The North News
Chandigarh, September 25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that India remains an attractive growth destination despite global disruptions, insisting that the country is firmly advancing toward its ambition of becoming a developed nation by 2047. Speaking at the Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show 2025 in Greater Noida today, Modi said that challenges on the global stage had not diverted India but instead revealed “new directions.” He described the ongoing effort as laying a strong foundation for the coming decades. Reiterating his government’s guiding mantra of Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India), Modi told entrepreneurs, traders and innovators that dependence on others weakened a country’s progress. “India must become self-reliant. Every product that can be made in India must be produced in India,” he said.
He said the government’s focus on Make in India was aimed at producing “everything from chips to ships” domestically, backed by efforts to ease compliance burdens for businesses. More than 40,000 compliances have been scrapped and hundreds of minor business-related offences decriminalised, he said. The Prime Minister urged industry leaders to uphold the highest standards of quality, saying citizens were increasingly proud to buy swadeshi (indigenous) products. “There must be no compromise on quality,” he stressed.
Modi also underlined the importance of research and innovation, calling for a manifold increase in private sector investment and the creation of a comprehensive ecosystem for indigenous research, design and development. Welcoming more than 2,200 exhibitors and participants at the trade fair, he noted that Russia was the partner country for this edition, describing it as a reflection of a “time-tested partnership.”
Modi also linked the occasion to the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, whose philosophy of Antyodaya (upliftment of the last person) he said was guiding India’s inclusive development model. He added that India was now offering this model to the world.
