Moscow : External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday highlighted ongoing development in India and asserted that the Indian government’s efforts are aimed at making India a successful and developed country in the next 25 years.
“You can see our effort is to ensure that in the next 25 years, we are successful and become a developed country. A developed country doesn’t just mean a developed economy, it is also a country which is aware, conscious and proud of its traditions, heritage and culture,” he said.
While interacting with the Indologists in St Petersburg, EAM Jaishankar added, “Today when you look at India, we are an economy, which is approaching 4 trillion dollars. If you look at how digital India has become, if you look at the pace of change, including in education… Today, for the last ten years in India, every day two new colleges are established. So that is the pace where education is concerned and it’s not just in education.”
S Jaishankar also highlighted the importance of people-to-people connections and noted that Indology is beyond knowledge, scholarship and culture.
He said, “Given the state of the world geopolitical state of the world, it is today particularly important that we have a direct understanding of each other than other countries or societies and other nations. To me, Indology is something, beyond knowledge and scholarship, beyond culture and tradition…It’s an effort and investment to directly understand the very important society.” (JaiShankar)