By News Agency of Kashmir
Rajouri : A two day national seminar on India’s exports with particular reference to changing world scenario got underway at the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University Rajouri.
Vice Chancellor Masud Chaudhary threw open the deliberations with his inaugural address this morning. Scores of economists and experts in foreign trade are attending the seminar which is first such academic discussion in Jammu and Kashmir on the issue immense significance.
While the speakers and participants discussed the technical and legal aspects of the world trade regime and new emerging business paradigms, there was unanimity in making Jammu and Kashmir as a launching pad for India’s trade relations with the Central Asian countries.
The participants stressed that Governments of India and Pakistan must hammer out the hitches to launch cross-LoC trade between two parts of Jammu and Kashmir and then reach out to the central Asian countries.
Participants also made an overwhelming point that efforts are needed to build a ‘Brand India’ which can be sold to the world without competitive and tough marketing.
Earlier in his inaugural address, the Vice Chancellor Masud A Choudhary shared his worries on the that a UN report has said that India is unlikely to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for which the deadline is 2015.
The Vice Chancellor said the conduct of prestigious seminar is happily coinciding with the commencement of the third academic session of this university. The presence on the campus of eminent participants at this particular point of time shall certainly provide an impetus to our efforts at grooming and cultivating excellence at all levels, particularly the fresher having their maiden feel of campus culture.