INDIA NEWSLETTER ISSUE 107 OCTOBER 2021
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In a major boost to
export prospects of agricultural produce, India has achieved a significant increase of 21.8% in export of agricultural and processed food products in the 2021-22 (AprilAugust) in comparison to the corresponding period of 2020-21.
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report Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, published by Counterpoint Dr Jitendra Singh launched Research, in the second the “AmritGrand Challenge quarter of 2021, smart TV Program” titled “JANCARE” shipments from India to identify 75 Start-Up increased by 65% YoY, due Innovations in Telemedicine, to rising expansion Digital Health, mHealth with activities adopted by BIG Data, AI, Block Chain original equipment and other technologies. manufacturers (OEMs) for their smart TV portfolios. The Gem and
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Indian Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) announced schools, including the that gem and jewellery Indian Institute of Science exports hit a new high of US (IISc) in Bengaluru and six $ 3.26 billion in August, Indian Institutes of thanks to robust demand Technology (IITs), are for the upcoming festive among the top 500 season and the easing of universities in the QS entry restrictions. Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 . ICRA, a ratings firm, Twelve
spots and has been ranked 46th by the World Intellectual Property Organization in the Global Innovation Index 2021 rankings. The consistent improvement in the GII ranking is owing to the immense knowledge capital, the vibrant startAccording to up ecosystem, and the government amazing work done by the preliminary India's public and the private statistics, merchandise exports research organizations. increased 21.35% year-onyear to US$ 33.44 billion According to a in September, owing to report released by global improved performance in consulting firm Kearney in key sectors such as collaboration with the engineering goods and Confederation of Indian petroleum products. Industry (CII), India's vaccines industry could Union Minister of grow from US$ 2 billion to (Independent US$ 4 billion or even US$ State Science & 5 billion as new Indian Charge) and global pharmaceutical Technology; Minister of (Independent companies include State vaccines as a key part of Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, their portfolios.
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raised its projection for India's real GDP growth in 2021-22 to 9% from earlier 8.5%. The change was prompted by a ramp-up of COVID-19 immunisation, strong advance projections of the kharif (summer) crop, and quicker government expenditure, according to the agency.
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Byju’s to raise ~US$
300 million as part of a greater round of new investment as the world’s most valuable edtech company concentrates on expanding its business in global markets and delve into more acquisitions. INDIA NEWSLETTER . 1
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The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC), set up in 1954, is one of the oldest Export Promotion Councils in India. The Council has played a transforming role over the years, inculcating export culture and promoting exports of Indian man-made fibre and textiles. Products under the purview of Council The products under the purview of the Council are MMF and blended textile items including fibre, yarn, fabrics, made-ups, accessories, home textiles, technical textiles etc. The Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council Resham Bhavan, 78, Veer Nariman Road, Mumbai - 400020, India. Phone: (+91-22) 62318282 (100 lines) 22048797, 22048690 Fax: (+91-22) 2204 8358 E-mail : srtepc@srtepc.in ; ed@srtepc.in Website : www.srtepc.in Contact Person: Mr. S. Balaraju (Executive Director)
Member companies of SPTEPC: Shahlon Silk Industries Limited Mr. Dhiraj Raichand Shah 3rd Floor, Dawer Chambers. Nr.Sub - Jail, Ring Road, Surat – 395 002, Gujarat Tel : 0091-261-3090200 E-mail : exim1@exim.shahlon.com Web: www.shahlon.com Rughani Brothers Mr.Ronak Rughani #5-B, 247, Mittal Industrial Estate, Marol Naka, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai: 400059 Tel : 0091-28563975/0091-28563859 E-mail : rughanibrothers@gmail.com Web: www.rughanibrothers.co.in Dodhia Synthetics Limited Mr. Bhadresh M.Dodhia Sr. 216, office no.1001, Filix Tower,10th floor, Opp. Asian Paints, LBS Marg, Bhandup (W), Mumbai - 400078. Tel : 0091-22-61166100 E-mail : bhadresh@dodhiagroup.com Web: www.dodhiagroup.com Prafful Exports Mr. Narain Aggarwal Ground Floor, Sagar Shopping Centre, Ring Road, Sahara Darwaja, SURAT 395 002, Gujarat Tel : 0091-261-2334000/2321000 E-mail : narain@prafful.com Web: www.prafful.com Reliance Industries Ltd. Mr. R.D.Udeshi, President - Polyester Chain Reliance Corporate Park, Building 8, First Floor, B Wing, Thane-Belapur Road, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai – 400701 Tel : 0091-44770000/44781342 E-mail : r.d.udeshi@ril.com Website : www.ril.com Grasim Industries Ltd. Mr. Ajay Sardana Joint President & Head Customers, Market Intelligence & Liasioning. Pulp and Fibre Business GRASIM, Aditya Birla Group.
