Return
to Story Page
To print: Select File and then Print from your
browser's menu
Our Bureau
Calcutta, Aug 22: Union commerce minister Ramakrishna Hegde and a top ministry official sounded somewhat sceptical on the 20 per cent export growth target, even as they exhorted industry to do better. On a defensive note, Hegde requested the industrialists to take the full opportunities available to them to reach the target.
"I have set a target of 20 per cent growth in exports. I have been called lotus-eater, impractical. I know that it is a high target and extremely difficult to achieve. Should we not take the fullest possible opportunity available to us?," Hegde asked. Even additional commerce secretary Rati Vinayak Jha felt that exports will not be good this year. "One cannot expect very good exports because of the depressionary trends," she said. Calcutta, Aug 22: Union commerce minister Ramakrishna Hegde and a top ministry official sounded somewhat sceptical on the 20 per cent export growth target, even as they exhorted industry to do better. On a defensive note, Hegde requested the industrialists to take the full opportunities available to them to reach the target.
"I have set a target of 20 per cent growth in exports. I have been called lotus-eater, impractical. I know that it is a high target and extremely difficult to achieve. Should we not take the fullest possible opportunity available to us?," Hegde asked. Even additional commerce secretary Rati Vinayak Jha felt that exports will not be good this year. "One cannot expect very good exports because of the depressionary trends," she said.
Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
------------------------------------------------------------
This story was printed from Net Express located at http://www.expressindia.com. Net Express provides a portal to India, with news from The Indian Express and The Financial Express along with sites on travel and tourism, the entertainment industry, the power sector, the environment and much more.
------------------------------------------------------------