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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India cannot transform without transformation of governance. Inaugurating the first Transforming India series lecture organised by NITI Aayog in New Delhi today, Mr Modi said, transformation of governance needs transformation in mindset and transformative ideas.
He said development today depends quality of ideas and institutions. He also said, country has to change it laws, speed up processes and adopt technology for the development.
Mr Modi said, if India has to meet the challenge of change, mere incremental progress is not enough. He said, a metamorphosis is needed to meet the challenge. Mr Modi said, nations cannot march through the twenty first century with the administrative systems of the nineteenth century and there is need of collective opening of the minds, to let in new, global perspectives.
Mr Modi said, younger generation in India is thinking and aspiring so differently and government can no longer afford to remain rooted in the past. Mr Modi said, development now depends on the quality of institutions and ideas. He said, 30 years ago, a country might have been able to look inward and find its solutions but today, countries are inter dependent and inter connected. He said, no country can afford any longer to develop in isolation.
Prime minister said, this series is being inaugurated by Tharman Shanmugaratnam, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore.