New Delhi, April 25, 2022.

The Ministry of Culture, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and India@75 Foundation jointly organized Conference on Sankalp Se Siddhi with the theme New India. New Resolve at the Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, in New Delhi, today.

Held under the aegis of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav the conference had three sessions. The inaugural session with the theme ‘Celebrating India@75 and making way for India@100’ saw active participation from Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi, Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture; Shri Govind Mohan, Secretary, Ministry of Culture and Shri Sanjiv Bajaj, President Designate, CII.

On the occasion Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi said that no business can do well in vacuum; the right atmosphere and  the confidence needs to be created for it. She also added “We need to collaborate and work together and it’s time to celebrate the contribution of freedom fighters, leaders as well as we can't ignore the contribution made by the industrial leaders. We take pride in all our industrial leaders as they played an important role in building India,” she added.

She also said “When everyone sings together, the symphony is created and our song is #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav. All our achievements - scientific, mathematical or cultural must be spoken about everywhere we go.”

Smt Meenakashi Lekhi also added “Ancient India was high on skillsets, as was the richness of our culture. We lost our institutions owing to slavery.”

In the second session Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw,  Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology delivered a Keynote address on the session, ‘Leveraging Digital Platforms to Build a Future-Ready India’. The session recognized digitalization as an indispensable tool in shaping an inclusive and fair nation and deliberated on measures that could speed up its adoption.

Addressing the session , Shri Ashiwni Vaishnaw highlighted the 5 themes/points that can add value to development efforts of the government and industry pertaining to digitisation. These included- Electronics and other kind of manufacturing, Lead in Semiconductor sector, Use of public digital platforms and convergence between telecom and Information Technology to reap benefits of digitisation.

People at the bottom of pyramid should be at the core of our digitisation programme,  the Minister urged. Reiterating the Antyodaya philosophy of the government, he said that everything that we do shall aim to provide benefits, a transformative force and a better environment for the marginal sections of the society.