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0 Comments | AFP, December, 2006
NEW DELHI (AFP) — Indians must abandon their laidback attitude to improving efficiency and reducing red-tape so that Asia's fourth-largest economy can industrialise rapidly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said. Singh said Indians must lose their "chalta hai" attitude -- a commonly used phrase meaning "it will do" -- to attract new businesses and increase productivity of those already established to compete with India's neighbours.
"We have to give up our 'chalta hai' attitude to move very fast to catch up with our neighbours in east Asia," said Singh Sunday. Speaking at the launch of a project to modernise a steel plant in the eastern state of West Bengal, Singh highlighted the fact that Indian-origin steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal does not yet produce any steel in India....
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