Chennai: Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal during interacting with students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai said, “India offers an unbeatable combination of talent, scale, and skill to the world,”
On the IIT Chennai, he said “The campus of IIT-Chennai was truly outstanding. It is a piece of art because science alone cannot define this place. Science is an enabler, art is in all of your minds which also helps come up with simple solutions for our day-to-day problems,”
The Minister spoke about India’s immense innovation potential and said that the World would also want to engage with sustainability and newer technologies at an affordable price and they would look towards India for it because of our innovation and talent pool. “Sustainability, energy efficiency, electric mobility coupled with India’s manufacturing skills, every innovation, and technology developed here has a huge market”, he added.
Goyal said that India offered a huge market of over a billion people who are now connected to the whole world through television and smartphones. India offers the largest aspirational population, he added.
The Minister noted that the world today recognizes that India’s time to shine has arrived. India’s demographic dividend, our large young population is another factor that is our strength, he said. Countries across the globe are today wooing us and are attracted to us for the talent pool and skillset India has to offer, he added.
Addressing the students, Goyal said that the nation would be grateful for every contribution of our youth and our students. He observed that the scale of India’s aspirational population can help them get economies of scale, can power the technologies they are producing and can economize the output of their work.
Goyal urged the students to have a bold vision and big ambition. “We as a country should have Big, Heavy, Audacious Goals. It abbreviates to BHAG. We all need to participate in the journey as we work our way towards becoming a developed nation and run collectively towards this goal”, he added.
The Minister said that innovation is elementary, simple thinking leading to solutions to a range of problems that can help our country and the world and students can all contribute immensely to these solutions. As we power our way into Azadi ka Amrit Kaal, these 25 years are going to define India and its future, he noted.
(Vinayak)