Conditions right for India to be global superpower of 21st century: Shringla

Washington, December 7

Asserting that the Indian economic juggernaut is on a roll, the country’s top envoy in the United States on Friday said conditions are right for India to be a global superpower of the 21st century.

“The Indian economic juggernaut is on the roll and conditions are right for it to be a global superpower of the 21st century,” India’s Ambassador to the US, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, said in his address to the students and faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School.

In his keynote address ‘Next Phase of India’s Growth and Development’, he said India took nearly 60 years after Independence to reach the 1 trillion mark economy. But it has taken just 12 years since then to take it to 2.0 trillion and only five years, from 2014-2019, to take it from 2.0 trillion to 3.0 trillion.

“The Prime Minister of India has set a goal of achieving the 5.0 trillion mark by 2025, and we are all working diligently to achieve that goal,” he said.

“India’s growth story is based on its fundamentals. While accelerating growth, we have also achieved macro-stability, inclusive and sustainable growth. We have achieved high growth, maintaining social cohesion, democracy, and rule of law,” Shringla said. PTI