(ET)
In the run up to the budget, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal will meet trade ministers of four states on Thursday to prepare a road map to make every district in the country a hub of exports.
The meeting follows Goyal’s consultation with industry captains, including Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Wednesday and Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran on Tuesday on their respective groups’ investment plans and the issues they face. Industry ministers of Haryana, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana will put a framework in place to promote industry and exports through their districts, sources said.
While the Tata Group made presentation about its investment plans and the hurdles in being able to meet those, as per sources, Mittal said he discussed the Bharti Group’s matters mainly on the infrastructure side as it has large investment plans for telecom towers, solar and real estate.
