Independence day speech by the PM

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Will Modi create a new history with his maiden speech tomorrow on India's 68th Independence day..Will it focus on the big bang reforms..Will he share some new initiatives that will lead the country to Achhe Din (Good Days)!

Some are even commenting that he may change the venue of the main function from Red Fort!

Let us wait with bated breath what the PM is going to deliver-reading a monotonous staid vision or an extempore adventurous and enterprising speech that connects with the audience!

 

[vgane]

I watched the PM's speech..It was an extempore speech..He was at his natural best displaying his keenness to resolve a wide variety of issues that plagues India..He covered a wide range of issues: Sanitation, building toilets, adopting villages, parents to also keep a tab on their sons as much as they do for their daughters, making India a manufacturing destination. fighting poverty etc

PM Narendra Modi: Dream of 'Zero-defect Made-in-India' products across the world - The Economic Times

PM Narendra Modi: Dream of 'Zero-defect Made-in-India' products across the world

By ECONOMICTIMES.COM | 15 Aug, 2014, 09.21AM IST
NEW DELHI: Giving an open invitation to the world to make India a manufacturing hub, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his maiden Independence Day speech said, "Come make in India. "Be it plastics or cars or satellites or agricultural products, come make in India."

We must dream of 'Made in India' products across the world. "We need to encourage the manufacturing sector. We need to channelise the strength of the youth through manufacturing," Modi stressed. "Manufactured goods should have zero defect as also zero effect on environment," Modi added.

"We should strive to be a nation that doesn't import, but exports," Modi said. "I urge the youth to reduce dependence on imported products," Modi added.

Modi voiced dismay at the government in-fighting he found on assuming office in May and vowed to fire up the bureaucracy to deliver results. Modi said India could not move ahead if there was disunity in government, emphasising his focus on the process of government
and avoiding big-bang reform announcements.

Modi also spoke about violence against women, saying his head hung in shame to see reports of rape across the country. He said while the law will take its course, Indian society must itself be raising sons in the best possible manner.

"After all, a person who is raping is somebody's son. As parents have we asked our sons where he is going? We need to take responsibility to bring our sons who have deviated from the right path to bring them back ..

 

[vgane]

PM Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech: Seven key takeways
[FONT=&quot]NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his maiden Independence Day speech spoke on a wide range of issues, from financial inclusion schemes to stressing on need to enhance manufacturing.

Modi said that for India to make its presence felt on the global stage, there was immediate need to channelise the talent of the youth. He spoke of promoting Brand India and ensuring a better developed rural India. We take a look at the key takeaways from his speech:

1) Promote Made in India: Giving an open invitation to the world to make India a manufacturing hub, Modi said, "Come make in India. Be it plastics or cars or satellites or agricultural products, come make in India."

We must dream of 'Made in India' products across the world. "We need to encourage the manufacturing sector. We need to channelise the strength of the youth through manufacturing," Modi stressed. "Manufactured goods should have zero defect as also zero effect on environment," Modi added.

"We should strive to be a nation that doesn't import, but exports," Modi said. "I urge the youth to reduce dependence on imported products," Modi added.

2) Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana: Modi launched the 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana' to help poor open bank accounts which will come with the facility of a debit card and an insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh.

"We want to integrate the poorest of the poor with bank accounts with Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana," Modi said. Observing that people have mobile phones but not bank accounts, Modi said, the scheme will help in bringing the benefits of formal banking system to them.

Under the Jan Dhan Yojana, he said, "the person who will open bank account will get a debit card and the family will get Rs 1 lakh insurance cover. This will help the family to tide over the unforeseen eventuality." [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]3) Digital India:[/FONT][FONT=&quot] "We should dream of a Digital India. Digital India is a dream for the poor, with broadband connectivity, we can ensure long-distance education," Modi said.

"Digital India is plan not for the benefit of the rich, but the poor," Modi stressed. "e-governance is easy governance, efficient governance, and that is important," he added.

4) Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana: Modi asked all MPs to developed a model village in their constituencies by 2016. "One village for a constituency should be developed on the model grounds. Two more can be developed by 2019." "If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages"

"If each MP decides to develop three villages over five years, so many villages in the country would have seen progress," Modi added.

5) Moratorium on violence: Modi declared that he would like to run the country on the basis of consensus and not on majority in Parliament and called for a 10-year moratorium on caste and communal violence.

Modi also asked the misguided youth who have taken to terrorism and naxalism to shed their guns and adopt the path of peace and development. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]6) Planning Commission to be replaced: [/FONT]Modi said that he would replace the Planning Commission that for decades guided the country's economy with a more modern institution.

