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Modi's address to the nation:

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September 23, 2025

'GST 2.0 implementation first step towards economic self-reliance'

- BY S VENKAT NARAYAN OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Modi's address to the nation:

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Hours before the new tw-slab Goods and Services Tax (GST) is about to be rolled out at midnight on Sunday (September 21, 2025), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed it a “bachat utsav”, a festival of savings, and the first step towards “aatmanirbharta” or economic self-reliance for Indians.

In a televised broadcast to the nation, Modi drew connections between the simplification of the GST regime from a four-slab to two-slab system, ease in compliance, and the reduction in prices resulting from it to a larger point about the need for Indians to weed out foreign-made products from their everyday life, and adopt products made in India, boosting the country’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

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