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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  PM Modi to hold follow-up meeting on ‘Make in India’ on 29 December
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PM Modi to hold follow-up meeting on ‘Make in India’ on 29 December

PM Modi will hold a meeting of stakeholders on 29 December to chalk out a 'specific action plan' to implement the programme

In September, PM Narendra Modi had launched the “Make in India” campaign to attract foreign investors and make the country a global manufacturing hub. Photo: BloombergPremium
In September, PM Narendra Modi had launched the “Make in India” campaign to attract foreign investors and make the country a global manufacturing hub. Photo: Bloomberg

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting of several stakeholders on 29 December to chalk out a ‘specific action plan’ to implement the ‘Make in India’ programme, which aims at boosting manufacturing sectors.

During the day long workshop, which would be organized by the commerce and industry ministry, senior industry leaders would also participate.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley and commerce and industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman would address the gathering. Besides, sectoral discussions will be held with the concerned sectoral industry leaders.

In September, Modi had launched the “Make in India" campaign to attract foreign investors and make the country a global manufacturing hub. As many as 25 sectors, including textiles, automobiles, chemicals, IT and pharmaceuticals have been identified as focus segments under the programme.

Chief secretaries and other senior officials of states would also attend the function. Sources said a specific action plan is expected to be finalised and a work programme would be chalked out with state governments.

“State government is the main stakeholder for successful implementation of the ‘Make in India’," they said. The manufacturing sector now contributes about 16-17% and the government aims to increase it to 25% by 2022. Dashing hopes of recovery, industrial production contracted by 4.2% in October, the sharpest decline in at least two years, on poor show by manufacturing sector and dip in the output of capital as well as consumer goods.

Manufacturing output, which constitutes over 75% of the index, contracted by 7.6% in October, compared to a dip of 1.3 % in the same month a year ago. For April-October, the sector saw an output growth of 0.7%, compared to a contraction 0.1% in the year-ago period. Overall, 16 of the 22 industry groups in manufacturing showed negative growth in October.

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Published: 23 Dec 2014, 10:44 PM IST
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