IANS | 17 Nov, 2022
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asked the National
Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to leverage India's attractive
investment fundamentals to expand its operations.
Presiding
over the 5th meeting of NIIF's governing council, she encouraged the
team to continue discussions with investors from countries that are keen
to invest in India.
The Finance Minister exhorted the NIIF team
to also explore opportunities under the National Infrastructure
Pipeline, PM GatiShakti and National Infrastructure Corridor, which
include a big pool of investible greenfield and brownfield investment
projects.
She also asked NIIF to try and crowd in commercial capital into those opportunities.
The
governing council also guided NIIF to undertake advisory activities
pro-actively to support Central and state governments to create a
pipeline of investible PPP projects.