DG Foreign Trade, KCCI, FIEO hold seminar in Srinagar

Srinagar, Nov 10: The Directorate of General Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce, and The Federation of Indian Export organization (FIEO)in association with The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Inc) organized seminar on “District As Export Hub-Promotion Training Programme” at Srinagar on Thursday.

Sukhdev Banerjee, Asstt. Director General of Foreign Trade, Aruna Narula, Member, Business Excellence Support Team, DGFT,  Gaurav Gupta, FIEO, Vijay Paul,  Branch Head, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India, Srinagar were Guests at the event. Officials from JKTPO. Officials from Directorate of Handicrafts & Handloom Kashmir.

Representatives of Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) Srinagar. Sheikh Ashiq Ahmad, President, KCC&I,  Rauf Ahmad Punjabi, Past President, KCC&I,  Parveez Ahmad Bhat also shared the dias.

While speaking on the occasion  Sukhdev Banerjee assured all help and support from Director General of Foreign Trade for exporters and entrepreneur for their new startups.

Aruna Narula briefed the audience about the Export Procedure, starting of Export, Process, Information, Role   and Schemes of DirectorGeneral of Foreign Trade.

Vijay  Paul  while speaking on the  occasion gave information to the  audience  about  the  role  of Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India in Export (ECGC)   in Exports and  how can  exporters  avail  their  schemes and procedure of their  insurance.

Sheikh Ashiq Ahmad while speaking appraised about the last 5 years decline in exports due to various reasons and the future roadmap for increasing the exports. Mr. Ashiq also stressed on the role of young entrepreneurs in the export sector and various benefits for earnings in foreign exchange, also appreciated the role of DGFT& FIEO. The need for conduct of future seminars in all districts of Kashmir was also emphasized.

Rauf Ahmad Punjabi, Parveez Ahmad Bhat and Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) Srinagar representatives also shared their experiences and briefed the audience about their views and suggestion to the Director General of Foreign Trade for capping   and    schemes especially for Covidperiod which has affected business badly and decline of exports from J&K.

The seminar was attended by exporters, entrepreneurs, students, and  asked questions which were addressed by the participants.