For faster growth

PM's call should galvanise reformist energy

Speaking in the presence of many of India’s chief ministers at the NITI Aayog governing council meeting this weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi restated that India must seek to attain double-digit growth. Such ambition is praiseworthy. It is important to not be satisfied with the growth numbers that are currently being achieved, even if they represent a recovery from a slowdown that lasted several quarters. Without sustained double-digit growth, India has little or no hope of creating broad-based prosperity and rising to upper-middle-income status as an economy. Thus, an invocation at the highest level of government of double-digit growth as