Increasing Efficiency of Public IT
Spending: Role of Cloud Services

Leveraging Urban Rural
Continuum for Growth

Financial Inclusion
and Poverty Alleviation

Building Robust Social
Infrastructure

Creating Safer Cities

Education and Digital Inclusion

Information Infrastructure: Unleashing Potential


Co-organizers

Planning Commission
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Urban Development
Ministry of Panchayati Raj
National Institute of Rural Development
Department of IT Ministry of Communications & IT
National e-Governance Plan
CCA
SKOCH Development Foundation

Sponsors

IL&FS
Microsoft
Airtel
Canon
Siemens
HP
ABM Knowledgeware
SAP
Corporation Bank

“The India Decade” asked what it would take to turn a promising moment into ten years of compounding progress. The summit stitched together the levers that actually move the needle—urban–rural linkages, digital public infrastructure, security, and social systems—arguing that growth must be designed as an ecosystem where finance, technology, and governance reinforce each other rather than work at cross-purposes.

The program’s canvas reflected this systems view: leveraging the urban–rural continuum for growth, cloud computing for efficient public IT spend, security for safe cities, robust social infrastructure, livelihood linkages for poverty alleviation, and even the growth-vs-green conundrum. By placing cloud, virtualisation, document trust, and city safety alongside livelihoods and social protection, the summit treated competitiveness and inclusion as complementary, not competing, priorities.

In essence, “The India Decade” reframed policy as operating design: wire digital rails into delivery, modernise city governance and safety, and build social infrastructure that translates growth into everyday capability. It offered a blueprint where technology lowers friction, security builds trust, and livelihoods policy turns opportunity into income—so the next decade becomes a decade of usable progress.