Indians must replace imported products, become 'vocal for local': PM Modi

'Global best must be manufactured in India,' he says in this year's last edition of 'Mann Ki Baat' radio show

Indians must use domestically made products to replace foreign ones as their resolution for the New Year said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, reiterating his government's plan to become "self reliant" in manufacturing.

"I appeal to you to make a list of goods of daily-use imported articles that have unconsciously become part of our lives and made us their captive. Let us find out their Indian alternatives and resolve to use products produced by the hard work of Indians," said Modi on this year's last edition of Mann Ki Baat, his monthly radio speech. 

The PM said "the people