INFRASTRUCTURE, investment, innovation and inclusiveness are the four key focus areas for the Narendra Modi Government to make India a developed nation by 2047, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. She made the remarks during aninteractionwith the students of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The Minister arrived here on Tuesday afternoon to attend the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

 

She drove from NewYork to Washington DC with a stopover at the University of Pennsylvania. “In the year when we will be celebrating 100 years of Independence from British rule, that is 2047, we want to be and we aspire to be a developed country,” Sitharaman told the students. To achieve that, the Governmenthasidentified fourkey areas -- infrastructure, investment, innovation andinclusiveness, the FinanceMinister said. “The first is infrastructure, whether it is physical such asbridges and ports or digital which is critical for so manydifferentpurposes.Thesecondwould be to invest in it. In that comes the element of privateinvestments. Butmore importantly, have public investmentgo in to kick-start the wholething,” she said.