Narendra Modi: 'Disruption Is A Small Word To Define Changes In India'

The Prime Minister calls for a course correction to bring in real change in an unsettled time.

- Narendra Modi

For decades, India moved in the wrong direction, with the wrong policies. We assumed that government could do everything. After several decades, our attention was drawn to these mistakes and efforts were made to correct them. Two decades ago too, we had made such efforts. But our thinking is so limited that we considered these efforts to correct our mistakes as reforms. For the most part, after Indian Independence, one type of government or some form of coalition ruled the country. That’s why we saw only one type of thinking. Earlier, there used to be election-driven policies or policies that fit the rigid framework of the bureaucracy. Now times have changed. Technology has changed more in the last 20 years than in the last 200. The aspirations of the youth today are very different from 30 years ago. In the global environment, all the equations of a bipolar world and interdependent world have changed.

During the freedom struggle, national aspiration got precedence over personal aspiration and it had such power that it freed the country from 1,000 years of slavery. Today, like the movement for Independence, we need to launch a movement for development, expand personal aspiration to collective aspiration. This collective aspiration will lead to overall development for the country.