For Development, India Needs a Movement: PM Modi

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ For its development, India needs a movement akin to the freedom movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today. “Similar to the freedom movement, we need a movement for development, where the collective aspirations propel the country’s growth,” Modi said.

“We all should get involved in our dream of a new India, whose mantra will be ‘opportunity for all’ and an India of self-respect. For several decades, we had embarked in wrong directions with wrong policies,” Modi said. “The decisions then were ‘election-driven’ or based on set notions of the officials, but this has changed now,” he said.

His government is not looking (at issues facing the country) with “tunnel vision” but with “total vision,” said the Prime Minister. “The new India is not about ‘upkaar’ (favour) but about ‘avsar’ (opportunity). This is about opportunities for all,” said Prime Minister Modi.

“The people are coming together in the country today to finish bad things within (it). This will strengthen the foundation of the new India,” the PM said. Seeking to allay apprehensions over some policies of his government, Modi said, “This is not an ideology to destroy systems. This is about ‘kaya-kalp’ (transformation).

“We have changed the work culture,” Modi said adding the emphasis now is on re-engineering the processes to improve efficiency. “We have focused on time-bound implementation and integrated thinking. Our processes are citizen-friendly,” he added. “The way in which the GST was achieved is as important as the GST itself. The states have taken ownership of this,” he said.