Economy at $5 trillion will double our per capita income, says Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri

NEW DELHI: Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Sunday that the per capita income of Indians will double when the economy grows to $5 trillion. The Narendra Modi government has set the 2025 target to achieve this goal.
Speaking at the Times Now “Freedom Summit”, Puri said, “You know we were a $2.9 trillion economy pre-Covid, but our per capita incomes are low. When you move to a $5 trillion economy, per capita income will double, if not go higher.”
He added that the economic policies that the Modi government has unleashed will make India a $5 trillion economy in the next four years and a $10 trillion economy by 2030.
On the government’s focus on Atmanirbhar Bharat, Puri said the young generation did not go through the earlier developmental pangs. “But today Atmanirbharta is not something that should be looked at as inward looking. There is one thing that we learnt in the last two years, and may be even in the period earlier, that in order to be able to stand on your own feet, you must have your own entrepreneurial spirits unleashed. You must have your own production processes operational.”
He slammed the opposition saying they thought the Corona virus was not the enemy, it’s the government which is the enemy and they got a whole set of equations wrong. He said “a previous government” which was in power between 2004 and 2014 dismantled the vaccine manufacturing capacity in the public sector and it’s a matter of record. Taking a potshot at the ruckus in Rajya Sabha, Puri said he went to a friend who “wears a turban” like him. “And I told him that I'm going to make a recommendation that in the Olympic we should have another category for people above the age of 50 who wear a turban and can throw a file or a javelin at the talks. It was a good laugh. He also had a good laugh.”