiary across the country has a story about the changes in their lives in the last 10 years. It is a story full of courage.”

The Prime Minister said that these benefits are pushing the beneficiaries to make their lives even better. He said “Today, millions of beneficiaries of the country are using the government schemes as a medium to move ahead.”

He said that wherever Modi ki Guarantee ki Gaadi is going it is increasing people’s confidence and fulfilling the hopes of the people. He informed that during VBSY 4.5 lakh new applications have been filed for Ujjwala gas connection, 1 crore Ayushman cards have been issued, 1.25 crore health check ups have been conducted, 70 lakh people have been screened for TB, and 15 lakh sickle cell anaemia tests have been conducted. He also informed that simultaneous issuing of ABHA cards will create medical records of the beneficiaries. “This will spread new awareness regarding health in the entire country”, he said.

The Prime Minister pointed out that many new people are getting the benefits and stressed the responsibility of representatives of the local bodies and asked them to identify every eligible person in the village, ward, city and locality.

To give impetus to the rural economy, the Government of India is running a huge campaign to provide self-employment to women in villages. In the past years, about 10 crore sisters, daughters and didis in the country have joined self-help groups. These sisters and daughters have been provided assistance of more than Rs 7.5 lakh crore by the banks. The Prime Minister announced “to further expand this campaign, I have set a target of creating 2 crore Lakhpati Didis in the next three years.” He also mentioned the Namo Drone Didi Yojana that will enhance the confidence of rural women.

Elaborating on the campaign to organize the small farmers the Prime Minister talked about FPOs and cooperative enterprises like PACs. He said “it is our endeavor that cooperation emerges as a strong aspect of rural life in India. Till now we have seen the benefits of cooperation in the milk and sugarcane sectors. Now it is being expanded to other areas of farming and sectors like fish production also. We are moving ahead with the target of creating new PACS in 2 lakh villages in the coming time.” He also informed about the proposals for promoting cooperative solutions in dairy and storage. “Efforts are also being made to strengthen more than 2 lakh micro industries in the food processing sector”, he added.

The Prime Minister also talked about One District One Product scheme and stressed the need to prompt ‘vocal for local’. He said Modi ki Guarantee ki Gadi is informing people about local products and these products can be registered on GeM portal too. He concluded by hoping for the continued success of Modi ki Guarantee ki Gadi.

Background

Since its launch on 15th November, 2023, Prime Minister has regularly interacted with the beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra all across the country. The interaction has happened thrice through video conferencing (30th November, 9th December and 16th December). Also, Prime Minister has interacted with Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra beneficiaries physically on two consecutive days (17th-18th December) during his recent visit to Varanasi.

Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is being undertaken across the country with the aim to attain saturation of flagship schemes of the government through ensuring that the benefits of these schemes reach all targeted beneficiaries in a time bound manner.

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2.#DMK MP video controversy: How 1965 anti-Hindi protests changed Tamil Nadu's political landscape: Story by Divya Chandrababu: Hindustan Times.

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2.#The fourth phase of the anti-Hindi struggle erupted in 1965 (Front row : left to right) K. A. Mathialagan, C. N. Annadurai, Rajaji and M. Karunanidhi © Provided by Hindustan Times.

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Afour-year-old video of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Dayanidhi Maran comparing the poor job prospects of those who only speak Hindi as opposed to English, particularly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, has resurfaced on social media. This has been amplified by the BJP criticising the DMK of being condescending to Hindi speakers and it has put the Dravidian party’s allies in the INDIA bloc in a sticky position.

In Tamil Nadu, the sentiment against Hindi imposition dates back to the pre-Independence period. However, it is the violent protests, which erupted in 1965, with reports of Hindi replacing English as the sole official language that is fresh in people's memory. Students across Tamil Nadu pelted stones on buses, set trains on fire and some even immolated themselves in the 1960s.

The present ruling party in Tamil Nadu, the DMK, led protests at that time in erstwhile Madras state which snowballed into a riot. They found support in states like West Bengal. DMK founder CN Annadurai announced that January 26, 1965 (when the Official Languages Act came into force) will be observed as a day of mourning. About 3,000 DMK cadres, including Annadurai, were arrested as a pre-emptive measure to foil the protests. About 70 people were killed, according to government estimates. Earlier, PR Rangaswami, 78, who was a first-year student at Chennai’s Pachaiyappa’s college leading the anti-Hindi agitation in 1965 had recalled in an HT interview about how the protest had begun peacefully before it spiralled out of hand. “We raised slogans, 'Hindi ozhiga, Tamil vaazhga' (down with Hindi, long-live Tamil),” he had said.

