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mindspace 16 Building India for a New World: Lives, Livelihood, Growth focus 23 Revitalizing the Travel and Tourism I

plus building capacity Portfolio for Excellence Engaging with the World REGIONAL REVIEW AND MORE

cover story 03 We will definitely get our growth back: Hon Prime Minister

The Government of India has unveiled a slew of economic and financial measures and reforms across sectors in the last

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We will definitely get our growth back: Hon Prime Minister

India s economic growth has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic With the focus on an Aatmanirbhar Bharat, Governm

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressing the CII Annual Session - 2020 via video conferencing, in New Delhi on June 02, 2020

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The Prime Minister outlined imperatives for industry to get growth back: India s talent and technology, innovation

The Re-boot Strategy

Hon Prime Minister Addresses the Industry First of all, congratulations to all of you for successfully completing

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CII 125: Strategies and Sectoral Suggestions

In Conversation with the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Speaking at an interaction held on 20 May, Mrs Nirmal

Interaction with the Minister for Commerce & Industry and Railways Mr Piyush Goyal, Minister for Commerce & Industry

Addressing the delegates, the Minister said that developing India as a MRO Hub is a key step towards making of an

Speaking at a session on restarting the Indian economy in the new normal, Dr Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Nobel Laureate

CEOs Interaction with Mr Hardeep Singh Puri

Congratulating CII on reaching a milestone of 125 years of existence, Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Ci

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In Conversation with Dr Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

which to me is a mistake The states can borrow a little bit more but the order of magnitude seems to be wrong We sh

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In keeping up with the new ways of doing business in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, CII held its 125th Annual Session

The economic landscape has been definitively altered this year in the aftermath of the Coronavirus pandemic In order

Getting Growth Back: Opportunities Amidst Challenges

National Conference was happening during a momentous occasion The prolonged lockdown has dealt a huge blow to growth

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressing the CII Annual Session - 2020 via video conferencing, in New Delhi on June 02, 2020

Vikram Kirloskar, Immediate Past President, CII, and CMD, Kirloskar Systems Ltd , and Vice Chairman of Toyota Kirlosk

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& Managing Director, Tata Steel Ltd said that the 5 'I's outlined by Hon Prime Minister set the priorities for the co

SMEs Mr Prakash Mallya, Managing Director, Intel Technologies India suggested that SMEs are going through a very cha

Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, MP, BJP

Manish Tewari, MP, INC

Sunita Duggal, MP, BJP

Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

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Balancing People, Profit and Planet Post COVID-19 During a session on Shaping Sustainable Businesses amidst the Pande

suitable response to pandemics Prof K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India, said that

Suresh Prabhu, India's Sherpa to the G20

Jamshyd Godrej, Past President CII and Chairman & Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing

Prof K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India

Dr Amiram Appelbaum, Chairman, Israel Innovation Authority, and Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy and Industry, Go

Kris Gopalakrishnan, Past President, CII, Co-founder, Infosys and Chairman, Axilor Ventures

Dr Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Former Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog

Sanjiv Puri, Chairman, ITC Ltd

Tai Lee Siang, Executive Director, BCA, Singapore & Past Chair, World Green Building Council

Dr Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

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the same thing as reversing globalization He was of the view that the real threat to globalization came from the US

Accessing Quality Infrastructure Services is a Challenge for MSMEs As India aims to upscale economic activities, the

Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia and President, Asia Society Policy Institute

Dr Naushad Forbes, Past President CII and Co-Chairman, Forbes Marshall Pvt Ltd

Alan Rosling, Griffin Growth Partners Dr Calzadilla Sarmiento, Director, TII, UNIDO

Sunil Sinha, Resident Director, MENA, Tata Sons

Ashley J Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Economic Commentator, Financial Times said that due to the advent of social media and the broad availability of infor

agriculture growth have to be demand driven and focus need to be made on Plate to Plough approach, said Dr Gulati,

Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator, Financial Times

Dr Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute

Sean de Cleene, Head of Future of Food and Member of the Executive Committee

Dr Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI

Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director, The New Indian Express

Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group

Dr Ashok Gulati, Chair Professor for Agriculture, ICRIER

Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Group

Rajnish Kumar, Chairman, State Bank of India

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Chairman, State Bank of India, opined that infrastructural constraint is crippling the economy and needs to be revamp

youth support COVID-19 has enabled us to find mechanisms to engage the youth by creating opportunities that they can

