Davos 2023: Niti Aayog's new CEO Parameswaran Iyer expects more support for agriculture in budget 2023

With over 1,500 corporate leaders and 600 CEOs and policymakers from across the world, the World Economic Forum (WEF) kickstarted its annual Davos summit on Monday to discuss the most pressing issues being faced by the global economy. NITI Aayog’s CEO Parameswaran Iyer spoke to CNBC-TV18's managing editor Shereen Bhan about how India’s fundamentals remain strong despite the world facing economic turbulence caused by a devastating public health crisis and geopolitical complexities.

He also said that economists recently discussed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the continued push for progress on the agriculture front. Iyer expressed hope for a continued effort in this area and a focus on key themes such as climate financing, energy transition, and climate change.

"The focus on disruption, innovation, technology, digital, everything, which NITI has always done will continue, but there is also a focus on the states, and that is quite important; not so much social, social of course is important, but agriculture, health, education. The idea is to take some of the asset monetisation and move it down to the states as well because they need to raise resources,” said Iyer.