Modi delivers policy pep talk to ministers
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, July 3: Putting all speculations over the Cabinet reshuffle to the rest, Prime Minister Narendra Modi late Monday evening stated that he held a “fruitful meeting with the Council of Ministers, where we held discussions over the policy matters”. Separately, it was stated that a presentation was made before the ministers about the policy roadmap for 2047 when India will commemorate the 100 years of Independence.
The meeting of the council of ministers turned out to be a forum for discussing India’s policy template for the next 24 years. It may be noted that the NITI Aayog had been tasked to prepare a policy blueprint for development plan for India@2047.
The last Governing Council meeting of the NITI Aayog, which was boycotted by some of the chief ministers of the Opposition-ruled states, had also discussed the plan roadmap for India@2047. Modi also gave his pep talk to the ministers over the futuristic policy template to make India a developed nation by 2049, it was reliably learnt.
Fresh from his return from the US where he inked a slew of pacts with President Joe Biden, Modi is learnt to have nudged the ministers to slog in the last year of the government in its second term to accelerate the execution of the works, development and welfare-centric schemes.
Modi had shifted gears a year ago to begin talking of India becoming a developed nation by 2047 and his ministers have also been repeating the same at whatever forum they get to speak. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister for Education, while speaking at an event at Le Meridian on Sunday, also made his audience believe that India will become a developed nation by 2047, and also the third largest economy.
India is currently the fifth largest economy with a size of roughly $3.75 trillion and japan currently is the third largest economy with the size of about $5 trillion. China, taking the second spot, has an economy of almost $18 trillion. India aims to push ahead of Japan by 2047.
The meeting of the council of ministers took place at the newly-built convention centre at Pragati Maidan. The mainstream media had stoked speculation about the Cabinet reshuffle after the news of the meeting of the council of ministers broke out.
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