Govt taking legislative, administrative measures to boost trade

31 Jul 2018 Evaluate

In order to boost domestic and global trade, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu has said that the government is taking legislative as well as administrative measures for an integrated strategy to reduce logistics related hurdles. He added that competitiveness and movement of goods has been impacted by high cost of logistics. Besides, the Indian logistics industry is estimated at around $215 billion, which is growing at over 10% annually.

Prabhu further said that the country should increase share in global trade and logistics plays a very important role in that. In order to reduce cost of exports, imports and domestic trade, he said that the ministry is preparing an integrated strategy and also developing a national logistics portal as a single window market place to link all stakeholders. He added that billions of dollars of investments are required to improve logistics sector.

The Department of Logistics, under the ministry, also inked a memorandum of understanding with Indian institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) to set up a center for logistics. The cost of logistics for India is about 14% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and it is far higher as compared to other countries. The newly created logistics department, headed by Special Secretary Binoy Kumar is working on these initiatives.

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