NaMO’s Make-in-India Campaign is here finally- Check the highlights

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi on Thursday, 25th September, 2014 promised easy and effective governance to help achieve high growth and creation of jobs while launching his government’s most ambitious project to make India, a manufacturing hub

In the audience, there were about 500 CEOs including leading industrialists like Cyrus Mistry, Chairman of Tata Group, Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Chanda Kochhar of ICICI Bank, Kumar Mangalam Birla who heads the Aditya Birla Group.

While starting the ‘Make in India’ campaign, Modi said his government’s focus will be on physical infrastructure creation as well as creating a digital network to make India a hub for worldwide manufacturing of goods ranging from softwares to cars, paper to power and satellites to submarines. Here are the highlights:

• “We want highways. We also want i-ways – information ways for a digital India,” Modi said, adding “Make in India is not a slogan, not an invitation”.

• Recalling the scenario of past 2-3 years where ‘companies were looking to move out of country’, he said 3 months of the NDA government has reversed the mood of Indians with its focus on simplifying the process of doing business in the country.

• The most important thing which is required for business to flourish is trust. Government can intervene if there is any gap but we must start with trust. We want to trust all our countrymen.

• People are talking about FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) but I see things differently. FDI is also a responsibility for the people of India. My definition of FDI for the people of India is First Develop India.

• Don’t treat India just as a market, see the caliber of every citizen of India… The faster people in the middle-class it will create an opportune market. And to move from being poor to middle-class, we should provide employment opportunities.

• We have to create employment opportunities. If the poor get jobs, the purchasing power of families will rise.

• Industrialists do not come because of incentives, they need to create a growth-oriented and developed environment.

• The world is looking at Asia. I do not have to waste time to invite people. I need to give them the address.

• Nobody can doubt or question the talent of our Indian people especially after yesterday’s Mars mission. The parts on the Mangalyaan were made in small factories in India proves there is no dearth of talent.

• The world is ready to come to Asia. India offers democracy, demographic dividend, demand.

• We have a ‘Look East Policy’ and at the same time we have to ‘Link West’.

• Want to enhance Public-Private Partnerships in skill development. The government is dedicated to growth. There is no political agenda here, this is an article.

• States and Centre have to work together towards development. This nation is yours. There is no need to leave the country. We want our companies to shine as multi-nationals (PM Modi to India Inc.).

• If you want to grab the global market, we are ready to stand by you as facilitators.

• Be assured you will not lose your money (PM Modi to industrialists).