Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that every ministry, and every department of the Government is giving priority to increasing exports with a ‘Whole of Government’ approach.
Be it the Ministry of MSME or Ministry of External Affairs, Agriculture or Commerce, all are making common efforts to attain a common goal, he added. Importantly, exports from new areas are increasing.
Inaugurating ‘Vanijya Bhawan’ and launching the National Import-Export for Yearly Analysis of Trade (NIRYAT) portal in Delhi, the Prime Minister underlined the role of increasing exports in the transition of a country from developing to developed country.
“Even from many aspirational districts, exports have now increased by manifold. The increase in exports of cotton and handloom products by 55 per cent shows how the work is being done at the grassroot level,” he said.
The Prime Minister said that NIRYAT portal will help in breaking silos by providing real time data to all stakeholders, adding “From this portal, important information related to more than 30 commodity groups exported to over 200 countries of the world will be available. In the coming time, information related to district-wise exports will also be available on this. This will also strengthen the efforts to develop the districts as important centres of exports.”
Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, and Textiles, said that “Whole of Government” approach helped in bringing together various departments for successful completion of the Vanijya Bhawan. He said that the Vanijya Bhawan will be made completely digital and will become a symbol of India’s growing power on the global platform.