Viksit Bharat Ambassador meet-up | Hardeep Puri lists milestones, sheds light on country’s transformational journey
New Delhi, Apr 8: Hardeep Singh Puri, the Minister of State (Independent charge) for Housing and Urban Affairs, on Monday, spoke about the transformational changes in the country under the Narendra Modi government and also explained how the Centre was facilitating an enabling atmosphere for the private sector to chip in with their contributions.
Addressing the Viksit Bharat Ambassador meet-up event in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, Hardeep Puri said that ‘seeing a developed India by 2047’ is every citizen’s dream, irrespective of his/her political lineage. He also called upon the youth of the country to take an active part in it.
The Union Minister shed light on the big achievements and milestones of the Modi government and also explained how the economic indicators were on an uptrend in the last ten years.
“Today, India is the fastest growing economy and also the bright spot of the world. It was in 2014 that this transition began from Fragile to Top five economy,” he told the audience.
“Hundreds of years ago, India alone accounted for 25 per cent of global GDP but that has come tumbling down to 2 per cent. The post-Independence era saw India growing at a slow pace and it was only after 2014 that things started looking up. In 2014, India was the 10th largest economy but today, it is the 5th largest economy in the world,” Hardeep Puri told the Viksit Bharat audience at the Coimbatore campus dialogue.
He said that the transition from ‘Sarvodaya to Antyodaya’ has been one of the defining features of growth in the past ten years.
Listing out key achievements of the Modi government, he said that 250 million people of citizens have been lifted out of multi-dimensional poverty in 10 years while schemes like Jal Jeevan Mission, PM Housing scheme, and Ujjawala Yojana are benefitting crores of citizens.