INDORE: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today called upon the South Asian countries for peace in the region, saying it is essential for sustainable development.
“There should be peace, peace, peace…Then only there would be development,” she said while delivering the inaugural address at South Asia Speakers’ Summit which was skipped by Pakistan.
The two-day summit on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is being attended by speakers and delegates from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal.
“India and its Parliament are committed to working with the international community to craft an ambitious, comprehensive and equitable development agenda with poverty eradication at its core,” she said.
Pitching for inclusive economic growth to reduce the widening gap between the rich and the poor, Mahajan said development at the cost of culture is not sustainable.
Quoting BJP ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay, she said integral humanism is the basis for development as it espouses indigenous economic model that puts the human being at the center stage. (AGENCIES)
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