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Golden moment for India in key sectors including pharma over next 10 years: Venture capitalist

Indian ministers, key bureaucrats and technology industry leaders should put together a roadmap, set of regulations and authorisations so that companies can come in easily, says Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, MR Rangaswami

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The next 10 years is going to be Indiaโ€™s ‘golden moment’ in key sectors like technology, pharmaceutical, e-commerce and manufacturing, said a top venture capitalist from Silicon Valley, pointing at the $20 billion foreign direct investment in the country amidst the coronavirus outbreak.

โ€œCoronavirus is sweeping the world, especially the US and India. In spite of that, the amount of investment going into India is mind-boggling,โ€ Silicon Valleyโ€™s top venture capitalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist MR Rangaswami told PTI in an interview.

“I think the next 10 years is the golden moment for India to shine; using digital and technology โ€” whether itโ€™s medicine, telemedicine, e-commerce, logistics โ€” in every segment of the market. It is the golden moment that India should seize,โ€ Rangaswami, the software business expert said.

โ€œI think there will be many, many more deals this year. Youโ€™ll see a lot more companies coming in, a lot more money coming in,โ€ he said. โ€œAmazon continues to invest in India. Other companies are looking at India now. Private equity guys are looking at India. Sovereign funds will be looking at India. Definitely India is going to be the hot destination for technology money,โ€ Rangaswami said, in response to a question.

He noted that the current President Donald Trump-led administrationโ€™s anti-China sentiment is also helping India bag big investment. Relations between the US and China have spiralled downward after Washington criticised the Asian powerhouseโ€™s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

โ€This gives India an opportunity for an economic game-changer. I think itโ€™s predicated by two things. The number of smartphone users (in India) is over 500 million, maybe even close to a billion. Second, the governmentโ€™s push for digital combined with COVID-19 outbreak, which has taken (number of) digital transactions through the roof,โ€ said Rangaswami.

He said the entire business ecosystem is adopting new technologies like never before โ€” which not only provides easy solutions in business but also is a market in itself. โ€œOn the ground (during the coronavirus outbreak), everybody is forced to go digital. This is a huge tipping point. So, this is an opportunity I want to see India seize and not let it go to waste,โ€ he said.

โ€œSo, what I would request is Indian ministers, key bureaucrats and technology industry leaders put together a roadmap, set of regulations and authorisations so that companies can come in easily. We (must) avoid all the problems of privacy, security in the future,โ€ he said.

According to Rangaswami, India needs to iron out all the impediments to businesses immediately to ensure smooth sailing for all parties.

โ€œThe government needs to lead the charge now, at this moment, and say letโ€™s get the leaders together, letโ€™s get the bureaucrats, letโ€™s get the technology industry, the start-ups, letโ€™s get everyone and lay down the rules, regulations, roadmap, so everybody can work to a common purpose,โ€ he said.

(Edits, changes in the headline by EP News Bureau)

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3 Comments
  1. Rajul J. Patel says

    I think the 2021 yr. Budget will be the bombblasting, which our Honourable Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi himself will modify and prepare accordingly, especially anti-china and also very much favorable to the whole world. Thus how we’ll be called as GOLDEN SPARROW. Mera Bharat Mahaan.

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