Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Reflects On Economic Growth, Emphasizes Pre-2014 Challenges

In her address to 'Viksit Bharat Ambassador' at GITAM in Visakhapatnam, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says, "Despite 1991, many things which could have happened at a great pace, didn't happen. We were very enthusiastic but after that, it gave us the feeling that opening also has not really helped India, but it was not till 2014. It's not saying the world didn't exist before 2014, the world existed, but the kind of emphasis that you wanted to give to pull up this country... The growth in the GDP is the point where I am referring to the comments made by the former finance minister, growth in GDP doesn't happen automatically. You require a lot of effort at the micro level, at the macro level and literally at the ground..."