Unit 501 A & 502, Hubtown Solaris, 5th floor, Prof. NS Phadke Marg, Vijay Nagar, Andheri- East, Mumbai:400069 Tel: 0091-22-61957791 E-mail : ajay.sardana@adityabirla.com Web: www.grasim.com Indo Rama Synthetics (India) Ltd. Mr. R. K. Vij 20th Floor, DLF Square, DLF Phase - II, Gurgaon - 122002, Haryana. Ph: 0091-124-4997000 E-mail:ranvirk.vij@indorama-ind.com Web: www.indorama.com Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing CO. LTD. Mr.Rajnesh Datta, Vice President (Sales & Mktg.) C - 1, Wadia International Center, Pandurang Budhkar Marg, Worli, Mumbai- 400025, Maharashtra Ph. 0091-22-66620000 E-mail: rajnesh.datt@bombaydyeing.com Web: www.bombaydyeing.com Wellknowm Polysters Ltd. Mr. Atul Tandon Nirmal B- Wing, 14th Floor, Backbay Reclamation, Nariman Point, Mumbai-400021 Phone :0091-22-66207000 E-mail: atul_tandon@wellknown.net.in Web: www.wellknown.co.in Banswara Syntex Limited Mr. Rakesh Mehra Gopal Bhawan, 5th Floor 199 Princess Street MUMBAI 400 002 Ph:0091-22-66336571/22064486 E-mail: rakeshmehra@banswarasyntex.com Web: www.banswarasyntex.com Sangam (India) Limited Mr. S. N. Modani Sangam House, Chittorgarh Road, Atun, Bhilwara - 311 001,Rajasthan T: 0091-1482 305000 E-mail: snmodani@sangamgroup.com Web: www.sangamgroup.com
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................................................................................................................................................ HCL Tech expands partnership with Google Cloud for healthcare, life sciences solutions: IBEF HCL Technologies announced that it has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to mutually launch healthcare and life sciences solutions for customers. This collaboration will deliver the best of HCL and Google Cloud’s deep health care and life sciences domain abilities and investments through coinnovation and address the changes in the industry. HCL Technologies will institute a joint centre of excellence (CoE) for Google Cloud with industry subject matter experts and Google Cloud-certified ideapreneurs to provide solutions for payer, provider, medtech and biopharma customers. HCL's Google Cloud Native Labs will help propel these solutions with Google Cloud support, which is placed to deliver solutions across its native data and AI offerings and its security capabilities throughout the healthcare and life sciences value chain. HCL's CoE will build solutions that focus on critical industry issues, such as interoperability, data governance and security, while delivering customercentric experience. “As the healthcare and life sciences industry persists to digitally transform, there is a rising need for solutions that are cloud-native, secure and support innovation, said Mr. Kevin Ichhpurani, corporate vice president (Partner Ecosystem) at Google Cloud.
“We collaborated with Google Cloud for this key project as it will enable our experts at HCL to integrate decades of domain expertise to deliver cutting-edge, cloud-native solutions to the market, stated Mr. Shrikanth Shetty, corporate vice president at HCL Technologies. The collaboration will help enhance the patient and employee experiences and utilize data to drive insights in areas like claims management and ‘servitization’, he added.
India is the 17th largest supplier of builder hardware products and is on its way to fulfil the government ambition to become a global manufacturing hub of builder hardware products: PIB Builder Hardware is another performer making India as one of the top 20 suppliers with a 1.2% share in the world builder hardware export pie, said Minister of State of Commerce & Industry Mr. Som Parkash. While addressing the Builder Hardware Expo, organised by EEPC India, virtually the Minister noted that builder hardware products from India have considerable demand across the continents. Indian builder hardware product is one of the best performing segments in the Indian engineering goods sector which has been the key driver of merchandise exports from the country. “Builder hardware industry is linked to the construction equipment industry where the revenue was valued at US$ 6.5 billion in 2020 and the construction market is expected to be the third largest globally by 2025,” said Mr. B B Swain, Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).
India is the 17th largest supplier of builder hardware products and is on its way to fulfil the government ambition to become a global manufacturing hub of builder hardware products.
