India will be engine of world growth for 3-decades: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India will be the engine of growth for the world economy for the next three decades as the "sleeping elephant" has started to run on the back of structural reforms like GST, bankruptcy and insolvency law, and benami property law. He was addressing the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on the occasion of 72nd Independence Day.
World sees India as destination of multi-billion dollar investment: PM
PM Modi listed out the pace of reforms in the last four years of his government that pulled out the country from being considered a "fragile and risky" economy to being the fastest in the world. "India was considered among 'fragile five' but today the world is seeing it as a destination of multi-billion dollar investment. The narrative has changed," he said.
Modi lists out achievements of his government
Electrifying all villages, providing 5 crore cleaner cooking gas to poor women, doubling the pace of highway construction, record foodgrain production, record mobile phone manufacturing, and building four times more new houses in villages were some of the achievements of his government, PM Modi said.
Govt on track to double farm income by 2022: Modi
"If the work continued at the pace that was prevalent in 2013, it would have taken one or two more decades to electrify all villages, 100 years to provide LPG gas connections to all and generations to take optic fiber to villages," PM Modi said. He said the government is on the way to achieve the target of doubling farm income by 2022.
