Need to change mindset to achieve 8% growth rate:PM

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today said there was need to change mindset so that the target of eight per cent growth rate in the 10th Five-Year Plan could be achieved.
Intervening during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, he said there was improvement in the economy and the growth target of eight per cent, though difficult, was achievable.
"We want to endeavour towards achieving this target and for this there was need to change the mindset in the country," he told Ramchandra Dome (CPI-M).
Vajpayee said it was not difficult to achieve the target of eight per cent growth rate as was made out by the member as it was a "question of collective effort and if we all wish, we could achieve it."
Replying to a question by Nawal Kishore Rai (JD-U), Minister of State for Planning and Small Scale Industries Vasundhare Raje said the 10th Five Year Plan is yet to be approved by the National Development Council (NDC) and it is meeting on Saturday to approve it.