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Emerging new India will be poverty-free: Expert
NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar said India was the only country in the world which registered worth-emulating growth simultaneously on social, economic, and political fronts. He said development should not be an elite and urban areas-centred activity and called upon all stakeholders to ensure that it turned out to be inclusive in nature and becomes a vibrant mass movement.
Hyderabad: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar said India was the only country in the world which registered worth-emulating growth simultaneously on social, economic, and political fronts. He said development should not be an elite and urban areas-centred activity and called upon all stakeholders to ensure that it turned out to be inclusive in nature and becomes a vibrant mass movement.
He was addressing the All India Services and Central Services officers attending the 92nd Foundation Course on ‘New India @ 2022’ at Dr MCR HRD Institute on Wednesday. Dr Rajiv Kumar said the government had launched a number of innovative measures to provide greater momentum to achieve New India by 2022, which will be free from poverty, dirt, squalor, corruption, terrorism, caste, and communalism and thereby would emerge as a role model for the rest of the world.
Dr Rajiv Kumar said the attention being given by the government on the 200 most backward districts would go a long way not only on their multifaceted development but would also improve the overall performance of the country in terms of economic and social indicators of development.
He opined that greater focus on the amelioration of the lot of the 10 percent of the population with the lowest per capita income would bring in a number of beneficial outcomes. He said a big boost to road and internet connectivity would be greatly instrumental in empowering them to get access to public services and grow out of the shadows of poverty.
“The only way to double farmers’ income is to make them beneficiaries at each stage of the value-addition chain,” he urged. He underlined the importance of more allocation for R & D, greater use of science & technology in agriculture, broad-based involvement of community in developmental initiatives and availability of public services to poorer sections of society for meeting the aspirations of people, especially the youth.
Dr Rajiv Kumar said taking India to greater heights called for a development-oriented, rather than a soft State, and called upon the trainee civil servants to be prepared to contribute their mite to the growth trajectory of India. He advised them to focus their attention on improving the infrastructure for health and education considering its multifarious benefits to poorer sections of society.
Dr Rajiv Kumar gave away prizes to the winners in the competitions conducted by the Management Circle of the 92nd Foundation Course. Telangana State Planning Board Vice-Chairman Niranjan Reddy and Special Chief Secretary and Director General of Dr MCR HRD Institute B P Acharya presented a Pochampally stole, a memento, and a copy of the report on Socio-Economic Outlook -2017 to Dr Rajiv Kumar.
