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22nd Skoch Summit
The India Decade
17th-18th March, 2010
New Delhi

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Governance

e-Governance

Banking Financial Services & Insurance

Education

Security & Disaster Management

Technology

Skoch Challenger Awards

The World is Open Awards

Sponsored Awards

Books:

Speeding Financial Inclusion

Infrastructure and
Governance

Financial Inclusion

Urban Renewal

From L to R: H Krishnamurthy, Principal Research Scientist, IISc, Bangalore; Srivatsa krishna, IAS; Ajit Ranade, Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group; S S Tarapore, Distinguished Fellow, Skoch Development Foundation; Bibek Debroy, Distinguished Fellow, Skoch Development Foundation; M Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development; Arvind Mayaram, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development; S Sridhar, CMD, Central Bank; Nandu Pradhan, President and MD, Red Hat India; Nivedan Sahani, Vice-President, Bharat Airtel

Infrastructure Finance & Governance - Nearly 300 leaders and experts in various fields gathered for the 21st Skoch Summit to debate and chalk out future directions and specific policies that positively affect growth, social well-being and security in the country. Organised on the theme of "Infrastructure,Finance and Governance",the Summit also deliberated on key topics like urbanization and financial inclusion. Infrastructure development and financing evoked considerable discussion and threw up critical insights...   more


Power Sector Reforms-The Next Steps - One critical infrastructure that needs massive investment is power and it is here that the private sector can play a vital role. This was the common thread that emerged from the session on power sector, which focused on the needs of the power sector in the coming decade and discussed issues like limited private sector participation, inadequate staff and limited ability to absorb modern technology....  more


Revisiting Financial Inclusion - Financial inclusion is not an option but a compulsion, as over 45.9 million farmer households in the country, that is a little more than 50 per cent, and 51.4 per cent of the total of 89.3 million households in the country do not access credit either from institutional nor from non-institutional sources. To widen the scope of financial inclusion, commercial banks, regional rural banks and micro-finance institutions need to develop a suitable mechanism to reach out to the underprivileged and the marginalised.  This was the essence of the address by Dr C Rangarajan, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, at the session on ‘Revisiting Financial Inclusion’ at the 21st Skoch Summit on Infrastructure, Finance and Governance.... more