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Abstract

India’s economic resilience and self-reliance can be strengthened through PM’s Seven Appeals, which encourage responsible consumption and sustainable living. The appeals focus on prioritising work from home, reducing fuel consumption, avoiding unnecessary gold purchases, cutting edible oil usage, adopting natural farming, embracing Swadeshi products, and postponing non-essential foreign travel. Together, these measures aim to reduce import dependency, conserve foreign exchange, support local industries, and promote environmental sustainability. This webinar will discuss the significance of these appeals, their impact on the economy and society, and practical ways citizens, businesses, and farmers can contribute toward building a stronger and more self-reliant India.

About the Speakers

Ashima Goyal

Ashima Goyal edits a Routledge journal in macroeconomics and finance and contributes a monthly column to the Hindu Business Line. She was a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA. Her research has received national and international awards. She won two best research awards at GDN meetings at Tokyo (2000) and Rio de Janeiro (2001), was selected as one of the four most powerful women in economics, a thought leader, by Business Today (2008); was the first Professor P.R. Brahmananda Memorial Research Grant Awardee for a study on History of Monetary Policy in India since Independence (2011), which was published by Springer in 2014; received the SKOCH Challenger Award for Economic Policy (2017); Hindu College OSA Distinguished Alumni Award and 20th FLO FICCI GR8 Beti Award for Excellence in Economics (2018).

Ashima Goyal is widely published in institutional and open economy macroeconomics, international finance and governance, with more than a hundred articles in national and international journals. She has also authored and edited a number of books including Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies (Routledge: UK. 2017) and A Concise Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century (OUP: India, 2019).

Surjit Bhalla

Dr. S.S. Bhalla, is a Senior India Analyst for the Observatory Group, a New York based macroeconomic policy advisory firm and Chairman of Oxus Research & Investments. In 2017, he was appointed as Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. He has been a member of the Secondary Markets Advisory Committee of SEBI and the National Statistical Commission of India. Dr Bhalla writes extensively on economic issues and has recently authored another book titled, The New Wealth of Nations.

Ashok Vishandass

Ashok Vishandass, Professor (Applied Economics) (IIPA) has interest in Sustainable Agriculture, Risk Management, International Trade & Commerce. As ex-Chairman (CACP) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare at the level of the Secretary to the Govt. of India, he has rich experience of formulation of Agriculture Price and Non-Price Policies, nuances of fixing MSP of various agriculture commodities. Before joining IIPA, he had also served FAO of United Nations Organisation (UNO) as the Chief Technical Adviser. In his stint with the UNO, he provided high-level technical and economic advice relating to Food Security, SDGs, agricultural Marketing and brought out eight Reports.

Prof. Ashok holds Ph.D. (Agri. Economics), M.A. (Economics) (University of Manchester), M.B.A. (Financial Management), PG Diploma in Population and Development (JNU), M. Stat. (Master of Statistics) (Gold Medalist).

Rattan Chand

Dr Rattan Chand is one of the founding Directors, EGROW Foundation. He is a former officer of the Indian Statistical Service and has served the Government of India in various positions for more than 35 years. While in the service, he worked closely with many Development Partners including USAID, World Bank, United Nations, World Health Organization etc. He has represented the Government at many national and International Meetings, Conferences and Seminars in the Health Sector. As Chief Director, in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, he was responsible for Monitoring and evaluation and during his tenure many activities like establishing Health Management Information System (HMIS), Annual Health Surveys, District Level Household Surveys and National Family Health Survey were initiated and completed.

He obtained Ph.D. in Population Studies from IIPS, Mumbai, PG Diploma in Population and Development from JNU and Master of Statistics from Punjabi University.

Col (Dr) M.P. Singh

Col Mohinder Pal Singh is Founder Director of EGROW Foundation. He is presently Senior Fellow at Center For Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) and Adjunct Facutly at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). He is also the Director at AMAS Training.

He has served in the Indian army, in the elite Infantry Regiment for thirty years tenating various appointments in all kinds of terrain and operations . He was also awarded ‘ Chief of Army Staff Commendation’ for his work. He has been an instructor in Infantry School and an Assessor in the Officer Selection Process for over six years. He successfully commanded administrative battalion.

