Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said India is all geared to eradicate poverty and implement sanitation, better health facilities, education and food security while addressing the plenary session at the 9th annual BRICS summit at Xiamen in China.
“We are in mission-mode to eradicate poverty; to ensure health, sanitation, skills, food security, gender equality, energy, education,” PM said. He also referred to the women empowerment programmes and said the schemes are productivity multipliers to mainstream women in nation building.
PM Modi cited culture, environment, agriculture, information and communication technology as its areas of concern at the summit. A strong partnership among member nations on innovation and digital economy can help spur growth, promote transparency and support the sustainable development goals, PM said.
PM Modi stressed the need to boost up track of cooperation in smart cities, urbanisation and disaster management. He emphasized on the importance of cooperation to bring peace and development.
He underlined the importance of renewable energy and said easy access to sustainable energy should be realised in the coming years. “Affordable, reliable & sustainable access to energy is crucial for development of our nations,” the PM said.
He also urged for the creation of a BRICS rating agency to cater to financing requirement of sovereign and corporate entities of developing nations.
