New Delhi, Feb 10 : Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given India a technology-enabled Governance Model, which can meet unforeseen exigencies and is perpetually prepared for it.
He said it was evident during the Covid pandemic which took everybody by surprise but the government working did not get interrupted even for a single day because long before the pandemic came as we had almost completely shifted over to e-office, online and virtual modes of working.
Speaking at the 4th Edition of National Governance Summit of Economic Times here, Dr Jitendra Singh said that Modi’s Governance Model is not only sustainable but also resilient, using futuristic technologies and innovations.
The Minister said, the Modi model of governance evolved over the last 22 years has laid the foundation of the future road map of India’s progress.
He said, in the next 25 years of Amrit Kaal, when India rises to the world pedestal, this will be primarily on the strength of our scientific prowess and capacity of our Start-Ups which will be essentially technology driven and a unique governance model taking effective care of 140 crores plus Indians.
Dr Singh said, Modi, an avid follower of newer technologies and innovations is always ready to adopt today, the technology of tomorrow. He said, Prime Minister is focusing on areas like Space Technology, Drone, A-I, Biotech, Geospatial, Ocean Mission or Blue Economy and Green technologies including the Hydrogen Mission which will define the destiny of India tomorrow.
The Minister added that COVID-19, the pandemic of the century, was turned into a virtue from the great adversity.
Dr Singh said, the Tri-Ratna of this governance model are Out of Box Thinking, Breaking the Taboos of the Past and Converting Government Campaign into Mass Campaign.
Referring to today’s satellite launch by ISRO, Dr Singh said after the unlocking of the Space Sector in June 2020, now young boys and girls are visiting ISRO facilities and launching their own satellites.
“Today, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its second developmental flight of a Small Satellite Launch Vehicle — SSLV-D2 — and placed three satellites in its precise orbit on February 10 morning”.
The three satellites are ISRO’s Earth Observation Satellite – EOS 07, U.S.-based firm Antaris’ Janus-1 and Chennai-based space start-up SpaceKidz’s AzaadiSAT-2.
Regarding turning the government campaign into a mass campaign, Dr Singh said an announcement from the Ramparts of the Red Fort in 2014 to build toilets in each household caught the imagination of the people and soon Swachhata became a true Jan Andolan.
