{"id":19930,"date":"2020-09-05T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=19930"},"modified":"2020-09-05T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T20:12:19","slug":"indias-commitment-to-reform-being-taken-seriously-by-foreign-investors-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=19930","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s commitment to reform being taken seriously by foreign investors: Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>NEW DELHI: Finance minister <!-- -->Nirmala Sitharaman<!-- --> on Saturday said India&#8217;s commitment to reform is being taken seriously by <!-- -->foreign investors<!-- -->, which is evident from the good inflow of FDI even during the time of Covid-19. <br \/>Between April-July, the <!-- -->foreign direct investment<!-- --> (FDI) into India stood at $20 billion. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India&#8217;s commitment to reform is taken seriously by investors abroad and they take India to be a very desirable destination, otherwise we wouldn&#8217;t be seeing good amount of FDI coming even during the pandemic time when India, as many of our critics would say, had the strictest lockdown,&#8221; Sitharaman said. <br \/>Releasing the state rankings based on the implementation of State Business Reform Action Plan 2019, Sitharaman said Aatmanirbhar Bharat would help India build on its strengths and become self-reliant. <br \/>&#8220;Aatmanirbhar Bharat will lead to greater export competitiveness, better pricing and quality of exports, which show the Indian skill of making things to perfection,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Sitharaman said Aatmanirbhar Bharat is not for making India inward-looking, but to build on its strengths, one of the ways in which the country can become more competitive. <br \/>In the states&#8217; ease of doing business rankings released on Saturday, Andhra Pradesh retained the top position followed by UP and Telangana at the second and third spots, respectively. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/indias-commitment-to-reform-being-taken-seriously-by-foreign-investors-sitharaman\/articleshow\/77949774.cms\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said India&#8217;s commitment to reform is being taken seriously by foreign investors, which is evident from the good inflow of FDI even during the time of Covid-19. Between April-July, the foreign direct investment (FDI) into India stood at $20 billion. &#8220;India&#8217;s commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1599336740_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}