Deep-sea fishing vessels to fully utilise India’s potential: Amit Shah
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Mumbai: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Monday stressed India’s commitment to self-reliance, sustainability and empowering cooperatives in the fisheries sector, while highlighting the significance of the distribution of deep-sea fishing vessels.
“The objective of this programme for the distribution of 'deep-sea fishing boats' is to fully utilise the potential of India's fisheries wealth in the coming times.
The benefits arising from the fisheries industry should reach directly to the toiling fishermen and the poor families associated with cooperative societies -- this is the main goal of this initiative. In the next five years, we will create a system that will work for fishermen like dairy, sugar mills, and market committees, and will be the reason for their economic prosperity,” he added.
The Home Minister was speaking at the distribution of deep-sea fishing vessels under Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojna at Mazagon Dock in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy CMs Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, Ports and Fisheries Minister Nitesh Rane, among other dignitaries.
He said, "The scheme is set to bring a significant change in the lives of the sisters and brothers engaged in fisheries, working for their livelihood in our 11,099-kilometre-long coastal region. In the coming days, it will emerge as a very significant scheme."
