State of the World: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on January 17, 2022, virtually-delivered his ‘State of the World’ special address at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Davos Agenda.
Key Highlights of the address:
- In his address, PM Modi said that today, India is providing record number of software engineers.
- More than 50 lakh software developers are working in India.
- He presented India as one of the world’s future tech and economic powerhouse.
- He underlined the role played by India in handling Covid-19 led crisis and managing vaccination drive.
- He also highlighted the need to reshape and restructure international organizations, like United Nations.
- He spoke of India’s huge, safe and successful digital payments platform and informed that in the last month itself more than 4.4 billion transactions took place through Unified Payments Interface.
- He said that India has more than 60 thousand start-ups at present as compared to mere 100 start-ups in 2014.
- Out of which 80 are unicorns and more than 40 unicorns emerged in 2021 itself.
- He pointed out that India has deregulated areas like Space, Geo-spatial mapping, Drones and has brought reforms in the outdated telecom regulation related with the IT and BPO sectors.
- Referring to the Mission LIFE, which he gave at the CoP26 conference, the PM said that making LIFE into a mass movement can be a strong foundation for P-3 i.e. ‘Pro Planet People’.
- LIFE i.e. ‘Lifestyle for Environment’ is a vision of resilient and sustainable lifestyle that will come handy in dealing with the climate crisis and other unpredictable challenges of the future.
About The Davos Agenda 2022:
- The Davos Agenda virtual event offers the first global platform of 2022 for world leaders to come together to share their visions for the year ahead.
- The week long virtual event, taking place on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website and social media channels from 17-21 January 2022, will feature heads of state and government, CEOs and other leaders
