Department of commerce proactively engaging with states to promote exports: Wadhawan

27 Aug 2020 Evaluate

Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan has said that the department of commerce is proactively engaging with state governments to promote exports. He also requested state governments to extend their support to take forward the initiatives to boost country's outbound shipments. He said ‘we are working with states to not only have a state export strategy covering infrastructure, logistics, incentives, all other facilitation and promotional measures but also having a decentralised strategy covering each and every district.’

Talking about the index, Wadhawan said the issues related to wrong attribution of export numbers of one state to other would be addressed. He said 'those issues we are trying to address through exporter awareness by creating windows in the shipping bills and in the GSTN formats, so that right at the ground level, the source of the exports, right to the district level is accurately captured and states do not have this grievance that exports originating from a district in their state is wrongly attributed to some other state.’

The Secretary further said there has been a paradigm shift in the incentivisation regime for exports.  He noted that India has started moving in that direction in the recent past, and the entire approach to incentivising exports has seen a paradigm shift. He said ‘we are moving away from the MEIS (Merchandise Exports from India Scheme) type of incentive to production linked incentives, to improvement in the physical environment in which investors can start operating in a plug and play manner.’ He added that export performance in quantitative and qualitative dimensions are key metrics for assessing the health and prospects of an economy.

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