India's manpower, Australia's tech can lead to world beating outcome, says Goyal

Union Minister of State (independent charge) for Coal, Power and New and Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said a combination of India's manpower and Australian technology would lead to a world beating outcome.

He held a meeting with Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Dr. Anthony Lynham and Minister for Energy, Biofuels and Water Supply Mark Bailey here, and invited them to visit India.

Both sides agreed on the need to extend Government to Government dialogue to Business to Business as well as People to People dialog.

Goyal highlighted the role of energy security in some of the key initiatives of Prime Minister Narendra Modi such as 'Make in India', 'Digital India' and 'Skill India'.

He further said Australia could help India with better technology and leapfrogging the learning curve.

He highlighted the transparent business regime in India, which is moving up rapidly in ease of doing business and competitiveness rankings.

The minister also pointed out the need to increase training collaboration through focused initiatives like 'Train the Trainer'.

"India is looking to have better, smarter and safer, and more tech savvy systems, which are affordable," he said, emphasising that there is a need to focus on outcomes during any collaboration.