Opportunities Galore For Investors In India: Nirmala Sitharaman

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for all investors and industry stakeholders with the current reset in the global supply chain and clear headed and committed leadership in
the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said.Ms Sitharaman arrived in New York late on Friday after her visit to Washington DC
where she participated in the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)."With the current reset in the
global supply chain and clear headed and committed leadership in India, I see opportunities galore in India for all investors and industry
chamber FICCI and the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum here on Saturday.Startups in India have grown tremendously and many are now
raising money through capital markets
This year itself, more than 16 of them will qualify as unicorns, she said.India has fully leveraged the potential of digitisation even
during the most challenging times, the finance minister said.The role of technology in the financial sector is enabling pushing the frontier
of financial inclusion and fintechs are playing a key role in this area, she said at the roundtable, the Finance Ministry tweeted.Ms
Sitharaman also met Mastercard Executive Chairman Ajay Banga and Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, FedEx Corporation President and Chief
Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam, Citi CEO Jane Fraser and IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna.Following his meeting
series of reforms that are continuing can keep guiding India on the trajectory
I believe that there is a lot of opportunity for India to participate in supply chains and this can be very helpful over the next period of