Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said his Government’s policies were aimed atreducing poverty and creating jobs, as he cautioned against economic liberalisation that could lead to concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.
“Our objective is to create an economic option that will eliminate poverty, create jobs for youth and lead to creation of wealth,” he said in his address at the National Conference of CA Students-2025 and added “we need such an economic option”.
He said previous Governments under PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh adopted an economic liberalisation framework.
“But with economic liberalisation, we should also make sure that there is no centralisation of the economy. It should not be that the number of poor is slowly increasing while wealth is getting centralised in the hands of a few,” the minister cautioned.
“There has been a sea change in the economic landscape (in the last decade) and your role is crucial in this change,” the minister said.