Source: Financial Express

By NIKHIL WALAVALKAR

"To the people of India, we make an appeal to join us with faith and confidence… We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell"

-Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

These are excerpts from the famous address to the nation on August 14, 1947, marking the independence of India from the British Raj in 1947. Cut to the present, 60- years later. Manmohan Singh the current Prime Minister in an address to the India-EU business summit said, "We are aware that to sustain the growth momentum, we need to do much more in the field of infrastructure and improve its all-round availability and quality."

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Posted by pichu at January 21, 2007 8:32 PM