Manohar Lal Khattar urges people to use local goods, give up lure for Chinese ones

KURUKSHETRA: Blaming China for the global spread of coronavirus infection, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday urged people to use 'Made in India' products and give up the lure for Chinese goods. Khattar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for an 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' or self-reliant India implies the country has to be less dependent on imported goods and make products for the world.
"To achieve 'atmanirbharta' (self-reliance), we will have to run a campaign and for this, we will have to keep many important aspects before us. One aspect the PM talked about is 'local for vocal'," Khattar said speaking on "Post Corona: Self-Reliant India" at a webinar organized by the Kurukshetra University.
"We will have to use big and small products manufactured in our country, our state, our tehsils and our villages," he asserted. Urging people to shun Chinese goods, Khattar said we all have to give up the lure, if any, for Chinese products, because this East Asian country has pitted itself against the entire world amid the Covid pandemic. "It's China versus world due to coronavirus," said Khattar.
Talking about startups, the CM said, "Haryana is way ahead of its neighbouring states in startups. So far, 4,119 startups have registered themselves in our state, which is four times higher than Punjab, 14 times more than Himachal Pradesh, five times of Uttarakhand, and twice as many as in Rajasthan. We have 4,194 youths Rs 868 crore for startups as loans. Around 13 lakh persons were given Rs 14,141 crore loan under PM Mudra Yojana."