13 Apr 2020

Leadership Talk Series with Dr. V K Saraswat

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Number of Participants: 90
Date: 13th April 2020
Time: 11:00 AM
Organizer: MHRD, AICTE
Topic Name: Opportunities this COVID crisis offers to India

Students & Faculty of REVA University, Bangalore attended the Leadership Talk Series with Dr. V K Saraswat (Padma Bhushan) Member Niti Aayog, Ex- Chief Scientific Advisor Ministry of Defense, Gov. of India on 13th April 2020 11: 00 AM.

In this talk series Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, MHRD Innovation cell and Dr. V K Saraswat (Padma Bhushan) Member Niti Aayog, Ex- Chief Scientific Advisor Ministry of Defense, Gov. of India discussed the following points:

Dr. V K Saraswat (Padma Bhushan) Member Niti Aayog, Ex- Chief Scientific Advisor Ministry of Defense, Gov. of India explained how Indian Govt. is prepared for this Covid 19 Pandemic.
Also Explained how Ventilators, Mask are preparing in Multiple Areas and multiple companies like (BEL, Mahindra Etc.)
Dr. V K Saraswat Explained How this is the stage helpful for revamp the some programs like swatch Bharath, Health Care Infrastructure etc. in India.
Gov. of India helping poor people and middle class people in this pandemic situation by providing food, free LPG, Insurance to doctors etc. Also 31,000 cr allocated to construction workers.
Also in this stage MSME are suffering more for this Government will give the relaxation and some funding support in necessary stages.
Also After post Covid India will become the super power nation. In this stage more innovation need to happen and also RBI need to change their some rules like interest rates, relaxation in approvals of funds etc.
Startups can take this challenge in to opportunity.