India must become manufacturing powerhouse: Narendra Modi
PM also urges Indian entrepreneurs to focus on quality and environment-friendly technologies to manufacture products
BS B2B Bureau B2B Connect | New Delhi
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Narendra Modi delivering his maiden Independence Day speech as PM
He not just emphasised on the need to manufacture import-substitute products in India, but also urged young entrepreneurs to focus on quality and environment-friendly means to manufacture products. "We need to encourage the manufacturing sector. We need to channelise the strength of the youth through manufacturing. Manufactured goods should have zero defect as also zero effect on the environment,” Modi said from the Red Fort here on Friday.
He was speaking, he added, as the country's "pradhan sewak" (first servant) and not the "pradhan mantri" (prime minister).
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Modi also appealed global companies to look at India for setting up manufacturing bases for their requirements. “I want to appeal all the people world over, ‘Come, make in India’, ‘Come, manufacture in India’. Sell in any country of the world but manufacture here. We have got skill, talent, discipline, and determination to do something. We want to give the world an favourable opportunity that come here. Come, make in India. Be it plastics or cars or satellites or agricultural products, come make in India.”
Ever since the new government under the National Democratic Alliance came to power in May this year, it has stressed on making India a global manufacturing hub. According to some officials, the PM's speech was a clear indication of more reforms to come in the near future.
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First Published: Aug 16 2014 | 11:40 AM IST