ET WLF 2024: Youth employability, health key for India's growth
youth employability, promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing carbon emissions are key measures for India to «power a billion dreams», prominent business leaders from the consumer sectors said on Saturday.
At a panel discussion on 'The India opportunity: Empowering a billion dreams', moderated by Kaushika Madhavan, Asia Pacific leader at AT Kearney, leaders from diverse businesses spotlighted rapid growth in the world's fifth largest economy and stressed on the need for inclusive growth and development at a time when economic recovery is showing sharply divergent trends.
«We have got to take India with us… India is a country of opportunities, a country of dreams… we need to have inclusive growth as a lot of India is poor,» said Raymond Ltd chairman and managing director Gautam Hari Singhania.
India will be the most powerful nation by 2047, he said, adding, «Believe in your country; 1.4 billion people of the country need to dream.»
Apollo Hospitals executive vice chairperson Preetha Reddy dwelt on the importance of keeping people healthy, which would lead to economic prosperity. Underlining the importance of skilling, she said, «Dreams, plans, infrastructure are there… we just have to think about skilling, innovation and the environment. The situation has flipped. Now it is about how we keep people healthy and out of the hospitals.»
Amid uneven economic recovery across consumer sectors, even as aspirational demand from small-town India has been surging, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) chief executive and
