Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Centre's budget reforms have created a new work culture and are transforming the socio-economic landscape.
“The earlier government knew only these three words: atkana, phatkana and latkana (block, destroy and delay). For the past 20 years, we had heard many promises related to the completion of work on this airport. While many leaders, MPs and even governments were elected on such promises, no airport was developed. One should attribute this delay to the way (previous) governments functioned,” said Modi.
He added that it was in 1997, when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the PM, that the need for a second airport for the financial capital was first acknowledged.
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“When I became the Prime Minister of the country in 2014, I realised that not only Navi Mumbai airport, but also many other important projects in the country conceptualised 20-30 years back are still to progress. Some of these projects were inaugurated by then political leaders… but none of them became a reality,” he said, adding that he had tried to quicken the pace of completion of these projects. “Everything was on paper. But yes, there would be chants of how it was conceptualised when they were in power,” he said.
Addressing the inaugural session of at Magnetic Maharashtra' Global Investors Summit here, the prime minister said that the nation is heading towards an efficient and transparent ecosystem at a fast pace.
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"Our budget is not limited to an outlay, the focus of our budget is not limited to output, but is the outcome. Our reforms in budget making and presentation have created a new work culture and are transforming the socio-economic landscape," the prime minister said.
The prime minister further stressed on the importance of improvement in 'ease of living' and said it empowers people.
He also said that potential policy, planning, and performance will help the nation to progress.
"We are heading in a direction where a state is policy-driven, governance is performance-driven, the government is accountable, and democracy is participative," he said.
Prime Minister Modi also credited the Maharashtra government for their contribution in improving India's rank in connection with ease of doing business.
He expressed confidence that soon Maharashtra will be India's first trillion-dollar state.
"In the past three years, the Maharashtra government has taken unprecedented steps to strengthen the environment for investment. Today, the infrastructure projects in Maharashtra are attracting the attention of the whole world," he said.
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