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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that “India will soon have its one space station.” 

While speaking at ET World Leaders Forum 2025, the prime minister said,  “You will be happy to know that in the last 11 years, more than 60 space missions have been completed. There are many missions lined up. This year, we have also achieved the capability of space docking. This is a big achievement for our future missions. Now India is preparing to send its astronauts to space through the Gaganyaan mission, and in this, we are going to get a lot of help from the experience of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla…We are not looking for incremental change. Rather, we are moving ahead with the goal of a quantum jump and reform is neither compulsion nor crisis-driven for us. This is our commitment, our conviction.”

The prime minister said despite repeated disruptions by the Opposition, crucial bills have been passed during the monsoon session of the Parliament. He said,  “The monsoon session of the Parliament has just ended. In this monsoon session, you will see the continuity of reform. Despite many disruptions created by the opposition, we have been engaged in reform with full commitment. In this monsoon session, Jan Vishwas Bill 2.0 has been passed. This is a major reform related to trust-based governance and pro-people governance. In this session, the income tax law has also been reformed. This law, which has been in existence for 60 years, has been made more simple now…In this monsoon session, many amendments have been made in the laws related to mining. Laws related to shipping and ports have also been changed. These laws were also in place since the British era. The reforms that have been done now will promote port-led development in India’s blue economy. Similarly, new reforms have been done in the sports sector as well. We are preparing India for big events. We are building the entire eco-system of sports economy, hence the government has also come up with a new National Sports Policy.”

He said, “I want to tell you about another success of India. India is now going to export electric vehicles to 100 countries of the world. A very big program related to this is also being held after 2 days on 26th August.”

Modi said, “A big reform is also being done in GST. This process will be completed by this Diwali. This will make GST even easier and prices will also come down.”