(MENAFN- KNN India) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India needs to put a check on exports of mineral resources and instead start exporting metals.
While addressing at the inauguration of the 2.5 million tonne new IISCO plant at Burnpur in West Bengal on Sunday, the Prime Minister said the Centre was working towards policy change so that the mineral rich eastern States returned to the higher growth path like their western counterparts.
PM said "District Mineral Foundations" would be set up to help speed up progress and welfare of the poor in the mineral-rich districts. He said that within a year, the atmosphere of gloom has lifted, and all global rating agencies now agree that India is among the world's fastest growing economies.
"Among the eastern States, Bengal's role was crucial in country's progress," Modi said.
The Prime Minister also said the eastern region should be the centre of the second green revolution in the country.
Modi described the Union Government and 29 State Governments as 30 pillars of "TEAM INDIA" which would take India forward.
He said that the decades old Land Boundary issue between India and Bangladesh had been successfully resolved through the same spirit of Team India, as all state governments and
Modi said it was time for India to address the issue of "geographical imbalance" too along with economic and social imbalance. (KNN Bureau)
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