Apparel December 2019 | Page 94

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Enlivening Ties India is steadily proving to be a fertile ground for trade with the European Union. Anurima Das explains how this might impact both the parties. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the press during August this year, mentioned that his vision for the next five years is to have investment-led growth. “We are targeting 100 lakh crore worth of investment in the coming five years. To achieve this vision, the government is working on policies to promote inflows from domestic as well as foreign sources. This would entail further liberalising our FDI policy, simplification of labour laws, further enhancing ease of doing business, power sector reforms, asset monetisation and asset recycling in public sector, and reforms in banking, insurance and pension sectors. While investment has to be 92 I APPAREL I December 2019