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20,000 km till then, he said.

Then he asked, “Tell me, is there any contest.” He then added in a lighter vein, “I am not talking of May.” The Lok Sabha results are expected to be declared in May.

Modi said there is discussion now in every development expert group that India has transformed in the last 10 years.

“In Davos, which is like a Kumbh Mela for business people, also there was great enthusiasm for India. Someone there said India is an unprecedented success story, someone said India’s digital...infrastructure is touching new heights and someone said there is no place where India does not have influence,” Modi said.

He said that in any country’s development journey, a time comes when all circumstances are in its favour and when that country strengthens itself for many centuries to come. “I see that time for India now,” he added.

“This is the time when opportunity and incomes are both rising and poverty is declining. This is the time when consumption and corporate profitability are both rising and there is record reduction in bank NPAs (nonperforming assets). This is the time when production and productivity are increasing and this is the time when our critics are at an all-time low,” the prime minister said.

He said his government’s policy is stability, consistency and continuity.

Modi said inflation was a side-effect of overspending and his government followed the mantra of ‘money saved is money earned’ for time-bound completion of projects.

“We valued taxpayers’ money by completing big projects like Parliament building in record time, and earned money even from scrap removed from government office in cleanliness exercise,” the prime minister said.

provisions for a maximum jail term of 10 years and a fine up to Rs 1 crore.

The bill also proposes a high-level national technical committee on public examinations that will make recommendations to make the computerised examination process more secure