Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Government is making all out efforts to end hunger and poverty in the country. The Prime Minister was addressing at the occasion of Bhumi Pujan of the memorial and temple of Sant Ravidas at Badtuma near Sagar in Madhya Pradesh yesterday. On this occasion, Mr Modi said his government started Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana to benefit Dalit, deprived, tribal and backward classes of the country. Mr. Modi said that for the first time in the country, the Dalit backward community is getting the respect which was not received in the previous governments.
 
Referring to the Government's campaign against diseases, the Prime Minister said that a campaign to eradicate sickle cell anemia is being run to treat seven crore people. Similarly, a campaign is going on to get rid of TB by 2025.

Mentioning various public welfare schemes of the Government, Mr. Modi said that from the Matru Vandana Yojana on the birth of a child to Mission Indradhanush, Ayushman Bharat for free treatment, 701 Eklavya residential schools in tribal areas for education, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana for daughters, Mudra Yojana and Stand Up Yojana to make the youth self-reliant, are bringing changes in the lives of the downtrodden, deprived and backward classes. He informed that 8,000 crore rupees have been given to the youth of these sections under the Stand Up scheme.
 
Prime Minister Modi yesterday also laid the foundation stone and inaugurated rail and road projects worth about 4,000 crore rupees in a program organised at Dhana in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.

The memorial and temple of Sant Ravidas is taking shape at a cost of about 100 crores rupees on 11 acres of land at Badtuma near Sagar.