Atmanirbhar push: PM Narendra Modi for innovation in defence products

"The world is seeing that India is changing. There is hope from India and the reason is the skills of 1.3 billion Indians," the PM said

Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech on Monday called upon the private sector to embrace innovation, in order to play a key role in the Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) initiative.

Voicing his oft-stated conviction that “India can make for the world,” the PM commended the military for taking Atmanirbhar Bharat into the realm of technological innovation.

As always, the government’s new initiative came with a catchy new slogan. Citing former PM Lal Bahudar Shashtri’s iconic “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” slogan and affixing Atal Vihari Vajpayee’s “Jai Vigyan” to it, Modi took it a step further by