INDIA HAS TO GROW AT A HIGHER RATE: AMITABH KANT

The G20 Sherpa shared India's G20 story, its development narrative, and its agenda for the Global South.

- ANMOL NATH BALI

In the latest edition of Capital Dialogue organized by The Sunday Guardian Foundation and NewsX, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant discussed India's presidency in G20 and how India is becoming the voice of the global south. The event was hosted by Rishabh Gulati, Managing Editor of NewsX and Priya Sahgal, Senior Executive Editor of NewsX.

The G20 Sherpa, while interacting with the audience, shared India's G20 story, its development narrative, and its agenda for the global south. While discussing India's presidency at G20 this year, Kant said that "our G20 presidency is different from others". "Normally G20 presidency countries have meetings in one city, the capital city of two cities. In India's case, the PM decided that G20 should be held as a people's movement," said Amitabh Kant.

"In India, we are doing this in 59 cities and so far, 97 meetings have taken place," Kant said.According to Kant, for G20, the Centre is getting a huge amount of support from the state governments. The rationale behind organizing meetings in various parts of the country is to rejuvenate cities and their infrastructure.