ahmedabad while calling indias development model a template for developing countries rita teaotia the secretary of the union ministry of commerce industry highlighted the longstanding challenges that the country faces she was the chief guest of the ahmedabad management association ama annual awards ceremony organized at ama on friday access to quality education healthcare facilities and employment are some of the longstanding challenges that india faces teaotia said manufacturing not achieving scale and high dependence on agriculture for employment are among other key issuesteaotia said that the government has taken measures to address these problems the implementation of goods and services tax will unify markets she said improving transparency bringing about labour reforms and better trade facilitation will further help overcome economic challenges the awardees included jaymin shah md and ceo dev information technology ltd who was the ama outstanding it entrepreneur of the year bhushan punani executive secretary blind peoples association bpa who received the ama nagarikta puraskar jayen mehta senior general manager planning and marketing gcmmf who was conferred the ama marketing man award t s rajan executive director and ceo windsor machines ltd who received the ama outstanding manager award and shashvin patel cmd sadbhav engineering ltd who was given the ama outstanding entrepreneur award tnn