Woman Elated As PM Praises Her For Reviving Dried Lake In Mann Ki Baat The 19-year-old woman from Agroutha village in Chhatarpur district said she never dreamt of such recognition and that she would now work harder towards water conservation.
Updated: February 28, 2021 7:44 pm IST
In his Mann Ki Baat , PM also called for a 100-day campaign to clean up all water bodies.
Bhopal/Chhatarpur:
Babita Rajput, who is from a village in Madhya Pradesh, was delighted after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Mann Ki Baat broadcast on Sunday praised her for reviving a dried lake near her place by channelising rain water into it.
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India s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds up a folder with the Government of India logo, as India s Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian and Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur look on as she leaves her office to present the federal budget in the parliament in New Delhi, India, February 1, 2021. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
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Updated: February 15, 2021 1:43 pm IST
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Exactly six years later, on February 12, 2021, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rose in Parliament and proudly proclaimed that the Modi government has implemented MGNREGA program the best and incurred the highest expenditure ever in its 15-year history. In her characteristic television debate panelist style, she mocked the Congress party for not being able to match such levels of spending for the program during its tenure in government. Even by the low standards of public rhetoric, the hypocrisy of the Finance Minister was stunning.