Launched in Dubai, ‘Global India Collaborative’ to play pivotal role in making India $5 Trillion economy

ACN Correspondent On Mar 30, 2022

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NEW DELHI: March 29, 2022: With an aim to turn India into a $5 trillion economy by 2025 India Global India collaborative (GIC) was recently launched at Dubai World Expo 2020 in United Araba Amirate’s world economic capital Dubai.

A section-8 not-for-profit company with chapters in 12 countries that constitute 80% of India’s external trade, GIC stands launched with an express aim to promote sustainable development where people, the planet, and profit are in harmony.

Santosh Mangal, Global President, GIC said, “GIC is an initiative and a platform enabling India to achieve the goal of $5 trillion GDP. Driven by integrity, insight, and vision based on ground realities, we want to make a sustainable, measurable, and verifiable positive impact on our society, culture, and business ecosystems by creating a synergy between people, planet, and profit.”

“A dynamic mix of big corporate, MSMEs, experts, industry leaders, social entrepreneurs, finance professionals, retailers, investors, and media entrepreneurs. Driven by technology, new ideas, innovations, and acutely aware of emerging social needs and scenarios, it promises to take your business to a whole new level,” he added.

The GIC global president said that GIC would set up its regional chapters in Britain, the USA, and Singapore in the coming months. GIC led a high-power delegation to Dubai between March 25-28 to revitalise MSME Sector and launch other initiatives.

Addressing the launch event, Ved Pratap Vaidik, noted journalist, political analyst, and freelance columnist said, “India has been the economic superpower since ancient times and also the focus of world trade. Traders from across the world would visit India seeking trading and commerce opportunities. In the 21^st century GIC would go a long way in promoting the Indian economy, which I have been dreaming about for the past 50 years.”

He added, “We can do our best in many industries including the pharmaceutical and other sectors. For these, however, we need to have a larger future vision. The education sector needs a major transformation as was done by the USA after World War II when it invested 10 percent of its GDP to promote education.”

Apart from GIC delegation representatives from India, noted trade and industry personalities , as well as associations and federations from Dubai, were also present on this occasion.

Ashok Bhuwaniwala, India President, GIC introduced the 9-point agenda as the organizational philosophy of the organisation. “GIC will initiate focussed programmes, partnerships and promotions in 9 sectors to unlock Indian business’s animal spirit to achieve the target. These include Industry, Education, Health, Justice Social, Capital Environment, Media, Ethics and Gender Issues,” Bhuwaniwala added.

Brijesh Mishra – Politician, social worker, and philanthropist and former MLA addressing the delegates.

Brijesh Mishra, politician, social worker, and philanthropist and former MLA said, “GIC would go a long way in achieving the long-awaited $5 trillion economy as it carried all the necessary elements to realise this dream”.

Vandana Singh, former ASSOCHEM vice-president, and director Women Empowerment and ethics GIC said, “The MSME sector can make the country Atmanirbhar (self-reliant) in manufacturing, tackle the unemployment genie, and create a dynamic and globally competitive industrial innovation eco-system. It also has tremendous potential to empower women by offering largescale equity in India’s growth story.”

Sanjeev K Ahuja, Editor, ACN Network addressing the audience.

While elaborating on the GIC media initiative, which is one of the nine elements the GIC would be focusing its activities, the journalist-turned media entrepreneur Sanjeev K Ahuja, Editor, Asian Community News (ACN) Network and Director, MSME Initiatives GIC, said that GIC will initiate focussed programmes, partnerships and promotions in 9 sectors to unlock Indian business’s animal spirit to achieve the target.

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“GIC would set up a Rs 100 crore corpus to fund education, emergency relief, and health insurance for journalists and media persons in tier-1, 2, 3 towns and rural areas, and help them in transition from rural to urban areas. GIC would also extend help for training and upgrading skills of journalists,” Ahuja added.

In his address, Sahitya K Chaturvedi, President, Indian Business & Professional Council (IBPC), also lauded the efforts of the GIC in boosting the Indian economy through the newly launched platform.

Chandrashekhar Bhatia, Chairman, Global Business Federation and CEO of Nilgiri Tradding LLC also address the delegation. He said, “GIC’s priorities are right and I am confident that it’s ideas will transform MSME sector.”

Also present were Dr. Deva Solanki, Media Director, Global Business Federation, and Rehan Allahwala, Founder, Founder, Institute of Peace. .

Those present on the occasion in person and virtually include Meenu Buwaniwala – Director at Dadu Impacts, leading electrical supply company, Vishnu Goyal – Indore based entrepreneurs is Chief Editor of National Herald & Global Herald Newspaper, Goyal is also the chairman & managing director of Alpha Vision Overseas India Ltd, Ajay Banarsi Das – Entrepreneur, social worker and politician (Son of former Haryana Chief Minister, Banarsi Das Gupta). He runs a successful company Aegis Industries Pvt Ltd , Atul Garg – Managing Director at Salus Pharmaceuticals and has been associated with the Pharmaceutical and healthcare industry for decades and has helped the sector develop many best practices, Deepika Garg – Managing Director at Alvincare, Vrinda Garg – Atul’s Daughter, Mohit Agarwal – Group President & CEO Interlink Group & Leela Group, a conglomerate of diverse businesses.

Others who joined the launching event also included Anurag Garg – Proprietor Hotel Om, National Vice President IVF, Ritu Garg – President Roshni Club, Bharatpur and founder of Mom’s Club, Rajsthan, Abhinav Sharma – Founder and Business Head at Oritso, Ashwani Kumar – Managing Director at Obial India Private Limited, Karuna Kumari – Director at Obial India Private Limited, Rudra Verma – Student, Manobhav Gupta – CEO, Beeline Group, is playing a crucial role in spreading financial literacy among Indians and helping them manage their funds for better returns, CA Shri Kishan Gupta – Chairman,Greenspace Agrilife Pvt Ltd. Mr. Gupta wears many hats being part of many social and educational institutes that promote well-being of society, Abhay Jain – Senior Advocate, Preeti Chadha – Wealth manager specializes in wealth management services and debt resolution, Pradeep Narwal – Expert in blockchain technology and IT service infrastructure, Ashok Goyal – Managing Director at BLR Logistics, Soraj Sarogi – Promoter at Newberry Capitals, Mukesh Mittal – Additional Chief town planner with Govt of Rajasthan with more than 30 years of experience in Urban Development, and Amit Goel – Largest petroleum retailer in India’s northern state of Haryana.

Other media persons who formed the part of delegation included Ms. Shweta Jha – Anchor and Associate Executive Producer at Aajtak, one of India’s most prominent Hindi language TV channels, Manoj Mathur – Editor, Zee Rajasthan News and is working on hyper-local project leading a team of 300 journalists, and Shahid Faridi – Bureau Chief, the New Indian Express, a seasoned journalist with two and a half decades of experience in the print medium.