by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Investing
New Delhi : With trade relations between countries being actualised at the state or regional levels, a Minister of the German state of Thuringia on Monday called for greater cooperation with Indian industry for the benefit of both.
Speaking at an Indian industry chamber Ficci organised business interaction here, Thuringia’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Science and Digital Society Wolfgang Tiefensee highlighted the advantages for Indian business in investing in his state located in the heart of Germany, as well as of Europe.
Thuringia is a world leader in the optics industry, while its automotive industry boasts of leading global majors such as Daimler, Opel, Magna, Bosch and BMW.
“Since 2012, there has been a major improvement in our business relations with Thuringia’s exports to India jumping 34 per cent in 2018 over the previous year to touch 150 million euros,” Tiefensee said.
The Minister said Thuringia offers excellent conditions in mechanical engineering for generating innovations and launching internationally successful products and technologies.
Around 10,000 scientists are doing research in the state in more than 40 institutes and universities in close cooperation with businesses, he added.
An MoU was signed on the occasion between Thuringian firm Gramme-Revit and Indian distributor WB for a new food supplement against arthritis called DuoVital.
In his address earlier, Jasper Weick, Charge de Affairs at the Germany Embassy here, said that India and Germany have strong commonalities in their adoption of democracy, federalism and the free market.
He said that the India-Germany bilateral trade had risen at a healthy 10 per cent last year to touch nearly $22 billion.
Investments in both directions were thriving and close to 1,700 German companies were doing business with and out of India, he added.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Business, Economy, Investing, Large Enterprise, News, Politics
New Delhi : On the verge of a growth take-off after years of instability, Nepal on Wednesday invited Indian industry to invest in the country to help create jobs and boost economic growth in the Himalayan nation.
“After years of policy stalemate and instability, Nepal is on the verge of a growth take-off. We welcome you to do business in Nepal, invest there, create jobs and nurture a new climate of innovation and entrepreneurship,” Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba told a gathering of industry at a business interaction here organised by the Indian industry bodies Assocham, CII and Ficci.
“Two years ago, we ended political transition by adopting a highly progressive constitution. The mood in Nepal is to turn a page and move forward,” Deuba, who is on his first official visit to India in this stint.
With the rise of India and China as global economic powers, “all major growth poles in Asia are within a few hours flying distance from Kathmandu,” he added.
Nepal is concerned about its large trade deficit with India and wants more Indian investment in its economy. Currently, more than 38 per cent of foreign direct investment in Nepal originates from Indian companies.
Elaborating how Nepal is “truly open for business, Deuba noted that the country hosted an investment summit earlier this year, which attracted FDI pledges of $14 billion, representing almost half the GDP of the landlocked nation.
“For a landlocked country, I am convinced that intense physical connectivity through roads, rail and air is key to lowering business costs,” said Deuba.
“We are optimistic that we can revive manufacturing and create jobs in larger numbers by partnerships with industries from India,” he added.
The Nepali Prime Minister also thanked Indian Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was present on the occasion, for the latter’s offer to extend the natural gas pipeline from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh to Nepal. State-run GAIL is building the proposed pipeline from Jagdishpur in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal, which crosses Gorakhpur.
“Our pipeline will go to Gorakhpur. If you can take it to Sunauli (Nepal), it will bring clean fuel for Nepal’s industrialisation. I reiterate that I am prepared to stretch the pipeline and take it to Sunauli,” Pradhan said in his address.
He also said that he had agreed to extend the India-Nepal petroleum product pipeline from Raxaul to Amlekhganj further onwards to Chitwan on the request of Nepal. Work on the pipeline is due begin later this year.
India has been a traditional supplier of fuel to Nepal, which receives its entire demand of about 200,000 kilolitres of fuel every month by road from Indian Oil Corp.
—IANS
