Overview
- Shaktikanta Das, who addressed the CII Annual Business Summit on Monday, set a seven-point agenda that includes organisational resilience, stronger balance sheets, new supply chains, reskilling, market diversification, strategic investment, and higher R&D.
- He said India can better withstand extreme energy demand shocks because recent pushes in renewable power, big public works, and new trade pacts have built buffers.
- He warned that single-source and just-in-time models are risky and urged firms to build localized, multi-source supply chains that can absorb disruptions.
- He pointed to rising central capital spending and ongoing reforms as proof of policy momentum and said more resilience-focused steps are in the pipeline.
- He highlighted drives for self-reliance in rare earths, critical minerals, permanent magnets, shipbuilding, cotton productivity, and AI, a push he said should steer companies toward new markets, long-term bets, and steady worker upskilling.