Overview
- The Commerce and Industry Minister is meeting investment community representatives at Vanijya Bhavan in New Delhi to streamline foreign investment procedures.
- He said increased inflows can drive job creation, bring new technologies, boost R&D and innovation, support defence manufacturing, and stabilize the currency to help ease inflation.
- Goyal emphasized the need for policy certainty and a stable currency to reinforce investor confidence in India’s ecosystem.
- He urged companies to assess supply-chain risks from reliance on a single geography and cautioned that trade is being weaponised.
- The agenda also includes building India as a global manufacturing hub, skilling the ‘Amrit Generation’, and encouraging pooled corporate funds for startups, with the outreach occurring as many foreign portfolio investors have turned underweight on India and some flows have rotated to China.