India received the G20 Presidency baton from Indonesian President Joko Widodo during the 17th G20 Leaders’ Summit in Bali, Indonesia and the G-20 community adopted the Bali Declaration. India will officially assume the G20 Presidency on the 1st of December 2022 at midnight.
As India takes charge of G20, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi emphasized that India’s G20 Presidency will be Inclusive, Ambitious, Decisive and Action Oriented. He mentioned that India’s G20 agenda will focus more on women-led developments while noting that Global Development is not possible without women’s participation and promised to make G20 a catalyst for global change.
On day 2 of the Bali Summit, Prime Minister Modi addressed the third and final Working Session on Digital Transformation wherein he noted that it is the responsibility of the G20 leaders that the benefits of digital transformation should not be confined to a small part of the human race. He mentioned that the proper use of digital technologies can become a force multiplier in the decades-long global fight against poverty and digital solutions can help in the fight against Climate change. PM Modi also said that the principle of “Data for development” will be an integral part of the overall theme of our Presidency “One Earth, One Family, One Future.
