{"id":342963,"date":"2023-04-11T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=342963"},"modified":"2023-04-11T04:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T09:42:33","slug":"cryptocurrencies-important-part-of-discussion-under-indias-g20-presidency-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cryptocurrencies-important-part-of-discussion-under-indias-g20-presidency-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrencies important part of discussion under India&#8217;s G20 presidency: Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Bharat-Hiteshi-2-Nirmala-Sitharaman-in-Lok-Sabha.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-341973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Bharat-Hiteshi-2-Nirmala-Sitharaman-in-Lok-Sabha.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/02\/Bharat-Hiteshi-2-Nirmala-Sitharaman-in-Lok-Sabha-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that cryptocurrencies are a very important part of the discussion under India&#8217;s G20 presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Given so many collapses and shocks in cryptocurrencies. We seek to develop a common framework for all countries to deal with this matter, &#8221; she said in Washington while participating in a roundtable meeting on the theme &#8216;Investment opportunities for the long term: India on the Rise&#8217; with business leaders and investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was hosted by industry body CII, US India Business Council and US Chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The roundtable was attended by a diverse set of investors, including senior executives, private sector business leaders, venture capitalists, institutional investors, and representatives of pension and endowment funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitharaman apprised the group of the journey of India&#8217;s conscious policy choices and structural and governance reforms that laid the foundation for the Indian economy to support growth at its full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Free trade agreements are being signed in a much faster way nowadays. We&#8217;ve just concluded one with Australia. Earlier we concluded with UAE, Mauritius and with ASEAN. We have extended the quota-free and tariff-free regime to least developed countries, &#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The finance minister also highlighted India&#8217;s robust digital public infrastructure such as Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and Account Aggregator platform, which have enabled small entrepreneurs to access credit and other digital services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a world full of post-pandemic challenges, she said that India offers policy certainty, skilled manpower, high digital tech adaption rate resulting in a host of opportunities for investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitharaman exhorted the participants to become part of India&#8217;s exciting transformational journey towards greater prosperity, better standards of living for its citizens and higher returns for investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said that cryptocurrencies are a very important part of the discussion under India&#8217;s G20 presidency. &#8220;Given so many collapses and shocks in cryptocurrencies. We seek to develop a common framework for all countries to deal with this matter, &#8221; she said in Washington while participating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":341973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15608,15750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342963"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342965,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342963\/revisions\/342965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/341973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}