Kumar Birla on India's economic opportunity
From RSS, Nation Building & India’s Economic Rise | Kumar Mangalam Birla · · Organiser Weekly
“This unique confluence, a mixture of demographic dividends and tailwinds, infrastructure, digital rails and financial services, provides us with an opportunity that comes only once in the lifetime of a nation. Even though these are challenging times, this is India's time.”
On , Kumar Birla, Chairman at Aditya Birla Group, spoke about India's economic opportunity during RSS, Nation Building & India’s Economic Rise | Kumar Mangalam Birla on Organiser Weekly.
About Kumar Birla
Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, spoke at a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) event in Nagpur in late May 2026, where he praised the organization's century-long contribution to nation-building and societal service. He called for stronger national resilience as India enters the "Amrit Kaal" phase of growth, and said that self-reliance is about capability and confidence. Birla also attended the concluding function of an RSS training camp in early June alongside RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. In April 2026, Birla addressed the convocation of BITS School of Management, where he said that in the age of AI, empathy will become a premium differentiator as intelligence becomes abundant. He also spoke at an UltraTech Cement event celebrating the company's growth, noting that the company's capacity had reached 200 million tons per annum, making it the largest cement company in the world outside of China. He described scale as revealing itself in impact, reach, reliability, and responsibility.