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PPE Importer to Second Largest Exporter - Smriti Irani, Union Minister

The country was in lockdown, the world was in the grip of a deadly pandemic, and there was panic all around! Our country had never manufactured a PPE suit when COVID 19 hit us. It was the month of March when lockdown was announced and at that time, India used to import only about 50-55 thousand PPE suits annually. We had an analysis from a study that told us that these 50 to 55 thousand imported PPE suits would be used up completely in a month’s time. We would not have any PPE suits after that.

We have always had firm guidelines from PM Modi on how he wants us to run the government and that is to run it in a “synergistic, coordinated way.” I remember how the External Affairs Ministry, Ministry of Railways, Urban Development Ministry, Rural Development Ministry and of course, Health Ministry - these five to six ministries got together in mission mode. We discussed across the table that if we need cloth, where do we get it from? If we need machines, where do we get them from? We requested Aviation Minister Mr Hardeep Puri to fly a plane to Japan to get us 30 machines and he did that. So, what we witnessed first hand at that time was how a government comes together in a critical situation. It was a truly remarkable experience under the leadership of PM Modi. He had directed us to work towards Atmanirbharta. He said “India has to be self-reliant in the manufacturing of PPE suits as international borders are being sealed.” And I am very proud to say that India that did not have a single company manufacturing PPE suits when lockdown began, in three months it had 1,100 companies with a billion dollar turnover. We created 5 lakh jobs in lockdown and India became the second largest exporter of PPE suits. This happened just because the Prime Minister drew conditions for Make In India for PPE suits.

The Revolutionary Idea of the Cow Hostel - Tapir Gao, Lok Sabha MP, Arunachal Pradesh

“What is the Gujarat Model?” I once asked Modi saheb. “Come, visit Gujarat and see for yourself!” was his response. He invited me to see all the works that had been done there while he was the CM. The first place I visited was a tribal area and I came to know of an innovative initiative taken by Modiji saheb - the Cow Hostel. He had established this cow hostel in Akodara village of Sabarkantha district and this was India’s first animal hostel. Not many people understood the concept of cow hostel when it was proposed. Modi saheb’s proposed plan was to get a huge hall built that would cater for the entire tribal area. Further, all tribals would be asked to take their cows to that hall in the evening and tie them there for the night. Early morning the next day, the cows would be milked there itself. The milkman would then come to the hostel to collect milk for customers and cow dung too would be collected and sold. The veterinary doctors, who would otherwise visit households individually, would now reach the hostel and look after all the needs of the cows. Thus, the everyday needs of the cows, including the feed given to them every morning and evening, their treatment and hygiene, everything would be taken care of under one shelter. This indeed is a unique model of development introduced by Modiji in Gujarat.

Mission Climate Change - Suresh Prabhu, Former Union Minister

Modiji’s work as Gujarat CM was happening with full gusto. Do you know in which state was the Department of Climate Change first established? It was Gujarat. Modiji used to participate in various programs hosted by an organization called Climate Group in London of which I was one of the board members. I am talking about a time when even the Ministry of Environment was not associated with anything that had to do with Climate Change.

It was in one of these programs that Modiji mentioned to me “The kind of energy import dependence we have is not sustainable. We need to focus on solar power if we wish to become Atmanirbhar in the energy sector.” Well, no one would talk about solar in those days. He suggested that in order to harvest solar energy, we must create a Global Solar Alliance which he created after becoming the PM. For this he even wrote a letter to the then Prime Minister but it did not work out. I was the Chairman of the Council of Energy, Environment and Water and in my capacity, we tried to spread his ideas on solar power on a large scale. Soon after he became the Prime Minister, Modiji implemented these programs. Today, a country such as the United States is also part of the Solar Alliance which is headquartered in our country. All this is possible only because of Modiji’s vision and values. His endeavour in this direction is going to benefit environment, the issues of climate change and energy security.