Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that cipher successful the satellite tin beryllium considered a large force of the country. If we person an enemy, “It is the dependence connected different countries.”
“If we person to decision that force and spot that our 140 crore radical are not near astatine the mercy of different countries and they unrecorded with pride, we person to go ‘Atma Nirbhar’ by 2047,” helium said.
He went up to accidental that each store should merchantability products that are wholly ‘Swadeshi’. “We person to go wholly self-reliant and self-sufficient,” helium said.
He was addressing a public gathering astatine Bhavnagar successful Gujarat connected Saturday (September 20, 2025) aft virtually inaugurating and laying the instauration chromatic of aggregate improvement projects worthy much than ₹34,200 crore successful the maritime assemblage and different projects successful Gujarat.
The lawsuit ‘Samundar se Samridhi’ (Transforming Maritime Sector) was jointly hosted by Make successful India, Ministry of Ports Shipping and Waterways, Gujarat Government and Gujarat Maritime Board.
PM Modi reiterated that greater overseas dependence leads to greater nationalist failure. For planetary peace, stability, and prosperity, the world’s astir populous state indispensable go self-reliant. “Chips oregon ships, we indispensable marque them successful India,” said the PM.
Underscoring that India has ne'er lacked capability, Mr. Modi remarked that aft independence, the past ruling enactment consistently ignored the country’s inherent strengths. “As a result, adjacent aft six to 7 decades of freedom, India could not execute the occurrence it genuinely deserved,” helium said.
The Prime Minister identified 2 large reasons for this: prolonged entanglement successful the license-quota authorities and isolation from planetary markets. He added that erstwhile the epoch of globalisation arrived, the past ruling governments focussed solely connected imports, which led to scams worthy thousands of crores.
Talking astir the maritime sector, Mr. Modi remarked that India was historically a starring maritime powerfulness and 1 of the world’s largest shipbuilding hubs. Ships built successful India’s coastal States erstwhile powered home and planetary trade. Even 50 years ago, India utilized domestically built ships, with much than 40% of import-export conducted done them. But the assemblage aboriginal fell unfortunate to their misguided policies and alternatively of strengthening home shipbuilding, they preferred paying freight to overseas vessels. This led to the illness of India’s shipbuilding ecosystem and forced dependence connected overseas ships. As a result, the stock of Indian ships successful commercialized dropped from 40% to conscionable 5%. The Prime Minister emphasised that today, 95% of India’s commercialized relies connected overseas ships — a dependency that has caused important nonaccomplishment to the nation.
Stating immoderate facts helium pointed out, today, India pays astir $75 cardinal — astir six lakh crore Rupees — each twelvemonth to overseas shipping companies for shipping services, which is adjacent to India’s existent defence Budget.
“Just ideate however overmuch wealth has been paid arsenic freight to different countries implicit the past 7 decades and the outflow of funds has created millions of jobs abroad,” helium said.
The PM said a historical determination has been taken to fortify India’s maritime sector, the authorities present recognises ample ships arsenic infrastructure assemblage and this volition alteration the sector.
He announced that from today, each large ports successful the state volition beryllium freed from aggregate documents and fragmented processes. The implementation of ‘One Nation, One Document’ and ‘One Nation, One Port’, this volition simplify commercialized and commerce.
“If we tin revive the past glory of being apical vessel builders, it volition person a concatenation reaction, arsenic vessel gathering industry, is not conscionable an industry, it brings successful different industries nether its fold and generates immense employment. It is the ‘Mother of each Industries’,” helium said.
He informed that much than ₹70,000 crore volition beryllium invested successful these schemes successful the coming years. Noting that successful the past eleven years, India has doubled its larboard capacity, helium highlighted that anterior to 2014, the mean vessel turn-around clip successful India was 2 days, whereas contiguous it has been reduced to little than 1 day.
He remarked that recently, India’s archetypal deep-water instrumentality trans-shipment larboard has commenced operations successful Kerala. Additionally, the PM announced that the Vadhavan Port successful Maharashtra is being developed astatine a outgo exceeding ₹75,000 crore, and it volition fertile among the apical 10 ports successful the world.
He informed that ample ports are being developed crossed the state to accommodate ample vessels, and connectivity is being enhanced done initiatives specified arsenic Sagarmala.
Mentioning that India presently accounts for 10% of planetary maritime trade, the PM emphasised the request to summation this stock and declared that by 2047, India should purpose to triple its information successful planetary oversea trade.
The Prime Minister emphasised the value of preserving and showcasing this practice for aboriginal generations and the world. He announced that a world-class maritime depository is being developed astatine Lothal, which, similar the Statue of Unity, volition go a caller awesome of India’s identity.
Governor of Gujarat, Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendrabhai Patel, Union Ministers, C.R. Patil, Sarbananda Sonowal, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Shantanu Thakur, Ms. Nimuben Bambhaniya were contiguous among different dignitaries astatine the event.
