Cooperation of citizens, teachers and parents is essential to create a 'Drug-free Gujarat' and a 'Drug-free India'

Amit Shah yesterday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for various development projects worth approximately ₹1,400 crore in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel and several other dignitaries were present on the occasion.

Amit Shah said that development works worth approximately ₹1,400 crore were inaugurated and their foundation stones laid today. Of these, works worth around ₹1,024 crore have been undertaken by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), while projects worth approximately ₹400 crore have been completed or initiated through the Gujarat Government’s Roads and Buildings Department and the Government of India.

Shri Amit Shah said that in 2007, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had launched a scheme to provide permanent houses to people living in slums, which is now being taken forward by Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel. He added that the residents of Ramapir No Tekro are now being provided with beautiful private flats. He said that once the entire project is implemented, more than 55,000 people will have access to social security, recreational, educational and healthcare facilities within a single complex. Shri Shah further said that Prime Minister Modi had launched a scheme to rehabilitate nearly one lakh slum dwellers in Ahmedabad by providing them with permanent houses, and the Chief Minister and the Gujarat Government are successfully taking this initiative forward.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah said that the Opposition party, which ruled the country and Gujarat from 1947 to 1995, never paid attention to areas like Ramapir No Tekro. He said that the poor continued to vote for the Opposition party for a long time, but their houses were never built. He said that the process of change began in 1995 with the election of the first councilor, and in 2012, he himself was elected as the MLA from this constituency.

Shri Amit Shah urged the residents of Ramapir Ka Tila to give priority to their children's education. Referring to the inauguration of two primary schools today, he said that the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has transformed all the primary schools in the area into smart schools. He added that the Primary Education Committees of the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency have also converted schools into smart schools.