Thursday, July 18, 2013: Minister for communications and information technology and law & justice, Kapil Sibal, held a meeting with ministers and officials of state governments to enlist their support in the ongoing efforts of the government for promotion of investment in Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) in India.
At the meeting, Sibal, emphasised on the importance of the role of the state governments in creating a pro-investment environment and facilitative availability of land, water, roads and training infrastructure to provide skilled manpower to support manufacturing activities. Appreciating the steps being taken by some of the state governments, fruitful results of which are now becoming evident, he argued that other state governments should also consider developing attractive policies for attracting the investment to their states.
The States welcomed the initiates taken by the Central government. Several states informed about the initiatives that they had taken and are in process of taking, to promote the investments in electronics in their respective states.
