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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Pitching for a "Team India" of the centre and states for the country's development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has credited his government's economic policies for making India the world's fastest growing nation.
Concluding his two-day visit to West Bengal last week- the first after becoming prime minister - Modi assured his government's support in ensuring economic progress of eastern India, and exuded confidence that region will be the stage for the country'ss ecoind green revolution.
Modi, in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, inaugurated the upgraded and modersnised IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), that houses the country's largest blast furnace. It has been modernized at a cost of Rs.16,000 crore.
Highlighting the country's federal structure, Modi described the prime minister and all the chief ministers as 'Team India', and said the centre and states together can solve all problems, including issues relating to foreign countries.
He attributed Team India's efforts for the passage in parliament of the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh as well as the new plant.
Taking a veiled dig at the erstwhile Congress-led UPA regime for scams, Modi hailed the policy changes initiated by his government that led to India becoming the world's fastest growing country.
"During the months of February, March and April (2014) the only news that came were scams... coal scam, submarine scam, scams on the air, water and land," he said.
"It has been a year of this new government, and today we don't have news about the coal scam, rather about coal auction," he said, adding the decision to auction coal has led to states getting richer and using the royalty money from the mines for the welfare of the people.
"The irony is we kept exporting iron ore and imported steel. If we have iron ore, we will produce steel," he asserted.
Modi also said the central government was working on developing the three main resources for funds - agricultural productivity, mineral resources and human resources.
"A year ago the entire world had written off India but now within a year the entire world, be it the IMF, the World Bank or the credit rating agencies, they are unanimously saying India is the fastest growing country in the world," he asserted.
He also exuded confidence of natural resource-rich eastern India getting developed like its western counterpart.
Pitching for a "Team India" of the centre and states for the country's development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has credited his government's economic policies for making India the world's fastest growing nation.
Concluding his two-day visit to West Bengal last week- the first after becoming...
Pitching for a "Team India" of the centre and states for the country's development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has credited his government's economic policies for making India the world's fastest growing nation.
Concluding his two-day visit to West Bengal last week- the first after becoming prime minister - Modi assured his government's support in ensuring economic progress of eastern India, and exuded confidence that region will be the stage for the country'ss ecoind green revolution.
Modi, in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, inaugurated the upgraded and modersnised IISCO Steel Plant (ISP), that houses the country's largest blast furnace. It has been modernized at a cost of Rs.16,000 crore.
Highlighting the country's federal structure, Modi described the prime minister and all the chief ministers as 'Team India', and said the centre and states together can solve all problems, including issues relating to foreign countries.
He attributed Team India's efforts for the passage in parliament of the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh as well as the new plant.
Taking a veiled dig at the erstwhile Congress-led UPA regime for scams, Modi hailed the policy changes initiated by his government that led to India becoming the world's fastest growing country.
"During the months of February, March and April (2014) the only news that came were scams... coal scam, submarine scam, scams on the air, water and land," he said.
"It has been a year of this new government, and today we don't have news about the coal scam, rather about coal auction," he said, adding the decision to auction coal has led to states getting richer and using the royalty money from the mines for the welfare of the people.
"The irony is we kept exporting iron ore and imported steel. If we have iron ore, we will produce steel," he asserted.
Modi also said the central government was working on developing the three main resources for funds - agricultural productivity, mineral resources and human resources.
"A year ago the entire world had written off India but now within a year the entire world, be it the IMF, the World Bank or the credit rating agencies, they are unanimously saying India is the fastest growing country in the world," he asserted.
He also exuded confidence of natural resource-rich eastern India getting developed like its western counterpart.
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