I'm A Small Person Put In This

70 Percent Of India's Imports Of Oil And Oil Products Are Imported From Abroad. There Is Uncertainty About Supply. There Is Uncertainty About Prices. And That Hurts India's Development.

I Have To Do My Duty, Whatever Task Is Allotted To Me.

Nowhere Else You Will Find A Country Of India's Diversity, Of India's Complexity, One Billion People Trying To Seek Their Social And Economic Salvation In The Framework Of Democracy, In The Framework Of An Open Economy.

I Do Believe That India Needs A Lot More Foreign Direct Investment Than We've Got, And We Should Have The Ambition To Move In The Same League Many Other Countries In Our Neighborhood Are Moving. We May Not Be Able To Reach Where The Chinese Are Today, But There Is No Reason Why We Should Not Think Big About The Role Of Foreign Direct Investment, Particularly In The Areas Relating To Infrastructure, Where Our Needs For Investment Are Very Large. We Need New Initiatives, Management Skills, And I Do Believe That Direct Foreign Investment Can Play A Very Important Role.

I Believe That Without Looking At Each Other As Rivals Or As Competitors, In A Democratic India, Operating In The Framework Of An Open Economy, An Open Society Has, I Think, Some Significance For Developing Countries, Not Only In Asia But Outside Asia.