CII to launch a multi-stakeholder network to remove growth hurdles

The organisation, to be called India Backbone Implementation Network, will identify and remove various hurdles in the way of economic expansion

At a time when various stakeholders in India -- the government, the industry and the civil society -- do not seem to be working in tandem, an organisation will be unveiled next week to find common grounds among the diverse players to move the economy to its growth potential.

The organisation, to be called India Backbone Implementation Network (IBIN), will identify and remove various hurdles in the way of economic expansion which will be inclusive. Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia will launch IBIN next week.

IBIN is an initiative of the Planning Commission and India@75 -- a grassroots initiative of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for realizing the dream of an inclusive, sustainable and developed India by the year 2022.

Industry players like Infosys chairman Emeritus N R Narayana Murthy, Tata Group chairman Cyrus P Mistry, Housing Development Finance Corporation chairman Deepak Parekh, Godrej Group President Adi Godrej,  are the trustees of India@75. Its executive council includes luminaries from various walks of life like noted lyricist Javed Akhtar, sportsman Prakash Padukone and innovator R A Mashelkar.

Officials said the network will work on the principle that in a highly diverse democratic country, consensus and partnerships among multi-faceted and diverse stakeholders are the only ways to progressively move ahead.

IBIN will facilitate this process. It will enable people to ‘listen to each other’, help them ‘to identify similarities in their visions and aspirations’ and make them to work together as ‘partners in progress’.

The network will seek to resolve the bottlenecks identified by the Planning Commission like land related problems, other infrastructure issues and try to build a multi-stakeholder consensus over these matters.

The network will impart new techniques into the service delivery system, build a network of partners to create capability to manage effective stakeholder dialogues, resolve dispute and conduct policy impact analysis to systematically analyze situations, challenges and proactively create solutions, the officials added.

It will serve as a backbone capability provider within the system and will support collaborative approaches to solve complex and multi-layered issues.

“IBIN is a fantastic opportunity to resolve issues pertaining to poor implementation and lack of multi-stakeholder consensus by institutionalizing capabilities to systematically convert 'confusion to coordination, contention to collaboration, and intentions to implementation' across the country," Arun Maira, a member of the Planning Commission said.

The network is modeled on the philosophy of Total Quality Management (TQM). TQM is based on the premise that the quality of products and processes is the responsibility of everyone involved with the creation or consumption of the products or services offered by an organization.

Confederation of Indian Industry director general Chandrajit Banerjee, a trustee of ‘India @75’ said that coordination is the first step towards building India at 75 (India will be 75 year old in 2022) and IBIN will lead us into a new era.