G7 outreach summit: PM Narendra Modi gives mantra of 'one earth, one health'...

byPOLITICS EXPERT VLOG Published:June 12, 2021

G7 outreach summit: PM Narendra Modi gives mantra of 'one earth, one health'

New Delhi: With COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact large parts of the world, Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi at G7 outreach summit gave the mantra of "One Earth, One Health".

India, along with South Africa, South Korea & Australia have been invited by UK for the G7 Outreach summit taking place in Cornwall. PM Modi joined the summit virtually with each leader having a screen with which PM joined.

German chancellor Merkel specifically referred to PM's mantra of "One Earth, One Health" at the meet and conveyed her strong support to it.

During the meet, the India South Africa proposal at WTO for Covid vaccine patent wavier was referred. Australian PM Scott Morrison during the summit, recalling his discussions with PM Modi about Covid vaccine patent wavier conveyed his country's strong support to it.

Last week, WTO was able to achieve consensus on it with India calling for early conclusion of text based negotiations.

Meanwhile, French President MacronEmmanuel Macron called for supply of Covid vaccine raw material to vaccine major producers like India for mass production of vaccines.

Ahead of the summit too, in an extensive presser he mentioned it. At the presser, he highlighted that intellectual property (IP) should never be a barrier to accessing vaccines & need to work on the proposal for a time- and space-limited exemption of IP.

Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission

Atmanirbhar bharat or Self - Reliant India Mission ' is the vision of the prime minister of india Narendra Modi of making india a self - reliant nation . This mission cameup in the form of the ' Atmanirbhar bharat abhiyan ' or self - reliant india mission ' during the announcement of the coronavirus pandemic related economic package on 12th May 2020.

This self - reliant policy does not aim that to be protectionist in nature and as the finance minister clarified , " self - reliant india does not mean cutting off from the rest of the world .
Ravi shankar prasad [ law and IT minister ]
said that self - reliance does not mean isolating away from the world.
Foreign direct investment is welcome , technology is welcome self - reliant india .

✔ Initiatives :-

Atmanirbhar bharat package is very numerous government decisions have taken place such as changing the definition of MSME
[Ministry of Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises is a brach of Government of India], boosting scope for private participation in numerous sector , increasing FDI
[Foreign direct investment] in the defence sector and the vision has found support in the many of the sector such as solar manufacture sector .

☑ Examples of Initiatives which helped Atmanirbhar Bharat :

The growth of india personal protective equipement [PPE] sector from zero before march to 1,50,000 pieces by the beginning of May .

The PPE industry in india has become a Rs.7000 crore in two months the second largest after china .

The largest fund in the country worth Rs.21,000 crore was setup by the IIT Alumni Council[Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Council ] with the aim of supporting the mission towards self - reliance ..
India's own 'Made in india ' 5G network
was also announced in july 2020 by Reliance Jio .
Mukesh Ambani
[Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an indian billonaire buisness magnate ad the chairman , manging director and largest shareholder of Reliance limited ]announced in mid term of july ' Jio ' has created a complete 5G solution from scratch , that will enable us to launch a world - class 5G service in india , and they were using 100 percent homegrown technologies and solutions .
In month of july 2020 , it was announced that Apple
would manufacture one of their premium iPhone models in India.
In month of August 2020 , the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced that the Defence Ministry is now readyfor a big push to 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Initiative' .