<h1>Prime Minister pushes national self-reliance, maritime reforms, shipbuilding infrastructure status, and Rs 70,000 crore investment plan</h1> The prime minister urged national self-reliance, identifying foreign dependence as a primary strategic vulnerability and criticized past post-independence industrial controls and import-centric policies. Announced maritime-sector legal and regulatory reforms include consolidation to 'One Nation, One Document' and 'One Nation, One Port' processes, reworking five maritime statutes, granting infrastructure status to shipbuilding, and three planned financial/technology support schemes with proposed investment over Rs 70,000 crore. Projects worth Rs 34,200 crore (including Rs 7,870 crore in maritime projects) were inaugurated or ground-broken. Measures aim to simplify trade documentation, expand credit access for shipyards, and boost domestic shipbuilding and port capabilities to reduce foreign outflows.