New Delhi, Mar 14 (KNN) Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles, today said the next textile sector unicorn should come from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT). 

Addressing the e-Summit 2022 of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai on Atma Nirbhar Renaissance, he called upon the ICT students to take the leadership in Tex-preneurship, the Textiles sector entrepreneurship.

Goyal said the ICT has one of India’s best Fibres & Textile technology departments in the country. The ICT has distinguished alumni like Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Indravadan Modi of Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Nilesh Gupta of Lupin Limited and Ashwin Dani of Asian Paints.

In fact, in some sense, the ICT is to the Chemicals industry what very highly reputed Ivy league colleges are to the technology world or management world across nations. And I do believe each one of your students has a responsibility to carry this legacy forward Goyal added in his address delivered over video conference.

Quoting John F Kennedy, “One person can make a difference and everyone should try to be that one person”, Goyal said entrepreneurs are best defined as nation builders and change makers.

Goyal said India is going through the Atma Nirbhar Renaissance.

Goyal said India has become a global leader in digital transactions within 5 yrs of UPI launch. We have the 3rd largest startup ecosystem today, over 65,000 startups registered in five years, more than 90 unicorns and lakhs of jobs created by these startups.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the current decade is the ‘Tech-ade’ of India, a decade where Technology & Innovation will be the driving force of India and our economy, said Goyal.

Today, India is confident and yet dissatisfied. It is a good thing to be dissatisfied, because a satisfied individual can never bring transformation, can never bring change. We need hunger, we need fire in the belly to be able to do something, to be able to bring about some extraordinary achievement, he added. (KNN Bureau)