External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India is no longer "lumbering around at a relatively slow pace" at the end of his three-day visit to South Africa for a BRICS conclave.
Speaking at a reception facilitated by the neighborhood diaspora and expatriate community in Cape Town in his honor Saturday night, he likewise talked about the unique connection between India and South Africa, which would celebrate 30 years of new diplomatic ties.
The minister was in the city with his partners from Brazil, Russia, China for the BRICS alliance meeting facilitated by South Africa.
"This is no longer the India that was lumbering around at a relatively slow pace. When it comes to digital, I can assert with a great deal of confidence, that I see practices (and) efficiencies in India which I don't see even if I go to Europe and North America," Jaishankar said.
"This scale of change which is taking place in India, when we speak about the pace of transformation of these nine years, is really something that I think the Indian community abroad, the non-residents abroad and I would say even the friends and well-wishers of India abroad need to understand is something very powerful and very big that is going on," he said.
Jaishankar stated that this was not a protectionist effort, highlighting the Modi government's nine years of policy reforms and actions to increase the self-sufficiency of the Indian people."A self-reliant India is not a protectionist India that is closing itself to the world. It is an India that is actually making more in India but making more for the world and making more with the world.
"We are today actively trying to forge partnerships. One of the indices of success has been the growing amount of foreign direct investments we have attracted," the minister said.
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