India reopens to foreigners on tourist visa from 15. Oct 2021, only chartered flights allowed for now: Hindustan Times Foreign tourists intending to visit India on chartered flights can finally do so from 15. October 2021, while those travelling on regular planes will have to wait for one more month. According to the notifications issued by the Union home ministry last week, India will start granting tourist visas to foreigners travelling on chartered flights from October 15 and those by regular planes from November 15. The latest orders are a sign that the country is gradually relaxing its coronavirus disease (Covid-19) restrictions and reopening its frontiers, albeit with sufficient and necessary precautions, in view of the easing overall pandemic situation. India suspended all visas granted to foreign travellers last year in view of the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the country and by extension, the rest of the world. Not just that, the country also imposed several other restrictions on international travel, including limiting the number of flights and constituting special ‘air bubble’ arrangements with countries with favourable situations for travel. However, with the gradual easing of the pandemic situation, foreign travellers were later allowed to avail of any other kind of Indian visa, except a tourist visa, to facilitate for themselves entry and stay in India.
28 unicorns created in India this year: Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman: The Live Mint
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................................................................................................................................................ Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Indian economy has witnessed the creation of 28 unicorns, or startups valued over $1 billion, this year on the back of a series of reforms unleashed by the Centre.
funds, Sitharaman stated, adding the window for reporting of overthe-counter transactions has also been extended by three hours.
Investor protection must be given due consideration because that is a very important part of confidence booster for investors, the finance FM Sitharaman said the minister added. Indian economy has witnessed a spur of unprecedented Rural consumption takes growth in the form of startups pole position in Q2 2022: in the last two decades. The IBEF finance minister was addressing a virtual The recent quarter witnessed conference organised by the increased demand for consumer Indian Private Equity and goods from small towns and Venture Capital Association villages, outpacing cities. Rural (IVCA). consumption of FMCG goods expanded 58% year on year, twice The Department for Promotion the urban consumption, during the of Industry and Internal Trade quarter ended September 2021, (DPIIT) has recognised over according to the latest report by 56,630 startups across Bizom, a sales automation firm that districts throughout the transacts with 7.5 million retail country, IVCA said in a stores. The overall market has statement quoting FM recovered sharply with the quarter Sitharaman. seeing a 46% growth in total sales by value. Rural markets have "Indian startups have so far grown faster in the past two years, created 65 unicorns out of underpinned by higher farm which 28 have been created in income, minimal retail disruption 2021. This shows that there is during the 2020 lockdown and increased activity in this space migrant workers returning home. and a lot of capital from angel Rural markets are also resilient on investors. A series of reforms the back of a strong kharif crop, have been unleashed. Different good rabi sowing and good capacities of Alternative monsoon. The growth in rural Investment Fund (AIF) have markets was also driven by rise in been given more flexibility," kirana outlets that more than the finance minister said. doubled compared to a year ago. Investment guidelines have Mr. Krishnarao Buddha, Senior been issued for provident Category Head at Parle Products, funds and superannuation India's largest food company highlights that from a demand perspective, rural has been outperforming urban except for a short blip few months ago as they faced no supply chain issues. Also, the surge in infections in villages led the people to turn to packaged foods. Mr. Akshay D'Souza, Chief of Growth & Insights at Mobisy Technologies, which owns Bizom The Startup Guidebook highlights that disruptions in supply and closure of kiranas The ultimate guide to starting during the last wave, led to a stronger focus on essentials. Business in India. However, this time the key enabler
for growth has been the strong presence of kirana outlets and increased people mobility that is fuelling higher growth across categories. Villages saw a surge in infections during the second COVID-19 wave earlier this year, which led to cities outpacing villages in June. Urban market was less impacted due to increased sales through ecommerce, improved performance of modern trade and chemist outlets, coupled with limited closure of general trade outlets then.
