1. Recently, you must have seen how the World Bank, I.M.F., World Economic Forum, credit rating agencies and such other agencies in the world have all appreciated the progress of India.

पिछले दिनों आपने देखा होगा world Bank हो, IMF हो, World Economic Forum हो, Credit-Rating Agencies हो, दुनिया में जितनी प्रकार की संस्थाएं हैं सबने भारत की प्रगति को सराहा है।

2. Certainly the very outstanding examples you have mentioned would be a long-term direction but if one were looking for a model of what the Forum is trying to achieve, I would like to say with a degree of modesty because we are just starting but if we see the way in which certain other fora like the World Economic Forum in Davos has contributed through its own deliberations, non-official, to inputs into official agencies, into official channels, into official fora, in the same way this forum could contribute by bringing people together, the people from diverse disciplines from outside Government, from business, from think tanks, from academia, from media, from civil society at large, to assist you might say the Governments and the officials in the process of developing a common vision.

मैं समझता हूं कि इस मंच का कार्य विचारों के एक वितरण केन्द्र के रूप में कार्य करना है। इसमें वे लोग भी शामिल हो सकते हैं जे सीधे तौर पर आधिकारिक माध्यमों से जुड़े न हों परन्तु जिनके ज्ञान से हमें लाभ हो सकता है।