'Talent in IT sector will play vital role in bringing jobs to India

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said the Centre has set a target to make India 'Viksit Bharat' by 2047 and slammed the previous UPA gover nment over corruption and scams.

Addressing IT professionals here, he said, "... IT stands for 'India Tomorrow' and what is the target for India tomorrow? The target is to develop India into Viksit Bharat by 2047."

Taking a dig at the Congress, the Union Minister said, "Can you imagine 10 years back our countrymen were finding it even difficult to think about freeing themselves from the clutches of corrupt Congress party and its alliance partners where one after another scam took place."

Thakur said the country was looking at a way out and during that time, the BJP came up with an alternative leader named Narendra Modi.

"Modi was a ray of hope in 2014. We promised that we will give you a clean government and I'm glad that in the last 10 years we can proudly say in our government not even a single penny of corruption allegation is levelled against Modi or his ministers," he said.