Former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on rise in rural private consumption and defense sector growth.

Delhi: On Asking about record rise in rural private consumption NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant says, “So how can this growth be important to the Top Gear ?

So the private consumption has been given or thrust through CapEx expenditure, to, a whole range of government schemes which provide welfare to the people living in rural areas.

But it's very important to make the people living in those, rural areas as very active participants in our economy.

And that would require us to do training, skilling so that we get better quality jobs and such that they become very productive participant in the growth and progress of Indian economy.

He also spoke on the growth of defence sector under the make in India program.

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