The North News
New Delhi, May 24
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday rallied for a collective national effort to realise the vision of a developed India—Viksit Bharat—by 2047, saying that collaboration between the Centre and states as “Team India” would make no goal unattainable. The Prime Minister called on all tiers of governance to accelerate the pace of development, arguing that transformative change begins with policies that tangibly improve the lives of ordinary citizens.
“We should work in a manner so that policies implemented bring change in the lives of common citizens,” Modi said. “Only when people feel the change, it strengthens the change and transforms the change into a movement,” he said while chairing the 10th Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog.
The Prime Minister positioned the push towards a developed India not merely as a policy objective but as a shared national aspiration. “Viksit Bharat is the goal of every Indian. When every state is Viksit, then Bharat will be Viksit. This is the aspiration of its 140 crore citizens,” he added.
Acknowledging India’s rapid urbanisation, Prime Minister stressed the need for “future-ready cities” that are driven by growth, innovation and sustainability. “We have a great opportunity as a team to fulfil the aspirations of 140 crore people,” he said, encouraging urban planning that anticipates long-term demographic and environmental changes.
Modi also underscored the importance of gender inclusion in India’s economic journey, calling for the respectful integration of women into the workforce through enabling laws and policies.
“We must work towards inclusion of women in our workforce,” he said. “We must make laws and policies so that they can be respectfully integrated,” he added.
The Prime Minister urged a bottom-up approach to national development, asserting that India’s transformation must begin at the grassroots. “We should have the aim of making each state Viksit, each city Viksit, each Nagar Palika Viksit and each village Viksit,” he said. “If we work on these lines, we will not have to wait till 2047 to become Viksit Bharat,” the Prime Minister said.
The call to action echoes Modi’s long-standing emphasis on cooperative federalism and grassroots empowerment as critical pillars of India’s development strategy.
