The Independence Day Speech 2025

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address from the ramparts of Red Fort, New Delhi, on the occasion of 79th Independence Day
Hindi Speech (PIB)
Words | 9,702 |
Time taken | 103 minutes |
Pages | 21 | Mangal (12) |
Paragraphs | 154 |
Lines | 630 |

Characters | No spaces | 38,548 |
Characters | With spaces | 48,506 |

From the PIB’s English rendering of the text
Words | 9,131 |
Time taken | 103 minutes |
Pages | 17 | Times New Roman (12) | Single spaced |
Paragraphs | 156 |
Lines | 666 |

Characters | No spaces | 44,416 |
Characters | With spaces | 53,402 |

Key Highlights

The address threads three ideas: security with resolve, self-reliance with speed, and inclusive growth with saturation delivery. 

Confident about India’s capabilities—on the border, in factories, in labs, and in homes—and keeps 2047 firmly in sight.

Big Announcements 

• Operation Sindoor saluted; new “normal” on terror: Sponsors, harbourers and perpetrators to be treated alike; nuclear blackmail “won’t be tolerated.”
• Indus waters stance: Current form of the Indus Waters Treaty termed “unacceptable”; waters originating in India to be reserved for Indian farmers.
• Sudarshan Chakra Mission: A decade-long national security shield to 2035, built in India—precision, anticipatory (“plus-one”) warfare systems with full domestic R&D and manufacturing.
• Semiconductors: Six units under way, four more cleared; first ‘Made-in-India’ chip in market by end-2025.
• Energy independence push: National Deep-Water Exploration Mission for offshore oil & gas; 10 new nuclear reactors advancing; nuclear sector opened to private participation.
• Clean energy milestone: India’s 50% clean-energy target achieved in 2025—five years early (vs 2030 pledge).
• Critical minerals: National Critical Mission; exploration at 1,200+ locations to secure inputs for energy, defence and advanced tech.
• Jobs & youth: Launch of PM Viksit Bharat Rojgar Yojana (₹1 lakh crore). ₹15,000 support per new private-sector hire; incentives for job-creating firms; target ~3.5 crore opportunities.
• GST 2.0 (Diwali ‘double’): Next-generation GST reforms aimed at cheaper essentials and MSME relief.
• Tax and legal ease: 40,000+ compliances scrapped; 1,500+ obsolete laws repealed; ~280 Income-tax sections to be abolished; faster refunds and faceless assessments; income up to ₹12 lakh tax-free (as stated in the speech).

Security & Foreign Policy

• Operation Sindoor credited with deep, precise strikes on terror infrastructure across the border; salute to armed forces.
• Zero tolerance for terror ecosystems and their backers; deterrence posture against nuclear brinkmanship.
• Left-wing extremism: From 125+ districts down to ~20; “Red Corridor” being replaced by green development corridors.

Atmanirbhar Bharat — Technology, Space, Platforms

• Defence self-reliance showcased in Operation Sindoor; ‘Made in India’ systems enabled speed and surprise.
• Semiconductors moved to mission mode after “lost decades”; domestic chip on shelves by year-end.
• Space: Aatmanirbhar Gaganyaan, plan for Indian space station; 300+ space start-ups; welcome to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla returning from space station.
• Digital leadership: UPI now handles ~50% of global real-time transactions; call for home-grown OS, cyber-security, AI and social platforms.

Energy, Climate & Resources

• Clean-energy target reached five years early; solar up ~30x in 11 years; hydropower expansion; Green Hydrogen push.
• Nuclear capacity to more than 10x by 2047; reform opens sector to private investment.
• Domestic fertilisers and EV battery manufacturing urged to end import dependence.

Economy, Reforms & Manufacturing

• India “knocking at the door” of becoming the world’s third-largest economy; inflation and macros termed stable; reserves strong.
• National Manufacturing Mission + MSME deepening; renewed call for “Zero Defect, Zero Effect.”
• Manufacturing mantra: “Lower price, higher value.”
• Regulatory clean-up continues; a Next-Gen Reforms Task Force to rewrite rules, processes and policies for a 21st-century economy.

Women, Inclusion & the Last Mile

• Women’s SHGs hailed; NaMo Drone Didis celebrated; 2 crore Lakhpati Didis already, 3 crore target ahead of time.
• Mudra fuelling mass entrepreneurship; start-ups rising in Tier-2/3 cities.
• Saturation delivery: Jan Dhan, DBT, Ayushman, PM Awas (4 crore homes), PM-SVANidhi—“government at your doorstep”.
• Claim that 25 crore people moved out of poverty in the last decade; a rising neo-middle class noted.

Farmers & Rural

• India #1 in milk, pulses, jute; #2 in fish, rice, wheat, fruits & vegetables.
• Agri exports at ₹4 lakh crore; PM Dhan-Dhanya Krishi Yojana to lift 100 lagging districts.
• 125 crore free vaccines for livestock against foot-and-mouth disease; firm line against any anti-farmer policies.

Culture, Heritage & Unity

• Tributes to Constitution makers and Syama Prasad Mookerjee; RSS centenary acknowledged for nation-service.
• Classical language status affirmed for Marathi, Assamese, Bangla, Pali, Prakrit; Gyan Bharatam Mission to preserve manuscripts.
• Reaffirmation of Panch Pran—Viksit Bharat by 2047, pride in heritage, unity as a governing mantra.

Health, Sports & Society

• National Sports Policy and Khelo India ecosystem from schools to Olympics; warning on obesity (family-level pledge to cut cooking-oil use by 10%).

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