- Saturday, March 01, 2025
The PM was addressing the National Rozgar Mela through videoconference and distributed more than 70,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits in various government organisations.
By: Shubham Ghosh
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (16) said he would meet chief executives of leading companies from across the world next week and all of them are enthusiastic about making investments in the country.
The prime minister was addressing the National Rozgar Mela (national employment fair) through videoconference and distributed more than 70,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits in various government organisations, The Hindu reported.
According to Modi, an unprecedented positivity exists at the global level about India’s industry and investment.
Mentioning his recent meeting with Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon, Modi talked about the latter’s confidence in the south Asian nation in exporting goods worth around Rs 80,000 crore.
He also said that he met the chief executive of CISCO Chuck Robbins whose aim was to export products worth Rs 8,000 crore from India.
Modi also recalled his meeting with Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and said the latter expressed confidence over the mobile-manufacturing industry in India.
“Top executive of the semiconductor company NXP also showed positivity for India’s capacity to create a semiconductor ecosystem. Foxconn too has started investments worth thousands of crore,” Modi was quoted as saying by the Hindu report.
Modi said such efforts highlighted that new job opportunities were being created in different sectors across the country. He added that in the past nine years, his government has taken special care to make the recruitment process faster, transparent and unbiased.
The prime minister said that since 2014, the government has spent about Rs 34 lakh crore (£330.9 billion) on capital expenditure and basic facilities. Also in this year’s Budget, Rs 10 lakh crore (£97.3 billion) was allocated for capital expenditure.
“This is creating many new jobs in the country,” he added.
