Press Release

20 Industrial Townships Being Set Up Across the Country– Shri Piyush Goyal

The speed of change and the openness to adopt newer ideas has possibly been far bigger and more in the last decade or so.

“The speed of change and the openness to adopt newer ideas has possibly been far bigger and more in the last decade or so. The government is setting up 20 industrial townships spread across the country, one is already started in Noida and another 12 have been announced recently. The government is open to the idea of alternate financing models for MSMEs and entrepreneurship as a course curriculum in all our engineering colleges and institutes of higher education would be the way forward. 
 
A lot is happening and with the active participation of the industry we can achieve much bigger and much faster. As a country we need a change in mindset to recognise high quality and sustainability as our calling card as we engage with the world.” said Shri Piyush Goyal Hon’ble Minister for Commerce & Industry, Ministry of Commerce and Industry at the Bharat@100 Summit organised by ASSOCHAM.
 
Recounting the Panch Pran espoused by the Honourable Prime Minister on 15th August 2022, the minister said, “To be a developed country by 2047 has to be a collective decision of all 1.4 billion people and we will have to shed the colonial mindset that we have inherited. We must learn to take pride in our history and tradition from which there is so much to learn. The government has ensured that there is no discrimination on the basis of caste or religion or creed in all the social welfare programs and reforms to foster great unity and each one of us have to recognise our responsibilities, to contribute to making India really a great nation.”
 
Sharing his views on the issue of greenhouse gases and sustainability, the minister said, “My considered view on the topic is that it is related to consumption and yet we are blaming the manufacturers. Developed countries with outsourced production are talking about pollution generated by coal-based power plants. What they failed to realize is that they became developed country on the back of all the low-cost energy that the coal-based power plants gave them for over 100 years as they industrialized their economies. They continue to have 10 times more pollution per capita than the developing countries or less developed countries but are neither providing the finance nor technology to help the rest of the world to adopt sustainability and yet expect the world to be responsible for the problems that they are facing.”
 
Addressing the summit Mr. Sanjay Nayar, President ASSOCHAM said, “The government has made tremendous investments in social, physical and digital infrastructure but to get to Bharat@100 the private sector will have to play a bigger role. Trade diplomacy through FTA’s, Investment corridors and working with friendly countries has tremendous impact on the MSME sector who are the backbone of the economy.”