A session focused on ‘Financing Innovation & Startupreneurs’ was jointly organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) here on Saturday.
While highlighting Chhattisgarh’s initiatives to push entrepreneurship, Alex Paul Menon, CEO, CHIPS, informed that the state had already prepared a dedicated ‘Chhattisgarh Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Policy’, which was released by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on February 21, 2016 at Raipur.
“The policy takes forward the vision of ‘Startup India Action Plan’ by seamless alignment at state level,” he said.
At the outset Mahendra Agrawal Chairman, CII Chhattisgarh State Council stated that Innovation is gaining prominence in all kinds of economic activity around the world.
There is an air of change and a new-found confidence that India will break the wall and make it to the centre stage of the world. Everyone across the world is talking about India which was not ago was frowned upon as one of the most closed economies, he added.
The Chairman Innovation Task Force, CII Eastern Region Aloke Mookherjea pointed that Innovation is about changing paradigms, creating new ideas.
“It is a process which inspires change and creates value. Today in the era of tough competition, products/services are challenged every moment to give something extra,” he said. The Session witnessed the participation from all spheres of business.