Govt will be facilitator, assures Goyal

The Indian Railway plans to invest US$700 billion through partnerships, joint ventures and collaborations to strengthen the infrastructure and reach the farthest corners of the country in the next 12 years.

This was announced by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi on 20 Dec 2019 at ASSOCHAM’s 100 years celebration.

He urged Indian industry to be in constant dialogue with the Government so that all the problems and hurdles that industry and business face today may be dealt with so.

He assured Government’s commitment for a better India, for the 1.3 billion aspirational citizens who are looking for a better quality of life. This be met at the earliest, he added.

The Government will be a facilitator and an enabler for industry and entrepreneurship to ensure that harassment at the hands of government functionaries both at the centre and the states comes to an end, said the Minister.

For this he urged ASSOCHAM with its 4 lakh plus members to give feedback that will help Government both at the Centre and the States to look at regulatory, non-regulatory, judicial and any other impediments that are roadblocks for industry and entrepreneurship.

The Minister urged industry to adopt and encourage innovation by funding research and development and work closely with academia so that India may become a true innovation nation where startups can flourish and become positive disruptors in industry by creating more jobs for the youth of the country.

He gave the example of the United States and China that have more than 4,200 and more than 1,200 researchers per million people. Comparatively, India has only 216 number of researchers per million people. Fiinews.com