India
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India’s
brand
image
has
been
enhanced
under
the
Narendra
Modi
government,
Nirmala
Sitharaman
said,
citing
the
celebration
of
Yoga
Day
all
over
the
world.
Bhopal,
Nov
29:
Finance
Minister
Nirmala
Sitharaman
on
Tuesday
said
the
Union
government
has
saved
Rs
2,00,000
crore
by
using
technology
as
systems
like
Direct
Benefit
Transfer
(DBT)
stopped
leakages.
She
was
speaking
at
a
lecture
series
on
‘Economic
Potential
of
Bharat
in
Global
Scenario
of
the
21st
Century’ organised
here
by
the
Dattopant
Thengadi
Research
Institute.
“Due
to
the
use
of
technology,
we
have
saved
Rs
2,00,000
crore.
The
money
under
DBT
is
reaching
directly
into
an
Aadhar-verified
account
with
no
possibility
of
fraud,” she
said.
During
the
Congress
rule,
money
used
to
go
into
the
accounts
of
the
dead,
non-existent
persons,
and
even
the
unborn
ones,
she
said
Talking
about
climate
change,
Sitharaman
said
the
developed
countries
have
been
emitting
carbon
dioxide
and
other
pollutants
since
the
industrial
revolution
began
centuries
ago,
but
when
countries
like
India
tried
to
march
ahead,
“they
told
us
not
to
emit
carbon
and
control
it”.
India
too
is
concerned
about
climate
change
as
it
affects
all
of
us,
so
it
is
putting
stress
on
changing
lifestyle,
the
finance
minister
added.
Dattopant
Thengadi,
the
late
RSS
leader
and
founder
of
the
Bharatiya
Mazdoor
Sangh
(BMS)
showed
the
middle
path
which
means
Atmanirbhar
(self-reliant)
Bharat,
Sitharaman
said,
adding
that
India
is
the
third
country
in
the
world
with
the
highest
number
of
unicorns.
Thengadi
set
up
the
BMS
at
a
time
when
trade
unions
were
synonyms
with
communism,
she
said.
The
ruling
Congress
and
communists
were
friends
so
communist
trade
unions
got
the
government’s
support,
Sitharaman
claimed.
The
communists
who
were
influenced
by
Marxism
gave
the
slogan
‘workers
of
the
world
unite’,
while
Thengadi
asked
workers
to
abandon
the
path
of
struggle
and
work
in
coordination
mode
and
coined
the
slogan
“workers
unite
the
world,”
she
said.
India’s
brand
image
has
been
enhanced
under
the
Narendra
Modi
government,
she
said,
citing
the
celebration
of
Yoga
Day
all
over
the
world.
The
Union
government
has
been
removing
restrictions
on
licenses
to
promote
equality
and
free
competition,
she
said.
Thengadi
was
in
favour
of
self-employment
rather
than
salaried
employment,
Sitharaman
recalled.
Entrepreneurship
is
in
the
DNA
of
India,
she
added.
Under
the
Congress
rule,
there
was
central
planning,
and
a
single
model
was
implemented
in
all
states
in
the
name
of
socialism,
the
finance
minister
said.
China
is
a
communist
country
but
it
too
is
building
its
economy
by
taking
the
help
of
capitalists,
she
said.
Madhya
Pradesh
Chief
Minister
Shivraj
Singh
Chouhan
said
during
the
event
that
a
report
presented
by
a
state
government’s
task
force
has
set
a
target
of
taking
the
contribution
of
the
state
to
the
country’s
economy
to
USD
550
billion
by
2025-26.
As
per
the
recommendations
of
this
GSDP
Task
Force,
economic
strategies
have
been
framed
for
the
economic
and
overall
development
of
the
state
to
achieve
the
target,
he
added.