India’s rise unstoppable, says Vice-President Dhankhar

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar said on Friday that India was no longer a nation with a promise but it was a country whose rise was unstoppable.

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar said on Friday that India was no longer a nation with a promise but it was a country whose rise was unstoppable.

He was speaking at Samvada — an interaction programme with students of Adichunchanagiri University at Bellur in Nagamangala taluk of Mandya district.

The Vice-President said the present generation of students were living in an age of opportunities and investments and such an ecosystem was unthinkable even 10 years ago. The last decade had given hope to the people at the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy, he added.

The Vice-President said the country was building four new airports and one metro every year and 14 km of highways and 6 km of railways was being laid every year which was indicative of the pace with which the country was growing.

Mr. Dhankhar said students had a level-playing field in the present times and patronage had yielded to meritocracy while transparency and accountable governance were the new norm.

The Vice-President urged the students to widen their opportunity basket and look beyond government jobs. He also cautioned them against being influenced by misinformation by forces inimical to the growth of India and urged them to be wary of them.

Paying tributes to the contribution of Adichunchanagiri educational institutions, the Vice-President said its service to society through more than 500 such institutions, was exemplary and a befitting response to the critics of Sanatana Dharma.