Poor Today, Middle Class Tomorrow: PM's Shoutout To India's Growth Drivers
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B20 Summit: PM Narendra Modi said more and more people are leaving behind poverty and joining what he called the "neo middle class" in India, which indicated the government's policies to tackle poverty has been working
The centre's pro-poor policies of today will help create a massive middle class population in a few years, which will drive the economic growth of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the B20 Summit in Delhi today.
PM Modi said more and more people are leaving behind poverty and joining what he called the "neo middle class" in India, which indicated the government's policies to tackle poverty has been working.
"Those who come out of poverty, the neo middle class, they are the biggest consumers. They come with new aspirations, and they give momentum to India's growth. Whatever the government has done to uplift the poor, the next beneficiaries are the middle class, the MSMEs. By focussing on pro-poor policies today, in the next five-seven year, you will see a huge population of the middle class," PM Modi said at the event.
