Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said PM Modi did not bring up the ‘Make in India’ in his address in the House and insisted he must admit that the initiative is a failure.
Rahul Gandhi criticized the ‘Make in India’ initiative, stating it failed to boost manufacturing’s GDP share, which dropped from 15.3% in 2014 to a historic low of 12.6%. He emphasized the need for a new manufacturing vision focusing on job creation.
Rahul Gandhi said no government lately whether the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) or the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) had been able to live up the scale to the national challenge of providing employment.
The Congress leader in a post on X, “Prime minister, in your speech, you didn’t even mention ‘Make in India’! The prime minister should acknowledge that ‘Make in India’, although a good initiative, is a failure. Manufacturing has fallen from 15.3% of GDP in 2014 to 12.6% — the lowest in the last 60 years.”
Gandhi further added, “India’s youth desperately need jobs. No government in recent times, UPA or NDA, has been able to meet this national challenge at scale. We need a vision to address what’s holding our manufacturing sector back, and prepare it to be competitive in the global economy of the future.”
Mr. Gandhi said this outlook for production in India must also have a specific focus on rising technologies such as electric motors, batteries, optics, and artificial intelligence.
He further wrote, “This is the only way to revive our manufacturing sector, develop cutting-edge manufacturing ability, and create the jobs we need. China is 10 years ahead of us and has a stronger industrial system — this is what gives them the confidence to challenge us.”
“The only way to compete effectively with them is to build our production systems and for that we need vision and strategy,” he added.
Alleged that the prime minister’s Make in India initiative had failed, Rahul Gandhi on Monday presented a replacement approach for significantly empowering the participation of Scheduled castes (SCs), tribals and Other Backward Classes (OBCs), as well as assuring that the energy and mobility revolution was not given up to the Chinese.
Nevertheless, he acknowledged that successive governments whether Congress-led UPA or the BJP-led NDA had not been able to manage the unemployment challenge and not provided a clear-cut answer to youth on it.
