Mr Modi distributes LPG cylinders and cooking kits to eight thousand poor families under Ujjwala Yojana in Dadara and Nagar Haveli; seven thousand allotted homes under Pradhan Mantri Urban and Gramin Awas Yojana.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated phase-I of the Link-II pipeline canal of the ambitious Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation SAUNI  project at Botad in Gujarat. This is the second milestone in the 12,000 crore rupees project to pump Narmada water in 115 Dams of arid Saurashtra region. The ambitious scheme will provide Narmada water to Botad and other surrounding districts. Mr Modi had dedicated phase-I of the Link-I canal at Jamnagar in August last year.

Addressing a huge gathering, the Prime Minister said, people of Saurashtra better know the value of water. He said, it is a dream come true for him as empty Krushnasagar dam is filling up with Narmada water.

Our correspondent reports that the Link-II canal is designed to pump Narmada water in 17 dams spread across Botad, Bhavnagar and Amreli districts. The entire SAUNI project will cover the 10.22 lakh acres of land in the region for irrigation purpose.

Earlier today, the Prime Minister inaugurated a multi-speciality Hospital and a diamond processing unit in Surat. Speaking after inaugurating the Hospital at Katargam, Mr Modi said, health and medical services are still costly and difficult for poor people in remote areas. The Prime Minister said, his government will ensure that doctors prescribe only generic medicines to break the monopoly of big medicine outlets. He said, the government has taken steps so that poor and middle class people can get generic medicines and costly heart treatment at affordable rates.