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India Meeting Global reached an all-time high. India’s solar PV module
manufacturing capacity was around 2.5 GW in the
Needs With Self-Reliance… year 2014, while at present it has reached 1000
GW. Delhi airport has also entered the elite Hun-
dred-Million-Plus Club of global airports. Today,
India’s electronics exports
the annual passenger handling capacity of this
Around airport is over 100 million. Only six airports in the
₹35,000 It has now world are part of this exclusive group.
crore was increased to Referring to a common phrase, ‘missing the bus’,
recorded in the ₹3.25 PM Modi said that if opportunities are not taken
65 years after lakh crore advantage of, they slip away. India’s previous govern-
Independence. ments missed many such opportunities in the field
of technology and industry. He said that this is not a
India’s automobile exports criticism of anyone, but in a democracy, comparative
analysis often helps to clarify the situation more ef-
Now it has fectively. After 2014, India changed its approach and
Earlier Around increased to now resolved not to miss any opportunity. India not
₹50,000 ₹1.5 only built Made-in-India 5G but also deployed it across
crore a year. lakh crore the country at the fastest pace. Now India is working
in a year rapidly on Made-in-India 6G technology. Semiconduc-
tor-related factories are being set up in India. India’s
n India is set to achieve another milestone by goal is to move forward with a long leap. PM Modi
exporting electric vehicles to 100 countries said that reforms in India are neither driven by any
compulsion nor by any crisis. Reforms are a reflection
n Expenditure on research and development has of India’s commitment and conviction. Referring to
more than doubled compared to 2014, while the
number of patents filed has increased 17 times major steps such as repealing unnecessary laws and
simplifying rules and procedures, he said that pro-
n India meeting global needs with self-reliance… cesses and approvals are being digitised. Many provi-
n A research development and innovation scheme sions are being decriminalised. Work is being done to
worth Rs 1 lakh crore has been approved. simplify the GST system, which will also reduce prices.
n Last year, India exported agricultural products India is fully committed to becoming a devel-
worth Rs 4 lakh crore. oped nation by 2047. The foundation of developed
India is self-reliant India, and it should be evaluat-
n Out of 800 crore vaccine doses globally last ed on three criteria…speed, scale and scope. India
year, 400 crore were manufactured in India.
performed well in all these three areas during
the global pandemic. During this time, when the
India’s Space Missions
demand for essential commodities suddenly
Conducted Completed increased and global supply came to a halt, India
42 missions more than 60 took many decisive steps to manufacture essential
from missions in the goods domestically. The world is also looking at
1979 to 2014. past 11 years. India’s speed, scale and scope in the energy sector.

India set a target of generating 50 per cent of its
India had only one
space startup in total power capacity from non-fossil fuel by 2030,
2014, while today 300 which was achieved five years ahead of schedule.n
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