Dr Kiran Majumdar-Shaw, CMD, Biocon Ltd

Uday Kotak, President Designate, CII (now President, CII) and MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd

Janmejaya Sinha, Chairman, CII National Committee on Financial Inclusion & Digitization and Chairman - India, The Bos

Rajan Navani, Chairman, CII India 75 Council, Chairman, CII Future Businesses Group and Vice Chairman and MD, Jetline

Kartik Shah, National Chairman, CII Young Indians and Director Energypack Boilers Pvt Ltd

Smita Aggarwal, National Vice Chairperson, CII Young Indians and Director & CFO, PTC Industries

Dr Rahul Mirchandani, Past National Chairman, CII Young Indians and Chairman & Managing Director, Aries Agro Ltd

Alex Mitchell, Founder and Chair, Institute of Directors 99 Network & Vice President, European Confederation of Young

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Strategy for Growth: Economists Speak

A distinguished panel of economists deliberated on the building blocks for rebuilding the economy, during the session

economy The panellists agreed that the lockdown has resulted in large scale job losses and now with gradual unlockin

Technology can solve big challenges like climate, mobility, affordable housing, health, etc The current rivalries

Prominent economists advocated the need for restoring jobs, cash transfers and providing income support along with su

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CII Leadership 2020-2021

Mr Uday Kotak, Managing Director & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited, has assumed office as the President of CII for 2

Mr T V Narendran, CEO & Managing Director of Tata Steel Limited, is now the President Designate of CII for 2020-21 M

Mr Sanjiv Bajaj takes over as the Vice President, CII for 2020-21 Mr Bajaj is the Chairman and Managing Director of

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Building India for a New World: Lives, Livelihood, Growth

The economic landscape has been definitively altered this year in the aftermath of the Coronavirus pandemic With no

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A pandemic which is of the magnitude of COVID-19 is unprecedented It has claimed lives and livelihoods and staggered

lack social security and depend upon daily wages The opening up of the economy after the lockdown is taking place w

CII Theme for 2020 - 21

One of the important dimensions of rebuilding India will be to mitigate the enormous human cost of COVID-19, by prote

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as malnutrition need to be addressed, along with increasing immunity of the overall population through nutrition, hyg

Distribution of Economic Pain In the current situation, the economic pain and losses are being borne by three enti

In the 'After COVID-19' world, many companies would be looking for broad basing their supply chains and markets Thi

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to contract this year, a phenomenon which has been experienced only five times since the country s independence In

Growth is a necessity that should lead to creation of more jobs while CII works as a knowledge partner with the Gover

time, there is scope for creating more geographically distributed models of development and an opportunity for redefi

As India moves to Unlock 1 0 and economic activity resumes, the focus must be on getting growth back on track and rei

COVID-19: Measures to Revive Growth During Unlock 1 0

Rebuilding and restoring lives and livelihood should be the foremost priority as the economy reopens, says Chandrajit

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role in ramping up India s healthcare as also in building a productive economy This is the right time for India to b

form of 100% credit guarantee to MSMEs and various other recent measures, are commendable More such measures will be

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The tourism and hospitality industry contributes significantly to the Indian economy and accounts for 9 2% of the cou

Revitalizing the Travel and Tourism Industry

The pandemic has highlighted several areas that need to be immediately revamped to help revive the travel and tourism

employees The entire value chain linked to travel and tourism industry is likely to lose around 5 lakh crore or USD

In this growing time of uncertainty, it is imperative that we model a new-normal for the tourism industry We are cur

Tourism contributes directly and, through its multiplier effect, indirectly, to job creation and economic recovery P

on the travel and tourism industry The survey was conducted in Chandigarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu &

and immediate transmission to all industry segments is needed to ensure liquidity throughout the segment A one-time

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The CII-Grant Thornton India Meets Britain tracker, 2020, released against the backdrop of COVID-19 which is devastat

India Meets Britain The Latest Trends on Indian Investments in the UK

In the new world order emerging, which will demand new and different ways of operating, companies will need to carefu

of the tracker companies and continue to be the fastest-growing Indian companies in the UK Pharmaceuticals and che