Apart from his extensive experience in army and his academic pursuits he is also a prolific writer who has to his credit many articles in books on strategic and national security subjects and has individually authored five books. His two recent books ‘Teams of Tomorrow’ and ‘Myanmar and its Strategic Dilemmas’ have been well received in the environment.

He is a graduate in science form prestigious St Xaviers College, Mumbai. He is an MBA from IIFT , New Delhi and a gold medalist in MSc from Allahabad University. He has completed his Doctorate in international relations from the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies , University of Allahabad. He has published number of articles in all leading journals and websites on strategic issues.

Gulshan Malik

Shri Gulshan Malik, Former Deputy Managing Director (DMD) of State Bank of India, retired in May 2025 after over three decades of diverse banking experience. Joining SBI in 1985, he specialized in Corporate Credit, Project Finance, Retail, and Rural Banking. As DMD, he led the Commercial Clients Group, overseeing corporate, project, and structured finance services. Previously, he headed SBI’s Project Finance & Structuring Unit, financing major infrastructure projects like airports, ports, and metro rail. Shri Malik holds a Commerce degree, a Master’s in Banking and Finance, is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, and has attended leadership programs at Harvard Business School.

Sunil Parekh

Dr. Sunil Parekh is Chairman of Consumer Education and Research Centre. He is also Senior Strategy Advisor two Indian MNCs - Zydus Cadila Healthcare Group, Jubilant Bhartia Group. He is also on the Board of Govt GNFC Ltd, GVFL Ltd. He has 42 years' of working experience with corporates in India, Africa & the United States. He is an empanelled Arbitrator and a Fellow of the Indian Council of Arbitration ICA. He is also the India Co-Chair of the techXchange initiative under the Indo-UK Partnership Program for exchange of Start-ups. He is deeply involved with Gujarat's StartUp ecosystem and has actively supported DST Program 'Inspire'. Dr. Parekh is on the board/Senate of several Universities including IIT, Gandhinagar, IIT RAM; Industry Bodies including FICCI National Executive, Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and is also Associated with global organisations like World Economic Forum, Geneva's Global Shapers Initiative & The Value We Geneva.

Charan Singh

Dr. Charan Singh is the CEO and Founder Director, EGROW Foundation. He is member of IRDAI Insurance Advisory Committee. Earlier, he was the Non-Executive Chairman of Punjab & Sind Bank in two stints - May 2018 to May 2021 and November 2022 to November 2024. He continues to pursue his academic interests by regularly teaching courses on Macro, Monetary Policy, Global Economics (International Finance) and contemporary issues on Indian Economy at IIM Visakhapatnam and IIM Rohtak. Earlier, he also taught a course on International Finance at UCLA Anderson, LA in 2018 (April to June).

Earlier, he was the RBI Chair Professor of Economics at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India; Senior Economist at the IMF, Washington DC (August 2009-December 2012); and Research Director (Economic Policy, Debt Management; 1997-2009) at the RBI where he joined as Research Officer in the economics department in 1984. He started his career in 1983 as management trainee in Punjab National Bank. Among other positions, Dr Singh served on the Board of NHB and NABFINS.

His expertise is on Fiscal Policy (especially Market Borrowings, Debt Management); Monetary Policy (especially Public Sector Banks, Interest Rates, Inflation Targetting); Financial Markets (especially Money Market, Financial Inclusion) and he has worked extensively on issues like External Trade, International Reserves, Global Hunger Index, Old Age Pension, other development issues related to India's Growth and Public Policy.

Dr Singh has published extensively and has two academic books to his credit, on published by Springer and the other by Cambridge. He has also contributed significantly in public domain through writings in professional journals. He also contributes in discussions on current affairs in leading newspapers and important TV channels.

Dr Singh completed M.Phil in Applied Economics from JNU, Delhi and PhD in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1997. He followed it up with post-doctoral studies at Department of Economics, Harvard University from Aug 2003 to Aug 2004 and Stanford University from August 2004 to Jan 2006.