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NATION | NXT Summit

At the Next Stage of Development...

India is moving to the Next level

The Dandi March marked an important turning point in India’s freedom struggle – a
movement aimed at securing India’s independence. Drawing inspiration from this
glorious history, India has penned a new chapter of progress over the past 11 years.
It is now steering this journey of development to the next level – a journey whose
ultimate goal and destination is a ‘Viksit Bharat. ‘At the iTV Network’s NXT Summit,
Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined the roadmap for realising this national
resolve: transforming India into a developed nation by the year 2047.

ONE DESTINATION... VIKSIT BHARAT A NATION MOVING FORWARD EVEN
On March 12, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi em- AMID CHALLENGES
barked on the Dandi March from the Sabar- This era of 21st century is unprecedented – unlike
mati Ashram. This event served as a turning anything seen in the past. On one hand, the devas-
point in India’s freedom struggle, for it united tation of war is unfolding, supply chains are once
every corner of the nation around a single again being disrupted, and the relevance of global
objective: the independence of India. Today, institutions such as the United Nations is being
nearly 100 years after that historic journey, questioned. In such a time, India continues to move
the people of India have set out on a new forward despite these adverse circumstances.
journey once again. This is the journey toward A major foundation of a nation’s development
a ‘Viksit Bharat. ‘We have one goal, one desti- lies in how it confronts challenges. In recent years,
nation: Viksit Bharat. we witnessed the disaster of COVID-19, then the

Connecting with India is inevitable...
Quite recently, Finnish President Alexander Stubb visited India. He
stated that the Global South will now determine the world’s trajectory,
and the single greatest force shaping that direction will be India.

Prior to this, Canadian PM Mark Carney also remarked that the
centre toward which the world’s economic gravity is shifting over the
next three decades is named India.

French President Emmanuel Macron, too,
acknowledges that India has emerged as an
indispensable partner in resolving the world’s
most pressing issues. If one distils the essence
of the statements made today by global leaders
across the technology and economic spheres,
a singular sentiment emerges: if you wish to
be a part of the future, you simply must be
associated with India; you must be in India.

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programme of the Prime Minister.
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