• Seven, invest in environment-friendly technologies. India’s growth must be enhanced and, yet, our environment and ecology must be protected and safeguarded for our future generations

• Eight, promote enterprise and innovation within your firms and outside. The success story of the last two decades has been the emergence of a large number of first-generation enterprise. Industry must try to maintain its competitive edge by investing in R&D and innovation and promotion of enterprise. While government can do its bit, the larger burden is on industry

n Nine, fight corruption at all levels. The cancer of corruption is eating into the vitals of our body politic. Businessmen who enter politics should erect a Chinese wall between their political activities and their businesses

• Ten, promote socially responsible media and finance socially responsible advertising. Through your advertisement budgets and your investments in media you can encourage socially responsible media to grow and flourish. You can promote socially relevant messages and causes

We must end forever the debate whether our country’s march of progress has benefited India and not Bharat. India is Bharat. These are good times for Indian enterprise. Your energy and enterprise are making its mark globally. But never forget that we are what we are because of what our motherland has given us. The time has come for us to ask ourselves what can we give her back. India has made us. We must make Bharat.

This is an edited extract from the prime minister’s speech titled “Inclusive Growth: Challenges for Corporate India”