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Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to telecom gear firms: Have 'atma vishwas'

Kant pointed out that the global supply chain is in a flux as most countries are looking at alternatives and reducing their dependence on one country

"Much of the investment, much of the decision making, much of what happens in India happens in states and therefore we need to make states easy and simple," Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive, NITI Aayog
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Amitabh Kant. Chief executive officer, NITI Aayog

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, in a straight talk with leading and potential global telecom equipment-makers such as Ericsson and Nokia, made it clear today that Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with ASEAN countries are here to stay. Indian companies, he said, should not promote pro­tectionism but build scale and size to compete with the world.
 
Kant was responding to the demand by telecom equip­ment-makers that the govern­ment should rectify the “ano­maly" that has occurred due to India’s FTAs with Southeast Asian countries that allow them to export telecom com­ponents to India duty-free, thus obviating the need for them to