Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while chairing the sixth Governing Council meeting of the NITI Aayog on Saturday, highlighted the need
of cooperative federalism between the Centre and the states. He also added that a ‘competitive’ sense of federalism is the need while heading towards a common direction, also applicable between
different states and districts within states, news agency ANI reported.

The Prime Minister gave an example of India’s COVID-19
affected period, stating that the nation ultimately succeeded in this ordeal.

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“In the COVID period, we saw how Centre and States worked together, the
nation succeeded and a good image of India was built before the entire world.
Today, when we are going to complete 75 years of independence, this Governing
Council meet becomes even more significant”, said Modi. 

The PM further listed out the government’s achievements in the last few years,
noting that it changed the citizen’s lives considerably.

“In past few years, we saw that opening of bank accounts, increase in
vaccination & health facilities, free electricity connection, free gas
connection to empower the poor has reflected a phenomenal change in their lives”,
he said.

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Speaking about the Union Budget 2021, Modi described the ‘mood of the nation’,
saying that the country “has made up its mind that it wants to progress rapidly
and doesn’t want to lose time”, while at the same time heralding the youth for
playing a crucial part in this process.