MUSIC INSTRUMENT EXPORTS STRIKE CHORD

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday noted that the export of musical instruments from India has increased three and a half times in the past eight years.

“This shows that the craze for Indian culture and music is increasing all over the world. The biggest buyers of Indian musical Instruments are developed countries like USA, Germany, France, Japan and UK,” said the Prime Minister, in the 95th episode of his monthly radio programme – Mann Ki Baat.

He further added that “It was a matter of fortune for all of us that our country had such a rich heritage of music, dance and art.”

On October 26, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted that India’s exports of musical instruments rose more than 3.5 times in April-September 2022, as compared to the same period in 2013 (Rs 172 crore in April-September, from Rs 49 crore in 2013-14). “Today, every countryman is trying to do something different for the country in one field or the other, at every level,” Modi said.

“In today’s discussion itself, we saw that in an international event like G-20, one of our weaver companions understood his responsibility and came forward to fulfil it. Similarly, some are making efforts for the environment, others are working for water; many people are doing extraordinary work... from education, medicine and science technology to culture-traditions. This is because today every citizen of ours realises one’s duties. When such a sense of duty rises within the citizens of a nation, its golden future is automatically ensured, and, in the golden future of the country itself, also lies for all of us, a golden future.”