Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday distributed about 51,000 appointment letters via video conferencing to newly inducted recruits as part of ‘Rozgar Mela’.

The recruits, selected from across the country, will be joining the Government in various ministries and departments, including Home Affairs, Higher Education and Defence, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.

Emphasising the “duties and responsibilities” of the recruits to improve the “ease of living” of people, Modi said India was witnessing “an infrastructure revolution” in the areas of “modern highways, railway stations, airports, and waterways”.

“Heavy investment in infrastructure is creating lakhs of new jobs,” he told the recruits, according to the PMO statement, adding that more than one lakh real estate projects were registered under RERA today.

Blaming the previous governments, the Prime Minister also flagged the delay in completion of projects, calling it “a great injustice to the honest taxpayers”. Citing examples of the delay, he said the Bidar-Kalburgi railway line in Karnataka was started “22-23 years ago” but was completed in 3 years.

The Pakyong airport in Sikkim, he said, was conceived in 2008 but stayed only on paper until 2014. After he took over, the project was completed by 2018, he added.

Highlighting the importance of the next 25 years for the nation, the Prime Minister urged the new appointees to engage with the new learning module ‘Karmyogi Prarambh’ and continue their learning process.

“He informed that lakhs of new government employees have undertaken training through the ‘Karmyogi Prarambh’ module since its launch a year ago. He said that more than 800 courses are also available on the online training platform iGoT Karmayogi,” the statement said.

The Prime Minister also informed that more than 13 crore people have risen out of poverty in the last 5 years according to a recent study. “This is proof of the impact of the government schemes reaching the poor,” he said.

(With inputs from agencies)