India should capture world's mindspace, scale up our productivity: PM at Kartavya Path

While addressing an event after the inauguration of Kartavya Bhawan along Kartavya Path in New Delhi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India should capture global mindspace, attracting consumers, tourists, and students. He urged citizens to put their best efforts into increasing both their own and the country's productivity. 

The Prime Minister also stated that the new office complexes will be the centre of policy-making and decision-making, leading the way for a developed India. 

PM Modi said, "Our resolve should be that we will scale up our and the country's productivity. When it comes to tourism, people from all over the world should come to India, when it comes to brands, the world's attention should be on Indian brands, when it comes to education, students from all over the world should come to India. The aim of our life should be to do what we can to increase India's strength." 

He also spoke about the Government's focus on holistic infrastructure development, further asserting that India has had a transparent, sensitive, and citizen-centric governance model over the past 11 years. Adding, "Earlier governments were sending money to 10 crore beneficiaries of various schemes, "who were never born". The money was going to middlemen." 

The Prime Minister also highlighted that through the implementation of Jan Dhan, Aadhar, and Mobile, all fake names have been removed from the system. He stated that because of this intervention, more than Rs 4.3 lakh crore had been saved from going into the wrong hands. 

PM Modi also said that the redevelopment of the government offices and bringing together all ministries and departments can help in avoiding Rs 1500 crore public expenditure annually that goes in rentals, with around 8000 - 10,000 employees shuttling between ministries daily.