Young demographic dividend will see India@100 emerging as a $35-trillion economy: Piyush Goyal
Piyush Goyal, Commerce & Industry Minister, says “the more we are criticised, the more power this government and particularly Prime Minister Modi gets. We are an aspirational government. We are a hungry government, hungry as in not in the belly, but hungry for more. As they say in Hindi, yeh dil mange more, or dil jitna zyada mangega, utni zyada mehnat karega. The more you desire, the more you work hard for meeting those aspirations, those goals, and I think it is very fair to say that we have miles to go before we sleep and I would think till the last breath of every human being that should be the spirit.”
Everybody is talking about the 10 years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government versus the 10 years before that and whether we have fared better. On many of these indicators, we are definitely doing very well and probably we have beaten the record of the previous governments. When we look into the future and the next 10 or 20 years because that is what your government is known for, a vision for a longer period, what is the big picture that you would want to paint for Indians and India and for the global community?
Piyush Goyal: First of all, I will just correct the perspective a little bit. I would believe that the 10 years that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has served India have been years which have defined India as a nation that cares for 1.4 billion people, as a nation that looks at the development of every part of India as an important element of inclusive growth, as a period where the country took
