Palm oil mission will increase income of farmers in Northeast: PM in Manipur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 22 developmental projects worth over Rs 4,800 crores in Imphal, Manipur on January 04.

Speaking at the inaugural event, PM said, “Today, India is importing a huge amount of palm oil and spending thousands and crores of rupees on it. We want India to be Aatmanirbhar Bharat. Hence, we have come up with Rs 11,000 crore palm oil mission that will help increase the income of the farmers in the Northeast.”

“We should remember how the previous governments made Manipur a ‘blockade state’ and played politics to break the public unity. Efforts of double engine government made sure there's no fire of militancy and insecurity, but the light of peace and development,” the PM added.