Back Modi, don’t be disillusioned: Tata to India Inc

MUMBAI: Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata has said that India Inc should not get “disillusioned and dissatisfied with the new government so fast”. Calling under Prime Minister Narendra Modi an inspirational leader, he said, “I think we still have to give him (Modi) the opportunity of implementing what he has promised”.
Replying to a query on his views about the economy under the new government on Friday, Tata said, “We need to rally around this new government and support it if we wish to have a new country, a new outlook…” He said that he is hopeful that the country “will move forward in the manner that Modi predicted”.
“He is still in the early stages of defining what he hopes to deliver a new India. The implementation hasn’t really taken form this year,” Tata said.
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Tata was speaking at the convocation of Mumbai International School of Business (MISB) Bocconi. He is a member of the International Advisory Council of the University of Bocconi, Milan (Italy). He told students of the postgraduate programme in business not to look at their success in terms of wealth but in the ability to serve the people around.
“The feeling that you’ve made a difference is greater than if you have made a lot of wealth,” he said. “We are at an important time in history.” He praised the students who planned to be entrepreneurs and are willing to take risks. “Foreign investors are willing to invest in what the country has to offer,” he added.
Speaking at the ceremony, Himanshu Rai, the dean of MISB Bocconi, said, “The end of one thing always means the beginning of another.”