India needs young entrepreneurs to create more jobs: Nirmala Sitharaman
"India needs several entrepreneurs who can
become fountainheads of commercially viable ideas that will make a
difference to the economy and the country," Sitharaman said while
addressing the graduating students at the campus of Indian School of
Business (ISB) in Mohali, near here.
India is looking for young entrepreneurs to build business houses
and create more jobs, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
said, asking business graduates to become fountainhead of commercially
viable ideas.
"India needs several entrepreneurs who can become
fountainheads of commercially viable ideas that will make a difference
to the economy and the country," Sitharaman said while addressing the
graduating students at the campus of Indian School of Business (ISB) in
Mohali, near here.
"Develop your ideas. You should develop ideas
... and that is what I look up to graduates coming out of institutions
like ISB," she said. Sitharaman, who gave away certificates to the graduating students, said the young minds of this country must build
business houses and create more jobs.
"I would like the young
minds of this country to build business houses and create more jobs,"
she said. She also touched upon the GST, saying with GST coming, India
becoming one market and simplified taxation structure, it was also time
for us to look into what exists in logistics. She said logistics needs a
lot of research.
"Logistics is something on which India has to
develop its own model ... You have logistics developed according to
Western economies and their model, the Chinese have developed their own
but do we have an idea of how we are going to have efficient logistics
in this country. "I think that is one area where there is lot of
research waiting to be done," she said.
Adi Godrej, Chairman of
the ISB Executive Board, Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Mohali Campus
Advisory Board, Professor Rajendra Srivastava, Dean, ISB, members of the
ISB Board, also spoke on the occasion.
Sharing his experiences
with the graduating students, Adi Godrej, who is also Chairman, Godrej
Group, said, "as a management student, one of the key things that I had
learnt is the power of team work and the importance of building teams
and retaining people, an idea that I imbibed early in my career and it
is now with me all through"
Referring to the role of family
businesses in the economy, he said, "family managed businesses are the
unsung heroes of the Indian economy. They make up more than two-thirds
of the world’s companies, employing half the world's workforce and
contribute to well over half the world's GDP
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