Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attended SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on 15 and 16 September 2022. While addressing the summit, prime minister Modi said that India follows people centric development model. India has over 70,000 start-ups and 100 unicorns. He said that all efforts are underway to make India a global manufacturing hub. He demanded transit rights for better connectivity and said that SCO nations in the region should be trustworthy, resilient and should have diversified supply chain. PM Modi said that food security is a major challenge and proposed millet cultivation to fight global food crisis. In response Putin agreed to supply Russian fertilizer to India. India agreed to host SCO summit next year. Xi Jinping congratulated India and said that China will help India to organise SCO summit in 2023. Prime minister Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping stood next to each other, while Modi and Pakistan prime minister Shebez Sharif