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| A YouTube still of Shaurya Doval, the co-founder of India Foundation (Video below) |
Staff correspondent, August 3, 2015, NewsCrunch
In June, while attending a round table conference on India in London, Shaurya Doval announced that his think tank, India Foundation, would be organising an Indian Economic Convention 2015 in September in New Delhi.
He casually let it slip that PM Modi and his senior ministers would be attending the conference to showcase their policies.
Nobody, who knew Shaurya Doval or India Foundation, was left in any doubt that the conference would be a success.
The Economic Times has reported on the sensational rise of Shaurya Duval, the investment banker son of NSA Ajit Doval.
An alumnus of London School of Business and Chicago University Shaurya Doval runsIndia unit of an investment fund, Zeus Caps, which puts Saudi money into productive use.
But it is his other role as the director of India Foundation, which he co-founded with RSS leader Ram Madhav, that is keeping him in the limelight. The high-power foundation has Nirmala Sitharaman, Suresh Prabhu, Jayant Sinha and M J Akbar as his other directors.
The profile of India Foundation has been rising inNew Delhi along with its activities. It has access, talent and ambition. Speaking to ET Shaurya Doval said the idea was to groom it to play a “…major role in government policy formulation”.
India Foundation holds a closed-door meeting every Wednesday to debate policy. Invitations are extended to the who’s who of power elite – ministers, secretaries and experts. Everyone, reportedly turns up for the meetings, which is shut for the media.
Quoting senior government sources ET said India Foundation was beginning to play the role National Advisory Council had during UPA-1, when it became a source of major policy initiatives – from RTI to MNREGA.
In June, while attending a round table conference on India in London, Shaurya Doval announced that his think tank, India Foundation, would be organising an Indian Economic Convention 2015 in September in New Delhi.
He casually let it slip that PM Modi and his senior ministers would be attending the conference to showcase their policies.
Nobody, who knew Shaurya Doval or India Foundation, was left in any doubt that the conference would be a success.
The Economic Times has reported on the sensational rise of Shaurya Duval, the investment banker son of NSA Ajit Doval.
An alumnus of London School of Business and Chicago University Shaurya Doval runs
But it is his other role as the director of India Foundation, which he co-founded with RSS leader Ram Madhav, that is keeping him in the limelight. The high-power foundation has Nirmala Sitharaman, Suresh Prabhu, Jayant Sinha and M J Akbar as his other directors.
The profile of India Foundation has been rising in
India Foundation holds a closed-door meeting every Wednesday to debate policy. Invitations are extended to the who’s who of power elite – ministers, secretaries and experts. Everyone, reportedly turns up for the meetings, which is shut for the media.
Quoting senior government sources ET said India Foundation was beginning to play the role National Advisory Council had during UPA-1, when it became a source of major policy initiatives – from RTI to MNREGA.