We can do a lot more if we focus on e-governance, says Chanda Kochhar
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Focusing on the government’s ambitious schemes like Make in India would lead the path of development and fast growth, said "There is a genuine effort and a genuine intent on the part of the government to make these changes happen. We are seeing a whole lot if focus on e-governance...I think what is stopping us from getting to the nine or 10 per cent growth rate is that we still have to do and execute the lot of the intent that we have laid out," said Kochhar in a keynote address to the India Conference 2016 of the Harvard University.
She also underscored the need to strengthen the institutional framework.
"Whether it is the bankruptcy code, whether it is the speed at which our parliamentary system works, things like
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If India has to reap the benefits of the demographic dividends, India has to focus on some of the long-term things like education, skill development and health.
"Because only when we equip our youth with the education, with skills and make them employable, then only India would get the true demographic dividend," Kochhar said.
India she said starts with huge set of advantages, including the demographic dividend.
"It is really upon us; how do we take benefit of it. Similarly the dichotomy is infrastructure. We have invested very less in infrastructure which gives us huge potential to create investments and the multiplier factor. But if we do not land up doing that, we would create a bottleneck to our growth," she said.
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