‘Mann ki Baat’: PM Modi hails India meeting export target of $400 billion

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed ita monthly ‘Mann ki Baat’ radio broadcast and lauded the quantum jump in exports of Indian products last week.

In his address PM said that soon Indians products will go global riding on its campaign for “vocal for local” and “Make in India” drive.

“India has achieved the export target of $ 400 billion, i.e. 30 lakh crore rupees. At first instance, it might come across as a matter related to the economy; but more than the economy, it is related to the capability of India, the potential of India,” PM Modi said.

He further added at one time, the figure of exports from India used to be 100 billion, at times 150 billion, sometimes 200 billion while today, India has reached 400 billion dollars. In a way, this means that the demand for items made in India is increasing all over the world; the other meaning is that the supply chain of India is getting stronger by the day and it also has a very big message.

“The nation takes great strides when resolves are bigger than dreams. When there is a sincere effort day and night for the resolves, those resolutions also attain fruition… and you see, the same happens in a person’s life as well. When one’s resolve, one’s efforts, become bigger than one’s dreams, success comes to the person on its own,” he said.