Export logjam: In race against China, power equipment makers seek govt help

The first of a three-part series looks at how India's high-value power equipment exports to China have been hit by bureaucratic hurdles

An Indian electric equipment maker recently spent six months translating from Mandarin to English all the documents and allied rules, laws and regulations of a tender floated by the State Grid Corporation Limited of China.

“We realised that none of the conditions favoured our participation. Our request for a translated copy of the tender fell on deaf ears. Moreover, if I was eligible under one criterion, I wasn’t meeting the sub-criteria. It’s a mesh of rules to prevent Indian companies from entering the Chinese market while they continue to flood our market,” said a senior executive of the company mentioned