Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unveiled the bust of Mahatma Gandhi in South Korea’s premier Yonsei University and said the occasion assumes greater significance in light of Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.
‘In the 20th century, Gandhi was perhaps mankind’s biggest gift. In the last century, through his life and personality, he showed what the future would be. He in fact used to say my life is the message,’ Modi said in his address in the South Korean capital.
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‘This occasion assumes greater significance since we are celebrating Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary and the world is finding in Gandhi’s principles a future for mankind’s interests,’ he added.
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Pitching for South Korean investment, Modi said India is set to become a 5 trillion dollar economy in the near future. ‘No other large economy in the world is growing at over 7 percent year after year. We have received FDI worth over 250 billion dollars over the past four years’, he said adding more than 90 percent of sectors are now on automatic route for approval.
He also added,’ Research and innovation will be the driving force in Fourth Industrial Revolution era, India has introduced flagship programme Start-up India with a 1.4 billion dollar fund for four years to create a start-up ecosystem’.
Modi is on a two-day state visit to South Korea where he will accept the Seoul Peace Prize and have business and political engagements. He will also address the India-Korea business symposium.