New Delhi, Aug 13 (TIWN) As the world is confronted by twin crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and the extreme impact of climate change, these offer an opportunity to industry for bringing in sustainable and competitive change for transition to green measures, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Thursday.

“The industry organisations have to ‘restructure’, ‘resize’ and ‘redesign’ and the role of the CII is to prepare and guide its membership to adapt to the new environment. The pandemic has presented the industry with an opportunity to be globally competitive by developing quality products and becoming a part of global supply chains,” he said in his opening remarks at the Plenary Session on ‘India’s Development Transition and Climate Change’ on the second day of the CII Annual Meeting held virtually.

To that effect, the Indian industry has to adopt a three-pronged approach of “Go Green, Go Digital, and Skill your Workers,” Kant said, adding that developing digital reliance requires digital transformation of manufacturing, intelligent network of machines, and processes with IT and communication technology.

His suggested pathways included deploying Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Analytics, Augmented Reality, Robotics, Cyber Security, Machine-to-Machine communication in order for manufacturing processes to create “astute digital factories of tomorrow”.