{"id":303868,"date":"2018-10-07T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303868"},"modified":"2018-10-07T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T16:13:45","slug":"uttarakhand-investors-summmit-2018-india-to-be-a-major-engine-of-world-growth-says-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uttarakhand-investors-summmit-2018-india-to-be-a-major-engine-of-world-growth-says-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand Investors Summmit 2018: India to be a major engine of world growth, says PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed Destination Uttarakhand: Investors\u2019 Summit 2018, in Dehradun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Modi in his address talked about the rapid transformation of India, he said \u201cIndia is going through a period of rapid transformation. It is widely accepted that India will be a major engine of world growth in the coming decades. The speed and scale of economic reform in India is unprecedented. India had improved by 42 ranks in the Ease of Doing Business rankings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Modi spoke of the reforms initiated in taxation, he said \u201cthe Insolvency and\u00a0Bankrupty\u00a0Code has made doing business easier.\u00a0\u00a0The implementation of GST is the biggest tax reform since independence.\u201d He added that \u201cthis has transformed the country into a single market, and has helped increase the tax base.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PM also spoke about the fast pace of road construction, railway line construction, new metro systems,\u00a0high speed\u00a0rail project, and dedicated freight corridors and also mentioned the progress made in the aviation sector, and in providing housing, power, clean fuel, health\u00a0and\u00a0banking services to the people. He said the recently launched Ayushman Bharat scheme will spur the development of medical infrastructure in\u00a0the tier\u00a02 and tier 3 cities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PM said that \u201cNew India is a great destination for investment, and \u2018Destination Uttarakhand\u2019 represents this spirit.\u201d He spoke of the measures taken for investor facilitation in the State. He also spoke of the progress made in initiatives being taken for improving connectivity in the State, including the Char-Dham\u00a0all weather\u00a0road project, and the Rishikesh-Karnprayag Railway line project. Modi also talked about the State\u2019s immense potential in the tourism sector and initiatives being taken in the food processing and renewable energy sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Modi also mentioned the achievements of the \u201cMake in India\u201d initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed Destination Uttarakhand: Investors\u2019 Summit 2018, in Dehradun.\u00a0 PM Modi in his address talked about the rapid transformation of India, he said \u201cIndia is going through a period of rapid transformation. It is widely accepted that India will be a major engine of world growth in the coming decades. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2914],"tags":[2805,5452,5453,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303871,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303868\/revisions\/303871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}