Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog, addressed the third session of the multi-part webinar series ‘The Road To Atmanirbhar Bharat’ organised by Swarajya in association with Vedanta Resources Limited. The session was moderated by Siddharth Zarabi, managing editor, NEWJ.

Kant spoke on the theme of “Strategic Enablers and Policy Ecosystem for Atmanirbhar Bharat”.

During his address and Q&A session that followed, Kant spoke extensively on various areas including

• On how Atmanirbhar Bharat provides an unprecedented opportunities for India to plug in to the global supply chain due to geopolitical situation, reforms by the government, need for build rapid industrial/manufacturing capability domestically.
• The structural reforms undertaken by the government will help operationalise the vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat (Corporate tax reforms, labour market reforms, ease of doing business, single window clearance, calibrated tariffs)
• PLI Scheme and rational behind identification of 10-12 key sectors where India can not only meet our own domestic needs but also become globally competitive, becoming leaders to supply to the world.
• Why Aatmanirbhar Bharat is not a throwback to but about engaging with the world from a position of strength, while maintaining that diversification, consolidation in the current areas of strength.
• Aatmanirbhar in sunrise sector were India can as yet capture some part of global value chain (solar, batteries etc)
• ·Other Key Policy Initiatives that Niti Aayog is working on.

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