Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a summit in Varanasi on the occasion of 'World TB Day' . PM Modi said that today's India is achieving the target ahead of time. A target of 2030 has been set to eliminate TB from the world, but India is working fast to eliminate it from the root by 2025 . While addressing the summit, PM Modi also mentioned a years old incident related to Mahatma Gandhi.
While addressing the summit, PM Modi said that every incident of years old is also being remembered. Mahatma Gandhi did a lot of work to end leprosy. When he was in Savarmati Ashram, he was called to inaugurate the Leprosy Hospital in Ahmedabad.
Gandhiji then refused to go there. He said that I will not come to inaugurate. I will be happy when you call me to lock that leprosy hospital. Then I will be happy too. This means that he wanted to end leprosy and close that hospital itself.
'When I got the opportunity, I fulfilled Gandhiji's dream'
PM Modi said, even after the death of Gandhiji, that hospital continued to run for decades. In the year 2001, when I got the opportunity to serve, it was in my mind that one work of Gandhiji was left to lock the hospital. Work was done for this and in the year 2007 that hospital was locked and the hospital was closed. Gandhiji's dream came true.
Many social organizations contributed and played a big role in fulfilling Gandhiji's dream. This is the reason why I am very confident about India's success against TB. Please tell that PM Modi reached Banaras on Friday morning itself. Where he also inaugurated the newly built ropeway from Cantt to Godaulia.
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