Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, in his address to the Parliament, highlighted the BJP government’s goals over the next five years. In his speech, Kovind mentioned welfare measures, social equality and the country’s space programme.
Below are some of his most important and newsworthy quotes from the speech:
“India is now on the way to become the world’s 5th largest economy in terms of GDP. To maintain the high growth rate, reform process will continue. It is our objective to make India a 5-trillion dollar economy by 2024.”
“Removing practices like triple talaq and “nikah halala” essential to give equality to women.”
“The mandate of the election asserts that the people of the country want unhindered and fast progress. They aspire the country to move forward at a fast pace, and hence the 2019 election result gave an even higher majority to the single-largest party compared to 2014.”
The facility of ‘One Nation, One Card’ has been launched to realize the dream of seamless mobility.”
“The ‘Fugitive and Economic Offenders Act’ has proved effective in controlling fugitive economic offenders. Now we are receiving information in this regard from 146 countries, including Switzerland.”
“In ‘Ease of Doing Business’, India has leap-frogged 65 positions during the past 5 years, from a ranking of 142 in 2014 to 77. Now our goal is to be among the top 50 countries of the world.”
“My Government is striving to increase the number of seats in the country’s Higher Education System by one-and-a-half times by 2024. With this initiative, 2 crore additional seats would be available for the youth in higher education institutions.”
“Today India has joined the league of countries with most number of start-ups in the world. To improve the start-up ecosystem, the Government is simplifying the rules. Our goal is to establish 50,000 start-ups in the country by 2024.”
Original Source: NDTV
