During a five day entrepreneurship event with TechSparks - Your Story, veterans from the business and tech world shared their perspective on the power of storytelling.
"The intention of AatmaNirbhar Bharat is not to make India look inwards, stop imports, or shut the country down. Whilst India has to strive to become a part of the global value chain, we cannot allow the strengths of India to be eroded. The best time to do something new is today. Don't hold back; tell us what you want India to do for you. Nothing should hold us back from doing what we want to do,” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at the virtual event.
Speaking about the progress of MSMEs, she said, “I kept giving data to private and public sector banks, which are reaching out to MSMEs. In this, banks will not be the choosers. They will blanket call all customers, send them SMSs; the right to refusal for this will be with customers, and not with banks."
Mr Ratan Tata said, “We must ask ourselves, can we make a difference? Can we be innovative and creative and not just look at the money value of what we've done but the contribution it has made to our humanity and our human population in India? So we should be humble, at the same time, attentive to the needs, looking for opportunities. So, it’s a very mixed and complex set of innovations -- some very small but very successful; others big, calling for large amounts of capital.”
