Staff Reporter / New Delhi
Minister for Fisheries, Dairy and Animal Husbandry Giriraj Singh has said that the Centre has given special emphasis on the fisheries sector.
Briefing media, Mr Singh said that the Blue revolution brought by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has moved towards as a economic revolution.
He said, in Blue revolution Government is focussing on employment, production and export. The Minister said, from 1947 to 2014, no government gave emphasis to the Sector and during these years the central allocation was only 3 thousand 6 hundred 82 crore rupees. He added that the current Government is giving special focus to the fisheries sector.
Mr Singh informed that from 2010 to 2014 the growth in the fisheries sector was 4 to 5 per cent, but now it has been doubled and annual growth reached 10.8 per cent.