NITI Aayog meet: PM Modi hails budget, says country wants to progress fast
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired the sixth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog, via video conferencing.
The Governing Council presents a platform to discuss inter-sectoral, inter-departmental and federal issues. It comprises PM Modi, Chief Ministers of States and Union Territories (UTs), with Legislators and Lieutenant Governors of other UTs, PMO said.
The agenda includes agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, human resource development, service delivery at grassroots level and health and nutrition.
Foundation of India's development is that Centre & States work together and head towards a certain direction & make cooperative federalism even more meaningful. Not only this, we have to try to bring competitive, cooperative federalism not only among states but also districts: PM pic.twitter.com/XhlTfdi1PJ
— ANI (@ANI) February 20, 2021
In the COVID period we saw how Centre and States worked together, the nation succeeded and a good image of India was built before the entire world. Today, when we are going to complete 75 years of independence, this Governing Council meet becomes even more significant, PM Modi said
In past few yrs, we saw that opening of bank accounts, increase in vaccination & health facilities, free electricity connection, free gas connection to empower the poor has reflected a phenomenal change in their lives, PM Modi further added
The positive response received for this year's Budget has expressed the mood of the nation. The country has made up its mind that it wants to progress rapidly and doesn't want to lose time. The youth is playing a major role in setting the mood of the nation: PM Narendra Modi pic.twitter.com/p2yqtaEjB5
— ANI (@ANI) February 20, 2021
The positive response received for this year’s Budget has expressed the mood of the nation. The country has made up its mind that it wants to progress rapidly and doesn’t want to lose time. The youth is playing a major role in setting the mood of the nation, he said
