Ended curse of incremental thinking, India to work at superspeed: PM Modi at ET Now GBS 2024
Narendra Modi said on Friday, asserting that the «curse of incremental thinking» had for long hampered India's progress till his government changed this mindset in the bureaucracy and the administration. He justified the White Paper on the decade-long Congress-led UPA government, saying if he had preferred political expediency over national interest, he could have brought this out much earlier but that would have created panic.
Speaking at the ET Now Global Business Summit on Friday, Modi said he has been in the process of preparing the roadmap for his third term for the last 18 months and has taken feedback from over 1.5 million people till now. General elections are due to be held in April-May.
«New Bharat will work at superspeed — this is Modi's guarantee,» he said.
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Money saved is money earned, he said, adding that direct benefit transfer (DBT) has weeded out 100 million fake beneficiaries and put the funds into the bank accounts of the deserving.
DBT has saved ₹3 lakh crore of public money while JAM (Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, mobile) has saved another ₹6,500 crore.
«When the curse of incremental thinking infects you, you bind yourself into limits,» Modi said, adding that when he took over as Prime Minister in 2014, he found the bureaucracy was also suffering from this malaise and there was an urgent need to change the mindset. Doing so has led to record achievements in infrastructure development and the completion of ambitious projects in a
