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son digital transformation in areas healthcare continue to be the ma- preneurs who have ideas to solve
that are very specific to the Indian jor use cases of digital disruption pressing socio-economic challeng-
economy. For instance agriculture, where startups can not only build es we are facing with. India has
animal husbandry, dairy production, successful businesses but also already proven its quality of educa-
textiles, art and craft, handlooms, bring in a much required change in tion by giving leaders to some of
handicrafts, and several other seg- the legacy setups, which are inad- For startups to the largest digital ‘nations’ like Mi-
ments and industries which might equate and ill-planned. foster and get crosoft and Google. Now, the next
not attract the global leaders in the Energy, potable water, clean air all the requisite era of education has to find a solu-
digital transformation to consider. and environment are some of the support, the tion to how India can have its own
Startups of India have to take the challenges that are increasingly be- government Microsoft and Google rather than
has put the
lead and focus on domestic mar- coming difficult to manage in the best foot producing people who can manage
ket issues and challenges to come country. Startups have to anchor forward to and drive their growth.
up with disruptions that are tech- to see how the digital interventions provide all There is a need to decentralise
nologically driven taking the digital can improve the life parameters of powerful the efforts being put in to foster
quotient of the country to the next our country. launchpad for startups. The system has to evolve
startups
levels. The education system is also re- in a way where entrepreneurs in vil-
From the social entrepreneur- quired to reinvent itself which con- lages and smaller towns are also
ship opportunities, education and tributes more in giving India entre- able to ideate and POC (proof of