Prime Minister Modi: NRIs are India's brand ambassadors, symbolize nation's capabilities

Varanasi, Jan 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday described NRIs as India's brand ambassadors and said they were the symbols of the country's capabilities.

The prime minister was initiating the 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas convention in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi.

"I consider NRIs India's brand ambassadors. They are the symbols of our capacities and capacities," he told the gathering.

"People of Indian origin are in leadership roles in countries such as Mauritius, Portugal and Ireland," he said.

Modi also alluded to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's comment that just 15 paise of Re 1 reaches masses and said the Congress government had done nothing to stop the leakage.

The prime minister included that his legislature had stepped in to rectify the situation. The "85 percent loot" occurring amid the Congress regime had been plugged "100 percent" through technology, he said.

"We have given about Rs 5,80,000 crore to individuals, exchanged to their financial balances through different plans. Imagine, if the nation was being kept running on the more established framework? At that point Rs 4,50,000 crore would have vanished," Modi said.

Proceeding with his assault on the Congress, he said efforts to stop the "leakage" could have been made before also however there was no aim and resolution.

"Our government is moving towards ensuring that the guide given by government is directly transferred to beneficiary accounts through direct benefit schemes," he said.

Mauritian Premier Pravind Jugnauth, who is the chief guest for the three-day occasion, also talked on the event.

He hailed the prime minister for India's change through activities, for example, the Skill India and the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao plans.

He also lauded Modi's global stewardship in advancing tidy vitality and for setting up the International Solar Alliance.

Jugnauth declared that his nation will hold a Bhagwad Gita Mahotsav one month from now and a Bhojpuri Festival one year from now.

Out of the blue, the three-day tradition is being sorted out from January 21 to 23 rather than January 9 to enable members to visit the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and go to the Republic Day march in the national capital.

The theme of this year's convention is 'Role of Indian diaspora in building new India'.