Jalandhar: A special meeting of the city’s exporters and industrialists was held at Hotel Radisson under the leadership of Exports Forum Chairman Gautam Kapoor with NITI Aayog Senior Advisor Sanjit Singh. In this meeting, Sanjit Singh said that the MSME industry of the metropolis Jalandhar is a big stronghold of export. He said that the Central Government and the Punjab Government are working together and will increase the export of all industries including Jalandhar’s hand tools industry, sports industry, rubber industry, and leather industry.
At the same time, Exporters Forum Chairman Gautam Kapoor, who was chairing the meeting, said that the industry of the metropolis will get excellent results from this meeting and the export will increase manifold. Talking to the media after talking to the industrialists, NITI Aayog Senior Advisor Sanjit Singh said that the specialty of Jalandhar’s industrialists is that they want to move forward and also want to take the industry forward.
He said that the way the industrialists have given suggestions and problems in the meeting, it is clear that only those who want to take the industry very far can give such suggestions. He said that the MSME sector here is the powerhouse of export and it will be made more powerful and capable of export.
He added that the problems related to strengthening the infrastructure here and the government policies of the industrialists will also be solved by the Central and Punjab governments together.
Sanjit Singh said that the MSME sector is a huge job provider. Therefore, the government aims to strengthen it. He said that the entrepreneurs have pointed out many problems including research and development centers, exhibition center, skilled workers, anti-dumping duty, export of raw materials, efforts will be made to solve them.
Gautam Kapoor, while welcoming and thanking everyone, said that the industry of the metropolis will get meaningful results from the meeting with NITI Aayog in the coming time. The exporters here will also get benefit from it. He said that the central government is also thinking about the industry of Jalandhar. He also appealed to the industrialists to make proposals with suggestions regarding their problems and send them to the government through NITI Aayog so that the industry can be strengthened by implementing those suggestions.
Export of raw leather material must be stopped: Praveen Arora
Managing Director of Raghu Exports India and leading leather industrialist Praveen Arora said that raw leather is being exported from Kanpur and Chennai due to which the leather industry will have to face huge problems in the coming times because if raw material is not available then it will not be possible to make leather products. He said that earlier the government used to charge 60% export duty on leather export, which was reduced to 40% and now it has been reduced to 20% but leather is being exported by under-billing due to which the government is also incurring losses. It is very important to stop this. Praveen Arora said that earlier the government used to give incentives up to 40% to promote exports which has now been reduced to five percent. It is necessary to increase incentives to increase exports.