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in 2018 to 11% in 2020 London remains the favourite region for Indian companies with 54% of tracker companies base

COVID-19 pandemic has reset India s growth at a significantly lower level World Bank s revised projection of India s

one of the top most priority for India Inc, be it in the context of strategizing supply chain collaborations or other

COVID-19: Ensuring Antitrust Compliance

In such an economic climate where the businesses are not just facing a demand compression but also supply chain disru

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Government of India, the antitrust law continues to apply to each and every industry, even during the pandemic In a

need to demonstrate increased efficiencies in production, supply, distribution, storage or procurement of goods servi

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Engaging with the World

CENTRAL AFRICA Investment Opportunities for Indian Companies In the webinar on Central Africa Economic Update, orga

organized a webinar with focus on the Southern Africa region on 5 May The region has always been an important partne

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india and the world

learn from the experience of the respective countries in resumption of normal activities All three interactions were

During the session, Mr Josef S , Co-Founder, BlinkIn explained that his company s Augmented Reality (AR) product

CII highlighted the advantages and opportunities in areas of agri-tech, food processing units, mega food parks, col

with H E Ms Reenat Sandhu, Ambassador of India to Italy on 26 May The session focused on understanding the impact

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india and the world

engineering goods, construction, hospitality, mining, manufacturing and investments may consider looking at opportuni

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india and the world

bilateral trade cooperation between the two countries to newer levels leading to enhance the Indo Asia Pacific cooper

Dr Ashley J Tellis, TATA Chair for Strategic Affairs and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peacea

Ambassador R Nicholas Burns, Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard University, John R Kennedy S

Council (USIBC) to bring together industry leaders from diverse sectors in a webinar on 13 May The session was atten

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india and the world

Indian companies in US about the recent CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) and examined h

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Societal Interface

With the COVID-19 pandemic having brought most of the planet to its knees, and a wide variety of Government responses

Strengthening Communities with Hope

CII and CII Foundation enable relief to the distressed communities during the COVID-19 pandemic

of the society pan India including daily wage labourers, migrant workers, farmers, elderly, children, women workers,

Outreach at a glance 28 states covered 78 85 lakh beneficiaries reached 65 20 lakh hygiene material distributed

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Societal Interface

Telangana, Nagaland, Mizoram, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Odisha, Assam, West Bengal, Sikkim,

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Building Capacity

Every year, India adds about 12 million young people to its workforce Creating one million jobs every month is not e

CII Model Career Centres amid Lockdown Facilitating Livelihood, Enabling Income

its skill development initiatives which helped establish some key milestones for the Skill India mission Every yea

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Building Capacity

business units) Placement and mentorship opportunities are provide by the CII members at the centres and each CII MC

Digital Conference on Redefining Logistics The logistics industry forms the backbone of domestic and international

associated skill requirements, skill training capacity availability etc This is done through close and constant inte

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Building Capacity

The need for better coordination between public and private sector to realise efficiencies in the logistics sector wa

a major role addressing and mitigating the current pandemic in many countries including India, Prof Ashutosh Sharma,

Waste Management

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Science and Technology, Health and Family Welfare and Earth Sciences

under the India - Canada Industrial R&D and it aims at developing a Lunar Rover with enhanced capabilities which incl

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Building Capacity

Solid Waste (MSW) with COVID-19 from the masks, sanitary napkins, diapers, by patients under quarantine in homes Sin

Research and Development

Digital Transformation

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Thrive Across Generations: The Role of Daughters CII-FBN India Chapter organized a webinar on the rising role of daug

Building Capacity

Family Businesses

Professor Denise Kenyon-RouvInez, Executive Chairman, Gen10 SA

Lavanaya Nalli, Vice Chairman, Nalli Group of Companies

among the workforce Digital transformation has emerged as the frontrunner in accelerating business revival and ensur

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Portfolio for Excellence

Sustainable Technology Solutions for Wastewater Management The country needs a novel approach to wastewater managemen

Water Conservation

session, Mr Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of Jal Shakti said Jal Andolan has to become Jan Andolan to tackle the

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of Jal Shakti

Dhruv M Sawhney Past President, CII, Chairman, CII-Triveni Water Institute and Chairman & MD, Triveni Turbine Ltd

