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    Promoting India as manufacturing hub: Harsh Shringla

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    The government is actively engaged in promoting India as an alternative manufacturing hub and an innovation destination in line with the PM’s vision of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', said foreign secretary Harsh V Shringla on Monday.

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    New Delhi: The government is actively engaged in promoting India as an alternative manufacturing hub and an innovation destination in line with the PM’s vision of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat', said foreign secretary Harsh V Shringla on Monday. Speaking on the country’s foreign policy goals while addressing students at St Stephens college, Shringla said: “Like in the past, the current crisis is also expected to be followed by a period of growth. One of our priorities, in this context, is to make India the nerve centre of global supply chains.

    This is in line with PM Narendra Modi’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat. We are actively engaged in promoting India as an alternative manufacturing hub and an innovation destination.” “Our economy, and our material wellbeing are linked to global value and supply chains. We are a services powerhouse with a distinct international presence. We see the world as a borderless economy with an interlinked marketplace,” the foreign secretary noted while dismissing talks of protectionist policies.

    “We are an emerging power. This is a statement both of fact and of aspiration. It is a fact because we have come a long way. It is a statement of aspiration because we continue to look ahead.” His address was titled ‘India and the Reshaping of the World Order’. Without any direct reference to current tensions along LAC, Shringla made it clear that India’s engagement in the Indo-Pacific region is based on a free, open and inclusive order, and on respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, peaceful resolution of disputes, and international rules and laws. In a thin veiled reference to China’s global attempts to alter rules based order Shringla suggested that multilateral diplomacy has to be based on rules. “We are committed to an international order based on rules.”


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