The Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar on February 24, 2020 inaugurated the 4th Anniversary celebration of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rurban Mission at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi. with The anniversary was celebrated with the theme ‘Aatma Gaon Ki, Suvidha Sheher Ki’.
About Rurban Mission
- The Mission was launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 21st February 2016, with the vision to deliver catalytic interventions to rural areas on the threshold of growth.
- The objective is to develop the clusters in a holistic manner by providing all the basic amenities, infrastructure as well as economic development opportunities in an integrated and time bound manner.
- The Minister urged that people should be dedicated towards achieving the objective of ‘sabka saath sabka vikas’ and work towards development of villages and rural India with a community spirit. He said that when the community spirit and effort increases then Centre and State will work together for development of clusters and all schemes will be made convergent towards that objective.
