Farm Bills Need of 21st Century India, Will Empower Farmers: PM

The PM addressed the controversial farm bills, saying that this change in the farming sector is a need of the hour.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, 21 September, laid the foundation stone of nine highway projects in Bihar via video conference. These projects involve a road length of about 350 kilometres and will cost Rs 14,258 crore, Hindustan Times reported. He also inaugurated optical fibre internet services through which the state's all 45,945 villages will be connected.

Speaking at the event, PM Modi addressed the passage of the two controversial farm bills in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday, saying that this change in the farming sector is the need of the present hour. He said that the Parliament had on Sunday passed “historic laws giving new rights to the farmers of the country.”