The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, and Textiles, Piyush Goyal has sought suggestions and ideas to explore the engagement further in areas around textiles, geotextiles, technology for testing labs.
Addressing US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) in San Francisco, the Minister highlighted the fact that lots of innovation is taking place in different fields and new areas are opening up in India such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, E Commerce, Edutech, Fintech, Agritech and Healthtech.
He said that India today provides the best investment opportunity to the investors across the world and called upon investors in the US to avail the opportunities that India offers stressing that the next 25 years, the golden period of Amrit Kaal, is the appropriate time to invest in India.
He added that partnership between India-US partnership is a ‘Partnership of Trust’, which rests on 3Ts of Trade, Technology and Talent.
The Minister noted that India-US relations are based on strong Government-to-Government engagement, people-to-people ties, large Indian diaspora, business-to-business relations, increasing bilateral trade, deep engagement in geopolitically relevant vibrant Quad, Ministerial dialogue, IPEF and robust trade policy forum.
He pointed out that India is opening up discussions with countries on subjects that were never taken up before such as gender, environment, small and medium enterprises, labour and anti-corruption laws.
