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Four winners have been announced for the 2023 ABB Electrification Startup Challenge, which drew over130 applicants from more than 30 countries.

• Innovating solutions address the world’s energy challenges
• Four winners receive $30,000 ABB collaboration to develop a proof of concept to take to market

It is imperative that we enable startups to list on stock exchanges outside of India, in order to increase capital inflow and to stem the flow of Indian startups flipping to economies outside of India.

If BharatNet procurement is done with preference to domestic production, it would lead to an additional GDP growth of 2.5% and would lead to a robust communications equipment manufacturing industry that can capture a significant share of the global market, thus contributing more to the economy.

Frequent replacement of paving stones in a city is symptomatic of corruption. To curb such waste of the taxpayers' money and national resources, it is important to adopt digital tools in cities.

It is critical to protect our networks from adversarial attacks. Hence the upcoming BharatNet project, which is one of the world’s largest communication projects, must explicitly promote as many indigenous components and products as is being manufactured in India.

VC’s are being blamed for failures in corporate governance in promising startups. However, such blames may be misplaced given the limited oversight that VC’s and other funding agencies such as banks have.