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“Mainstreaming the Marginalised” reframed inclusion from a slogan to a delivery blueprint. The summit asked a hard question: how do policy, finance, and technology actually bring excluded citizens—women, minorities, informal workers—into the formal economy? Conversations moved from principle to practice: redesign identification and access, simplify programme pipes, and align incentives so benefits convert into capabilities, not just entitlements.

The programme architecture stitched together what real inclusion demands—policy re-think, financial inclusion from first principles, sectoral fixes, and digital rails. Sessions like Policy Making for Indian Planning, Financial Inclusion: Going Back to the Drawing Board, Mainstreaming Minorities, Weaker Sections and Women, and Role of Cloud & Mobility in Service Delivery treated inclusion as an operating system spanning welfare, markets, and technology.

The summit’s core wager was pragmatic: when evidence from the field shapes policy, and when platforms, credit, and service delivery are designed for the last mile, the “marginalised” become participants—entrepreneurs, students, savers—inside the growth story. That is how inclusion stops being an afterthought and becomes India’s growth engine.