New Delhi, Feb 19 (KNN) Ministry of Commerce and Industry has made a plan to improve the ease of doing business at district level, said Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry.

He made the above remarks while interacting with representatives of industry and trade associations and export promotion organizations through video conference.

This was the first ever direct interaction with trade and export bodies at this scale by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. This was an effort to establish a dialogue with them.

Sharing his vision of industry and trade in India, Prabhu said that Government’s duty is to help industry to grow and facilitate business by simplifying regulations.

The Minister referred to the jump made by India to 77 position in the ease of doing business ranking and said that the agriculture export policy will help in creating new avenues for exports of India’s superior agricultural products.

Besides this, he also mentioned that the exports have been growing for the last three years.

He said “If GDP of districts grow by 3% it will lead to overall growth of national GDP.”

Start-up India is the largest programme in the world for new business ventures and the Government is making all efforts to remove unnecessary hurdles”, Prabhu added.

The video conference took place through 100 nodes set up across the country. As many as 92 trade bodies participated in this interaction. (From PIB Inputs-KNN/YV)