Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2047
India will export clean energy instead of importing fossil fuels by 2047
“हमारा लक्श अमृत काल में ये है जो मान्या प्रतान मंतरी जी ने कहा कि हम दोहजार सैंतालीस तक हम इमपोरट करने के बदले इनर्जी कलीन इनर्जी को एकसपोरट करेंगे So we'll be an exporter of clean energy rather than an importer of hundred and eighty billion worth of fossil fu…”
Opinion
UPSC should adopt a GMAT-style preliminary exam to prevent wasted years
“But I also feel that the process of the UPSC examination needs to have be re-looked at so that people do not end up wasting 10 years of their life. We can have a GMAT kind of format of examination, which can then enable them to give the main examination. If yo…”
Insight
India needs 10,000 large companies beyond Adani and Ambani for MSME growth
“You need about not just Adani and Ambani. You need 10,000 large companies in India because they will create the ecosystem for MSMEs. They will create SMEs. There'll be backward forward linkages, and that is large companies are then able to penetrate global mar…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
India will exceed 10% growth if states like Bihar and Rajasthan transform
“If Bihar transforms, if Chhattisgarh transforms, if Jharkhand transforms, if all Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, all of them start growing at high rates, then India will be growing at 10% plus for the next three, four decades.”
Assertion Supported
India lifted 250 million people out of poverty over the past decade
“We have lifted in the last decade, we have lifted twenty five million people above the poverty line, you know, 25 crore, 25 crore people above the poverty.”
Assertion Supported
Kant: India accounts for 46% of all global real-time payments
“46% of the real time fast payment in the world are done by, is done by India.”
Opinion
Major Indian airports and new roads surpass European infrastructure, says Kant
“बैंगलोर का एरपोर्ट देखेगा, मुंबई का देखेगा, देली का एरपोर्ट, हाइदराबाद का एरपोर्ट ये एरपोर्ट इस समय फ्रैंक्फर्ट और लंडन एरपोर्ट से ज्यादा अच्छे हैं और हमारी सडके इस समय योरप की सडकों से ज्यादा अच्छी बन रह”
Assertion Partly supported
India is the only country to scrap over 1,600 outdated laws
“And India is the only country which has scrapped over 1600 laws. No other country. This has been done.”
Opinion
Kant: Government work provides scale and satisfaction unreachable in private sector
“So government gives you a different job satisfaction. It gives you the size and scale, which you can never get in the private sector.”
Assertion Supported
Kant: India achieved 100% consensus in the G20 New Delhi Leaders' Declaration
“Bharat ne, ah, prithahan mantri menteri ji ki leadership mein, sot pratishat prathishat consensus build up kiya, sare major issues pe, aur russia, ukrain issues pe, jis pe, UN kuchh charcha ni kar paaya tha, ham eek consensus bana kar, aagye badehen, aur bhara…”
What-if
Space and drone sectors opened solely due to PM Modi's tech passion
“That is why India has been able to open up geospatial sector, space sector, drone sector. All these sectors would have never got opened up but for his passion for technology.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kant: India Cannot Reach $35 Trillion Economy Without Major Export Growth
“And without exports growing on a large basis, it will not be possible for us to be a 35 trillion dollar economy.”
Insight
India needs 9-10% annual growth for 30 years to become developed
“India needs to grow at nine to 10% per annum year after year for three decades so that we can make India a fully developed nation.”
Assertion Contradicted
Kant: India created over 550 million bank accounts between 2015 and 2017
“Between 2015, 20 17, we created over five hundred and fifty million bank accounts. That means imagine 55 crore bank accounts were opened in India.”
Assertion Partly supported
BIS says India achieved 50 years of progress in nine years
“What the Bank of International Settlement said that actually India has achieved in nine years what would have taken India 50 years to achieve.”
Opinion
Private sector must drive India's growth with government acting as facilitator
“We need to move forward and we need to actually create a market based economy where the private sector must drive India's growth story. The government should only act as a facilitator. The government should only act as a catalyst.”
Assertion Supported
Amitabh Kant: India's middle class represents about 34% of the population
“It's almost about 34% of India now.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Amitabh Kant: Owning an EV will be the next middle-class aspiration
“And now the next big aspiration for every middle class Indian will be to own an electric vehicle.”
Assertion Contradicted
Gautam Buddha Nagar's GDP is 11 times higher than Kanpur's
“And therefore, if you look at Uttar Pradesh, the Gautam, Buddha, Nagar, the Noida and greater Noida today, they're GDP is 11 times higher, 11 times higher than the next district of Uttar Pradesh, which is Kanpur.”
Assertion Partly supported
Kant: India launched Incredible India while competitors stopped tourism marketing
“When peak of the crisis, peak of the challenge, when there was very low occupancy, ah, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, all had stopped their marketing campaign. We launched the incredible India campaign.”
Opinion
Kant: India Must Exploit Travel and Tourism for Jobs Over Next 5 Years
“अगले पांच वर्षों में मेरे विचार से एक शेत्र जिसको बहुत exploit करने की आविशक्ता है वो है travel and tourism. जो बहुत growth दे सकता है और बहुत job creation कर सकता है.”
Opinion
Transforming India's judiciary will be very difficult without artificial intelligence
“It'll be very difficult to transform the judiciary without the use of artificial intelligence.”
Assertion Contradicted
Kant: India's skilling body trained 1M+ railway inspectors and all police
“It has trained over a 10 lakh railway inspectors. It has trained all the police officials. It has trained cutting edge officials and has put on board a vast number of new skill programs on digitally so that anybody can go and access and get himself trained dig…”
Assertion Supported
Kant: India's Female Labor Participation Has Jumped to 37%
“So that's the female labor participation ratio is showing improvement. It has jumped up to 37%.”
Amitabh Kant