<h1>Social cohesion: call to counter caste-based divisiveness while advancing rural development and welfare programmes.</h1> Prime Minister emphasises social cohesion by urging resistance to caste-based polarisation while detailing the government's rural policy framework: sanitation and housing initiatives, potable water provision, expanded primary healthcare including telemedicine, direct farmer transfers and credit access, support to Farmer Producer Organisations, and procurement measures. He links survey and banking-sector findings on improved rural consumption and declining poverty to these programmes and frames scheme saturation drives as consolidation of rural welfare and empowerment objectives.