 28th Skoch Summit -
 Skoch Challenger Awards 2012
 Sameer Kochhar, Chairman Skoch Group Discussing Transformation of India Post with Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister for Communications & IT and HRD and Majula Prasher, Secretary, Department of Posts
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- Growth - A Prerequisite for Inclusive Growth: If India had
continued to grow at 3.5%, we would have been the poorest country in the
world. It is the surpluses generated due to the high growth rates
achieved through reforms of the nineties that have funded inclusive
growth efforts like Bharat Nirman schemes etc. While some of the gains
of this growth have been diluted through leaking public delivery
systems, the India growth story itself seems to be slowing down.
It is now time for all stakeholders to come
together and work towards a consensus on a common minimum economic
program that at least delivers 8% growth on a sustained basis – a
necessity for India to become even a middle-income country by 2025 and a
pre-requisite for generating the surpluses for inclusive growth.
- Real Sector - Real Issues: Over the past few years the real sector has
emerged as the favorite whipping boy. They are damned if they do and
damned if they don’t. Leaving little incentive for investments being
made in India. From land acquisition to environment to laws with
retrospective impact, isIndia losing its attraction as an investment
destination? The great IT success story is a question mark
due topolicies on hardware procurement and taxation on global software
income of R&Ds situated in India. Such steps may even be viewed as
backward and create a concern of coming back to the situation prevailing
before the nineties. Is all of this real or there still are strong
reasons for investing in India?
- Living with Inflation to Grow
- Rediscovering MSMEs and Self-Employment
- Key Topics
- Roundtables
Inclusion Thought Leadership Roundtables
- Registration Forms
Registration Application Forms (please download the form as per your category):
- Draft Agenda
Draft Agenda
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- Sponsors
Given
the inclusive growth imperatives and growing need for creating
employment opportunities we organised the 28th Skoch Summit with the
underlying theme of " Mainstreaming the Marginalised" on 27th March 2012, Le-Meridien, New Delhi . The key content of the summit was as follows:
- Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Inclusion Oration
 - Power Panel on Policy Making for Indian Planning
- Financial Inclusion: Going Back to the Drawing Board
- Mainstreaming Minorities, Weaker Sections and Women
- Transforming India Post
- Sectoral Challengers & Responses
- Role of Cloud and Mobility in Growth
- Disaster Management & Disaster Recovery more
 
Skoch Challenger Awards, instituted in 2003, salute people,
projects and institutions that went the extra mile to make India a
better nation. Skoch Challenger Awards – the highest independently
instituted civilian honours – have been conferred, the mighty and the
ordinary have shared this platform for their extraordinary achievements
in contributing to the society.
The Skoch Challenger Awards cover the best of efforts in the area
of digital, financial and social inclusion. They encompass the best of
governance, look at excellence in academics, change management,
inclusive growth, citizen services delivery, capacity building,
empowerment and other such softer issues that get normally lost in the
glamour and the glitz of industry sponsored or advertising focused
jamborees.
The Skoch Challenger Awards are coveted for their independence,
primary research and a distinguished jury based approach. The Skoch
Challenger Awards are distinctive for its approach of selection of
awardees, which is not based on nomination but on discovery.
Additionally, the College of Skoch Lifetime Achievers are regularly
consulted for expert identification, inputs and qualification of a
project, person or institution to be considered for the Award. Some of
the Skoch Lifetime Achievement Awardees include, Dr C Rangarajan,
Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister; Dr Vijay
Kelkar, Former Chairman, Thirteenth Finance Commission; Mr Sam Pitroda,
Advisor to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure &
Innovations; Mr C B Bhave, Chairman, SEBI; and, Dr R H Patil, Chairman,
Clearing Corporation of India Limited. Further, documentary videos are
produced after detailed research, for all the Lifetime Achievement
Awardees and most of the projects and institutions. These are then
shared with the domain experts and larger audience groups of
practitioners ahead of the Awards and are put in public domain for
larger dissemination once the Award is conferred. This has resulted in
an unparalled video documentation of contemporary Indian history of best
practices and has contributed to forming one of the largest online
Knowledge Repositories hosted by Skoch.
No industry or government support or endorsement is either
expected, accepted or solicited for the Skoch Challenger Awards and they
remain independently instituted and conferred as a third party
perspective. The Roll of Honour of the Skoch Challenger Awards over the
years is a testimony to this. The Skoch Challenger Awards not only
acknowledge exceptional achievers but also spurs inspirational guidance
and motivational leadership.. more
A
key figure in India's economic reforms from the early 1980s onwards,
Montek Singh Ahluwalia's fingerprints can be found in policies from
economics to education reform, and he has been a driving force in the
liberalisation programme of the past 20 years or more. The
Oxford-educated economist spent 11 years with the World Bank in
Washington before returning to India in 1979 to work as an economic
adviser to the government.
His commitment to poverty alleviation and inclusive growth can be
found in his early writings and as deputy chairman of the Planning
Commission, he has managed to translate this into the country's plan
process. He is also the harbinger of participatory planning wherein for
the first time Planning Commission started inviting suggestions and
feedback for the 12th Five Year Plan.
This festschrift comprises a range of essays covering different
drivers of economic growth and development, providing not only an
insight into policymaking and its impact, but also directions for India
if it is to become a major player in the global economy. This book is a
must-read for students of development economics and political economy
and is highly recommended for graduate students, academics and
professionals interested in economic issues of developing countries. 
In
this timely book—a festschrift for Dr. C. Rangarajan—top experts,
policymakers and economists offer their assessments of India’s
performance in the area of economic and financial reforms and analyse
the successes and continued challenges. It provides an insight into
critical macroeconomic and macro-finance issues of today. The book
covers a broad set of topics, including fiscal, monetary and external
sector policies, drivers of banking and financial growth, infrastructure
and financial inclusion.
A strategy of gradual economic liberalisation combined with
risk-averse prudential regulation in the banking and financial sector
helped limit India’s exposure to the recent financial crises and the
subsequent global economic slowdown. The improved economic performance
in recent years encouraged the country to become more globally and
regionally integrated. This process is unlikely to be reversed by the
current global economic slowdown, given the economic and strategic
benefits India has derived so far.
The authors in this festschrift share a critical, but overall
positive, view of the country’s future and outline several areas and
recommendations for bettering the lives of citizens. Empirically rich
and topically diverse, the book is broad in scope and full of deep
analytic insights and will serve as a useful reference and planning tool
for administrators, planners, policymakers and students of development
economics, monetary economics and finance. more
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