IIT Alumni have the range and depth of experience, and importantly, credibility to effectively help address several major challenges facing India. They are manifestly relevant to meeting national goals such as (digital) empowerment, (social) inclusion and (entrepreneurship led) employment generation. The IIT Alumni Council provides the necessary linkages between the alumni, policy makers and economic leaders to help India evolve into a leading soft superpower of the world without sacrificing the cardinal principles of sustainable growth, democratic governance, secularism and equality.