January 2015 \ India Empire Events \ Interview—FICCI
"It is the right time for diaspora to connect economically with India"

Interview with Dr A. Didar Singh, Secretary General, Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

What are the other diaspora-focused events that FICCI has managed and organized in the recent past?

We in FICCI are in fact the first business organization in India, may be in the world, which has actually established a committee on migration and diaspora. This is a specialized thing that we have done. And just recently (in December), we organized a major event or a major conference, an international conference on the business case for migration. That is because we believe that mobility, and particularly mobility of professionals of businesses, of inter-corporate transfer, is the major concern for business in the 21st century. Because though there is free movement of goods, services, and money, it is not the free movement of human capital. And, therefore, I believe that as a business organization we have an important role to play—flag this issue internally as well as externally to say that business must understand and business must raise its voice to be heard around the world, and specially with immigrating countries that mobility is a very important issue and needs to be looked at very seriously. So we’ve had an event in that area, and we will continue to do more activities. We also had organized last year a diaspora investment event—the GIBC—through Invest India which was extremely successful, and we intend to do more on that.




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