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Following are the highlights of the economic blueprint of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as unveiled by >President Pranab Mukherjee in his address to the joint sitting of Parliament here today:
* Ushering in high growth rate, putting economy back on track
* Contain food inflation
* Reignite the investment cycle
* Accelerate job creation
* Restore investor confidence
* Create predictable, transparent and fair policy environment
* Make tax regime non-adversarial
* Make efforts to introduce GST
* Undertake reforms to enhance ease of doing business
* Allow FDI in sectors that will create jobs, assets
* Emphasis on improving supplies to contain food inflation
* Steps to prevent hoarding and black marketing
* Reform of Public Distribution System to be taken
* Prepare contingency plan to deal with subnormal monsoon
* Increase investment in agriculture, infrastructure
* Promote labour-intensive manufacturing
* Invest in world-class industrial regions, particularly along the Dedicated Freight Corridors and Industrial Corridors to be set up
* Unveil a comprehensive National Energy Policy
* Reforms in coal sector to attract private investment in transparent manner
* Expand National Solar Mission
* Operationalise international civil nuclear agreements, develop nuclear power projects.
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