Growth rate of 8% for 30 years will bring the best of world to India: Narendra Modi

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: Speaking at the My Gov townhall on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that 8 percent plus growth over the next 30 years will bring the best of the world to India, even as he lamented being questioned for every "wrong" right from the Panchayat level. 

Advocating accountability at every level to ensure good governance, he said everyone responsible should be answerable and held accountable. 

In a democracy, he said, people give the elected government a "five year contract" and if they do not like the performance in the next election the mandate is given to some other political party and hence there was a need for 

"Our country has always believed that good governance is bad politics. After winning one election, government keeps thinking how to win the next election. They are focused on how to increase political base and ways to get more votes and hence going forward it collapses," he said. 

Addressing his first townhall, Modi stressed upon the need for providing grievance redressal system that not just listens to complaints of citizens, but also redresses them in a time- bound manner. 

"With rapid and continued economic growth of over 8 per cent over the next 30 years, we can have whatever best we see in the world," Modi said at the event to mark two years of the government's citizen partnership app MyGov. 

With PTI inputs