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I received an invite from the Ministry of Finance, and I thought it was spam. I looked into the email after 15 mins It said, "Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) of India wants to talk with you" I still couldn't get it There was a landline number mentioned in the email. I called up and asked if this was a conference or something I was being invited to. They said the CEA wants to talk personally and hear the story. And could I come to Delhi. I said yes. He also wanted all the economists in his office to be part of it. This is the team that puts together the Economic Survey and the country's economic policies every year. I flew to Delhi and met the CEA and his team. I shared my journey into deep-tech, drone policies and Indian manufacturing, in the context of my previous drone startup Airdonex and my current startup @ProcurioIndia They listened carefully to every challenge we have run into, and were genuinely interested in what founders need from policy. We concluded with explaining what we are building at PROCURIO, that we are on a mission to set a new benchmark for how anyone can source and manufacture from India.