India will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy by 2040: Hardeep Singh Puri

India will be the world’s largest economy by 2040 Lucknow: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday that since Yogi Adityanath took over as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, the execution of national programmes has increased tremendously.

Addressing a session on “reimagining cities as growth centres for modern Uttar Pradesh” at the Global Investors Summit here, Union Housing and Urban Development Minister stated that India will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy by 2040.”Scheme development and execution in Uttar Pradesh have advanced dramatically since Yogi Adityanath took over as state chief minister in 2017,” Puri added. “I return to the city every second or third month. The previous government was uninterested in executing the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, which the national government started in June 2015,” he stated.Puri claims that in the 17 months following Adityanath’s election in 2017, more than 17 lakh residences were built.

“These data are sufficient to describe the state’s success story. Today, UP is number one in executing the Centre’s programmes,” he added.He went on to say that at the current rate of progress towards the prime minister’s ambition, India will be the world’s largest economy by 2040. “Our cities are the economic transformers. (Former Prime Minister) Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji initiated metro service. Our metro system now ranks fifth in the world. Based on our present initiatives, we will rank among the top three in the globe over the next few months,” he said. A K Sharma, the state’s Urban Development Minister, remarked during the session, “When I was chosen as minister, I recognised that cleanliness was important to a city’s progress.

As a result, I initiated an effort to clean up the city.” Several individuals used to complain to him about rubbish mounds on the streets of residential areas, but the situation has entirely altered now, he added.