Key points from PM Modi's Independence Day speech

Addressing the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on Independence Day, PM Modi said 1,50,000 village panchayats across the country have been connected with the optical fibre in the last five years.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi unfurled the tricolour and addressed the nation on the occasion of 74th Independence Day from the rampart of Red Fort.

Addressing the nation, the Prime Minister said it is an occasion to remember freedom fighters who laid down their lives for the freedom of the country.

PM Modi exuded confidence that opening up of the space sector in the country will create employment opportunities.

One-third of the one lakh new cadets will be women, the prime minister said in his Independence Day speech.

Key points from PM Modi's Independence Day speech

"Now, expansion of the NCC has been ensured in 173 border and coastal districts. Under this mission, one lakh NCC cadets will receive special training. Of this, one-third will be girls," Modi told the nation from the Red Fort.

The Prime Minister also announced that Project Lion and Project Dolphin will start in the coming days.