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Cover Story   Sankalp Yatra of New India
                                            Birthday Special: 17 September

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                              MODI AND 'NEW INDIA'
                              MODI AN              D 'NE       W IN        DIA'
            Ever since Narendra Modi took over
            the reins of the country as the Prime
            Minister, one word has been very
            popular - 'New India'. But what is
            his thinking behind this word? After
            completing 75 years of independence,
            India has chosen the path of Amrit Yatra

            i.e. to take the resolution of the next 25
            years towards accomplishment...


                 veryone  is  familiar  with  the  family    Navnirman of New India, so there is a reason behind
                 background of Prime Minister Narendra       it.  Foreign  invaders  always  targeted  the  wealth  of
           EModi.  He  has  seen  poverty,  experienced      India,  which  was  called  the  golden  bird.  But  they
            poverty, and  lived in  poverty. Today,  after   could not destroy the strong civilization-culture of
            becoming the Prime Minister, even after getting   India. In such a situation, the natural question may
            government facilities, he himself bears the cost   arise  which  new  India  is  talked  about  again  and
            of his food, which is grabbing media headlines   again? In fact, India became independent on 15
            these days. When Prime Minister Modi plans       August 1947, but it failed to fulfill the aspirations of
            any work then getting effective results remains a   the people at the fringes of society. For 67 years of
            top priority. Prime Minister Modi announces any   independence, more than 50 percent of the people
            plan when all preparations have been made to     did not even have access to the banking system. Be
            implement it. The plans announced by PM Modi     it housing or clean fuel, or health facilities a large
            from the Red Fort so far have been implemented   population was deprived of it.  Development projects
            100 percent according to the thinking of PM      used to start but were not completed on time. The
            Modi.                                            burden on the public exchequer kept increasing, the
              Prime  Minister  Modi  often  talks  about  the   bureaucracy  and  red  tape  affected  the  progress.
                                                             There used to be the talk of removing poverty, but


        The result of this is that Digital India is becoming   first year, he gave the slogan “Saal Ek, Shuruaat
        a Digital Democracy. For the first time, the dream     Anek”,  and  in  the  second  year,  gave  the  slogan
        of public participation seems to be coming true.       “Mera  Desh  Badal  Raha  Hai, Aage Badh  Raha
                                                               Hai” to give impetus to the pace of development
        INSPIRING SLOGANS BRINGING TRANSFORMATION              in the country. During the celebration of the third
          There  is  usually  a  belief  about  slogans  that   year of the government post-demonetization, the
        they should be made attractive, so as to become        slogan  “Saath  hai, Vishwas hai…  In the  fourth
        popular with the masses.  But the Modi government      year, “Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas” gave a message of
        coined  new  slogans  every  year  matching  with      trust  in the  clear  intentions of the  government.
        the  pace  of development.  None  of the  slogans      When  the  slogan  of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas
        of the Modi government were accidental. In the         and  Sabka  Vishwas”  became  the  basic  mantra
                                                               of the  government, then  from the  Red  Fort, the

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