‘Make in India’ lion came from Switzerland?
Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Make in India “is the step of a lion", said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of the campaign that aims at turning India into a global manufacturing hub.
The logo is a striding lion made of cogs, symbolising manufacturing, strength and national pride. It looks great!
But if the buzz on the social media is to be believed, the magnificent symbol of one of PM Modi’s biggest push to turn around Indian economy and generate millions of new jobs appears to have been copied from a campaign by the Cantonal Bank of Zurich in Switzerland.
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At Hannover Messe, it’s all about Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’
India inc was present in large numbers at the Messe. Gautam Adani of the Adani Group and Nikhil Meswani of the RIL Group were seen moving around.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Joint Inauguration of the India Pavilion and the Joint Walk-About Make in India, at the industrial fair in Hannover, Germany on Monday. Minister of State for Commerce & Industry (Independent Charge), Nirmala Sitharaman is also seen. (PTI)
Clearly the industrial fair at Hannover seems to be all about Germany and the partner nation this year — India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited various pavilions set up by 14 Indian states and by German and Indian companies.
The Prime Minister was also accompanied by Union commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Amitabh Kant, secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP), who coined the ‘Make in India’ slogan.
While the ‘lion’, the symbol of ‘Make in India’ could be seen all over Hannover starting from the airport, the Indian pavilion was enthused and people greeted Prime Minister with the chant of ‘Modi-Modi’ and ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’.
India Inc was also present in significant numbers at the Messe. While Gautam Adani of the Adani Group and Nikhil Meswani of Reliance Industries Limited were seen moving around together, chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry was seen interacting with the Madhya Pradesh commerce and industry minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia. Even Ajay Shriram of the Shriram Group, CK Birla of the CK Birla Group and BK Goenka of the Welspun Group were also present at the Indian pavilion.
The Indian Pavilion has been designed on the principle of Vaastu with the pavilion split in 9 squares and the ceiling having a flower. The pavilion showcasing Indian culture and the country’s progress in the space technology, was designed and developed over the last two-and-half months.
While around 25 officials were working at the design stage, close to 125 worked over the last fortnight to set it up.
Though the government has made a big effort in promoting ‘Make in India’ in Germany, contrasting opinions emerged out of the event. While RIL’s chief representative in Europe, Mohan Murti said that more effort was needed to develop a perspective and perception about India which was missing, the head of another major company in India said that, “The ease of doing business has not happened on the ground and it is time now for the government to get it rolling.”
Make in India’ pitch from Sept. 25
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the “Make In India” campaign on September 25, aimed at reviving the job-creating manufacturing sector — key to taking the economy on a sustainable high growth path.
The drive, the Modi government hopes, will do for investment sentiment what the “Incredible India” campaign has accomplished for tourism. With his “Come, make in India” slogan in his Independence Day speech, Mr. Modi had invited global companies to set up manufacturing units in India to supply to the rest of the world.
For the launch, the government is likely to invite the who’s who of the global corporate sector from the U.S., Japan, Korea, Sweden, Poland, Australia, China, Italy, Germany and France.
The campaign includes invitations to the world’s top 3,000 companies to explore investment possibilities in India. Indian Embassies around the world are expected to join the campaign. “The objective is to take manufacturing growth on a sustainable basis to 10 per cent over the long term,” a senior Industry Ministry official told presspersons on Saturday. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion has set up an eight-member expert panel to redress grievances and handle queries of global and domestic investors within 24 hours.
Its role will be to provide information and solve investors problems
Panel to work with States to ease investment process
The ‘Make in India’ campaign to be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 25 will eventually take up policy reforms involving changes in laws to ensure ease of doing business in the country. An infrastructure push and tax issues are also on the cards, with the setting up of an eight-member expert panel by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion. Besides interfacing with investors, team Invest India will also work with Central and States departments to resolve policy and other issues.
“We will work with the States to accomplish de-bureaucratisation and deregulation and to ensure officials mindsets change from being permits issuers to partners in investment processes,” an official said.
Starting a business in India at present needs an entrepreneur to follow 12 procedures, which on an average takes 27 days. Similarly, enforcing contracts takes years, the official said adding that these need to be streamlined. The latest World Bank report on the ‘ease of doing business’ placed India at the 134th rank out of 189 economies on various parameters relating to business and regulatory environment.
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