Leaders Speak - February 2017

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The February edition of Leaders Speak is precisely focused on the odds and even of the potentialities of 'Cashless India' and its further upshots. As government claimed that, a Cashless Future is the real goal of India's demonetization move -that to unearth the black money.

In the vicarious battle to curb black money, few agendas are getting the hype -Are we treating political parties as sacred cows? Don't they need to come in RTI?

Through this edition, we also paid tribute to the legendary actor Om Puri, he was really the actor in excellence. The interview with Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi revealing the silent challenges of child trafficking. In anther conversation, Union State Finance Minister Santosh Gangawar explaining the need of Cashless economy and government’s projected plan of actions.

The articles in this issues backpacked with numerous inspirational stories of leadership from diverse streams such as entrepreneurs, academic, corporate and social.

The Arithmetics Of Cashless India

Economist, Prasenjit Bose says,” Making India completely digital and going cashless is not possible right now. For that to happen, we need financial literacy. More importantly, we need digital literacy. We can’t force people to go digital in a country where two-thirds of the population reside in villages. Almost a quarter of the rural populace doesn’t have mobile phones, let alone smartphones. Many villagers do not have a bank account. They do not know how to open an account. Yet, we are forcing people to go cashless due to demonetization. That’s not the way to use technology. Basically, it is created for urban India and we can’t impose it on everyone.”

9 mins

Moving Towards Digital Economy Push

In conversation with Leaders Speak, The Minister of State for Finance in the Government of India, Santosh Gangwar hopefull for the outlook of cashless ecnomoy in India. Below is the gist of conversation.

3 mins

Empowering Masses With Digital Technology

In an exclusive interview with Leaders Speak, Dr. Ajay Kumar spoke about the importance of the digital literacy in improving the livelihood in the country and outlined the government’s plan for boosting digital payments and cyber-attack safeguarding.

7 mins

Safe Childhood For Safer India

In an exclusive conversation with Leaders Speak, The Nobel Peace Laureate and Founder of Global March against Child Labour, Kailash Satyarthi quoted, “ Every Minute is important, Every Child is important and Every Childhood is important.”

5 mins

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