Suresh Prabhu, Global Water Partnership (South Asia Chair), Dialogue on Rivers of the Greater Himalayas (Co-Founder),

Dr Ramesh Datla, Chairman, CII National Committee on Water and Chairman & Managing Director, ELICO Ltd

Sanjay Singh President, IPPTA & Divisional Chief Executive, ITC PSPD

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MSME Competitiveness

Getting Acquainted with IGBC Green Cities The Green Cities concept seeks to promote an eco-friendly city that balan

International Corrosion Awareness Day Celebrations CII Corrosion Management Committee (CII CMC) and Nace Internatio

the pulp and paper industry over the years, to work together on improving water usage, setting new baselines and benc

Robert Jan Smeets, Global Market Segment Coordinator Water for Industry, Royal Haskoning DHV

Y Chandra Sekhar, Head of Projects, ITC Ltd- PSPD

Mr V Suresh, Chairman, CII s Indian Green Building Council suggested a larger policy decision for cities to have a de

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design and implementation of ISO-50001; Energy Management System from 11-18 May 2020 Over 15 industry delegates from

Safety, Resilience and Continuity in Unprecedented Times The webinar organized by CII and Rockwell Automation on 21 M

Problem Solving in Challenging Times The current situation is a challenging one Not just for any one locality, city

Manufacturing Excellence

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them to become proactive instead of reactive in the face of problems and move from possibilities to solutions 15 par

the background of force majeure CII CME organized a webinar on 19 May on cross border trade transactions The sess

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Looking Back 125 Years of CII

In 2020, CII completes 125 years of its momentous journey as a preferred and valuable partner of Government, industry

As the winds of change began gently blowing across India in the 1980s with Government-industry relations under Rajiv

CII Centres of Excellence

Indian industry to global benchmarks and standards, and competitiveness emerged as a prime focus for the associatio

SPECIAL FEATURE

CII s pioneering work in the area of quality and environment were well received, and in 1995, the centenary year of t

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SPECIAL FEATURE

CII Centres of Excellence: Catalysing Competitiveness Across Industries

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Regional Review

Polygon

Conference on bio fortification and organic farming CII Bihar State Office organized a digital conference on seeds of

Mr Reghu G, Director of Industries, Employment and Technical Education and Training (ETET), Government of Odisha on 2

North EastERN Region

Focus on Tourism CII Sikkim State Office and the Government of Sikkim organized a webinar focused on tourism amid and

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regional review

Government of Sikkim The webinar deliberated on issues and representation on GST waiver, extension of mortarium, sho

northern Region

Reconnecting Supply Chain Links To brainstorm on how to make India s supply chain network more structured and effecti

The reshaping and de-risking of global supply chains can help position India as a sourcing destination, subject to th

Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State (I C), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Ministry of Plan

Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister of Rajasthan

Satish Mahana, Industry Minister, Government of Uttar Pradesh

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regional review

all stakeholders as well as cash management discipline emerged as important aspects Post COVID-19 Economy and Way Fo

during the lockdown period, so as to lessen the burden of the industries; allowing usage of CSR Funds to be utilized

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Meeting with Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh A virtual interaction was held between the Chief Minister of Madhya Pra

regional review

southern Region

Exclusive Session with Finance and Corporate Affairs CII Southern Region Office has been working closely with the Sou

Safety (EHS) on 30 May Mr R Karikal Valaven, Special Chief Secretary, Industries & Commerce Department, Government o

Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs

K T Rama Rao, Minister for IT E&C, Industries & Commerce, MA & UD, Government of Telangana

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh

Virtual Session on New Dimensions to Environment Health & Safety

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regional review

Interaction with Industries and Mining Minister, Government of Maharashtra CII organized an exclusive virtual meeting

prolonged lockdown could have serious repercussions including loss of business due to disruption in domestic global s

Subhash Desai, Minister for Industries and Mining, Government of Maharashtra

Aaditya Thackeray, Minister for Tourism, Environment & Protocol, Government of Maharashtra

Living in many world capitals and visiting many more cities over years, I realized early on that strategic planning i

without required infrastructure An unplanned urban structure leads to high cost of infrastructure, high energy consu

Managing Urbanization

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Anecdotal Evidence

An unplanned urban structure leads to high cost of infrastructure, high energy consumption, regional disparity and ad

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