India Open And Friendly For Business, Innovation, Travel: Modi Ahead Of U.S. Visit

"We will pursue this mission by eliminating unnecessary laws and regulations, making bureaucratic processes easier and shorter, and ensuring that our government is more transparent, responsive and accountable.

"It has been said that doing the thing right is as important as doing the right thing," he said.

Referring to his election campaign, the Prime Minister said he ran it on the promise of inclusive development.

"To me, that means many things: skills education, and opportunity; safety, dignity and rights for those in every section of our society, especially women; a bank account for every Indian; affordable health care within everyone's reach; sanitation for all by 2019; a roof over every head by 2022; electricity for every household; and connectivity to every village," he said.

"In addressing these daunting challenges, I draw confidence from countless extraordinary stories of ordinary Indians that I have seen through decades of travel across India," he said.

Modi said he strongly believes in the possibilities of technology and innovation to transform governance, empower people, provide affordable solutions for societal challenges, and reach people in ways that were unimaginable not so long ago.

He said the number of cellphones in India has gone up from about 40 million to more than 900 million in a decade; our country is already the second-largest market for smart phones, with sales growing even faster.

"When I think of the growth in computing power and storage capacity and its miniaturisation that the world has witnessed over the past two decades, I am confident that this can be replicated in renewable energy.

"With solar and wind power, thousands of Indian villages will be able to get access quickly to reliable, affordable and clean energy, without waiting for large, faraway conventional power plants to be built," Modi said.

"For this reason, India's journey to prosperity can be a more sustainable and environmentally sensitive one than the path followed by countries that came of age in earlier eras.

"This is a journey of our choice, rooted in our tradition that worships nature's bounties," the Prime Minister wrote.

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