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India is a nation of a billion aspirations. With a robust economy, assertive nation-first diplomacy, brave defence forces and a growing soft power, India is being seen by the world with a renewed hope.
It is proving its prowess on the economic front, with managing to remain world’s fastest growing large company. The growth reforms undertaken by the government has strengthened India’s fiscal health. Today, India acquires the distinction of one of the most attractive investment destinations. The GDP growth (in current prices) has increased by 31 per cent between 2013 and 2017, surpassing the increase in Global GDP which stands at 4 per cent.
India’s increasing economic clout is supplemented with improvement in her relations with other nations. It is the result of the government’s diplomatic endeavours that, for the first time, India has secured membership of not one, not two, but three elite groups that include the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) and the Australia Group (AG). India’s entry into these exclusive non-proliferations groupings would ease the process of acquiring high tech items for our defence and space programmes.
In another first, India has successfully secured representation on the International Tribunal on the Law of the Seas (ITLOS), a body for resolution of international maritime disputes. It comes at a time when many nations are looking towards India to provide a strong leadership to help thwart attempts of anyone trying to lay unwarranted claim on the seas.
The decisiveness shown by the government in areas of national security has firmed up the belief that India’s defence forces are fully capable of answering the enemy in its own language. The precision with which terror targets were taken down on the other side of the border during surgical strikes, demonstrated India’s exemplary military power. The government fully backs nation’s defence forces. It has ensured that the long pending demands of the army including that of ‘one rank, one pension’ are duly fulfilled.
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi modernisation of the Armed forces has been fast-tracked and critical defence deficiencies in weapons and infrastructure are being met through fast processing of defence procurement agreements.