Need to boost investments to overcome difficult economic situation: PM

22 Apr 2013 Evaluate

Highlighting that India’s economy is facing only a temporary downturn, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed the need for increasing investments across all sectors and create an investment-friendly climate as soon as possible to correct the economy’s growth. While, inaugurating 8th Civil Services Day function, Manmohan Singh said that investment across sectors will help us emerge from the existing difficult situation. Therefore, the government has taken a major initiative in setting up the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CII) for fast-tracking industrial and infrastructural projects.

By adding further, Singh said that since the last two decades, the role of the government has undergone a major transformation in many sectors of the economy as it moved far away from the command and control economy of the earlier times. Ensuring that good governance and managing the economy today are complex tasks, Manmohan Singh said that our Civil Services must have the required sets of skills to manage this complexity, which is a major challenge. 

Regarding the agriculture sector, he said that agriculture sector plays an important role in strengthening rural economy and suggested that the best and brightest civil servants should come in this field. Further, there is the need to put efforts for developing skills in young men and women both in rural and urban areas, to enable them to gain productive employment and to reap advantage of country's immense potential.

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