■ Delhi Bureau and Agencies :
NEW DELHI,
PRIME Minister Narendra
Modi on Monday said developing and underdeveloped
countries are paying the price
for the“wrong policies” of some
developed nations, and asserted that India has raised the
issue of climate justice with
every such advanced country.
In his video message at a
World Environment Day event
here, Modi said for the protection of the world climate, it
is important that all countries
think, rising above vested interests.
“For a long time, the model of development in big and
advanced countries was contradictory. In this developmental model, the thinking was
that we first develop our country then we can think about
the environment,” the PrimeMinister said.
“With this, they achieved thegoals of development, but theworld’s environment had topay the price for their development. Today also, the developing and underdevelopedcountries of the world are paying the price for the wrong policies of some developed countries,” he said.
For decades, no one wasthere to object to this attitudeof some developed countries,
Modi said.
“I am happy that
India has raised the question of climate justice withall these
countries,” he said.
In the thousands of years
old Indian culture, there is
nature as well as progress,
Modi said as he credited this
to the country’s attention to
ecology and economy.
The Prime Minister said as
India is investing unprecedentedly in its infrastructure,
it is focusing equally on the
environment.
Talking about boosting
economy and safeguarding
ecology,hegavetheexamples
of expansion of 4G and 5G
connectivityononehandand
the increase in the country’s
forest cover on the other.
He said while India built 4
crore houses for the poor,
there has been a record
increase in the number of
wildlife sanctuaries as well as
wildlife in India.
Modi also talked about the
Jal Jeevan Mission and the
construction of 50,000 ‘Amrit
Sarovars’ for water security,
India becoming the fifth
largesteconomyintheworld,
joining the top five countries
in terms of renewable energy, increasing agricultural
exports, and also running a
campaignforblending20per
cent ethanol in petrol.