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Cover Story 2022: Year of Willpower

No one had thought that
'Aatmanirbharta' would become the
most talked about word in the world

and Oxford dictionary also declared
the word 'Aatmanirbharta' as the word
of the year. The whole country united

to fulfill this vision of Prime Minister When India talks of
Modi's national policy.
Aatmanirbharta, it does

ational policy is more important than not advocate a self-
politics. In centuries a thought or plan
Nemerges when the poor, rich, young, old, centered system. India's
women, and men all join together to make that
thought come true. This 'national policy' gave the culture regards the world
country a new direction on May 12, 2020, which
not only proved to make India Aatmanirbhar, but as one family, and India's
the popular perception towards foreign goods
changed and the enthusiasm for indigenous progress has always
goods made it a mass movement. The journey included the progress of
to make India AatmaNirbhar, which started
with a well-thought-out plan in the year 2020, the world.
is setting new records by crossing important
milestones. -Narendra Modi Prime Minister
In this year, India became the fifth-largest
economy in the world by beating Britain and
embarked on the journey of becoming the third-
largest economy. In terms of UPI transactions,
40 percent of the world's transactions are
happening in India alone. Similarly, this year,
India made a record of administering more
than 200 crore vaccines. Words like startup
and unicorn were never even known to people,
today India has become the third largest startup
ecosystem in the world
The journey that started from a startup has
crossed a century today in Unicorn. The world
saw India's potential during the Covid period
and in the year of Amrit, India emerged as the
medical hub for the world. Be it issues related
to human sensibilities or other parameters of
development, India has created new records,
so now India is writing a new chapter of
Aatmanirbharta in the field of defence. Whether
it is indigenous warships or aircraft, India is now

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