Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, waves after delivering a speech during an event celebrating the nation’s Independence Day at Red Fort in New Delhi, India. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
Independence Day 2020 Live: PM Modi Launches National Digital Heath Mission
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India Implimenting Important Social Sector Schemes In Jammu & Kashmir
- The last year has been very important for the development of Jammu and Kashmir.
- Important social sector schemes are now being implemented in Jammu and Kashmir.
- We hope that there will be elections in Jammu and Kashmir, with their own elected representatives.
PM Modi Launches National Digital Heath Mission
Every Indian will be given a health identification number which will record each and every detail of a person’s medical history. Health ID can be used to consolidate all health reports, medical prescriptions, he said.
PM Modi Lauds Covid-19 Improvements
- As many as 7 lakh tests for Covid-19 are being conducted everyday.
- At the start, India was only able to do 300 tests daily.
- Three different vaccines at at three different levels of testing in India.
- The plan to make sure a Covid-19 vaccine gets to every Indian has been drawn out
PM Modi Touts Advances For India's Women
- India is now such a country where women are getting employed by the Navy and Airforce.
- Rs 30,000 crore has been transferred to women beneficiaries during Covid-19 pandemic.
- Will take measures to set an appropriate minimum age for women to get married.
PM Modi On Improving India's Rural Infrastructure
- Over the past 5 years optical fibre has been reached to 2.5 lakh gram panchayats.
- People from villages are also in dire need of online services.
- We have now decided that all 6 lakh villages will get optical fibre services.
- We have decided that in 1000 days, all India’s villages will get optical fibre.