We are taking great leaps in innovation, research and development are finally being recognised as an important element for developing or progressing the country into the New Age, said Union Minister Piyush Goyal.
Addressing the e-summit 2022 of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai on Atmanirbhar Renaissance, he called upon the ICT students to take the leadership in Tex-partnership, the textiles sector entrepreneurship.
“They have played an important role in making India Aatmanirbhar, particularly in the Chemicals and pharma sectors. It’s unbelievable how one institute can shape a whole sector. In fact, in some sense, the ICT is to the chemicals industry what very highly reputed Ivy league colleges are to the technology world or management world across nations. And I do believe each one of your students has a responsibility to carry this legacy forward," said Goyal.
Goyal said the government is working as an enabler and has taken transformational initiatives to promote the Textiles sector, including the PLI, setting up of 7 Mega Textile Parks, launching the National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM) to position India as a global leader in technical textiles and 31 projects have been already approved.
Goyal said India has become a global leader in digital transactions within 5 years of UPI launch. We have the 3rd largest startup ecosystem today, over 65,000 Startups registered in five years, more than 90 unicorns and lakhs of jobs created by these startups.
“Today, India is confident and yet dissatisfied! It is a good thing to be dissatisfied, because a satisfied individual can never bring transformation, can never bring change. We need hunger, we need fire in the belly to be able to do something, to be able to bring about some extraordinary achievement,” he said.
