Our speakers

Shri Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Shri Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, Government of India

Shri B.B. Swain, Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India

Shri B.B. Swain joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1988 in Gujarat cadre. Presently, he is holding the charge of Secretary in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

In his 33 years of service, Shri Swain has served in the Gujarat State as well as the Central Government in New Delhi.

He has a Master’s degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi  and  a Masters in Public Policy & Management from The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. 

Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Minister of State, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, GOI

Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma has assumed the charge as Minister of State for  Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in July, 2021.  Under this role, Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, MoS-MSME is at the fore of designing and framing the MSME policies, and promote entrepreneurship in various sectors of MSME industries.

Before his present position, he was the Member of Municipal Board, Konch, Uttar Pradesh in the year 1988-1993.  From 1991-1992, he was the Member of Legislative Assembly, (Uttar Pradesh) and Member of Committee on Questions and References in Vidhan Sabha. In the year 1996-1997, he elected for the biggest legislative house of National Parliament. He was the Member of Standing Committee on Petroleum and Chemicals, Consultative Committee of Privileges. From 1998-1999 he was the Member of Standing Committee on Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs. In the year 2004-2009 he was the Member of Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers, Committee on Provision of computers to MPs, offices of Parties, Officers of Lok Sabha Secretariat and other dignified committees.

In the year 2011, Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma has elected President of Bhartiya Janta Party, Scheduled Caste Morcha, Uttar Pradesh. From 2014 onwards he was the Member of Standing Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Member of Standing Committee on Energy, and Information Technology and from 2019 till joining this office he was the Member of Consultative Committee of Ministry of Defence.  

He has worked for welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and especially for SC/ST women. He was the pioneer in framing of rules for egovernance. His advocacy helps MSME to establish TCs, Clusters in rural backward areas.

Shri Debasish Panda, Chairperson, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India

Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia, Hon'ble Union Minister of Civil Aviation & Steel, Government of India

Shri Kamlesh Varshney, Whole Time Member, SEBI

Shri Kamlesh Chandra Varshney took charge as Whole Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in Mumbai on 20th September, 2023. Prior to this assignment he was Joint Secretary (Tax Policy and Legislation) in the Department of Revenue.

Shri Varshney is MBA from IIM, Lucknow and is also a law graduate. He has also worked in Merchant Navy after being trained in T.S.Rajendra.

Shri Varshney is 1990 batch Indian Revenue Service Officer who has worked in various capacities in the Income-tax Department and Finance Ministry. He was the first Commissioner of Advance Pricing Agreement and has a distinction of rolling out APA program successfully in India. He is on the panel of tax experts of UNDP. He has worked for five years with tax administration of Papua New Guinea helping them in investigation and capacity building. Shri Varshney is recipient of the Finance Minister Award for his contribution to Indian Tax policy and Vivad Se Vishwas Scheme. Shri Varshney is a sports enthusiast and loves teaching

Shri Varshney is handling various departments like Market Intermediaries Regulation and Supervision Department, Legal Affairs Department-LAD1, Integrated Surveillance Department, Information Technology Department, Recovery & Refund Department and Special Enforcement Cell.

Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilizers

Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, GOI

Mr. Nitin Gadkari is the Minister for Road Transport and Highways (RTH), Government of India. Mr. Nitin Gadkari was born on 27th May 1957 in a middle-class family with roots in agriculture in Maharashtra’s orange-city Nagpur. Mr. Gadkari got involved very closely with the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and took to social work in a big way.

Mr. Gadkari completed his Post-Graduation in Commerce, besides studying Law and obtaining a Diploma in Business Management. Mr. Gadkari formally entered politics in 1980. Principally he believe that Politics is an instrument to bring socio-economic reforms in society. He went on to become BJP’s State President in Maharashtra in 2005. He was elevated to the post of party’s National President at the young age of 52 in 2009. He also served as PWD Minister in Maharashtra Government and was leader of the opposition in the state legislative council for four consecutive terms.

Mr. Gadkari is committed to adopt a transport fuel which is import-substitute, cost effective, indigenous and pollution-free. Under Mr. Gadkari’s guidance, the city of Nagpur was the first city to explore alternative biofuels for transportation including bio-CNG, bio-ethanol and LNG. Mr. Gadkari is also introducing flex fuel engines to be run on 100% ethanol, and launched a first ever tractor run on bi-CNG, thus providing additional income to farmers and the agricultural sector. He is also emphasizes on adoption of Green Hydrogen as clean and indigenous source of energy across various industries and mobility sector. Recently, he has launched a car in Delhi, on pilot basis, which run purely on hydrogen.

Under his supervision, over 70,000 kms of National Highways have been constructed in the last 7 years and 30, 0000 kms of new roads are being constructed currently. Twenty two world class access-controlled Green field expressway projects being led by Mr Gadkari under Bharatmala pariyojana phase-1, are presently in various stages of construction. He is the man behind marvelous engineering showcases like Bandra-Worli Sea Link, 55 flyovers in Mumbai, India‘s First Mumbai-Pune Expressway, 14-lane Delhi-Meerut Expressway, Nagpur’s multi-layer metro rail cum flyover system and upcoming high-tech Delhi-Mumbai expressway.

35 multi-modal logistics park, 50 economic corridors and 15 intermodal stations are currently being developed under Mr Gadkari’s tenure. Among his other endeavors, unprecedented progress is evident in port industrialization, national water highway traffic, jetties for coastal tourism, Ganga-Yamuna cleaning, fund raising, asset monetization project, etc. He is now taking a lead in development of new sustainable mobility and last mile connectivity modes like Ropeway, Cable car, Funicular rail, etc. across the country.

Mr. Gadkari introduced the first ever Vehicle Scrappage Policy which proved to be the fight against pollution in the interest of Road and Vehicle safety. New FASTAG policy is helping commuters to save their fuel and time on toll plazas. Some of his major work includes unprecedented push for R&D in electric vehicles for developing alternative battery chemistries

such as Sodium ion and Aluminum ion batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. With waste to wealth policy, Mr. Gadkari is promoting use of new, advanced and recycled waste materials into road construction works. For fast and economical construction, He has mandated large scale use of prefabricated precast concrete elements in the highways projects. He is encouraging tree plantation along the highways, installation of solar panels, rain water harvesting and artificial groundwater recharge systems. Mr. Gadkari is committed for the development of qualitative, time-bound, cost effective and sustainable world-class infrastructures in the country.

During his tenure as the Union Minister Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation, the monumental Namami Gange project became a mass movement involving central and state government agencies, private sector and foreign investors, NGOs, spiritual and social organizations as well as the common people. With his political stature he resolved inter-state disputes on water sharing and river linking involving 16 rivers in 11 states in a short span of six months. During his tenure, first Inland Waterway was developed, and goods movement was commenced between Varanasi and Kolkata, adding new dimension to logistical history of the country.

Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon'ble Union Minister, Commerce and Industry