The Modi government does not make life easy for itself when it sets itself ambitious targets that most people would consider unachievable. Among them: Taking up the share of manufacturing in GDP from 17 per cent now to 25 per cent by 2022; doubling farmers’ incomes, also by 2022; doubling exports by 2025; and of course getting GDP from $2.7 trillion last year to $5 trillion by 2025 (implying 8 per cent average annual growth on the back of 4 per cent inflation). The government is doubtless encouraged in its ambitions by the fact that it has managed enormous progress
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