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@article{182730,
        author = {Dr.B.Venkatappa},
        title = {Empowering India: Leveraging Business for Equitable Growth and Innovation},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {2},
        pages = {3067-3071},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=182730},
        abstract = {This research paper Empowering India: Leveraging Business for Equitable Growth and Innovation, investigates how businesses can move beyond profit-centric models to support India’s nation-building. While facing challenges like poverty, educational gaps, unemployment, and climate change India’s 1.4 billion population demands and desires equitable and sustainable development. This paper posits that businesses from MSMEs to MNCs can drive change by aligning with national goals like the Sustainable Development Goals and initiatives such as Viksit Bharat, Make in India and Skill India. This Paper also proposes inclusive business models, sustainable innovation, and community empowerment as key strategies to achieve Developed India 2047.
Case studies highlight firms like Tata Group, advancing education, Reliance Industries improving healthcare, and startups like Husk Power Systems boosting rural energy. Public-Private Partnerships, backed by the Companies Act, 2013, enhance infrastructure, with private contributions to highways and a $1.5 trillion plan. Telecom’s 95% mobile coverage enables financial inclusion, while agricultural investments curb produce wastage. Critiquing short-term profit focus, the paper advocates stakeholder-centric models, offers insights for a resilient, inclusive India a positive aspiration 2027.},
        keywords = {Empowering India, Equitable Growth, National Building, Sustainable Development.},
        month = {July},
        }