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India moving towards a $5 tn economy: PM
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SME Times News Bureau | 19 Feb, 2018
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday reiterated that India aspires to,
and is moving towards, a $5 trillion economy over the next few years
with sustained, comprehensive and holistic development.
Inaugurating
the first mega global investors summit, "Magnetic Maharashtra:
Convergence 2018" here, he said the country is on the firm path of
development simultaneously with the development of the states.
"We are working towards becoming a member of the Five Trillion Dollar club," Modi said.
He
also said Maharashtra would become the first state in India to become a
Trillion Dollar economy in the next few years, while addressing a
gathering of over 200 captains of Indian and global companies at Bandra
Kurla Complex here.
Modi noted his government has taken a slew of
steps to ensure all-round development of India with an ecosystem
omprising a development-friendly, investor-friendly governance with
minimal governmental interference.
Indian states are now
policy-driven, governance is performance-driven with full
accountability, a transparent ecosystem, various norms are being eased,
the government is changing laws where needed, and scrapped more than
1,400 old or outdated laws, and for new or modified laws, care is being
taken to ensure they are simplified, he said.
In recent years,
various states of India have also competing among themselves to attract
maximum foreign investments as per their needs and requirements,
including Assam, he said.
On Maharashtra, Modi said during the
past three years, this state has initiated unprecedented measures to
lure foreign investors on all fronts, led by Chief Minister Devendra
Fadnavis.
"The state's reforms have transformed business, huge
improvements in its rating in Ease of Doing Business, changed the work
culture, problems are being resolved in a timebound manner,
debottle-necking has been achieved with inter-departmental cooperation,
all of which have reflected on its development," he said.
He
added that last year Maharashtra led other states on various parameters
in infrastructure development rankings, it got 51 percent of all FDI in
India, during the Make In India initiative of February 2016, it secured
more than Rs 400,000 crore investments and work on half of them is
underway.
Besides, the state has initiated mega-infrastructure
projects like Navi Mumbai International Airport, Mumbai Trans Harbour
Link, 350 km of Metro Rail and similar Metro Rail in other cities like
Pune and Nagpur, taking up the 700 km Mumbai-Nagpur Communication
Expressway, etc, which will create between two to two-and-half million
jobs and give a fillip to rural development.
Modi also cited the
various measures and budgetary provisions to construct roads, bridges,
metro rails and airports across the country, to help realize "the
aspirations of the people" and fulfill the vision of a 'New India'.
Reliance
Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said Mumbai is both his 'janmabhoomi'
(birthplace) and his own 'karmabhoomi' (are of action) where the
start-up company was established by his father, the late visionary
Dhirubhai Ambani with a seed capital of Rs 1,000 and one employee.
"Today,
Reliance employs over 350,000 people. It's the largest 'wealth-creator
for India'. Reliance always invests in India's Big Dreams in building
businesses of the future with Indian talent and Indian youth," he said
in his address.
He said Mumbai is also home to Jio, the newest
tech-startup in the Reliance family, and when the PM unveiled his vision
for a Digital India, it also became Jio's own mission.
He
announced that now Reliance will take the Jio Movement forward with an
even more ambitious new initiative for New India and New Maharashtra, by
setting up the country's first-ever 'Integrated Industrial Development
Area' for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Maharashtra.
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