♦ Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed six new initiatives aimed at global development on the opening day of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

♦ These include the setting up of a Global Traditional Knowledge Repository, Africa Skills Multiplier program, Global Healthcare Response Team, initiative on Countering the drug-terror Nexus, Open Satellite Data Partnership, and a Critical Minerals Circularity initiative.

♦ The Africa Skills Multiplier program will aim to establish a pool of one million certified trainers for skilling the youth in Africa.

♦ Modi also proposed setting up a G20 Global Healthcare Response Team, which will comprise healthcare experts from each of the G20 countries and could be deployed to deal with global health challenges in any part of the world.

♦ He also suggested a G20 Initiative on Countering the Drug-Terror Nexus to overcome the challenge of drug trafficking and break the drug-terror economy.

♦ The Prime Minister also noted India’s global leadership in promoting Shree Anna or millets, which are both climate-resilient and nutritious.

♦ Prime Minister Modi also appreciated the work done by the G20 group under the South African Presidency in the areas of skilled migration, tourism, food security, AI, digital economy, innovation and women’s empowerment.