SME Times News Bureau | 30 Mar, 2015
The Indian government is committed to promote close economic and trade ties with other countries, a top official said in New Delhi on Saturday.
Secretary (Economic Relations & Development Partnership Administration) in the external affairs ministry, Sujata Mehta, addressing diplomats at a meet, said the government is pursuing an expansion of economic activities at the level of policy and practice and is doing everything to promote business.
Addressing the 24th Ambassadors' Meet organized by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mehta said that diplomacy nowadays has a lot to do with economic diplomacy and the government places very high value on partnerships being forged with business and industry.
She said that such meets organized by the business chambers where diplomats could mingle with the Indian businesspersons at an informal level were good.
Mehta stepped in in place of Minister of State for External Affairs Gen. V.K. Singh (retd.), who could not make it to the event.
PHD Chamber president Alok B. Shriram said that the Ambassadors' Meet is an annual flagship event of the chamber which it has been organizing since 1991 to bring the diplomatic and business communities together for an interaction.
INCREASE IN EXPORTS RAJEEV KUMAR GUPTA | Wed Apr 1 16:33:46 2015
REGTRET TO NOTE THAT THE GOVT. IS NOT LOOKING AT THE NEW OPENINGS WHICH CAN BRING 10 TIMES THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE THAN WHAT THEY ARE EARNING AT PRESENT.I HAD REQUESTED THE PRIME MINISTER FOR AN APPOINTMENT FOR A DISCUSSION TO INCREASE THE COUNTRY'S PROFITS BY 10,000 CRORES BUT NO ATTENTION WAS GIVEN IN THIS REGARD.I AM THE SAME PERSON WHO HAD BROUGHT DOWN THE US$ BY 6 RUPEES A DOLLAR WHEN THE THEN LATE PRIME MINISTER COULD NOT DO ANY THING IN THE MATTER.
I HAVE THE SCHEME THAT INDIA'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE CAN BE INCREASED TWO TIMES PROVIDED THE PRIME MINISTER,THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND THE THE COMMERCE MINSTERS SIT WITH ME FOR 30-MINUTES EACH AT LEAST.