Developing Districts as Export Hubs

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.... by the Central Government can only be effectively implemented with the collaboration of State Governments and the District Administration. Earlier, export promotion was a subject, primarily dealt by only the Central government, without any active mechanism involving the State or District level stakeholders into the decision making to promote goods and services produced at the grassroots level. The export promotion activity needs to be decentralized, for both formulation and implementation purposes, with an objective to boost local production and make Districts active stakeholders in driving export of local products/services. 3.03 District Export Promotion Committees -Institutional Mechanism at District Level Each District has a District ....

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....export profile, its further potential in the district, quantifiable targets to increase export performance from the District. This involves identifying and promoting products, which are currently being exported from there, and also identifying and promoting new products in the district with untapped export potential. These efforts are to be taken forward through an institutional mechanism to undertake a baseline study across goods and services, to map current export activities and the future potential along with the infrastructure and other constraints and bottlenecks that would need to be addressed to achieve this potential. The suggestive functions of the District Export Promotion Committee may include: S.No Functions 1. Prepare a ti....

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....nt facilitator for export promotion at District level. 10. Entry of all district level data/ information/progress into the portal being developed by DGFT and through the portal activate a virtual engagement/interaction forum for involving and reaching out to all stakeholders in the district, by enabling/facilitating them to come on board. 11. Act as a grievance redressal forum for exporters and follow up with the concerned Central and State agency. 12. Facilitate in organising buyer-seller meets, exhibitions, trade fairs etc. in the District to encourage the industries to showcase their products to the world. 13. Implementing the District Export Action Plan in a phased manner to ensure the District achieves the targeted export growt....

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....dentify quantifiable targets with specific timelines for their implementation. 8. Clear identification of incentives/Support provided by the State and Central Government. 9. Training and development needs for identified export products/services. 10. Analysis of the export data of the District and ways and means to effectively capture it. 11. Mid-term and long-term export strategy/suggestions to promote exports of identified products/services from the district. 3.06 State/UT Export Promotion Committees To synergise the efforts of the Department of Commerce/DGFT and the State/UT governments in promotion of exports from the State, each State shall constitute a State Export Promotion Committee(SEPC) headed by Chief Secretary of the S....