During his address from the Red Fort on India’s 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the critical importance of energy security, stating it is the ‘need of the hour.’ He also mentioned that his government has implemented various measures aimed at achieving this goal.
“Today, India too has dreamed a very big dream; it has dreamed with firm resolve, and to touch new heights. “Running the new world is now difficult even without energy. Internet consumers increased by four times. Grant of patents went up by four times.
Therefore, we will need a very large amount of electricity for chips, AI, and data centers,” PM Modi said. Asserting that India needs to explore alternative sources of energy, PM Modi said, “Pre-2014, only 70 cities had piped gas distribution. Now, 700 cities have them. Moreover, 50 lakh homes have been equipped with solar energy. India has set a target of having 200 gigawatts of nuclear energy and setting up five nuclear reactors in the country, according to the Prime Minister. That dream is that when 100 years of independence are completed, we will become a developed India. With the endeavors of 140 crore countrymen, we have to achieve this goal. PM Modi said that India has progressed rapidly over the last 12 years, with significant advances in the digital, manufacturing, infrastructure, and social welfare sectors. “This speed of progress has been witnessed by the country for the first time since independence…In the past 12 years, defence production increased by four times, electronic manufacturing by seven times, high-tech railway coach production by 21 times, and mobile phone manufacturing by 33 times. Digital transactions increased by 100 per cent,” he said.
When the world’s largest population country resolves to become developed, it becomes a symbol of our courage in the eyes of the world as well,” he said.
