New York sources stated that Prime Minister Narendra modi today presented a report card of the country's progress in the five years under him and invited the US industry to come and invest in india. Portraying the country as an ideal destination for investors, he said it was a "golden opportunity to partner india".
He said in his address to the Bloomberg Global business Forum "Your desires, and our dreams, match. Your technology and our talent can change the world. Your scale and our skill can speed up global economic growth... If there is any gap, I will act as a bridge". Reportedly Foreign Direct Investment is vital now to prop up the sluggish economy and it is also important if the Prime Minister's goal of pushing the economy to 5 trillion dollars in the next five years is to be achieved.
Moreover the government also met a longstanding demand of corporates by giving huge tax cuts. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said it would "attract fresh investment in manufacturing and boost Make In india". Perhaps india, PM modi said, is rising in global FDI rankings "at a time when FDI is falling all over the world". This, he said, was because of reforms that the government has brought in over the last five years. india is a unique combination of 4 factors, he said "Democracy, Demography, Demand and Decisiveness".
