In his longest Red Fort address yet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday turned India’s 79th Independence Day into a bold blueprint for the nation’s future, announcing a slew of ambitious initiatives ranging from homegrown semiconductor chips to a Rs 1 lakh crore employment scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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1. India’s First Semiconductor Chip by 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Modi announced India will produce its first ‘Made-in-India’ semiconductor chip by end of 2025. He said attempts to set up chip factories 50-60 years ago were “killed at birth” but India is now on “mission mode.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. GST Reforms Coming on Diwali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Next-generation GST reforms will be announced on Diwali 2025. These will reduce taxes on essential goods and provide relief to MSMEs, local vendors, and consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Nuclear Power Capacity to Increase 10x<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Work is underway on 10 new nuclear reactors. India aims to increase nuclear power generation capacity by over 10 times by 2047 as part of energy independence goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Rs 1 Lakh Crore Employment Scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana will provide Rs 15,000 monthly to newly employed youth. The scheme targets 3 crore young Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Reform Task Force for $10 Trillion Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A dedicated task force will drive reforms to accelerate growth, cut red tape, and prepare India for a $10 trillion economy by 2047.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Challenge to Build Jet Engines<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Modi asked scientists and youth to develop indigenous jet engines, comparing it to India’s success with COVID vaccines and UPI payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. Demography Mission for Border Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A High-Powered Demography Mission will address demographic imbalances caused by infiltration and illegal migration in border areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Ocean Resource Exploration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The National Deepwater Exploration Mission will tap ocean resources while expanding solar, hydrogen, hydro and nuclear power to reduce dependence on fuel imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In his longest Red Fort address yet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday turned India’s 79th Independence Day into a bold blueprint for the nation’s future, announcing a slew of ambitious initiatives ranging from homegrown semiconductor chips to a Rs 1 lakh crore employment scheme. 1. India’s First Semiconductor Chip by 2025 Modi announced India […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.csrvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}