Today every citizen has only one goal, to build a Viksit Bharat: PM Modi at Constitution Day event

New Delhi [India], November 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the Constitution Day programme at the Supreme Court here and said the Constitution has lived up to every expectation and need of the country.
PM Modi remarked that it was a matter of immense pride of the 75th year of Indian Constitution. He paid tributes to the members of the Constituent Assembly and the Constitution on the occasion. He said every citizen has only one goal, to build a Viksit Bharat.
The Prime Minister remarked that when we are celebrating the Constitution Day, it cannot be forgotten that today was the anniversary of Mumbai Terror attacks as well.
He paid tribute to the victims of the terror attack. The Prime Minister reiterated that India will give a befitting reply to every terror organization which threatens the security and integrity of India.
PM Modi said the framers of the Constitution had provided people with the liberty to interpret the Constitution from time to time by taking appropriate decisions according to the country, time and situation. He added that the makers of the Constitution were well aware that the dreams and aspirations of India will scale new heights with time and the needs of the people of Independent India will also evolve along with the challenges. Therefore, he said, the constitution makers did not make the Constitution as a mere document, but a living, continuously flowing stream.
"Our Constitution is a guide to our present and our future," he said and added that the Constitution had shown the right path to tackle the various challenges that have cropped up in the last 75 years of its existence.
He further noted that the Constitution even encountered the Emergency and underscored that the Constitution had met every need and expectation of the Country.
He added that Constitution framed by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was in force in Jammu and Kashmir today.
Highlighting that India was going through an important phase of change, the Prime Minister said that the Constitution was showing us the right path as a guiding light. Emphasizing that now the path of India's future was of achieving big dreams and big resolutions, PM Modi remarked that "today the goal of every citizen was to build a Viksit Bharat".
Prime Minister stressed that many steps were undertaken to ensure socio-economic justice in the past few years like opening more than 53 crore bank accounts of the people, in the last decade, who did not have access to the banks.
He added that in the past decade, four crore people were ensured of pucca houses, 10 crore gas cylinder connections were given to women of the household.
PM Modi noted that there were only 3 crore houses in India which had household tap connections even after 75 years of Independence. He added that he was pleased that his Government had given more than 12 crore household tap water connections in the last 5-6 years which had eased the living of citizens and women in particular.
He remarked that the Original copy of the Indian Constitution had pictures of Lord Ram, Goddess Sita, Lord Hanuman, Bhagwan Buddha, Bhagwan Mahavira and Guru Govind Singh.
He added that these symbols of Indian culture were given place in the Constitution to ensure that it constantly keeps us aware and mindful of human values.
"Human Values are the basis of today's Indian policies and decisions," he said.
PM Modi said that Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita was enforced to ensure speedy delivery of justice to the citizens and that the punishment based system has now changed to a justice based system.
Underlining that India is laying a lot of emphasis on the ease of living of citizens, PM Modi remarked that Digital Life Certificates were given to senior citizens at their doorstep, the benefit of which was availed by around 1.5 crore senior citizens till date.
He added that India was one of the countries which gave free medical treatment upto Rs 5 lakh to every poor family and India was one such country which gave free healthcare facilities to senior citizens over 70 years of age.
He noted that across thousands of Jan Aushadi Kendras in India, the medicines were being sold at a discount of 80 per cent of prices.
PM Modi said he was pleased that today the immunization coverage among children was nearing 100 per cent through the Mission Indradhanush as against less than 60 per cent coverage in the past. He added that the children in the remotest villages were being immunized today. These efforts, he said, had reduced a lot of the woes of poor and middle class families.
The Prime Minister exhorted that the Government was leaving no stone unturned to remove the difficulties in the lives of citizens. He noted that more than 2.5 crore households were electrified through the Free Electricity scheme which had no electric connection until a few years ago. He also noted that the Mobile towers were installed in the remotest areas to ensure mobile connectivity to the people through 4G and 5G technologies. He further added that high speed broadband connection was now available in the islands of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep through Underwater Optical Fiber connections.
The Prime Minister remarked that India had taken a lead over the developed nations in ensuring land records of houses and agricultural lands in India. He added that under the PM Swamitva Yojana, drone mapping of the land and houses of the village and legal documents were issued on its basis.
PM Modi remarked that rapid development of modern infrastructure was a great necessity for the development of the country. He added that the completion of infrastructure projects on time ensured saving of money as well as ensuring the utility of the project itself.
He said that infrastructure projects were regularly reviewed using the PRAGATI platform, chaired by the Prime Minister himself, and more than Rs 18 lakh crore worth of projects were reviewed and the obstacles facing them were removed. The Prime Minister aid that the timely completion of the infrastructure projects had a multitude of positive effects on the lives of the people. He added that these efforts were ensuring the progress of the country as well as strengthening the basic spirit of the Constitution.
In his remarks, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said the Constitution is the fundamental base of unity, integrity, and development of India. "It's a living document of the ideals of democracy in the biggest democracy - termed as the mother of democracy," he said.
PM Modi released Annual Report of the Indian Judiciary 2023-24.
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Judges of the Supreme Court and Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal were among those present. (ANI)