PM Modi's Independence Day speech hints at policy shift on jobs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined a new political agenda - to make a new India by 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fourth Independence Day speech will be remembered not just for it being his shortest address so far from the ramparts of Red Fort, but for at least four other more specific reasons. He spoke for only 57 minutes, paying heed to the feedback he received from many people that his Independence Day speeches could become a little shorter. This was welcome. 

Mr Modi’s first speech in 2014 took about 65 minutes, but was replete with many new schemes and slogans. That was only to be expected from a newly elected government. New programmes on Make In