India to resume Covid-19 vaccine exports to developing nations: The Live Mint India will resume exports of Covid-19 vaccines. Government officials said, in a move likely to aid developing nations that have struggled to vaccinate their populations after New Delhi restricted shipments amid resurgence of cases at home. The exports would be a mix of donations and commercial deals, and would include shipments to Covax, a World Health Organization-supported facility aimed at getting vaccines to developing countries. India has been a major supplier to Covax. India will accord priority to neighboring countries, Africa, and Latin America, according to an Indian government official familiar with the plan. The official declined to detail how many vaccines India plans to export. India exported 66 million doses to 95 countries before temporarily restricting the shipments in early April to help ease supply shortages as Covid-19 cases rose rapidly in the country last spring. A resumption of exports will provide a welcome boost for Covax. INDIA NEWSLETTER . 4
Reforms Boost 2021
................................................................................................................................................ Retrospective Tax Repeal In August 2021, the GOI introduced the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021, to amend the Income Tax Act, 1961, and withdraw tax demands made using a 2012 retrospective legislation on indirect transfer of Indian assets prior to May 28, 2012. The tax demand will be nullified on fulfillment of specified conditions such as withdrawal or furnishing of undertaking for withdrawal of pending litigation and that no claim for cost, damages, interest, etc. shall be filed.
(i) to make manufacturing in India globally competitive by removing sectoral disabilities, (ii) to create economies of scale and ensure efficiencies. (iii) to create a holistic ecosystem in India and make India an integral part of the global supply chains. (iv) to attract global investments and generate large scale employment opportunities and enhance exports substantially.
In August 2021, GOI launched the asset monetization pipeline of Central ministries and public sector entities: ‘National Monetization Pipeline (NMP Volumes 1 & 2)’.
GOI announced an outlay of ~US$ 36.26bn for the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Schemes across 13 key sectors.
Policy of Strategic Disinvestment was announced in February 2021 with clear Roadmap for Strategic and Non-Strategic Sectors. Strategic Disinvestment of Bharat Petroleum, Shipping Corporation of India, Container Corporation of India, IDBI Bank, BEML (Bharat Earth Movers), Pawan Hans, Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited etc. to be completed in 2021-22. The privatization of two public sector banks and one general insurance company is to be taken up in FY 2021-22.
The aim of the amendment is to bring tax certainty and ensure the pending Income-tax proceedings shall be withdrawn, demand, if any, raised shall be nullified, and amount, if any, collected shall be refunded to the taxpayer National Asset Monetization without any interest. Pipeline
PLI Schemes
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NMP estimates aggregate monetization potential of ~USD 82.2 bn through core assets of the Central Government, over a fouryear period, from FY 2022 to FY 2025.
Includes more than 12 line ministries and more than 20 asset classes. The sectors included are roads, ports, airports, railways, warehousing, gas & product Production Linked Incentive pipeline, power generation and Schemes are a key element of transmission, mining, telecom, the Government of India’s push stadium, hospitality and housing. for achieving its Atmanirbhar Bharat goals. The top 5 sectors (by estimated value) capture ~83% of the With an aim of making India aggregate pipeline value. Roads truly Atmanirbhar, the prime (27%), Railways (25%), Power objective of these PLI schemes (15%), oil & gas pipelines (8%) and Telecom (6%). is
IPO of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) to be brought in through requisite legislative amendments.
Infrastructure Development Institution
Financing: Finance
In March 2021, GOI approved setting up of a Development Finance Institution with an initial capital of ~US$ 2.67 bn. National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NBFID) is being set up as the principal development financial institution (DFIs) for infrastructure financing. NBFID will be set up as a corporate body with authorised share capital of ~US$ 13.38 bn. Initially, the central government will own 100% shares of the institution which may subsequently be reduced up to 26%.
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................................................................................................................................................ Financial objectives: to directly or indirectly lend, invest, or attract investments for infrastructure projects located entirely or partly in India. Developmental objectives: facilitating the development of the market for bonds, loans, and derivatives for infrastructure financing.
Telecom Sector Reforms
Labor Codes GOI passed 4 path-breaking Labor codes in September 2020. New Labor Codes envisage covering over 0.5 billion workers from organized, unorganized and self employed for minimum wages, social security. The four codes include (i) Wage Code (ii) Social Security Code (iii) The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (iv) Industrial Relations Code.
In September 2021, GOI announced 100 percent foreign Fintech Sector Achievements direct investment (FDI) in the telecom sector with safeguards. In the Fintech sector, India has now 65 companies that have turned Unicorn. 28 of 65 companies were created in 2021.
Fintech sector has the highest number of Unicorns (5), followed by e-commerce, Software as a Service (SaaS), marketplace, EdTech, and NBFCs.
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In August 2021, the GOI launched the Vehicle Scrappage Policy, with the following conditions: Commercial vehicles be deregistered after 15 years in case of failure to get the fitness certificate. Private Vehicles be de-registered after 20 years if found unfit or in case of a failure to renew registration certificate.
