PM Narendra Modi Launches NITI Aayog Lecture Series: Highlights

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi today launched NITI Aayog lecture series at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

Here are the highlights of his address:

• 30 years ago, a country might have been able to look inward and find its solutions. Today, countries are inter dependent ans inter connected.
• No country can afford any longer to develop in isolation.
• Younger generation in India is thinking and aspiring so differently, that government can no longer afford to remain rooted in the past.
• My vision for India is rapid transformation, not gradual evolution.
• If India is to meet the challenge of change, mere incremental progress is not enough. A metamorphosis is needed.
• The transformation of India cannot happen without a transformation of governance.
• A transformation of governance cannot happen without a transformation in mindset.
• A transformation in mindset cannot happen without transformative ideas.
• What we need is a collective opening of our minds, to let in new, global perspectives.
• We cannot march through the twenty first century with the administrative systems of the nineteenth century.
• What we need is a collective opening of our minds, to let in new, global perspectives.
• It is therefore fitting that we are inaugurating this series with Shri Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore.
• One of the greatest reformers and administrators of our time was Lee Kuan Yew who transformed Singapore to what it is today.