Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted India as an emerging manufacturing hub, pointing to the development of domestically produced smartphones, cars, satellites, and others. He also pointed out that India is now exporting these goods to countries which India used to import them from. The statement came during a speech to Indian diaspora at the Ugandan capital. He also noted that rail tracks, metro train coaches and satellites are being manufactured using Indian steel. India now boasts the largest smartphone factory in the world, and that when Ugandans by a smartphone, it’s likely that those phones were manufactured in India. According to the Indian Prime Minister, over 11,000 startups have opened over the course of the past four years, making India a leading startup nation.
The Hitavada reports:
INDIA is emerging as a global manufacturing and Start-up hub and many of the ‘Made-in-India’ products, including cars and smart phones, are today exported to nations from whom the country used to import, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. Addressing the Indian diaspora in the Ugandan capital, Prime Minister Modi also said that rail tracks, metro train coaches and satellites are being manufactured today in India itself by using Indian steel.
“India is becoming a manufacturing hub,” Modi told the Indian community event which was also attended by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
Noting that Samsung recently opened the world’s biggest mobile phone manufacturing plant in Uttar Pradesh, Modi said, “It’s possible that when you buy a smartphone in Uganda next time, you will get the one Made in India.”
“Make in India today has become the hallmark of India. Many of our products, including cars, smart phones, are sold today to countries from whom we used to import,” the Prime Minister said amid applause. He said 11,000 Start-ups have been registered in India in the last four years, making the country a land of start-ups. Modi also hailed India’s ties with Uganda and other African nations, saying the resource-rich continent is now in the centre of his government’s foreign policy.
Also at the meeting, which came just before the Prime Minister’s trip to Johannesburg, South Africa, for the 2018 BRICS summit, he pointed out the increase in trade between African countries and India, which has increased some 32 percent, and the development of diplomatic ties. India is set to open 18 more embassies in Africa, bringing the total number of Indian embassies in Africa to 47. Modi also reiterated India’s commitment of $10 billion to Africa before thanking the Ugandan President for his willingness to open back up to India.
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