We have turned coal into diamonds, says PM Modi in Rourkela

Rourkela (Odisha): Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an audience while inaugurating the Rourkela Steel Plant's modernization project. Here are the updates:

• We want to develop Ispat General Hospital into a medical college cum super speciality hospital - PM Modi
• Through a transparent auction of just 20 out of 204 coal mines, the country has earned over Rs 2 lakh crores - PM
• I can say it with pride that we have been in power for 10 months but there has not been a single blot on the government - PM Modi
• Coal had become a burden; now we have turned it into diamonds - PM Modi
• The money that comes from auction of coal blocks allocation will be given to the states with coal mines; honesty begets development - PM
• If our states progress, the nation will progress - PM Modi
• After we came to power, we dealt with the issue of "royalty" and increased the amount - PM
• Now the nation runs with the policy of partnership with the states unlike before - PM
• It's not enough for rest of the country to progress while the eastern region lags behind - PM Modi
• The nation will not progress if there is inconsistent development, development needs to happen in the entire nation - PM
• Everyone in the world is looking towards India, therefore we want to invite them to invest in our nation for better prospects - PM
• Clouds of gloom have vanished in 10 months since we came to power... the attention of the world is focussed on India - PM
• If skill development is offered to the youth of Rourkela the nation will progress at twice the speed - PM
• So it goes without saying that people from Rourkela also contribute to national security - PM
• India is protected because someone in Rourkela is working in iron mines in the heat, that's where all the armour comes from - PM
• If something happens in Rourkela, its ‘vibration’ reaches all corners of India - PM Modi
• Rourkela is like "mini India", people from all walks of life are here - PM
• Today that I am here, I will give you a report of all that I have done - PM
• I wish that Odisha develops beyond imagination and the youth progress and that they get the opportunity to take the nation forward – PM Modi