Ideas for India: Photos and summaries
Thank you to everyone that came to the second edition of Ideas for India.
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Some of our Members have been achieving wonderful things over the past few weeks, including appearing in The Sunday Times, achieving community honours are more. But we’ll tell you more about this in the next newsletter.
This time, we’d like to tell you about the second edition of Bridge India’s flagship Ideas for India conference, which concluded last Friday with engagement from policy, business and tech leaders from across several countries. It also featured multiple standing ovations for Keynote Speaker KT Rama Rao from Telangana at the black-tie dinner marking the culmination of a week-long series of events.
Ideas for India aims to create a global conversation around India’s increased important in the world economy. Now the most populous country in the world, India’s economic growth rate is the highest amongst major economies today. India’s inflation rate is lower than that of the UK, US and other major economies. As the Western world diversifies its supply chains and geopolitical dependencies away from China, India stands to benefit.
Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, delivered the Keynote Address during the Ideas for India conference, organised in conjunction with think tank Bridge India. In it, he said India’s growth path lies in leveraging its intrinsic strengths and becoming crucial to global supply chains by building on its historic culture of tolerance and respect for all. “Our independent judiciary, our liberal democracy, these are critical advantages if we are to go down this manufacturing service-led growth path because this will enable us to earn the world’s trust; it’s intrinsically necessary,” said Rajan.
Nigel Huddleston MP, Minister of State for International Trade, said he was “Delighted to speak to our friends from India during India Week and highlight how a free trade agreement can benefit both nations. A UK-India trade deal is a huge opportunity for both sides, and could boost our £36bn trading relationship and pull down barriers to trade.”
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