mumbai india inc has put its weight behind the aatmanirbhar bharat campaign and the governments vaccine diplomacy even as it cited job creation as the biggest challenge facing the countrycaptains of industries during a ceo panel discussion at the economic times awards for corporate excellence 2020 on saturday said the productionlinked incentive pli scheme along with indigenous solutions digital transformation and clean energy transition will create opportunities and make india an export hub they also commended vaccine diplomacylarsen toubro ceo s n subrahmanyan said that the biggest crisis facing india today is the creation of jobs and like the famous economist john keynes suggested subrahmanyan said holes may have to be dug in the ground and then filled up with concrete and steel hoping that it enables job creation the pli scheme monetary easing and feelgood factor of not relying on other countries will lead to indigenous solutions for supply chain problems he said adding that china is not the only country that can provide costeffective economical solutionsjsw group chairman sajjan jindal said that after the border tension the steeltosports conglomerate stopped imports from china the good fallout of that is that a lot of industries have come up which are now supplying to us jindal expressed hope that the government does not come down heavily on inflation pressures by restricting the growth in the economyin his welcome speech times group md vineet jain said that businesses that are inherently more vulnerable than others in a crisis such as this need an economic stimulus to stay viable these businesses included hospitality real estate and media he also called for avoiding largescale lockdowns as authorities address the emerging second wave of covid itll hit small and medium businesses and the millions of people they employ the hardest what we need is strict enforcement of covid protocols targeted containment and vaccination on a warfooting he saidthe job uncertainty triggered by covid has highlighted the need for social security said hdfc life insurance md vibha padalkar large sections of the workforce are in sectors that still do not have an assured pension pension assets as a percentage of gdp are less than 5 which is woefully inadequateif india is saving less it most certainly has been spending and shopping more customers have structurally moved towards shopping online pretty much 100 of pin codes in india shop online now and even in terms of the diversity of stuff that they buy said amazon india head amit agarwal he highlighted that entrepreneurs have been coming up with specific needbased products and online has been an enabler to their businessesamazon saw 15 lakh businesses come online for the first time during the pandemic a third of that came online using a nonenglish language as many as 70000 became exporters creating global brands and shipping products that exceeded 2 billion in value an aatmanirbhar bharat has to start with an aatmanirbhar indian and that implies unleashing the potential of every citizen agarwal saidjindal also said that