Johannesburg : Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the opening session of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg to deliver an expansive call for a reset of global development priorities. With Africa hosting the summit for the first time, he said the moment demanded a rethink of how the world measures progress, especially for regions that have long faced resource deprivation and ecological imbalance.
PM said India’s principle of Integral Humanism offered a template for more balanced growth. He also rolled out three major proposals aimed at reshaping cooperation on knowledge, skills and security across continents. Opening his pitch with a call to preserve time-tested models of sustainable living, PM Modi proposed a Global Traditional Knowledge Repository under the G20.
The repository is intended to ensure that traditional wisdom, whether on health, environment or social cohesion, is documented, shared and passed on to future generations at a time when the world is grappling with climate stress and rapidly shifting lifestyles. Emphasising that Africa’s rise is essential for global progress, PM Modi announced an ambitious skills programme directly aimed at the continent’s youth bulge.
These trainers, in turn, are expected to help skill millions more, creating a pipeline of talent across sectors and unlocking large-scale employment opportunities. Modi linked the proposal to India’s long-standing partnership with Africa, recalling that it was during India’s G20 Presidency that the African Union was inducted as a permanent member.
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