<h1>Senior official urges industry and MSMEs to commit investment for rapid, inclusive industrialisation, innovation, and export growth</h1> A senior union territory official urged national industry to support rapid industrialisation of the territory by committing corporate houses and MSMEs to its development, framing investment as a collective responsibility to ensure integration and inclusive growth. The official called for targeted measures to boost MSME productivity and exports, foster an innovation economy, and advance next-generation reforms benefiting handicrafts and small enterprises. Private investment in R&D was encouraged, with emphasis on defence, space, agriculture and manufacturing sectors, to catalyse industrialisation, self-reliance and broader economic integration of the Union territory.