Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the people to treat urbanisation as an opportunity for faster development and not as a threat.
Speaking at the ceremony to lay the foundation stone for the Nagpur Metro Rail project here, Mr. Modi said: “Some nations smaller than India who achieved independence after us, have raced ahead. We can also get rid of poverty and race ahead if citizens make a resolve.”
India needs 100 “super cities” to match the speed of urbanisation, he added.
Stressing the need for clean cities, the Prime Minister urged the people to gift a “clean India” to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.
