New Delhi: Highlights of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Independence Day speech.
- Without understanding and restraint, our security and integrity can get adversely affected.
- Some people who want to create disturbances in the country so that our progress gets stalled.
- This is the time "to rise above our personal or political interests and build consensus on issues of national importance".
- We have provided political stability and socio and economic progress.
- We have established an environment of communal harmony in the country.
- His seven years have seen rapid economic development.
- We have taken special care of the needs of our brothers and sisters from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, minorities, women and children.
- Promises food security legislation soon.
- The country is full of "confidence and self-respect".
- Corruption is a big obstacle in national transformation.
- Corruption should be discussed in a manner that "should not create an atmosphere in which country's progress comes into question".
- The government is taking strictest possible action in cases of corruption.
- There is no single big step which we can take to eradicate corruption.
- Corruption cannot be eradicated unless "we improve our justice delivery system".
- Want strong Lokpal to prevent corruption in high places.
- Hunger strikes and fast-unto-death will not help.
- Nothing should be done to dilute independence of the judiciary.
- Acknowledges "misuse of governmental discretion in allocation of scarce resources".
- The government is taking steps to reduce corruption in government projects.
- Government will lay down principles and practices with regard to government purchases.
- No government has a "magic wand" to eradicate corruption.
- We have to fight against corruption on many fronts.
- Compliments farmers on producing a record level food grains.
- We need a second Green Revolution.
- Acknowledges "a phase of sustained high inflation".
- Our government fully understands its responsibility to control rise in prices.
- International markets fuel inflation in India.
- Finding a solution to inflation will be our top most priority in the coming months.
- Land acquisition must be transparent and fair.
- Government will establish a new Education Commission to suggest improvements in education at all levels.
- 12th Five Year Plan should focus on health.
- Investment in infrastructure has grown more than one-and-a-half times in the last seven years.
- "We want to make India slum-free...We want the slum dwellers to get ownership of clean houses."
- "Malnutrition in women and children is a matter of concern for all of us."
- Declining sex ratio "a matter of deep regret...essential to change the approach with which our society views girls and women".
- Should not lower guard against terrorism; it is a long battle to be fought jointly by the central government, state governments and citizens.
- Will eradicate the very reasons which gave rise to Naxalism.
- Warns against climate change and promises "an environmental assessment and monitoring authority to streamline the process of environmental clearances".
- Acknowledges the younger generation's higher aspirations; institutions should tap our people's potential.
- "Our entrepreneurs and businessmen should not feel constrained in their activities."
- "We should all stay away from tactics that create suspicion or apprehension among those connected with industry, business and investment."
- Development should not increase inequalities.
- We have the collective capacities and the confidence to deal with tensions and conflicts in society.
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