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India Today Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie talks about the 2019 Union Budget and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious mission to make India a 5 trillion dollar economy.

In business schools, they tell visionary companies to have a BHAG (pronounced bee-hag; Big Hairy Audacious Goal) or, in new-age terminology, a 'moonshot'. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a great one for this. He had one in the latest budget too- to double India's GDP to $5 trillion by the end of his second term in 2024. It's easy enough to set a grand target, but whether India can get there is open

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