New Delhi, Mar 29 (KNN) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee released her party’s manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election 2019. Most of her election promises are aimed at Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and the unorganized sector.

The Chief Minister promised a “revamp in the MSME policy.”

Claiming that the sector was worst-hit because of “half-baked GST,” Banerjee promised a new national policy with “an eye to improve technologies and capacity to scale up”.

New national industrial policy and holistic IT policy have also been promised.

Even the new foreign trade policy that her party intends to be a part of will have “special focus” on MSMEs and labour intensive sectors.

The manifesto said, “With the shrinking of growth rate of exports and increase in growth rate of imports, it is imperative that we create a fresh Foreign Trade Policy, with a special focus on MSMEs and labour intensive sectors.”

“In near future, by creating innovative short term and long term employment creation, industry creation and agriculture creation, we shall take India to world stage,” it added.

“In our model of growth with employment, we will focus on allied industries as well as pertinent areas of manufacturing with high employment elasticities,” It said.

Talking about AI in MSMEs manifesto read, “We will also focus on established as well as emerging services at the cutting edge. In this context, as we encourage futuristic technologies such as block chain and numerous dimensions of AI (Artificial Intelligence), we will constantly keep in view that they must benefit the basic needs of our people such as health, education and other areas of quality of life of the common people.” (KNN/JM)