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2022: Year of Willpower Cover Story

Today the world is looking at India as a
manufacturing powerhouse. The Central

Government, which is continuously
taking positive initiatives to make 'Make

in India' and AatmaNirbhar Bharat,
successful has created immense
possibilities in this direction. Make in

India and self-reliance in every field is
the need of the hour.
not only manufacturing indigenous defence on imports, has joined the category of exporting
equipment with self-developed capabilities but country within 2 years of effort.
has also exported it and joined among the top Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself says,
25 exporting countries of the world. Swadeshi “Today there is an unprecedented curiosity in the
Vande Bharat trains are giving new momentum world to know India, to understand India. Today
to AatmaNirbhar Bharat, so new records have India is being studied in a new light. Our current
been made this year in the construction of successes are being asessed. Unprecedented
highways. hopes are being expressed about our future.
The country which was once dependent This year, on the occasion of completion of 75
on the world and faced fertilizer shortage years of independence, from the ramparts of the
is no longer letting its farmers suffer. In the Red Fort, Prime Minister Modi resolved to move
year 2014, the black marketing of urea was forward with big resolutions and make India
stopped by permitting neem coating, and now developed. As a result of this, today India is full
by reviving the closed fertilizer factories, it is of self-confidence and is in front of the world
moving towards the goal of Aatmanirbharta in with the aspiration to develop. Today's India
this sector. For the first time in the history of considers speed as India's aspiration and scale
independent India, exports increased 600 times, as India's strength.
which has written a new script of Aatmanirbhar
Bharat. In this, the PLI scheme for 14 sectors SELF-RELIANCE BECAME THE NEW
started with Rs 1.97 lakh crore and has given IDENTITY OF STRENGTH
a new boost to Make in India. In the field of In fact, the Prime Minister not only took
electronics too, a new self-reliance drive has the initiative to save the country from the ill-
been witnessed this year. effects of Covid, but also prepared a blueprint
This year India has taken steps towards to strengthen the derailed economy and
fulfilling the mission of Aatmanirbharta with increase the pace of progress by creating ample
many new beginnings. These include starting infrastructure to minimize the 'loss of lives' on
the Palm Oil Mission or achieving the target both the fronts. Addressing the nation on May
ahead of schedule in the case of ethanol 12, 2020, after the third lockdown, Prime Minister
blending and then moving forward with new Modi not only talked about the world before and
targets such as the 'semiconductor', 'space' and after Covid but by emphasizing on the economy,
'drone' sectors, promoting digital technology, infrastructure, system, and demand carved
prosperity through cooperation, AatmaNirbhar the future of AatmaNirbhar Bharat. He called
Bharat and making Khadi a strong pillar of self- for global recognition by giving preference to
reliance. Taking skill in the field of handicrafts- local products. The result of this is that today
handloom to the global market and toys for the enthusiasm of foreign investors in India
which the country, which was almost dependent has increased, while imports are being reduced

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