UPA rule has harmed ICT industry: Modi

The ICT industry can change the perception of India from a "snake charmer" country to that of a progressive one, Modi said.

Talking about the economy of the country, Modi said Finance Minister P. Chidambaram put a curb on the gold import to arrest the current account deficit of the country but that is only leading to increased gold smuggling into the nation.

He emphasised on the need to develop more IT hardware in the country and that will help bring back the good brains of the country who have gone elsewhere to work.

Modi said it is very important to have proper rural telephony. "I have heard that Rs.28,000 crore is lying idle in government coffers. If that was utilised in rural teledensity, we would have progressed."