DPIIT director Sumeet Jarangal pushes India-Sri Lanka startup ties
At Disrupt Asia 2025 in Colombo, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Director Sumeet Jarangal urged Sri Lanka to learn from India’s startup journey. He highlighted the need for public-private partnerships, cross-border exchanges and framing policy as a vision that enables startups to experiment, fail, and succeed, and build a global innovation hub.