Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is speaking at the inauguration of Maritime India Summit in Mumbai. Below are the highlights:
- Great pleasure in being with you and welcoming you at the Maritime India Summit
- Maritime transport can be the most extensive mode of transport. It is also the most eco-friendly mode of transport
- Our lifestyle, transport systems and trading behavior should not spoil the ecology of oceans
- This is the first time that a global event on such a large scale is being organized by India
- Today is 125th birth anniversary for someone who lived and worked in Mumbai - Dr. BR Ambedkar
- Dr. Ambedkar is the architect of the water and river navigation policy in India
- We have embarked on the development of National Waterways in keeping with Babasaheb's vision and foresight
- We Indians are inheritors of a glorious maritime heritage
- It is my government's endeavour to revive and restore India's position of eminence in the global maritime sector
- In the very early days of our Government, we announced the Sagarmala programme
- Want to modernize ports & integrate them with SEZs, Port based Smart Cities, Industrial Parks, Warehouses, Logistics Parks
- Our maritime agenda will complement this ambitious infrastructure plan for the hinterland which is going on in parallel
- Long coastline of India along with diverse coastal regions and hard working coastal communities can become an engine of growth of India
- Our vision is to increase port capacity from one thousand, four hundred million tonnes to three thousand million tonnes by 2025
- All this is being done to benefit the common citizen. This is being done to provide employment to the youth
- Private Ports have been growing at a very healthy pace and have nearly doubled their capacity in the last 5 years
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