Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he sees himself as a family member of the Dawoodi Bohras and lauded the strides the community has made in the fields of education, business and entrepreneurship.
“When I am among you, I am neither chief minister nor Prime Minister. I am your family,” Modi said, after inaugurating the Marol campus of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, a premier institute of the Dawoodi Bohra community. The institute has campuses at Surat, Karachi and Nairobi.
Patron of the Jamea (institution) and spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohras, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, presided over the ceremony which was attended by chief minister Eknath Shinde and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Earlier in the day, Modi flagged the CSMT-Solapur and CSMT-Sai Nagar Shirdi Vande Bharat Express trains from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, and ‘remotely’ inaugurated two arms of the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road extension project and Kurar underpass on Western Express Highway.
The PM said in the last eight years, India has opened one university and two colleges every week. Pointing out that the new education policy focuses on education in mother tongues and Indian languages, he said, “Now, medical and engineering education can be imparted in local languages too.”
Modi suggested that skill and technology, institute and industry need to be blended to create an ecosystem where employment can be generated. The government has ended 40,000 compliances to help entrepreneurs, he added.
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