India advancing fast to make India trillion-dollar digital economy: Piyush Goyal
India's 65 million MSMEs are fast-moving to embrace digitization to make India a trillion-dollar digital economy, said Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday.
According to a press release from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Union Minister called for partnerships among countries for achieving Sustainable Growth.
Addressing the Inaugural Session of the CII Partnership Summit 2021 on the theme "Partnering for Building a New World: Growth, Competitiveness, Sustainability, Technology" through video conferencing, Goyal told India, as it assumes presidency of the G20, will contribute global partnerships for solving global crises and issues collectively.
"India has emerged as the 'World's Trusted Partner'. Even in the critical situation of Covid19, even under severe lockdown, India met all of its international service commitments. Despite severe lockdowns, services and supply chains did not suffer for even a second," Goyal said.
The Union Minister assured the global delegation that India will supply Covid vaccines to the whole world to tackle the pandemic. India also plans to manufacture 5 billion doses of covid jabs next year, goyal added. "Along with protecting its own population, India has also provided medical supplies and equipment to more than 150 countries across the globe," he said,
"It is in line with India's ancient wisdom of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' (The World is One Family). Nobody will be safe until everybody is safe; nobody will be happy until everybody will be happy," Goyal said.
The minister said the pandemic has put India under the spotlight, to uphold its potential as a global leader especially at a time when the country is celebrating 75 years of independence Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. "India's cumulative COVID-19 Vaccination coverage exceeds 1.33 billion doses," he said.
Goyal said all the ministers of india are working for the welfare of the poor with the Government's philosophy of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas'. "We have been operating the world's largest food distribution programme serving more than 800 million beneficiaries for 19 months along with the world's largest health insurance programme reaching out to the poorest of the poor," he added.
Calling for a discrimination free and just world trade order, Goyal said, with 'Panchamrit', Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set very ambitious and attainable targets for India at the COP26. "India will attain its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030 and meet 50 per cent of its energy requirements from RE. We also hope to attain Net Zero (Carbon Footprint) by 2070 in the fastest possible time," he said.
Under the reign of Norendra Modi, India is on a Reform Journey that has transformed its landscape with several schemes like the PLI, PM Mitra, Reduction in Corporate Tax, Ease of Doing Business and Single Window, Goyal said. Today India's businesses are advancing towards the adoption of tech like 5G, AI, IoT (Internet of Things), etc. to achieve Manufacturing excellence, he also said.
Source: ANI
16 Dec 2021,19:45