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Excerpt from Inidan new investment in the economy, improve the
Prime Minister management of Government finances and work
for the livelihood security of the common man
Dr. Manmohan Singhs‘s and energy security of the country, then it most
Independence Day Speech, certainly will affect our national security.
It has been our endeavour to empower our
August 15, 2012, New Delhi citizens socially and economically so that they
can contribute to the sacred task of nation
building.
The leaders of our freedom movement, under No praise is high enough for our hard
the stewardship of Mahatma Gandhi, had dreamt working farmers. They have produced a record
of an independent and prosperous India. On this output of crops successively in the last 2 years.
day in 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru took the I would like to congratulate our scientists
first step towards the realization of that dream by and technologists who have enhanced our
hoisting the Tricolour at the Red Fort. We have prestige. Recently the Cabinet has approved the
achieved much in these 65 years. However, on Mars Orbiter Mission. Under this Mission, our
this occasion we should also introspect about spaceship will go near Mars and collect important
what remains to be done. We would achieve scientific information.
independence in the true sense only when we I believe that no power in the world can
are able to banish poverty, illiteracy, hunger and stop our country from achieving new heights of
backwardness from our country. This would be progress and development. What is needed is that
possible only when we learn from our failures we work together as one people for the success of
and build on our successes. our country. Let us once more resolve that we will
If we do not increase the pace of the country’s continue to work for a progressive, modern and
economic growth, take steps to encourage prosperous India.