Sri Lanka and India have begun moves to accelerate the work of the Joint Task Force forward. “2012 was a milestone year in our bilateral trade history giving birth to the Joint Task Force. The uptrend has already started with our exports to India rising by 12 per cent in 2012” said Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister [...]

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Sri Lanka and India have begun moves to accelerate the work of the Joint Task Force forward.

“2012 was a milestone year in our bilateral trade history giving birth to the Joint Task Force. The uptrend has already started with our exports to India rising by 12 per cent in 2012” said Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Sri Lanka.

He was addressing an Indian trade delegation led by Dr (Ms) Daggubati Purandeswari, Indian Minister of State of Commerce, Industry & Textiles on 21 January at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Colombo. Dr Purandeswari is the daughter of N. T. Rama Rao, the three times former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and founder of Telugu Desam Party. Accompanying Dr Purandeswari were JS Deepak (Additional Secretary of Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry), Ms Vandana Yadev (Director, Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry), P. Kumaran (acting Indian High Commissioner in Colombo) and M Manish (Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Indian High Commission in Colombo). Joining the Sri Lankan Minister were Anura Siriwardene (Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Commerce), Asoka Godawita (Deputy Director of Commerce), and D.D. Premaratne (Director, Department of Commerce).

“We have been looking forward to this meeting for a long time,” Dr Purandeswari said, addressing Minister Bathiudeen according to a media release issued by the Commerce Ministry. “Our bilateral trade cooperation could be taken forward not only in terms of state to state level, but on public private partnership levels as well. Future trade and investment initiatives we envisage can take India’s trade and investments in Sri Lanka to new levels,” she added.

The first Sri Lanka-India CEOs Forum was held in August 2012 and was organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), with the participation of a large number of CEOs from both Sri Lanka and India.




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