SCO Summit 2022: Want to make India manufacturing hub, says PM Modi
Samarkand,
Sep
16:
At
the
Shanghai
Cooperation
Organisation
(SCO)
Summit
in
Uzbekistan's
Samarkand,
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
on
Friday
said
that
India
wants
to
transform
itself
into
a
manufacturing
hub,
in
the
wake
of
the
Covid-19
pandemic
and
Russia-Ukraine
war
which
have
caused
global
supply
chain-disruptions.
While addressing SCO leaders, PM Modi said, "The world is overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic. Several disruptions occurred in the global supply chain because of the COVID and Ukraine crisis. We want to transform India into a manufacturing hub."
"We are focussing on people-centric development model. We are supporting innovation in every sector. Today there are more than 70,000 start-ups and over 100 unicorns in our country," PM Modi said.
SCO Summit 2022: PM Modi meets Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Samarkand
"India's economy is expected to grow at the rate of 7.5% this year. I'm glad that ours is one of the fastest growing economies among the largest economies of the world," the prime minister said.
"In April 2022, WHO inaugurated its Global Centre for Traditional Medicines in Gujarat. This was the first and only global center by WHO for traditional treatment. India will take an initiative for a new SCO working group on traditional medicines'," said PM Modi at SCO.
At the SCO Summit in Samarkand, emphasised on the constructive role the SCO can play in the post-COVID era particularly in furthering economic recovery and strengthening supply chains. Highlighted India emphasis on people-centric growth which also gives importance to technology.
The prime minister also emphasised on tackling the challenge of food security. In this context, also talked about India's efforts to further popularise millets. SCO can play a big role in marking 2023 as International Year of Millets.
The SCO was founded at a summit in Shanghai in 2001 by the presidents of Russia, China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Over the years, it has emerged as one of the largest trans-regional international organisations.
India and Pakistan became its permanent members in 2017.