Modi Puts 200 CEOs In Problem-Solving Mode

Two years to go before his government is up for re-election, Modi already has a new slogan in place – New India.

The 200 young entrepreneurs who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi were asked to come prepared with innovative ideas for solutions to India’s problems.

“The big principle given to us was, don’t come up with things that we all know,” said Sumant Sinha of solar and wind power producer ReNew Power. CEOs were given specific subjects and were asked to come up with presentations, said Sinha. The government is looking for “big implementable ideas that could be transformative in nature”.

Speaking to the young CEOs at the two-day event, ‘Champions of Change’, organised by the NITI Aayog, Modi asked them to turn “development into a mass movement” and to build a ‘New India’ by 2022.