Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Dr P.K. Mishra said that India’s aspiration for the coming decade is to become a nation where every citizen enjoys dignity through capable institutions and compassionate governance. 

 

Addressing Human Rights Day 2025 and National Conference on Ensuring Everyday Essentials in New Delhi, he highlighted that good governance is an essential right which includes an efficient system, transparent processes and institutions that treat people with respect and empathy. 

 

Dr Mishra noted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that every eligible person must get a benefit. He underlined that after 2014, the Government placed primary emphasis on the saturation approach and where the actual focus lies in effective delivery, ensuring that entitlements reach the last mile. 

 

He further added that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 gave the world a shared vocabulary of Dignity, and India has contributed significantly to this process. 

 

He asserted that today dignity is shaped not only by long recognised freedoms but is defined through access to privacy, mobility, clean environment and digital inclusion as the world continues to refine what it means for every person to live a life of dignity. 

 

Dr Mishra further mentioned that deepening citizen-centric governance, using technology responsibly, strengthening institutional foresight and ensuring that dignity remains the only way forward in every public service.