Doing business in India is messy: US investors
At the end of the meeting,the Indian official pointed out that we are partners in distress.
Despite the recent series of economic reform being pushed by the Indian government,US investors and officials have told a visiting top Indian official that doing business in India is messy.
I do understand that many of you may have difficult time in doing business in India. Many of you yesterday told me and I quote,doing business in India is messy unquote, the Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram said at a reception hosted for him by the US India Business Council USIBC on Friday.
At a two-hour long meeting held at the Treasury Department,convened by the Under Secretary of Treasury,Lael Brainard,a select group of American investors,corporate leaders and official gave a free and frank assessment of the current investment climate in India,where they said are eager to pump in their money.
At the end of the meeting,the Indian official pointed out that we are partners in distress.
Mayaram is here leading an Indian delegation for US-India Economic amp; Financial Partnership meetings,between the US Treasury Department and Ministry of Finance.
Officials from the Reserve Bank of India RBI,Security and Exchange Board of India SEBI,Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority IRDA,and Forward Markets Commission FMC and well as their US counterpart organisations have attended the series of meetings held in Washington on Thursday and Friday.
During the meetings and also on the Friday reception,Mayaram assured the investors and US corporate sector that the Indian government is determined to take the necessary hard decision to improve upon the climate of investment and make it business friend as quickly as possible.
I think,you need to stay the course. You need to be there. We are a work in progress,because we are a developing country. We still need to improve our systems and we will continue to move in that direction. I can assure you that as time goes by,doing business in India will not be as messy as you think it is today, he said.
Diane Farrell,senior director and executive vice-president of USIBC,who participated in the meeting at the Treasury Department,said,the word messy did come up. That is absolutely true. At the end of two full hours,the Economy Secretary looked across and said well we are now partners in distress, she said.
We are partner in your continued and future success, she added.
Brainard said,during the meeting,the private sector participants gave some helpful suggestions on how to make investment environment much more friendly.
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