"The times have changed since the Planning Commission was created. In a short span of time we will initiative a new institution that will work in place of the Planning Commission," Modi said. "We need creative thinking on the Planning Commission's role."

Soon after Modi's speech it was announced that the Planning Commission would be replaced by National Development Reforms Commission.

[FONT=&quot]7) Clean India: [/FONT]The government plans to launch the Swacch Bharat plan in October. "Let us pledge that we will not make surroundings dirty. Pledge to develop a clean India," Modi said. "Mahatma Gandhi's 150th anniversary is coming in a few years. How should we celebrate it? He respected cleanliness. We should pledge for clean India," he added.

"We have to stress on cleanliness, sanitation. By 2019 we must ensure a Swacch Bharat. Modi went on to say, "Dignity of women is our responsibility. We have to ensure that we provide toilets for all."

Modi appealed to all corporates, "Under CSR, please give importance to making toilets in schools within a year. Next year when we celebrate Independence Day, we should have made sure that there are toilets in every school."[FONT=&quot][/FONT]

Read more at:
PM Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech: Seven key takeways - Page2 - The Economic Times

 

[vgane]

A nice blog on PM's speech...Those who missed his speech can go through this:

Is Modi just another brilliant speaker or a great doer?olibelly:Rajesh Ramachandran's blog-The Economic Times
[h=1]Is Modi just another brilliant speaker or a great doer?[/h]
Rajesh Ramachandran
Friday August 15, 2014, 02:29 PM

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The dark, closed-collar suit, the sombre air, the sleepy speech and the perfunctory Prime Ministerial performance was out. Instead a man in tricolour - saffron-green pagadi and white short-sleeved kurta - with hand on his hips was talking to parents about their sons who rape, who don't care about their mothers and sisters who have to wait till nightfall to empty their bladders, who abandon them in old age homes, who wield guns for causes right or wrong and litter their lanes and keep their villages dirty.

Had any other politician made a similar speech or held the mirror from the Red Fort on the "ugly and dirty Indian", the saffron warriors on social media would have eaten him up for Independence Day breakfast. Then, Narendra Modi has an uncanny ability to connect with the masses, yet hold on to his own agenda.

The body language, the hands thrown to the right and then to the left, the invocation of Bharat Mata, Vivekananda and Aurobindo and the unique attempt to talk to everyone in the crowd, including those who are watching him on TV, and to get them to respond to his utterances, all this was reminiscent of his high voltage eight-month-long election campaign.

Modi said a lot of things today, from his "Make in India" dream to import substitution, from peaceful coexistence and growth of SAARC neighbours to a new planning commission for a new India to mobile governance. But what stood out was his vision for villages.

He wants toilets in every school, particularly for girls. He is prodding Parliamentarians to spare their local area development funds and corporates to spend their corporate social responsibility allocation to build toilets in schools so that girls too can sit comfortably in class rooms.

It was a deliberately unabashed admission of real India from the biggest possible national platform. We don't have toilets or basic facilities in our villages and cities.

The Jan Dhan Yojana for every farmer to get a bank account, a debit card and a One-lakh-Rupee insurance was another admission of the miserable truth of farmer suicides. The Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana for every Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MP to adopt and turn a village around ought to immediately benefit over 800 villages directly.

All this and the iteration of his humble origins turned Modi's first I-day speech into a neat package of solutions for the miserable Indian villages.

But the big message apart from the projects, programmes and solutions, was in the atmospherics. And it was all about nationalism, a resurgent India looking back at Gandhi and Bhagat Singh, the heroes of the national movement, all those who took the nation forward all this while and then looking ahead at Vivekananda's prophecy of India as world's spiritual leader, the Jagat Guru.

Though Modi always sounds more material than spiritual, his omissions were again stark. Unfortunately, Nehru remains a Gandhi family property and hence is forgotten whenever a non-Congress government comes to power.

Modi did remember Gandhi, Sardar Patel and the second PM, Lal Bahadur Shastri. But he did not name a single RSS leader in his speech and he seemed to have even forgotten the first RSS PM, Vajpayee.

Modi makes it all sound so simple: communally harmonious villages with toilets for girls who matter more than the boys who along with their wives and sisters would turn India into a global manufacturing hub with jobs for all and deprivation for none. Is he just another brilliant speaker or a great doer? Let us wait for his next I-day speech.