Unicorns of 2021 include Mobile Premier League (gaming platform), Grofers (groceries), CoinDCX (cryptocurrency) and BharatPe (Fintech), among others.
The cabinet also announced a four-year moratorium on unpaid statutory dues by telecom companies. The telecoms will, however, pay interest on the moratorium period. The cabinet also approved rationalizing of the definition of aggregated gross revenue (AGR), excluding non-telecom revenue of telecos from payment of statutory levies.
9 of the 28 start-ups originated from Bengaluru, 7 from Mumbai and the rest from Gurugram, Noida, Delhi, Pune and Chennai.
The objectives of the policy are to reduce population of old and defective vehicles, achieve reduction in vehicular air pollutants to fulfil India’s climate commitments, improve road and vehicular safety, achieve better fuel efficiency, formalize the currently informal vehicle scrapping industry and boost availability of low-cost raw materials for automotive, steel and electronics industry.
India Stack
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Healthcare Healthcare has become one of India’s largest sector, both in terms of revenue and employment. Healthcare comprises hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical tourism, health insurance and medical equipment. The Indian healthcare sector is growing at a brisk pace due to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well private players. Indian healthcare delivery system is categorised into two major components public and private. The Government, i.e. public healthcare system, comprises limited secondary and tertiary care institutions in key cities and focuses on providing basic healthcare facilities in the form of primary healthcare centres (PHCs) in rural areas. The private sector provides majority of secondary, tertiary, and quaternary care institutions with major concentration in metros and tier I and tier II cities. India's competitive advantage lies in its large pool of well-trained medical professionals. India is also cost competitive compared to its peers in Asia and Western countries. The cost of surgery in India is about one-tenth of that in the US or Western Europe. Market Size : The healthcare market can increase three-fold to US$ 133.44 billion by 2022. In Budget 2021, India’s public expenditure on healthcare stood at 1.2% as a percentage of the GDP. A growing middle-class, coupled with rising burden of new diseases, are boosting the demand for health insurance coverage. With increasing demand for affordable and quality
healthcare, penetration of health insurance is poised to expand in the coming years. In FY21, gross direct premium income underwritten by health insurance companies grew 13.3% YoY to Rs. 58,572.46 crore (US$ 7.9 billion). The health segment has a 29.5% share in the total gross written premiums earned in the country.
Recent Developments:
Between April 2000 and December 2020, FDI inflows for drugs and pharmaceuticals sector stood at US$ 17.99 billion, according to the data released by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
In July 2021, India made its Covid19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, open source for all countries. Almost 76 countries have displayed interest in leveraging the CoWIN platform to manage their national COVID-19 vaccination drives.
By August 2021, the Health Ministry’s eSanjeevani telemedicine service crossed 9 million teleconsultations since its launch, enabling patient-todoctor consultations, from the confines of their homes, and doctor-to-doctor consultations.
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Andaman And Nicobar The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, located in the east of the Indian mainland geographically, is a splendid island in the Bay of Bengal. Once a hill range extending from Myanmar to Indonesia, these picturesque undulating islands, islets numbering around 572, are covered with dense rain-fed, damp and evergreen forests and endless varieties of exotic flora and fauna. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been declared as two of the 218 endemic bird area of the world. As many as 270 species and sub-species of birds have been reported existing in these islands, 106 of them being endemic. The Andaman Wood Pigeon, Andaman Padauk and Dugong are declared as State Bird, State Tree and State Animal respectively. There are about 96 Wildlife Sanctuaries, nine National Parks and one Biosphere Reserve in the islands. These islands are blessed with the bounties of both south-west and north-east monsoons. Most of these islands (about 550)
are in the Andaman Group, 28 of which are inhabited. The smaller Nicobars, comprise some 22 main islands (10 inhabited). The Andaman and Nicobars are separated by the Ten Degree Channel which is 150 Kms. wide. These islands also boast of freedom fighting days’ historically significant landmarks viz. Cellular Jail, Ross Island, Viper Island, Hopetown and Mount Harriet. Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been recognised as an ecofriendly tourist’s destination. As a tourist paradise, these islands have something very special to offer like Cellular Jail, Ross Island and Havelock Island. The Andaman tropical evergreen rain forests, beautiful silver sandy beaches, serpentine mangrovelines creeks, marine life abounding in rare species of plants, animals, corals, etc., provide a memorable experience to the tourists. There is tremendous scope for enjoying nature in the beach resorts, water sports and adventure water sports, adventure tourism like trekking, Island camping, Nature trail, Scuba Diving, etc.
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