PM lists 6 pillars for Viksit Bharat

New Delhi, August 31

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday listed six pillars that will power India’s journey to development and help attain the goal of Viksit Bharat by 2047.

These pillars are — making India a global manufacturing hub, reviving the glory of Indian knowledge systems, ensuring every dining table in the world has at least one Indian product, powering green energy, expanding tourism and working for inclusive development of the world, especially of the Global South.

Speaking at an event organised by a national daily here today, Modi said neo middle class of India — comprising 25 crore people who have ditched poverty over the past decade — are the top strengths of the Indian economy and are creating market demand that will power growth. Commenting on the recent national election results, Modi said Indians voted for stability and continuity. “Many countries of the world witnessed elections this year and in most of them people voted for change. In India, the trend was reversed. Here people voted to ensure a government hat-trick after 60 years. Like people who are full of hope and trust for the government, the government is also full of hope and trust and is working to prepare India for future challenges,” he said.

He said the BJP-led NDA government had in the first three months of its third term taken transformative decisions for women, poor, youth and farmers.

“Within 100 days of our third term, we have begun modernising physical infrastructure, expanding social infrastructure and moving ahead on the reform path. We have approved 3 crore new houses for the poor, a unified pension scheme, Rs 1 lakh crore for agri infra expansion, Rs 1 lakh crore PM package to benefit over 4 crore youth and have ensured 11 lakh poor women became lakhpati didis with annual income of over Rs 1 lakh,” Modi said. The PM promised to keep expanding the MBBS seat base in India.