PM launches Urban Development Year 2025 at Gandhinagar, marking 20 years of Gujarat's urban growth story
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27 May 2025 addressed the celebrations of 20 years of Gujarat's Urban Growth Story in Gandhinagar and launched Urban Development Year 2025, marking 20 years of Urban Development Year 2005.
Summary
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the celebrations of 20 years of the Gujarat Urban Growth Story in Gandhinagar on 27 May 2025 and launched Urban Development Year 2025, marking 20 years since Urban Development Year 2005. The event came at the end of his two-day Gujarat visit covering Vadodara, Dahod, Bhuj, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. In his address the Prime Minister said urban areas are growth centres and urban bodies must be made growth centres of the economy, and that India has around two lakh start-ups, most of them in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities.
Key facts
- Date and place
- 27 May 2025, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
- Launched
- Urban Development Year 2025
- Marks
- 20 years of Urban Development Year 2005
- Visit
- Vadodara, Dahod, Bhuj, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar (26–27 May)
- Start-ups (PM)
- Around two lakh, mostly in Tier-2/Tier-3 cities
Practice MCQs 2 questions
Where did Prime Minister Narendra Modi launch Urban Development Year 2025 on 27 May 2025?
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Correct answer: B — Gandhinagar
The PM launched Urban Development Year 2025 at the celebrations of 20 years of Gujarat's Urban Growth Story in Gandhinagar.
Urban Development Year 2025, launched in Gujarat in May 2025, marks 20 years of which earlier initiative?
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Correct answer: C — Urban Development Year 2005
Urban Development Year 2025 marks 20 years of Urban Development Year 2005.