Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address at the UN General Assembly on Saturday assured the world leaders that India was back as a frontline warrior in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic with the resumption of vaccine exports to countries which need them.
"While understanding the responsibility towards humanity, India has yet again started giving vaccines to those who need them," the Prime Minister announced.
He said, amid applause, that India was also taking rapid steps in the development of new Covid vaccines and had approved for use the first DNA vaccine in the world which could be administered to everyone above 12 years of age.
He also said that another India-made m-RNA vaccine was in the final stages of development and would be approved for use very soon. Apart from this, Indian researchers are working on the development of a nasal vaccine to fight Covid-19, he added.
He pointed out that India has vast experience as the leading manufacturer of vaccines and its doors were open to all other vaccine makers in the world to avail of these facilities .
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“Come and make vaccines in India,” he said in an open offer to the world’s pharma majors.
PM Modi pointed out at the global gathering that every sixth person in the world is an Indian. “When India grows the world grows. When India reforms the world transforms,” he remarked while sharing the country’s development experience which included compiling digital records to confer property rights on the poor. These have helped them to raise bank loans and improve their livelihood and standard of living.
He said that India had also developed the digital Co-Win platform which enabled the inoculation of crores of people in a day. The country has declared this an open-source technology and is ready share it with any country that wants it.
The Prime Minister observed that the coronavirus pandemic has taught us that it is “essential to diversify global supply chains.”
India can play an important role in global industrial diversification as it has democratic values and the country’s engineers, scientists and managers who have been brought up on these values are doing outstanding work all over the world.
PM Modi said India has both the economy and the ecology to play a key role in developing global supply chains.
He also said the country has been taking its responsibility with regard to climate change very seriously and was approaching its target of setting up 450 GW capacity for renewable energy at a rapid pace. “
“Besides, India is working on an ambitious plan for becoming the Green Hydrogen Hub of the world,” the PM added.
