Category: industry

Post budget webinars would go a long way in disseminating information about the budget and give citizens confidence about achieving budget objectives: Shri Piyush Goyal Shri Piyush Goyal asks all stakeholders to make collective efforts to achieve the objective of ease of doing business and ease of living Webinar sees participation from more than thousand […]

The Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Textiles and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal addressed the Asia Economic Dialogue in Pune today. The Minister shared his conviction that India would be the third largest economy in four years or so, at best five years. “My own conviction about the way India is […]

Move to enable market outreach and procurement of handlooms and handicrafts One District One Product (ODOP) and Geographical Indication (GI) stakeholders can access district specific art and craft The One District One Product (ODOP) programme under Department of Commerce (DoC) and Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry […]

MoU to help promote millets and value-added millet products in international markets In a move to harness export potential of millets to the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCCs), the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) that works under the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with […]

The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), which was established in 1986, works under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and has achieved phenomenal success in the promotion of export of agricultural products in its successful journey of 37 years. In order to celebrate its 37th Foundation Day, APEDA Mumbai organized a Capacity […]

Index Numbers of Wholesale Price in India for the Month of January, 2023 (Base Year: 2011-12) The annual rate of inflation based on all India Wholesale Price Index (WPI) number is 4.73% (Provisional) for the month of January, 2023 (over January, 2022) against 4.95% recorded in December, 2022. Decline in the rate of inflation in […]

Commerce and Industry Minister calls for focus on early harvest of mutually beneficial deliverables Emphasis on common tangible benefits like capacity building; technical assistance, including sharing of expertise and best practices; investments, innovative projects India hosted the special negotiating round for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) in New Delhi, India, from February 8-11, […]

Exports rose from 0.6 USD billion in 1987-88 to 24.77 USD billion in 2021-22; set to achieve close to 30 USD billion by 2022-23 APEDA products exported to over 200 countries APEDA organizes capacity building programmes and trade meets all over the country to encourage exports and facilitate the doubling of farmers’ income The Agricultural […]

GeM revolutionizes the ecosystem of public procurement in the country through technology, digitization of processes, digital integration of all stakeholders and use of analytics GeM features over 66,000 government buyer organisations and more than 58 lakh sellers and service providers offering a diverse range of goods and services The portal features over 11,000 product categories […]

Tagging intended to strengthen each district’s identity, while giving a greater visibility to these products Move to further boost market outreach and procurement of handlooms and handicrafts One District One Product-Districts as Export Hubs (ODOP-DEH) has mapped and tagged the overlapping products in Taj Hotels’ in-house luxury store, Khazana. The launch of this initiative was […]