(LiveMint)
India is emerging from the debilitating effects of a brutal second wave of covid-19 infections on its people and the economy and is poised to see strong economic recovery, Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday.
The confident message was delivered at the first Indo-Pacific Business Summit organized by the Indian foreign ministry and the Confederation of Indian Industry lobby group. In his speech the minister that Asia’s third largest economy “will contribute to being an engine of growth for the global economy” brushing aside doubts about India’s economic recovery.
“And we will be very much a part of more reliable and resilient supply chains that the post-covid world requires,” the minister said as part of a strong message to the business community in the Indo-Pacific region that stretches from the eastern shores of Africa to the west coast of the US.
