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Cover Story

Years
of Vikas Yatra

Disaster Risk Management
India: A Powerhouse of Global
Electronics Manufacturing Missions
(Figures in Rs Lakh crore) n Operation Maitri (Nepal, 2015)
Mobile Manufacturing Mobile Phone Exports n Operation Devi Shakti (Afghanistan, 2021)
Production Value 127-fold increase.
5.45 A 28-fold increase 2 Humanitarian Assistance
Delivered by the Navy under
0.18 0.015 ‘Mission SAGAR’
n Operation Samudra Setu (2020)

Year 2015 Year 2025 Year 2015 Year 2025 n Operation Ganga (Ukraine, 2022)
Then Now Then Now n Operation Dost (Türkiye and Syria,
2023)
The Identity of an Empowered India n Operation Kaveri (Sudan, April 2023)
An Empowered India in AI n Operation Brahma (Myanmar, 2025)
At the AI Impact Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
delivers a speech, which is simultaneously transcribed into n Operation Sagar Bandhu (2025)
sign language for the differently-abled using AI technology.
An Empowered India of Bold Decisions

Article 370—which stood as an obstacle to implementing
the principle of “One Constitution, One Law” in Kashmir
for decades—was abrogated. Consequently, all laws
applicable to the rest of the country’s states are now in force
in Kashmir as well.
An Empowered India Led by Women
Breaking a three-decade-long impasse regarding 33 percent
reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State
Legislative Assemblies, the Nari Shakti Vandan Strategic autonomy and
Adhiniyam was notified. Although efforts
had been made since 1996, the Nari indigenous capabilities are the
Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023, was keys to decisively countering
finally passed in the new Parliament threats, making self-reliance
building. the foundation of national
An Empowered India in Space
India has now reached near the lunar south pole—an power, dignity, and the journey
uncharted lunar region where no other nation in the world to becoming a
had ever ventured before. developed India
Dismantling Colonial Legacies by 2047.
Through the call for ‘Panchamrit’, the vestiges of
colonialism are being erased from the country. Initiatives Narendra Modi,
such as installing the statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Prime Minister
on Kartavya Path to instill pride in our heritage, redesigning
the Naval Ensign, and delivering the ceremonial 21-gun
salute using indigenous artillery during Independence Day
and Republic Day celebrations exemplify this commitment.

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