Modi ‘adopts’ children left orphaned by Covid
PM Cares offers scholarship, edu loans for higher studies
Asserting that the BJP-led NDA government’s eight years in office were dedicated to the welfare of the poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday: “India’s pride has increased around the world and our power in global forums has increased.”
The PM also expressed happiness that as his government is completing its eight years, the “confidence of the country and the self-confidence of its people is unprecedented”.
Speaking at the PM Cares for Children event, Modi also said India was getting out of the “vicious cycle” of corruption, scams, nepotism, and with terrorist organisations spreading across the country and regional discrimination, in which it was trapped before 2014, and asserted that his government’s eight years were dedicated to the welfare of the poor. The ruling BJP, claimed Modi, had “changed the political culture” of the country and “ushered in a responsive and proactive government”.
The PM released benefits under the PM Cares for Children Scheme and transferred scholarships to school-going children who were orphaned due to
the Covid-19 pandemic.
The children were also handed over a passbook of PM Cares for Children, and Health Card under Ayushman BharatPradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana.
Modi said the PM Cares for Children programme was a reflection of the fact that every citizen was standing with these children. The PM also said that under this scheme, if someone needs an education loan for professional
courses, for higher education, the PM Cares will help in that as well.
Talking about the global
Covid-19 pandemic, Modi said India trusted its scientists, doctors and youth during that period so that
Covid-19 did not become a problem, and India was instead “a solution-giver for the world”. He said coming out of the negative impact of Covid-19, India has become one of the “fastest growing economies in the world”.
He also said the PM Cares fund helped a lot in preparing hospitals, buying ventilators and setting up oxygen plants during that period.
As the Narendra Modi government has completed eight years in power, home minister Amit Shah said Modi had “given wings to the dreams and aspirations of every citizen of the country and instilled in them new confidence during his eight years of government”.