Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

There can be no better place than India to manufacture, expand, and grow.

First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so that the State delivers on the things it sets out to do.

I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India.

You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.

I'm confident that it is with the strength of the poor that India will move forward.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.