 

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PM Modi's mantra: No point in making rockets if you can't build toilets
Nistula Hebbar
Among the many rituals of our national holiday in August, is the one of watching the Prime Minister address the country from the ramparts of the Red Fort. This ritual was not delivered whole to the country in 1947, but was a spontaneous act by the first premiere Jawahar Lal Nehru. After addressing both Houses of Parliament at the stroke of midnight on August 14/15, it was decided that he would fly the tricolor from the Red Fort. The Fort was an important symbol of liberation for both war of independence of 1857 and even the later freedom movement. It had housed the last Indian emperor and his court, and to reclaim it with the Indian flag was a symbolic gesture.




Nehru spoke extempore and to gathered crowds, nowhere near as disciplined as latter day audiences. It was, according to those who witnessed it, more of an address to whoever showed up, instead of choreographed audiences of representatives schools, bureaucracy, and armed forces.
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What is different in Narendra Modi's speech? For starters, Modi has gone back to the tradition of an extempore speech, liberated from the babus of his PMO, and owned his speech 100%. Most importantly, this is a speech which, after a long time talks of a "national character" and keeps family front and centre. Is that good or bad? As a liberal, for me, any politician talking about family values rings off automatic alarm bells, of the state exercising control in areas where they have no business to be. On the other hand, this character building exercise was very much part of the freedom struggle, Gandhi's emphasis on sanitation, of trying to break patriarchal notions and encouraging women's participation in the independence movement were civilizational interventions as important in fighting the British as political principles.
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Does this hit a chord? Women will certainly respond favourably to his prescriptions on prevention of rape. The only point of caution should be to see that the role of the state, already overwhelming in the lives of Indian citizens is not given a further boost. That said, from community to family, Modi's social leap will certainly lead to interesting times ahead.PM Modi's mantra: No point in making rockets if you can't build toilets:The Political Instinct:Nistula Hebbar's blog-The Economic Times

 

[Brahmanyan]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in his best while addressing the Nation from the ramparts of Red fort yesterday.
Great to see a PM who called himself a sevak with utmost humility. His extempore speech was superb. I felt proud to see a man who is down to earth in his commitments. I give below the letter of greetings I got from PM's office on the occasion of 68th Independence day.


Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

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[vgane]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in his best while addressing the Nation from the ramparts of Red fort yesterday.
Great to see a PM who called himself a sevak with utmost humility. His extempore speech was superb. I felt proud to see a man who is down to earth in his commitments. I give below the letter of greetings I got from PM's office on the occasion of 68th Independence day.
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Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

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Dear Sri Brahmanyan,

Thanks for sharing the letter that you received from PM..It was so nice of you

I noticed that the greetings are in different Indian Languages including Tamil..A very good beginning

 

[sarang]

Nice. Thanks or sharing.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in his best while addressing the Nation from the ramparts of Red fort yesterday.
Great to see a PM who called himself a sevak with utmost humility. His extempore speech was superb. I felt proud to see a man who is down to earth in his commitments. I give below the letter of greetings I got from PM's office on the occasion of 68th Independence day.
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Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.

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[vignesh2014]

It is very nice to see a writing in which he has addressed all fellow Indians to cooperate with him in building the nation and alleviating the country from poverty.If the deeds speak mightier than words, he will be one of the best prime ministers for our nation and one of the world best leader.

 

[prasad1]

Politickle by Manjul | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

TO whom it may concern. This not my drawing. I have given the source and it is a cut and paste from that source.
Anything more Dr. Watson?

 

[prasad1]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first Independence Day speech highlighted the extremes that India represents. We don’t have toilets for women, garbage collection is a national issue, but indeed, we are a country that’s significantly wired into the digital revolution. And in big numbers.

As one of India's most twitter-savvy politicians, Modi championed the use of social media to communicate with people during his campaign. In his government, he has used it for inter-departmental coordination and for announcing new measures. He has also asked his ministers to use tech tools for more effective functioning.

People need to embrace the PM’s digital vision as their own because so long they treat it as Modi’s initiative, it will not pick up momentum. It has the power to change. Digital dignity is an idea that brings equality of access to all. Just like it has in developed economies like America and Britian. Using digital means is a great tool of participatory democracy and India should embrace the change it brings.


'No snake charmers or black magic, we are digital India,' says Modi and who would want to disagree with that.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/repor...ra-modi-s-digital-vision-as-their-own-2011052

Unfortunately in India the Snake charmers and black magic purveyors have adopted Modi's vision and still selling their snake oil as Hindu Culture.

 

[vgane]

A really good one! Satire at its best!!