PM: Cut imports, raise output for growth

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 22

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for enhancing efforts to raise domestic manufacturing output and cur imports which will help in achieving double-digit growth.

Speaking after laying the foundation stone of Vanijya Bhawan, the new office building to be constructed to house the Commerce Ministry here, the Prime Minister advocated targeting double-digit GDP growth for breaking into the $5 trillion economy club. He emphasised the need for an increase in exports, and said states must be made active partners in this effort.