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Nagrik Devo Bhava: A Capable

Bharat Amid Global Crises

From the COVID pandemic to the crisis in West Asia, PM Modi explained how Bharat’s
well-considered plans over 12 years kept the nation capable and self-reliant...

n A pandemic like COVID-19 had plunged the entire it to our farmers for just Rs 300.
world into uncertainty and all systems had been n The global market price for DAP has reached Rs
thrown into turmoil, but as we emerged from 5,000; we continue to supply it for Rs 1,350.
COVID, the horrors of war began to make headlines. n Some people have engaged in the game of
n Whether in Ukraine or West Asia, there was an weaponizing resources — petrol, diesel, fertilizers,
atmosphere of tension everywhere, and who knows medicines, chips, and even territory itself.
what all the so-called forecasters had predicted. n If we had not moved in the right direction for
Some people derive satisfaction from frightening the the past decade, guided by the mantra of self-
country and keeping it fearful. Rumours were spread reliance, we can imagine how we would have
that vaccines would not be available, and that petrol, faced such challenges.
diesel and fertilisers would not be available. n There was a time when I was talking about self-
n The country has seen that the well-considered plans reliance, and people sitting in air-conditioned
of the past 10–12 years are bearing fruit; today the chambers were asking what would happen to
country has gas, petrol and urea. globalization.
n Despite such a massive crisis, Bharat, guided by n But the world is seeing that in the last decade it
the principle of Nagrik Devo Bhava. seems as if the world has stopped talking about
n These crises have affected us too — the global price globalization — the voices of globalization that used
of a sack of urea reached Rs 3,000; even so, we give to come from have stopped, they cannot be heard.

“We must be second to
none. This is the resolve
of countless countrymen.
However, a resolve
remains incomplete
unless it is backed by the
utmost hard work and
extraordinary valor.”

(Excerpt of the speech from the ramparts of the
Red Fort on Independence Day 2021)

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