PM Modi said that India was making enormous efforts to stand on its own feet and linked several initiatives taken recently for this effort
Comprehensive self-reliance, especially in the health sector, a progressive reduction in imports, defeating expansionist forces and a fresh impetus to infrastructure development were the rallying call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on 74th Independence Day. All villages in India will be linked by the optic-fibre network within the next 1,000 days (three years), along with a new cyber security policy. Citizens will get a unique health identity that will comprehensively map the health profile of all Indians.India was working on three vaccines for Covid-19 with drafts for their production and distribution. He repeated a previous promise that an investment of Rs 110 trillion in the infrastructure sector will see a new impetus with 7,000 major projects in several sectors, especially in border areas. The construction of the Ram Temple and a tribute to the ‘restraint’ of Indians merited just a few sentences in a speech that had as its focus a call to Indians to rebuild India amid extreme adversity.
PM Modi said that India was making enormous efforts to stand on its own feet and linked several initiatives taken recently for this effort — farmers now face no impediments in selling their produce because of the end of the APMC system; the space sector has been freed for private investment; and a health crisis has created a new Indian industry to manufacture sophisticated medical equipment and masks.
Source: Business Standard
