Make In India

India has had a rich culture of several thousand years far before it had any interaction with western countries. It was completely self-reliant, technologically adept, and had scientifically and artistically transcended its western counterparts. But over the years we lost that uniqueness and started to rely more on our peers. To bring back our dormant uniqueness, our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched the Make In India movement in 2014.
The objective of this movement is to encourage the investment of Indian and Multinational companies towards establishing industries in India. This will generate employment, help in skilling the young, raise our Gross Domestic Product, and bring to fore India’s presence in the global market.
With the simple slogan, ‘Zero defect, zero effect’, this movement will reveal its strong support towards being environmentally sustainable and generating products of premium quality.
One of the major hesitations foreign investors and businessmen used to have while doing transactions in India was the stringent policies and regulations and labor laws. This is the reason India had ranked low in the ‘Ease of doing business’ ranking by the World Bank. But all that is changing and for the first time, India has jumped 30 points to come in the top 100 nations in the ‘Ease of doing business’ 2017 ranking.
With all the perks, the government has to be careful not to go haywire and provide access to all sorts of industries without a basic background check. And to make sure that they do not misuse India’s resources or add to the already staggering environmental imbalances. For which perhaps there can be a routine governmental check every alternate year.
Hopefully, with the coming of this movement, the sun will shine on India again.

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