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New Delhi: The leader of opposition and senior congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the Modi government’s ‘Make In India’ initiative has failed to revive it and share of manufacturing in GDP has come down from 15.3 percent of GDP in 2014 to 12.6 per cent, which is lowest in the past 60 years.
Taking part in the motion of thanks on the President’s Address, Gandhi, who is the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, pitched for caste census and said applying AI to it would lead to a lot of possibilities.
Gandhi, who spoke in detail on the need to boost manufacturing, spoke about competition from China and said India has an opportunity with the revolution in energy and mobility.
He said China has been working on batteries, robots, motors, and optics for the last ten years, and it has at least a ten-year lead on India in this space.
In a post on X, Rahul shared “As the world stands on the brink of a technological and economic revolution, India needs a new vision for growth, production, and participation–one that directly addresses our two biggest challenges: the job crisis and the lack of opportunity for 90 per cent of Indians.”
“Jobs come from production, which Make In India has failed to revive. But we have an opportunity with the revolution in energy and mobility – with renewable energy, batteries, electric motors and optics, and AI to bring these together. India must master a central role in this revolution, and boost production to give our youth hope for the future,” he said.
“Although China is 10 years ahead, we can catch up – with the right vision. An INDIA government would realign education, enlist experts, widely spread finance, and align our trade and foreign policies. Production is also the foundation of our national security. In a world where wars are not fought between armies but between industrial systems, our dependence on Chinese imports like motors and batteries puts us at risk,” he added.
Gandhi said India is fighting against inequality that is increasing social tensions by excluding the 90 per cent.
“We must conduct a caste census to understand where Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs and minorities stand today; and with the help of AI understand how best to ensure they have a fair share in the nation’s wealth and opportunities. It is only these two tracks in parallel – production and participation – which will create a robust growth story for India and a bright future for all our youth,” he said.
Slamming the government over President’s address, Gandhi in his speech said it was the same laundry list of things that the government has done.
He said there are basically four technologies that are driving this entire change in mobility, electric motors, batteries, optics and then on top of one can apply AI.
Gandhi said the question came to his mind is “what type of address would a INDIA gathbandhan government deliver, how would that address be different than the address”.
“And so today I would like to layout some dimensions of what an alternative address would look like, what the INDIA gathbandhan would probably focus on and where we would lay emphasis.”
“A universal problem that we have faced is that we have not been able to tackle the problem of unemployment. No! neither the UPA government nor today’s NDA government has given a clear-cut answer to the youth of India about employment. I don’t think anybody in this room will disagree with me,” he said.
“Any country basically organises two things, you can organise consumption and then you can organise production. Modern way of saying organising consumption is services, modern way of saying organising production is manufacturing, but there is more to production then simply manufacturing for example; agriculture also is about production.”
