If Centre, states work together like Team India, no goal is impossible: PM Modi at Niti Aayog meet

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that if the Union Government and states work together like Team India, no goal is impossible.

In his opening remarks at the 10th Governing Council meeting of the Niti Aayog, which is discussing the concept of Viksit Rajya for Viksit Bharat@2047, Modi said that Viksit Bharat is the goal of every Indian.

“When every state is viksit, then Bharat will be viksit. This is the aspiration of its 140 crore citizens,” he said further.

The Prime Minister’s comments gain significance in the light of the fact that the BJP-led NDA Government under him has been consistently blamed for breaking the concept of cooperative federalism, especially by Opposition and Chief Ministers of non-BJP ruled states.

Today’s meeting was skipped by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerji and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, even as Chief Ministers of other non-BJP ruled states like Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and even the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, were present in the meeting.

Meanwhile Modi further said that the focus should on one goal, that is to make India developed by 2047.

“We should have the aim of making each state viksit, each city viksit, each nagar palika viksit and each village viksit. If we work on these lines, we will not have to wait till 2047 to become Viksit Bharat,” he said.

The Prime Minister further called upon all states to develop at least one tourist destination at par with global standards and by providing all facilities and infrastructure.

Giving the message of “One State: One Global Destination”, the Prime Minister noted that this would also lead to development of the neighbouring cities as tourist places.