Dr. Amit Kapoor moderated the session at an online webinar on “A movement towards Atmanirbhar Bharat: Competitiveness and Manufacturing of PPE’s”. The chief guest for the session was Smt. Smriti Irani, Minister of Textiles, Government of India. Ravi Capoor, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India; Gautam Nair, Co-Chairman, CII National Committee on Apparel; Sandeep Makkar, Managing Director, Johnson & Johnson Medical India and Punit Lalbhai, Executive Director, Arvind Ltd. also shared their experiences in the journey towards making India Atmanirbhar.
Other Panellists are as follows:
- Nihar Ranjan Dash, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India
- Moloy Chandan Chakrabortty, Jute Commissioner, Government of India
- Rajit Ranjan Okhandiar, CEO, Central Silk Board, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India
- R D Udeshi, President, Polyster Chain of Reliance Industries
- Priya Thapar, Director, JCT
- A Sakthivel, Chairman, Apparel Export Promotion Council
- Sivaramakrishnan Ganpathi, MD & CEO, Gokaldas Exports
- Mahesh Kudav, MD, Venus Safety and Health
- K S Sundararaman, President, Indian Technical Textiles Association