Kanpur, Feb 14 (Agency) Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday attended the concluding day of the Policy Conclave 2022 as chief guest organised by the Public Policy and Opinion Cell, IIT Kanpur. Drawing reference to initiatives in healthcare through Telemedicine, education through EdTech, and so on, he talked about how technology can help democratize basic amenities. The session titled “Road to Development” started with Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Director of IIT Kanpur, delivering the welcome note. In a more than an hour-long interactive session, Goyal talked largely about the various policies implemented by the government for the benefit of the people and the role IITs and IITians can play in transforming a vision into reality for the greater good.
“Unless you have ambitious targets, unless you dream big, unless you have significantly large hopes, aspirations, desires, you can never achieve greatness. There was a time when our population was considered a curse, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has converted that entire thinking to talking about our young population as our biggest strength,” Union Minister said. Our demographic dividend gives us huge opportunities, opens the doors to a very bright future for the country! And therefore, we need a holistic vision which envisions growth in all sectors, makes it easier to do business, promotes innovation, research, development, modernity and yet also respects family values, our culture, makes it easier to live, that we call Ease of Living for every single citizen,” Goyal said during his address.