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Spend 5% of your travel budget to buy local products: PM’s appeal to country

Addressing a gathering at Mana village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand after praying at the Kedarnath and Badrinath temples, Modi praised local products and efforts of local self-help groups.

Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday urged people of the country to spend 5 percent of their travel expenditure on the purchase of local goods, produced by residents of the areas they visit.

 

Addressing a gathering at Mana village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand after praying at the Kedarnath and Badrinath temples, Modi praised local products and efforts of local self-help groups.

“Today, I have come to a border village protecting our country. From this village on the China border, I appeal to travellers across the country to take a pledge to spend at least 5 percent of their travel expenditure on purchasing local products. Just like I talk about ‘vocal for local’, I appeal for this other pledge… I cannot give orders, but I can request,” he said.

“This will give a big push to local products and will give immense satisfaction to you too,” he said.

Referring to the rejuvenation of centres of faith, he said it would help the “Ease of Living” in hilly areas and provide employment opportunities to the youth there.

“Rail, roads and ropeways bring employment with them and make life easy and empowered. These facilities enhance tourism and make transportation easy in the hilly areas. Drones are also being planned to be deployed to improve logistics in these difficult areas,” he said.

Earlier, he laid the foundation stone of development works worth more than Rs 3,400 crore including the ropeway projects in Kedarnath and Hemkund Sahib.

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