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ET NOW celebrates the spirit of entrepreneurship at the 9th Season of Leaders of Tomorrow Awards and Conclave

by Editorial
September 18, 2021
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New Delhi: Celebrating the success stories of India’s most innovative and resilient MSMEs and start-ups, ET NOW, India’s leading English Business News Channel, hosted the 9th Season of Leaders of Tomorrow Awards and Conclave in Delhi. India’s leading entrepreneurship platform, Leaders of Tomorrow has been creating stories of entrepreneurial success year on year and has built a definitive stage for every enterprising Indian by offering them guidance and access to the industry experts.

Navigating through a turbulent past 2 years, several enterprising small businesses in India turned adversity into an opportunity to innovate, reimagine and reinvent their businesses and showed resilience to emerge stronger than before. Saluting this indomitable spirit and recognizing the exemplary performance of the SMEs, MSMEs & Start-ups across India, ET NOW LOT Conclave and Awards this year was driven with the theme, ’Survive. Revive. Thrive’.

A melting pot of Enterprising Visionaries, Start-up Gurus, Business Icons, Domain Experts, Next-Gen Entrepreneurs and Disruptors, the event witnessed a distinguished line-up of speakers including Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Advisor to GoI, V Vaidyanathan , MD & CEO, IDFC FIRST Bank, Ashish Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE and Naina Lal Kidwai, Former Country Head, HSBC India amongst others, who discussed the challenges faced by the small businesses and the way forward for India’s small enterprises and start-ups. Recognizing and rewarding the most promising entrepreneurs pan India, Leaders of Tomorrow culminated in an exciting finale wherein the best MSMEs and Start-Ups were awarded. The distinguished jury of industry luminaries included Naina Lal Kidwai, Former Country Head, HSBC, Pawan Goenka, Former MD, Mahindra & Mahindra, Ajay Thakur, Head, SME & Startup, BSE, Nikhil Kamath, Co-Founder & CIO, True Beacon & Zerodha, Vinati Saraf Mutreja, MD, Vinati Organics, K Ganesh, Serial Entrepreneur, Investor Partner, Growthstory.In, Anand Deshpande, Chairman, Persistent Systems; Vineet Agarwal, President, ASSOCHAM & MD, TCI and Nishant Arya, Vice Chairman, JBM Group.

MK Anand
MK Anand

Delivering the welcome address, MK Anand, MD & CEO, Times Network said, “ET NOW has been championing India’s growth story with a focused purpose of helping Indians Rise with India. This mission reflects in our flagship property, Leaders of Tomorrow that empowers, enables and celebrates the spirit of small businesses and start-ups that are together powering the rise of a Strong new India. We are proud to anchor India’s largest entrepreneurship platform that chronicles new stories of entrepreneurial success year after year and celebrates the heroes of the space. SMEs, MSMEs and start-ups constitute the backbone of our economy providing much-needed resilience to ward off global economic shocks and adversities. It is heartening to witness stories of several enterprising small businesses who not only showed resilience but rose through the adversities to innovate, reimagine and reinvent during the turbulent past 2 years. I firmly believe that Leaders of Tomorrow will continue to inspire more and more Indians to take the plunge and create new stories of entrepreneurial success.”

Raja Vaidyanathan
Raja Vaidyanathan

V Vaidyanathan, MD & CEO, IDFC First Bank said, “When we think of entrepreneurship, we mean business, we mean demand and that’s when economy plays a huge role. The Indian economy has bounced back after the first and second waves because the underlying human consumption is very strong in India. All the major indicators of the economy – GDP, house sales, car, and two-wheeler sales, and FMCG products’ consumption have been marking an upward trend. The power of an economy lies in its credit. The Indian Banking Sector’s current outstanding total credit is over 120 lakh crores, out of which about 50 lakh crores is for entrepreneurs.  After 75 years, small entrepreneur credit is growing by 25-30% per year. SMEs are being benefited tremendously by the power of leverage, which was earlier reserved for large corporations.” Highlighting the need for entrepreneurs to shift to an organized environment from an unorganized one, he said, “Migration from unorganized to organized is the need of the hour. The Indian Retail Sector or Kirana market is a trillion-dollar market, out of which 80-84% is unorganized and only 4% is online. Every industry is now becoming organized, offline to online. For entrepreneurs, this is an opportunity to ride the new bandwagon and not just be spectators. The leaders of tomorrow need to have a digital play.”

Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Govt of India, said, “As the Indian economy revives post-pandemic, we observed that the impact in the second wave was much lesser as compared to the first wave. Things are stabilizing and industries are opening up now and we realize that demand is not a constraint in India. Globally, this is a serious issue, but India has been able to overcome this as our financial resources are strong. Our supply sector reforms are unparalleled. During the first wave, we focused on framework reforms like GST, Aadhar, labor reforms and farm laws, however, the second wave reforms are more sectoral in nature like deregulation, monetization, and privatization of industries.”

Talking about the third wave reforms which are currently in the pipeline, Sanyal said, “Our thrust during the third wave reforms would be to get the Indian state to do what it should be doing which includes, delivery of justice, enforcement of the contract, and up-gradation of municipal services. We plan to give access to world-class infrastructure to poorer sections of the society to foster innovations. I do not believe in rigid planning, rather focus on a growth strategy that is based on flexibility and resilience. One big example of this is ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ which focuses on leveraging our inner strengths. We as a nation need to give ourselves enough credit. Today, we delivered over 20 Million covid jabs and I feel this is incredible, we have the capacity to deliver at this high level.”

Tags: IDFC First BankMK Anand Times NetworkSanjeev SanyalTimes NetworkV Vaidyanathan IDFC FIRST Bank

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