creating an innovative india - aima
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This year, the 46th NationalManagement Convention ofAIMA focused on creating an
innovative India. After theinaugural session, Shereen Bhan,Managing Editor, CNBC TV 18,moderated a discussion onmaking India a 5 trillion-dollareconomy in the next 5 years withpanelists Sanjeev Sanyal,Principal Economic Adviser inMinistry of Finance, Governmentof India and Sunil Kant Munjal,Past President AIMA & Chairman,
Hero Enterprise. The panelistsdeliberated on how India canachieve the 12 per cent annualGDP growth required to becomea 5 trillion-dollar economy by2024.
Technological and politicalfactors are changing thedynamics of production, tradeand investment, and India needsto rethink reforms to position itseconomy for a sustained highgrowth here onwards. In thisbackdrop, Vikram Singh Mehta,Chairman, Brookings India &Senior Fellow, BrookingsInstitution; Ajit Ranade, Group
Executive President and ChiefEconomist, Aditya Birla Group;Akhil Bansal, Deputy CEO, KPMGin India; TN Ninan, Chairman,Business Standard Pvt Limited,discussed about taking reformsfor New India. Sudhir Jalan,Chairman, Neo Foods Pvt. Ltd.,moderated the discussion.
In the next session, AmodMalviya, Co-founder, Udaan;Rishabh Kaul, Co-founder,Belong; SandipanChattopadhyay, CEO & MD,Xelpmoc Design and TechLimited; Ganesh Natarajan,Chairman, 5F World, Global
Talent Track, Pune City Connect,and SVP India & Founder, CAIA-Center for AI and AdvancedAnalytics, Kalzoom Advisors,discussed on how ArtificialIntelligence (AI) technologies aredriving changes in the mannerand scale of production and howIndian companies shouldtransition to AI technologies andskills, as well as how companiescan use the facility productivelyand avoid vanity projects. PranjalSharma, Author, Kranti Nation:India and the Fourth IndustrialRevolution, moderated thesession.
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Industrial growth is beneficialfor the nation's developmentand we are constantly working
towards providing a conduciveenvironment for businesses. Ourgovernment has proved that agovernment for the poor andfarmers can also be agovernment for industrialists andbusinessmen, said Amit Shah,Minister of Home Affairs,Government of India, at All IndiaManagement Association's(AIMA) 46th NationalManagement Convention.
Furthermore, Nitin GadkariMinister of Road Transport &Highways; Micro, Small &Medium Enterprises,Government of India, spokeabout the Bharatmala project."The government has given thehighest priority to infrastucture.Under the Bharatmala project,75,000 kms of road and 22 newgreen expressway will be built,”he said.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ministerof Law and Justice;Communications; Electronics andIT, Government of India, stressedon India’s focus on dataprotection and IT services. He
said, "The data protection law isin process and we aim to makethe country a data refinery."
In his keynote address, KumarMangalam Birla, Chairman,Aditya Birla Group, spoke aboutshaping the emerging globaleconomic order.
Earlier, Harshavardhan Neotia,President, AIMA & Chairman,Ambuja Neotia Group, set thetone for the two-day convention.Sanjiv Goenka, ConventionChairman & Chairman, RP-SanjivGoenka Group; Sanjay Kirloskar,Senior Vice President, AIMA &Chairman and ManagingDirector, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd.;
Harsh Pati Singhania, VicePresident, AIMA & Vice Chairman& Managing Director, JK PaperLtd.; Rekha Sethi, DirectorGeneral, All India ManagementAssociation, also addressed thegathering. JS Juneja, PastPresident, AIMA & Chairman,Global Projects & Services Pvt Ltd,was also present on the occasion.
Honorary Life Fellowship ofAIMA was presented to T VMohandas Pai, Immediate PastPresident, AIMA & Chairman,Manipal Global EducationServices. Convention Souvenirwas also released on theoccasion.
(L-R) Rekha Sethi, Director General, All India Management Association; Sanjay Kirloskar, Senior Vice President, AIMA & Chairman and Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd; Harshavardhan Neotia, President, AIMA & Chairman,Ambuja Neotia Group; Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs, Government of India; Sanjiv Goenka, Convention Chairman & Chairman, RP -Sanjiv Goenka Group; Harsh Pati Singhania, Vice President, AIMA & Vice Chairman & ManagingDirector, JK Paper Ltd and JS Juneja, Past President, AIMA & Chairman, Global Projects & Services Pvt Ltd, releasing the AIMA 46th NMC Souvenir
Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs, Government of India, addressing AIMA's46th National Management Convention
(L-R) Ajit Ranade, Group Executive President and Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group; Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman, BrookingsIndia & Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Sudhir Jalan, Chairman, Neo Foods Pvt. Ltd.; TN Ninan, Chairman, Business StandardPvt Limited and Akhil Bansal, Deputy CEO, KPMG in India
(L-R) Sunil Kant Munjal, Past President AIMA & Chairman, Hero Enterprise; Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Eco-nomic Adviser in Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor, CNBC-TV 18
Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group with AIMA office bearers, past presidents & otherdignitaries
(L-R) Amod Malviya, Co-founder, Udaan; Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, 5F World, Global Talent Track, Pune City Connect, and SVPIndia & Founder, CAIA-Center for AI and Advanced Analytics, Kalzoom Advisors; Pranjal Sharma, Author, Kranti Nation: India andthe Fourth Industrial Revolution; Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Managing Director & CEO, Xelpmoc Design and Tech Limited andRishabh Kaul, Co-founder, Belong
(L-R) Harshavardhan Neotia, President, AIMA & Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group; Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport &Highways; Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India; Sanjiv Goenka, Convention Chairman & Chairman, RP-SanjivGoenka Group
Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law and Justice;Communications; Electronics and IT, Government of India
Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group, delivering the keynote address
Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways; Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises, Government of India
India’s growth story: The way forwardThe 46th National Management Convention of All India Management Association was aninteractive platform for policymakers, political and corporate leaders to discuss key issuesconcerning the nation and find out ways for economic and social development
T V Mohandas Pai, Immediate Past President, AIMA &Chairman, Manipal Global Education Services, receiving theHonorary Life Fellowship of AIMA from Ravi ShankarPrasad, Minister of Law and Justice; Communications; Electronics and IT, Government of India
Towards a five trillion-dollar economyDignitaries from various sectors came under one roof to rethink reforms for India’s sustained economic growth
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