India to play leading role in global revival: Modi

PM addresses inaugural session of India Global week

GN Bureau | July 9, 2020


#economy   #Narendra Modi   #pharma industry   #diplomacy   #healthcare   #coronavirus   #Covid-19  
Also on Thursday, the PM addressed a virtual meeting with NGOs and representatives of Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency.
Also on Thursday, the PM addressed a virtual meeting with NGOs and representatives of Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency.

India would play a leading role in the global revival, prime minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, as he addressed the inaugural session of India Global week via video-conference.

He said that this is closely linked with two factors. “First is - Indian talent and second is India's ability to reform and rejuvenate.” He elaborated that world over, the contribution of India's talent force is highly recognised, especially the contribution of the Indian tech industry and tech professionals.

He described India as a power house of talent that is eager to contribute. He added that Indians are natural reformers and history has shown that India has overcome every challenge, be it social or economic.

He said that when India talks of revival it is: “Revival with care, Revival with compassion, Revival which is sustainable - both for the environment and the economy.” The PM listed the gains made during the last six years of his regime such as total financial inclusion, record housing and infra construction, improving Ease of Doing Business, bold tax reforms including the GST.

The green shoots of economic recovery could already be seen as owing to the indomitable Indian spirit, he said, adding that technology today helps the government every benefit to the beneficiaries directly, including, providing free cooking gas, cash in the bank accounts,  free food grains to millions of people and many other things.

The PM said India is one of the most open economies in the world and is inviting all the multinational companies to set up their business in India. He described India as a land of many possibilities and opportunities.

Modi described the various reforms initiated in the agriculture sector and said that it provides a very attractive investment opportunity for the global industry. He said that the latest reforms are providing a boost to the MSME sector and that they would be complimenting the big industry. He also mentioned that there are investment opportunities in the defence sector and the space sector.

The PM said that Covid-19 has once again shown that the capability of India's pharma industry. “The pandemic has once again shown that India's pharma industry is an asset not just for India but for the entire world.   It has played a leading role in reducing the cost of medicines especially for developing countries. Vaccines made in India are responsible for two-thirds of the vaccination needs of the world's children.  Today also, our companies are active in the international efforts for development and production of Covid-19 vaccine. I am certain that India will have an important role in developing and in  scaling-up production of the vaccine once it is discovered.”

He said that the ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’ campaign is not about being self-contained or being closed to the world but about being self-sustaining and self-generating. “This is an India that is reforming, performing and transforming. This is an India that offers new economic opportunities. This is an India that is adopting a  human-centric  and  inclusive approach to development. India awaits you all,” he said.

He expressed happiness that the Forum, organized by India Inc Group with the audience mostly in the UK, was also marking the 100th birth anniversary of Pandit Ravi Shankar, who took the beauty of Indian classical music to the world. He also highlighted how Namaste has gone global as a form of greeting. He said that India is ready to do whatever it can to further global good and prosperity. 


 

Comments

 

Other News

Civil Services 2022 Top 20 felicitated

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, MoS PMO, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space and MoS Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr Jitendra Singh on Tuesday interacted with and felicitated the first 20 All India Toppers of IAS/ Civil Services Exam 20

Boost to offshore wind energy projects

In a major decision, the Government has decided to grant waiver of ISTS charges to Off-Shore Wind Projects and extend the waiver to Green Hydrogen/Green Ammonia. This decision has been taken to facilitate wider execution of offshore wind energy initiatives, to promote the expansion of Green Hydrogen / Gree

Duty of stakeholders to provide cost effective, alternate energy fuels: Gadkari

Urging use of alternative and cost effective fuels to reduce pollution caused by vehicles, union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said finding cost-effective fuels is the need of the hour and underlined that use of fuels like bio-CNG and green hydrogen help in protecting the e

Record production of rice, wheat, and sugarcane estimated

The foodgrain production of 3305.34 lakh tonnes is estimated in the current agricultural year 2022-23 – higher by 149.18 LMT as compared to the previous year, according to the Third Advance Estimates of production of major crops released by the ministry of agriculture and farmers welfare.

India`s ‘AIRAWAT’ ranks 75th in top 500 Supercomputing List

The AI Supercomputer ‘AIRAWAT’, installed at C-DAC, Pune, has been ranked 75th in the world. It was declared so in the 61st edition of Top 500 Global Supercomputing List on Tuesday at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC 2023) in Germany. It puts India on top of AI S

Ocean Dialogue a great opportunity for G20 members

The ongoing third Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group G20 meeting (May 21-23) has focused on three aspects: land degradation and reclamation of mining areas, Blue Economy and sustainable ocean management and resource sufficiency and circular economy. Leena Nandan, secretary,

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


Archives

Current Issue

Opinion

Facebook Twitter Google Plus Linkedin Subscribe Newsletter

Twitter