No goal is impossible if Centre, states work like Team India: PM

NITI AAYOG MEET

- VINAY KUMAR

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said if the Centre and states work together like Team India, no goal is impossible.

Chairing the 10th Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog, Modi said there is need to increase the speed of development. The theme of the Council meeting was "Viksit Rajya for Viksit Bharat@2047".

"We have to increase the speed of development. If the Centre and all the States come together and work together like Team India, no goal is impossible," Niti Aayog in a post on X quoted the Prime Minister as saying.

"Viksit Bharat is the goal of every Indian. When every state is Viksit, then Bharat will be Viksit. This is the aspiration of its 140 crore citizens," Modi said.

The meeting also saw some of the Chief Ministers, belonging to Opposition parties, raise issues affecting their respective states, mainly relating to sharing of resources.

The council, the apex body of Niti Aayog, includes all state chief ministers, lieutenant governors of Union Territories, and several Union ministers. The Prime Minister is the chairman of Niti Aayog. It was attended by Chief Ministers and Lt. Governors representing 24 States and 7 UTs.

"We should have the aim of making each state viksit, each city viksit, each Nagar Palika viksit and each village viksit. If we work on these lines, we will not have to wait till 2047 to become Viksit Bharat," Modi said.

The prime minister also suggested that states should develop at least one tourist destination per state at par with global standards and by providing all facilities and infrastructure.

One State: One Global Destination.

It would also lead to the development of the neighbouring cities as tourist places," he said. Noting that India is getting rapidly urbanised, Modi said, "We should work towards futureready cities".