Foreign Investors want progressive, consistent regulations in India: Naina Lal Kidwai
is a desire to see the issues with the pending projects that have got struck, particularly in power sector, getting sorted out.
"There is a desire to ensure that India gives a regulatory regime which does not appear to be stepping back or changing all the time. The concerns about regulatory changes, such as retrospective taxation, remain despite the recent reforms."
"What we need today is a consistency in the regulatory framework. These concerns are a sort of repeated refrain among the overseas investors here at Davos and we need to work on these issues," she added.
Kidwai said India is clearly important for foreign investors and fortunately they can not write it off.
"The investors and foreign companies present here, all of them want to engage with India. All acknowledge that we (India) are a sort of tough country to do business with, but they can't ignore it either.
"It is up to us to demonstrate that we can get it right and tell them that we are not as difficult as they believe, so that the decisions that they take about investments include
India as a major destination," Kidwai.
"We have always been an attractive destination in the services sector, but we should also work towards making ourselves an attractive destination for supply chain investments in the manufacturing sector. This is the area where big companies can come and invest," Kidwai said.
She added that India has been successful in attracting investments in sectors like auto and it should work harder to get even
