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- Recently, the Prime Minister emphasised the importance of promoting indigenous products and self-reliance.
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- Self-reliance:
- The significance of promoting indigenous products and self-reliance is for prosperity and by adopting them one can keep India’s traditional art, culture and civilisation alive.
- Jain saint Vijay Vallabh Surishwar:
- The PM was addressing a gathering to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Jain saint Vijay Vallabh Surishwar.
- The event was organised by the Union Culture Ministry.
- As part of the occasion, a commemorative postage stamp and coin dedicated to Acharya Surishwar was also released.
- Historical significance:
- PM said Acharya Surishwar’s insistence on peace and harmony was clearly visible even during the horrors of Partition.
- He noted that during the freedom movement Mahatma Gandhi had adopted the path of “aparigraha”, or renunciation, as laid down by the Jain gurus.
- The PM was addressing a gathering to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Jain saint Vijay Vallabh Surishwar.
Aparigraha
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About the Self-reliant India
- What is Self-reliance?
- Self-reliance is the social and economic ability of an individual, a household or a community to meet essential needs (including protection, food, water, shelter, personal safety, health and education) in a sustainable manner and with dignity.
- India’s potential towards self reliance:
- Labour force:
- Self reliance depends on improving the income and productivity of a majority of the labour force.
- There are two ways to do this.
- First, incentivise the farming community to shift from grain-based farming to cash crops, horticulture and livestock products.
- Second, shift the labour force from agriculture to manufacturing.
- India can only become self-reliant if it uses its best endowment — 900 million people in the working-age population with an average age of 27 — and appropriates its demographic dividend as China did.
- Global position:
- India is in a unique position at a time when all other manufacturing giants are ageing sequentially — Japan, EU, the US, and even South Korea and China.
- Most of these countries have moved out of low-end labour-intensive manufacturing, and that space is being taken by countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, Mexico, etc.
- Research & development:
- State-funded R&D, including in basic research, by PSUs and research institutions and universities needs to be scaled-up significantly, well above the dismal 1% of GDP currently.
- Education:
- Finally, India’s meagre public expenditure on education needs to be substantially ramped up (as against current trends of privatisation which would only shrink access), including in skill development.
- No country has achieved self-reliance without mass quality public education.
- Labour force:
Government’s initiatives towards self reliance
- Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan
- Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan or Self-reliant India campaign is the vision of new India.
- Aim:
- The aim is to make the country and its citizens independent and self-reliant in all senses.
- There are five pillars of Aatma Nirbhar Bharat –
- Economy,
- Infrastructure,
- System,
- Vibrant Demography and
- Demand.
- Finance Minister has announcd Government Reforms and Enablers across Seven Sectors under Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan.
- The government took several bold reforms such as Supply Chain Reforms for Agriculture, Rational Tax Systems, Simple & Clear Laws, Capable Human Resource and Strong Financial System in this regard.
- Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana:
- Aim:
- It aims to boost employment generation and minimise the socio-economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Features:
- Under ABRY, Government of India is crediting for a period of two years both the employees’ share (12% of wages) and employers share’ (12% of wages) of contribution payable or only the employees’ share, depending on employment strength of the EPFO registered establishments.
- Aim:
- Atmanirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana
- Aim:
- To strengthen India’s critical healthcare network in both urban and rural areas.
- Establish an IT-enabled disease surveillance system through a network of laboratories at block, district, regional and national levels.
- Labs will be connected through the Integrated Health Information Portal.
- Features:
- To provide support to 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres in 10 ‘high focus’ states and establish 11,024 urban Health and Wellness Centres.
- It is in addition to the National Health Mission.
- Exclusive Critical Care Hospital Blocks with over five lakh population.
- Aim:
- Make in India
- Ministry of Commerce & Industry said that the program, which is aimed at self-sufficiency or being ‘aatmanirbhar’, has substantial accomplishments across 27 sectors, including strategic sectors such as manufacturing and services.
- Make in India, the flagship program of the Government of India that aspires to
- Facilitate investment,
- Foster innovation,
- Enhance skill development,
- Build best-in-class manufacturing infrastructure,
- Protect the intellectual property,
- Make India digital,
- Create healthy relationships with various countries,
- Provide employment opportunities.
- “Make in India” had three stated objectives:
- To increase the manufacturing sector’s growth rate to 12-14% per annum;
- To create 100 million additional manufacturing jobs in the economy by 2022;
- To ensure that the manufacturing sector’s contribution to GDP is increased to 25% by 2022 (later revised to 2025).
- Startup India
- Startup India was introduced in 2016 as a call to innovators, entrepreneurs, and thinkers of the nation to lead from the front in driving India’s sustainable growth and create large scale employment opportunities.
- The entrepreneurial portal had more than 65,000 startups registered.
- Of which, 40 attained the ‘unicorn’ status recently, bringing the total as of date to 90.
Source: TH
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