The webinar on Self Reliant India – The Road Ahead exuded confidence in the possibilities that India as a country promises. Becoming self reliant would mean using local manufacturing base to creating better and efficient supply chains indigenously and developing local markets for meeting the needs of a 1.3 billion population. All this is possible, according to Surya Jeedigunta, an economist and progenitor of a Think Tank group. During his discourse, he enunciated on three crucial pillars on which the edifice of India’s self reliance and economic growth will rest. Infrastructure predictably would be the driving force for job creation and growth, according to him. The second pillar was digitisation which will enjoin the country and generate enough data for governments to develop viable plans for fund raising and economic growth and finally the third important pillar would be corporate governance which would develop trust in the process o growth.
