Increase investment in education, healthcare: PM

"We must invest more in the rural economy. We need both investment and reform in our educational and healthcare systems," he said at a function here where he gave away the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards.

In this context, he stressed the need to increase household incomes in rural areas, as also agricultural productivity.

"We must reform the public sector and ensure better delivery of services to all, especially the poor. We have to improve urban governance and vastly improve the quality of life in our cities, especially in slums and jhuggi-jhonparis", Manmohan Singh maintained.

The prime minister also emphasised the need to surmount the challenges of low employment generation in the organised sector and the mismatch between the supply of skilled labour and demand.

Urging the industry to do its bit to overcome these challenges, Manmohan Singh said: "Together, we must rid our ancient land of the scourge of poverty, ignorance and disease."

Referring to the impressive economic growth achieved in the past 15 years, the prime minister contended, "there is more to be done. We can hardly rest on our laurels."

Speaking of the need to dismantle various internal hurdles created by inertia and old ways of thinking, he said: "The hurdles in our mind have to be erased by each one of us, especially by you in the media. I hope our media, our civil society and our business leaders will strengthen our hands in this sacred task of nation building."

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