Incubation centre at IIT-BHU for promotion of Bhojpuri, Maithili, Awadhi: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said an incubation centre will be set up at the IIT-BHu for promotion of Bhojpuri, Maithili and Awadhi languages.

The Minister for Law and Justice and Electronics and Information Technology attended various programmes in Varansi and held a press conference on the achievements of the Modi government in its four years in office.

He said the Union government will provide Rs 3 crore for setting up the incubation centre at the IIT-BHU where purvanchali languages (that include Bhojpuri, Maithili and Awadhi) can be studied in digital mode.

He said a new bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal will also come up at Varanasi so that those having any dispute can appeal at the tribunal and don't need to go to places like Allahabad and Lucknow.

He said a TCS- BPO centre would start functioning in Varanasi from next month and that his ministry aims to open BPO centres in small districts like Ghazipur and Deoria.

He said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, the NDA government has remained transparent and corruption-free.

He said the Modi government effectively eliminated middlemen and touts and money meant for poor reaches directly to their bank accounts.

He said the Union government was carrying out rapid development in the road, railways and aviation sectors.

He said under the leadership of Modi, India was being globally recognised as an important nation and the PM an influential global leader.

India's efforts isolated Pakistan in the world as it promoted terrorism and sheltered terrorists.

He said the army was given a free hand to deal with situation on the borders and retaliate forcefully if even a single bullet is fired from across the border.

On cleaning of the Ganga river,he said the Centre was serious and was taking all necessary steps in this direction.

Replying to queries of reporters over rising petrol and diesel prices, he said the government was working to frame a long-term policy to control the prices so that common people are not affected.