Chip to ship, all must be made in India, it's a necessity now: PM Modi in Gujarat

RAJKOT/AHMEDABAD: PM Narendra Modi ratcheted up his "atmanirbharta" propulsion amid expanding protectionist measures globally, saying connected Saturday that from "chip to ship, everything indispensable beryllium made successful India", which has nary prime present but to beryllium self-reliant.

Dedicating projects spanning assorted sectors and worthy implicit Rs 1 lakh crore, PM Modi said successful Bhavnagar that "in existent terms, if determination is 1 force of India, it is our reliance connected different countries".The PM besides tore into the absorption Congress, saying that its flawed policies post-Independence and deliberate neglect of India's inherent competence had pushed the state into terrible dependence connected imports that resulted successful staggering fiscal losses."India is moving guardant with the tone of planetary brotherhood and we person nary large force successful the satellite today... For peace, stableness and prosperity, our state volition person to go self-reliant. Dependence connected different countries volition compromise our self-respect too. The aboriginal of 140 crore citizens cannot beryllium near astatine the mercy of different nations," helium said.The PM blamed Congress for entangling the state successful licence and quota raj and choosing the import way erstwhile the epoch of globalisation began. He claimed Congress resorted to scams moving into lakhs of crores of rupees. A striking illustration of Congress' ruinous policies, helium said, was the illness of India's bequest ship-building sector, whose stock successful the planetary marketplace plummeted from 40% to conscionable 5% successful 50 years.Quoting the fashionable saying "Sau dukhon ki ek dawa (one remedy for 100 ills), the PM said "aatmanirbharta" is the lone solution to each of the country's problems.