NITI Aayog vice-chairman says introvert policies may be damaging India

Recently, PM Modi had appealed to people of being 'vocal about local' manufactured products, and Kumar's observations on 'introvert policies' run contrary to that

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Sunday said “introvert policies may be damaging”, and India “should follow the path of globalisation and self-reliance”.

He said that big cities were now redundant as people could now meet on the internet, and it was time the country looked beyond urbanisation to rurbanisation. The suggestion is significant in the context of thousands of migrant workers heading back to their towns and villages from big urban centres in the last two months. 

Kumar advocated replacing English with an “indigenous connecting language”, and said Indians should become “multilingual but without inferiority to our own mother