JAMMU: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for transforming India’s border regions from being ”the last in line” to becoming ”the first in focus” under a new national development vision that places the periphery at the centre of growth.
“Over the last 11 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi prioritised border areas and sought to do away with the ‘last village’ to replace it with ‘first village’ vision, placing border development at the heart of national growth,” he said at the ‘Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyaan’ in the R S Pura sector near the India-Pakistan border in Jammu.
The event was attended by farmers, youth and budding entrepreneurs from the nearby villages.
