{"id":308964,"date":"2019-02-04T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308964"},"modified":"2019-02-04T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:28:08","slug":"german-delegation-meets-mos-commerce-and-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/german-delegation-meets-mos-commerce-and-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"German Delegation Meets MoS Commerce and Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/german-delegation-meets-mos-commerce-and-industry\/indo-german\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-308965\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308965 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/indo-german-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/indo-german-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/indo-german-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/indo-german-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/indo-german-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/indo-german.jpg 889w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a>A high level German delegation led by Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, German Minister of Economic Affairs, Digitalisation and Energy of North Rhine Westphalia met with Minister of State of Commerce &amp; Industry, C R Chaudhary, in New Delhi on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Both sides held discussions on a wide range of subjects with the Indian side looking for greater collaboration with Germany in projects like smart cities, food processing sector, building of airports, dairy sector and technology for green energy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The German side wished to gain more insight into the economic and industrial development in India and also learn more about German investments in India and their facilitation through the Indo-German Fast Track mechanism. Further, Germany desired to look at opportunities and challenges for German companies in India and to get a better understanding of the start-up India programme and its current status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The German Minister and his delegation discussed ways of cooperation between the start-up eco-system in India and North Rhine Westphalia region of Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">C. R. Chaudhary, said that there is great opportunity for German investment in the 100 smart cities being created in the country and construction of airports which will rise to 400 by 2025 in the country under the UDAN project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The German Minister said that Germany hopes to see more Indian companies being set up in Germany. Now only 80 Indian companies operate in Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Invest India made a presentation for the German delegation about investment opportunities in India and steps taken for ease of doing business.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high level German delegation led by Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, German Minister of Economic Affairs, Digitalisation and Energy of North Rhine Westphalia met with Minister of State of Commerce &amp; Industry, C R Chaudhary, in New Delhi on Monday. Both sides held discussions on a wide range of subjects with the Indian side looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308967,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308964\/revisions\/308967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}