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FDI to India up while dipping globally: Sitharaman
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SME Times News Bureau | 05 Feb, 2016
India was the only country with rising Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
while it was falling the world over, said Commerce and Industry Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday.
"India is the only country
witnessing a 38 percent FDI rise, while globally it dipped to 16
percent," said Sitharaman at the valedictory session of the Invest
Karnataka 2016 Global Investors Meet (GIM).
Praising Karnataka,
she said the state contributes six percent of the nation's GDP and is
growing at the rate of seven percent. "Karnataka is the third largest
recipient of FDI and it will be higher after the GIM," she said.
Listing
the efforts of Indian government to promote and nurture the IT
industry, she said Indian government always raises the issue of free
movement of people at all bilateral and multilateral engagements.
"We
place great emphasis on the free movement of people at all bilateral
and multilateral meetings... so that our IT employees can freely move
between countries on their professional assignments," said Sitharaman.
The commerce minister disapproved the recent US visa fee hike and said she took it up with the US government.
"Why
such unreasonable visa fees should be imposed on the Indian IT
companies? We are not against paying visa fees but against unreasonable
visa fees."
US President Barack Obama on December 19 signed into
law a $1.8-trillion spending package, which includes a hefty $4,000 fee
for certain categories of H-1B visa and $4,500 for L-1 visa.
Sitharaman lauded Tumakuru to emerge as an investment and manufacturing hub.
"Tumakuru
was chosen from among 12 places by Japanese prime minister when they
taking a call on where to direct Japanese investment in India," she
said.
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