India must commit itself to a 25-year timeline for progress, change: Modi

Time has come for India to take up new development journey, says Prime Minister in Independence Day speech.

India must commit itself to a 25-year deadline for progress and change, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday as he outlined his government’s plans in a speech at Delhi’s Red Fort to mark Independence Day.

"A time comes in the development journey of every country when that nation defines itself from a new end, when it takes itself forward with new resolutions. Today, that time has come in India's development journey," he said.

Modi spoke about "Amrit Kaal", an event 25 years away according to traditional Hindu calendar, saying India must not wait for development until then. "We must