India, July 18 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that his government has provided more houses under PM Awas Yojana in Bihar than the entire population of countries like Norway, Singapore and New Zealand.

Modi was speaking at a rally in Bihar's Motihari, where he inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of development projects worth Rs. 7,200 crore ahead of the assembly poll due later this year.

"Under PM Awas Yojna, we gave more houses to Bihar than the entire population of Norway, New Zealand and Singapore," he said during the rally.

PM Mdi also pointed out that he had taken the resolution for Operation Sindoor from Bihar and said that the whole world praised the anti-terror operation's success.

"I took the resolution ...