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Emphasizing the need to promote industry and manufacturing in India, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal has asked India’s business community to give primacy to products that are made in India.

As per the Minister, the promotion of industry and manufacturing in India would help boost employment and bring in prosperity to the lives of our citizens. Further, endorsing PM Narendra Modi’s call to the travellers and tourists to spend at least 5 percent of their travel budget on locally made products, the Minister said that talented artisans, craftsmen and entrepreneurs deserve to be supported and promoted.

Goyal said that it should be a matter of gratification to tax payers that their money was being used well to help those in real need. He also noted that 50 crore people are now being given free, quality healthcare, clean drinking water is now taken to every household through taps under the Jal Jivan Mission.

Besides, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry stressed that India was ready to take decisive steps towards becoming a developed nation, a vishwaguru. He expressed confidence that India’s huge youth population had the capability to drive this quest forward.