Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles said that India offers an unbeatable combination of talent, scale and skill to the world while interacting with the students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai.
The campus of IIT Chennai was truly outstanding. It is a piece of art because science alone cannot define this place, Goyal said . 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, he added.
India has immense innovation potential and the world also wants 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 further added.
India had offered a huge market of over a billion people who are now connected to the whole world through television and smartphones. Also, India offers the largest aspirational population, he further added.
The Minister noted that the world today recognises 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 is attracted to us for the talent pool and skillset India has to offer, he added.
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 economise the output of their work, Goyal said while addressing the students.
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 of 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 further added.
