NewzVille Desk
Dr. Jitendra Singh today delivered the keynote address at the Special Plenary of the 3rd Global Summit on Advanced Materials, Critical Minerals, & Metals, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi. The summit, themed “Building Resilient Value Chains for a Sustainable and Competitive Future,” brought together government, industry, research and international stakeholders.
In his address he said, “India is no longer a country that waits for others to experiment and then follows their success; it is now confident of shaping its own global role in emerging technologies”.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said the global economy is undergoing a paradigm shift, with clean energy, electric mobility, semiconductors, telecommunications, aerospace, defence and nuclear energy emerging as major drivers of technological and industrial transformation. India, he said, is now participating in this global discourse with much greater confidence and is preparing to assume a larger global role.
He said the changing technological landscape makes it imperative for India to build capabilities across the entire value chain of critical minerals and advanced materials—from exploration and extraction to refining, processing, engineering and manufacturing. Domestic resources will have to be combined optimally with international resources, while indigenous technologies and globally competitive benchmarks are developed simultaneously.
