SKOCH Summit

UPCOMING SUMMIT

Financing the Foundations of Inclusive Growth

India’s development journey has entered a decisive phase. The national aspiration of Viksit Bharat requires not only higher growth, but better growth—growth that reaches beyond metropolitan centres, creates meaningful livelihoods, reduces inequality and remains ecologically sustainable. This is the context in which SKOCH convenes this conference on Inclusive Growth.

SKOCH defines inclusive growth as spatially dispersed, job generative, equitable and sustainable. This definition reflects the reality that growth cannot be judged only by aggregate output or headline investment. It must be assessed by where it occurs, whom it benefits, how many livelihoods it creates, and whether it strengthens or weakens the ecological foundations on which society and the economy depend.

Banking Bharat: Retail, Agriculture & MSME Credit for Inclusive Growth

India has made remarkable progress in financial inclusion through bank accounts, digital payments, direct benefit transfers and expanding access to formal finance. The next challenge is to move from financial inclusion to productive inclusion—credit and banking services that create assets, support livelihoods, strengthen enterprises, build resilience and generate jobs.

SKOCH defines inclusive growth as spatially dispersed, job generative, equitable and sustainable. Retail, Agriculture and MSME banking are central to this definition because they touch the three most important units of India’s real economy: the household, the farm and the small enterprise.