We need to place rail logistics service at par with passenger service and enhance the customer experience on an end-to-end basis thereby promoting an access-centric view of railways. The 3 innovative frameworks should be considered carefully to help achieve these.
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Dedicated boards should be established for each of the six focus areas for Semicon 2.0, with clear accountability for outcomes, progress tracking and bottleneck resolution.
At the apex, a central command centre should monitor milestones, facilitate stakeholder participation and drive coordination across ministries, states, industry and academia. Only then can India turn its semiconductor ambitions into a globally competitive reality.
For years, supply chains were built to be efficient. Today, they have become strategy centres, expected to be efficient, resilient, globally intelligent, tech-enabled and environmentally aware at the same time.
Today, about 60% more leaders view resilience and agility as critical to growth and competitive advantage than they did five years ago, while nearly three in four business leaders are prioritising resilience investments, with 74% seeing resilience as a driver of growth.
The organisations that can successfully balance these priorities will build a clear competitive advantage.
Suneel Vora (PMP®)
Partner and Head - Major Projects Advisory Services, Business Consulting
KPMG in India
India's strongest opportunity lies in semiconductor design, advanced packaging, and system-level integration. India can build a differentiated position by integrating design, packaging and domain-specific applications such as EVs, industrial electronics, and other emerging sectors.
Additional indicators suggest the sector may be entering a new phase. Indian startups are now taping out chips at global foundries, while partnerships involving manufacturing, workforce training, and technology transfer are beginning to create deeper ecosystem capabilities.
Every four minutes, India loses a life on its roads. This is not just a statistic, it is a systemic gap that calls for a shift in approach.
Our focus needs to move from reactive reporting to proactive risk management. Post incident data has limited impact unless it informs prevention. The real opportunity lies in building pre-incident intelligence that can anticipate risks and enable timely intervention.
Technologies such as AI and IoT sensors can play a meaningful role, but their value depends on how effectively they are deployed within an integrated road safety framework. With the right institutional alignment, data-led insights can drive better enforcement, smarter infrastructure planning, and ultimately, safer mobility outcomes:
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- Vivek Rahi
- Nikhil Moghe
- Jodhbir Sachdeva
As energy systems undergo structural transformation globally, India's ethanol programme stands as a compelling demonstration of how aligned policy frameworks, industry coordination and scale can decisively shift the needle on import dependence while sustaining economic momentum. Having achieved the E20 milestone ahead of schedule, the imperative now is to move from scale creation to system intelligence - where ethanol transitions from a blending mandate to a foundational pillar of a resilient, flexible and future-ready transport fuel ecosystem.
India's ethanol journey has evolved from a targeted blending directive to a structurally significant component of the nation's transport energy architecture.
As the sector advances beyond E20, the strategic priority must shift toward feedstock diversification, demand-side flexibility and infrastructure alignment at scale. This inflection point presents a defining opportunity - to reposition ethanol not merely as a compliance instrument, but as a sovereign energy lever capable of reinforcing long-term energy security and accelerating India's low-carbon transition.
The future of sustainable aviation will depend not only on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production, but on creating the policy, financial, and market ecosystem needed to make SAF affordable and scalable.
Scaling SAF in India will require three things to come together:
- feedstock availability,
- diverse technology pathways, and
- supportive policy frameworks.
As India’s Global Capability Centre story enters its most consequential chapter, Pune is emerging as a compelling destination for organisations looking to establish and scale future-ready capability centres.
With its strong ecosystem spanning talent, infrastructure, and innovation, Pune offers a unique opportunity to go beyond execution and build centres that deliver enterprise-wide value and transformation for global organisations.
India’s infrastructure and construction sector is entering a high-growth phase of development, making substantial investment in skilled project talent critical for delivering projects efficiently and sustainably. This growth phase demands extensive upfront planning, agile thinking, building resilience in project delivery ecosystem, and most importantly building capacity and capability at all fronts.
It is not without reason that GCC site as a strong pillar of our Viksit Bharat agenda and is very strong economic driver of our nation. Amidst the global headwinds we see today, in India the GCC model continues to offer a very promising answer to what global enterprises are grappling with. The model presents efficiency benefits, and now with AI being a very disruptive force, how do you actually enable product development, research, core processes from GCCs is where the theme is.
The next wave of GCC growth is no longer just back office, but increasingly about core business processes and unlocking enterprise value at a very different leve
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