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AATMANIRBHAR BHARAT
Steps Towards

Success and Setting

New Records

Taking big decisions and taking them to the logical conclusion has become synonymous
with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Even his opponents believe that he does not miss
the opportunity at all, but also has a tremendous ability to convert the challenges facing
the country into opportunities. After the Covid pandemic, the world and the lifestyle of
the people changed, so with long-term thinking, Modi determined to take the country
step by step towards self-reliance. The result of this is that the call for self-reliance
made by the Prime Minister on May 12, 2020, has become a mass movement...

he first condition of self-reliance is pride May 12, 2020, has become such a date for the
in our country's things and in the things present and future of India that is deciding the course
Tmade by our country's people. When every of the nation in the form of a mass movement. This
citizen takes pride and joins, Aatmanirbhar day reckons a mass movement for self-reliance with
Bharat becomes a national sentiment rather the long-term thinking of 'Vocal for Local' after a
than an economic campaign. National policy is, dreadful pandemic like Covid. It is the result of the
in fact, more important than politics. Often over thinking of the Prime Minister that India has become
the centuries, a thought emerges in front of the the world's favorite country for investment and in
country when the rich, poor, young, old, women, these few years the mantra of 'Make in India, Made
and men join together in realizing that idea for for the world' is coming true.
nation-building. This 'national policy' gave the No one would have thought that 'Aatmanirbharta'
country a direction that it not only proved to be self- would become the most talked about word in the
sufficient, but it also demolished the perception world, but Oxford Dictionaries declared the word
that drew the common masses to foreign goods, 'Aatmanirbharta' as the word of the year. The whole
and enthusiasm for indigenous goods became a country united to fulfill this vision of Prime Minister
mass movement. Narendra Modi's national policy.

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