President to inaugurate global exhibition on services on Monday

President- inaugurate-(उद्घाटन करना) global- exhibition - services- Monday

NEW DELHI, APRIL 16:   President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate Global Exhibition on Services (GES) tomorrow which will highlight India’s potential(क्षमता) to boost its services exports across sectors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will also address the inaugural session to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The third edition of the GES comes in the backdrop of increased focus on services trade and India’s submission to the World Trade Organisation on trade facilitation in services.

India’s services exports increased from $52 billion in 2005 to $155 billion in 2015, with a share of 3.3 per cent in global services exports. In the first 11 months of 2016-17, services exports stood at $146.5 billion, growing at 3 per cent.

The four-day event, to be held from April 17-20 at India Expo Mart, Greater Noida, will see participation from over 70 countries.

The event will focus on 20 services sectors, including information technology, tourism and hospitality, logistics, education and financial services.

The exhibition is being organised by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry together with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Services Export Promotion Council.

“GES 2017 brings together 550 exhibitors from 70 plus countries. More than 20,000 visitors are expected to attend the exhibition. The exhibition will see over 5,000 business meetings and deliberations at more than 30 seminars,” CII said.

The Indian Space Research Organisation, which recently won laurels for placing 104 satellites on a single launch, will also showcase its offerings regarding application of space technology for implementing and monitoring of public programmes on a real time basis at the GES.