Online platform soon for amnesty scheme benefits: DGFT SK Sarangi

'There are other sectors, such as engineering goods, agriculture, food processing, where the potential is very high'

Over the next one week, the government will create an online platform for entities to avail special one-time amnesty scheme for default in export obligations, Director General of Foreign Trade Santosh Kumar Sarangi said during an interaction. Edited excerpts:

What will be the immediate benefits for exporters under the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) 2023?

There is no correlation between providing incentives and higher exports. Over a period of time, the thought process has been to move away to remission-based schemes and improve the supply chain on our domestic front. For that, focusing on schemes such as the production-linked incentive (PLI)