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Gandhinagar: The 14th All India Home Guard and Civil Defense Conference was held today in the special presence of Gandhinagar MP and Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah. After almost 20 years, Amit Shah congratulated Vivek Srivastava for this planning. He appealed to all present through the 14th conference to move ahead with new energy, new commitment and new path and bring this campaign to GamGam to life.
On this occasion, Amit Shah said that under the leadership of PM Modi, the people of the country have resolved to make India a fully developed country by 2047. When we say fully developed nation, it does not match the ideas behind our concept of fully developed nation, in our concept of fully developed nation, development in every sector, India is first in every sector, but completely Is also developed. Our customs, culture, traditions and our languages to become one nation. Service and security are two important points of this resolution. Security of every person and his property, security of every person's future and rights of every person. Both Civil Defense and Home Guards are involved in active service and security.
In Civil Defense and Home Guards, the core value is to serve, volunteer and come forward to serve the society. If we kill this feeling by any decision then this organization will come to an end. This organization works to connect every section of the society with security and service and it is the responsibility of all of us to awaken this value. Shri Narendrabhai PM Modi's resolve to build a developed India can be kept alive only when we achieve both service and security results through Civil Defense and Home Guards. The conference will be held in five sessions over two days. In this conference, strengthening of Home Guard and Civil Defence, capacity building and disaster management are to be discussed. This conference will be a means of communication between the states and will also serve to exchange the good practices and difficulties of the states and through this the courage to overcome the difficulties will increase and it will become easier to replicate the good practices. State.
He further said that even though Home Guard and Civil Defense were in existence before independence, since 1962, our Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri has worked to give an important role to Home Guard and Civil Defense. And in 1962 itself, the Directorate General of Civil Defense was established and in 1968 the Civil Defense Act was also passed. A film has also been made on Bhujani Patti bomb attack but the role of Home Guard and Civil Defense was not shown in it. In fact, it was the Home Guards and Civil Defense personnel who trained and inspired the sisters of Bhuj. Now is the time to move forward again with innovative efforts and reorganize our work according to the needs of the future without once again looking back. As the Home Minister of the country, I am telling the heads and representatives of Civil Defense and Home Guards across the country that within the next four months we will try to bring timely changes and make them relevant and useful by including many new schemes. . Work to create new consciousness. There has been a radical change in the country within 50 years. The country has progressed a lot.
Contribution to emergency services, institutional arrangements for traffic management, social awareness programs like drug-free India, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, tree plantation drives, public safety and other services should be included in our charter. Awareness among women for women safety, awareness campaign for cyber security and digital fraud, we should play a constructive role in plastic free India. Services like law and order support are to be added and are helpful for us. I would like to express my gratitude to the Home Guards and Civil Defense volunteers across the country. Amit Shah congratulated the Home Guards and Civil Defense personnel for playing their role and showing the whole world their passion to serve the people in the times of Covid.
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In his address, the Chief Minister said that the country's internal security and civil security have a huge contribution in India's development journey under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This has been possible due to the tireless efforts of Home Minister Amit Shah. The duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the country's Home and First Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Bhai has ensured strong law and order in the country. Gujarat has benefited from the leadership and guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 23 consecutive years. In these 23 years Gujarat has been known as a peaceful, safe and secure state in which the Home Guards along with the Police have been an important asset. Gujarat has become the growth engine of the country. Gujarat is a safe, secure and peaceful state, this is the main reason why foreign investments are coming and foreign companies are coming to Gujarat.
As we are growing there, traffic problems are also increasing with urbanization. The Home Guard Rate and its soldiers are doing very important work for traffic management. We all have seen that the services of home guards are very useful in maintaining law and order during elections, fairs or festival days. Gujarat is connected to Pakistan by an international border, the Border Wing Home Guards are deployed in Kutch and Banaskantha to support the BSF guarding the border.
Like the Home Guard, Civil Defense was started with the objective of protecting life and property of people during disasters and normalizing public life after a disaster. During the last Cyclone Beeperjoy, civil defense workers stood shoulder to shoulder with the system in evacuating citizens to safe places before the disaster and restoring public life after the storm, an excellent example of disaster management with civil dharma. Has become. There are over 70,000 civil defense forces and over 45,000 home guards serving in the state.