District Wise Plan to Help Boost Manufacturing: 

District Wise Plan to Help Boost Manufacturing:

Context

‘Make In India’ scheme would be re-evaluated.

What are the priorities?

Following are the priorities:

• Firming up a district-wise industrial investment plan to help boost the share of manufacturing in the country’s GDP.
• Improving India’s economic diplomacy to spur exports and investments.
• Addressing challenges being faced by exporters owing to the Goods and Services Tax.
• Integrating India’s exports into the global supply chain.
• Improving logistics to reduce transaction costs of exporters.
• Bringing out an agricultural export policy.

Reasons for change in priorities and change of plan

• District-wise plan for boosting investments in manufacturing and other sectors.
• Every investor makes their investments in districts, and then base their decisions on factors including the district’s human resources, natural resources and the law and order situation.

Way forward

• There would be a re-evaluation of the ‘Make In India’ initiative to find out ways to revitalise manufacturing.
• He also called for laying emphasis not only on the ‘Make in India’ initiative but also on ‘Design In India’ for attracting investments.