Shivraj Singh Chouhan Pledges to Fulfill PM’s I-Day Vision for Agriculture, Rural Development

Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a meeting with the employees and officers of both the Ministries of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and Rural Development to ensure that Prime Minister Independence Day vision for agriculture and rural development.

Ministers of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Bhagirath Choudhary and Ministers of State for Rural Development Kamlesh Paswan and Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani also attended the meeting.

Chouhan interacted with all the officers and employees of Agriculture and Rural Development as well as ICAR on the next day of Independence Day and took a pledge to fulfill the vision given by Prime Minister Modi for agriculture and rural development in his address from Red Fort on Independence Day.

"We will put in all our efforts and hard work to fulfill the roadmap for 2047 and the resolutions for a developed India," he said, adding that the Prime Minister said that three times more work needs to be done. "We will work three times harder under his guidance. We are all one family, we will work together."

He took a pledge to work with full honesty and dedication. Chouhan also made all the employees and officers take a pledge to work for the creation of a developed India through agriculture and farmers’ welfare and rural development with full hard work, honesty, dedication and by putting in all our capabilities.

The Rural Development department should play an incomparable role in the creation of a developed India, he said, adding, "We will do hard work with honesty."