News 18 | Next Ram Navami Celebrations Will Be at Ram Temple in Ayodhya: Hardeep Singh Puri at News18 Rising India

Mar 30,2023

Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri, at the third edition of the Rising India Conclave on Thursday, said that “after 496 years, the Ram Janmabhoomi temple will be ready and next Ram Navami celebrations will be in Ayodhya”.

About the urban renewal, Puri said, “From 1947 to May 2014, the urban space was subjected to neglect. The figures show that whether it is the temple or what is happening in the urban space…The number of houses built between 2004 and 2014 under the affordable housing scheme was 13.46 lakh which went up to 1.22 crore in the eight years of the Modi government, nine times higher. The investment in housing was Rs 20,303 crore in those 10 years, which is Rs 2 lakh plus crore, again 10 times higher. The total urban spend was Rs 1.57 lakh crore and it has gone to over Rs 17 lakh crore. The urban space is receiving the attention it deserved."

“In 2014, the total kilometrage of Metro in India was 229 km, today we have 850 km in operation and, 1,050 km under construction. We are the fifth largest metro system in the world, in a few months, we will be the third largest. By the end of the next year, we will be the second largest after China. We will replace the US which is at 1,056 km. It starts with the focus on urban rejuvenation brought by PM Modi, which is reflecting in the work in all schemes, which are cooperative federal schemes.”