Eventually, the proposal was dropped. Under Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, it was guaranteed that both Hindi and English would be used in official transactions. In February 1965, he made a radio announcement to this effect to calm the situation and the protests subsided. To date, politicians of Tamil Nadu warn the union government of a reaction similar to the 1965 protests when rallying against Hindi imposition.

It was this protest that caused a major political change in the history of the state. It ousted the Congress in Tamil Nadu and brought the DMK to power for the first time in 1967 under Annadurai and since then the state has only swung between the two Dravidian majors- DMK and AIADMK. The movement which was led by students also gave birth to future leaders, such as the state’s present water resources minister Durai Murugan. Among the students who were arrested also included VK Sasikala’s late husband M Natarajan from Presidency College and G Vaiko from Madras Law College in Chennai. While Natarajan introduced Sasikala to the late J Jayalalithaa, Vaiko became a fiery orator under the DMK led by the late M Karunanidhi before he split to form the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) which espouses Tamil sub-nationalism.

Both the DMK and the opposition AIADMK have promoted the use of Tamil and English in education and employment. The linguistic resistance has also always found linkages ideologically to the Dravidian movement and the two front-line Dravidian parties operate along this dogma. The DMK has opposed the three-language policy prescribed under the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 stating that they will continue to maintain Tamil Nadu’s two-language formula of English and Tamil. Though the state BJP unit is in favour of the policy brought in by their central leadership, they have taken a position to oppose any form of Hindi being imposed to appeal to the state’s electorate. DMK leaders specifically state the difference that they are not against Hindi but against the imposition of the language which they perceive as undermining state autonomy and being against federalist principles.

Earlier in June, Tamil Nadu chief minister and DMK president MK Stalin said that the BJP-led Union government and its institutions continue to give an “undue” and “unfair” advantage to Hindi over other Indian languages, while opposing a circular (dated April 3) issued by a public sector insurance company (The New India Assurance Company Ltd) for implementation of Hindi. “Gone are the days of non-Hindi speaking citizens of India tolerating the second-class treatment meted out to them, despite their contribution in propelling India's growth with their hard work and talent,” Stalin said.

“Tamil Nadu and DMK will do everything under our power to stop Hindi imposition, as we have always strived in our history. We will remove the undeserving special status that Hindi enjoys everywhere in the Union Government, like Railways, Postal Department, Banking and Parliament that affects us and our people on a day-to-day basis.” Earlier, in March, Stalin described as “unabashed Hindi imposition” a directive by the Food Safety and Standard Authority of India (FSSAI) to use the term Dahi (meaning curd in Hindi) on packaging of curd followed by the regional word within brackets.

“The language debate in Tamil Nadu presents an interesting overview of the historical struggles to resist the imposition of Hindi in the 1960s and the current political resistance combined with the demand for all the 22 languages mentioned under the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India recognised as official languages of the union,” says political analyst Ramu Manivannan. “States like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and West Bengal have moved from resisting the Hindi imposition to advocating their rights in terms of seeking national status for their own languages as official languages of the union beyond the status of being acknowledged under the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India. The DMK government led by Stalin, in the recent past, has not only been articulating this position but also seeking the support and understanding of other states in the country.”

Last year, NDA ally in Tamil Nadu, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) protested against public sector Prasar Bharthi’s broadcast in Karaikal local radio station where a four-hour Hindi broadcast began last October 2. This has reduced the Tamil broadcast by two hours, said PMK founder S Ramadoss. Meanwhile, DMK ally MDMK led by Vaiko announced a protest in early October in Chennai of the expansion of Hindi in radio broadcasts and the NEP.

Last April, Union home minister Amit Shah while presiding over the 37th Parliamentary Official Language Committee said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English in Indian states as a unifying language, leading to another controversy. Stalin reacted sharply that it was an attack on the unity of India. “The BJP leadership is continuously working to destroy India’s diversity. Is Amit Shah thinking that a ‘Hindi state’ is enough but not an Indian state? One language for all does not ensure unity. Uniformity also does not create unity. You are repeating the same mistake. But you will not succeed in it,” Stalin had said. The DMK’s mouthpiece Murosoli warned the BJP not to forget the anti-Hindi agitation from 1965.

NOTE:

1. DRAVIDEAN THEORY OF COLONIAL ERA USED TO MANIPULATE  PEOPLE OF TAMILNADU & POSSESS THE STATE FOR FAMILY RULE OF KARUNANITHI.

2. MADE HUGE WEALTH BY LOOTING PEOPLE MONEY, THE VOLUME OF CORRUPTION UNIMAGINABLE.

3. BEST TO DESTROY THIS DYNASTY RULE TO SAVE TAMILNADU, LIFT TAMIL PEOPLE UP.

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JAI HIND

JAI BHARATHAM

VANDHE MADHARAM

BHARAT MATHA KI JAI.

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