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Cameron Seeks to Boost Trade Links with India
26/07/2010
By Bob Northgate
Prime Minister David Cameron will take a delegation of cabinet ministers and business leaders to India on Wednesday as he seeks to boost trade links with the former "jewel in the crown" of the British empire.
In the first example of the new focus on trade in foreign policy, the group will meet up in Delhi "in an unprecedented attempt to woo this rising world power", according to the Tory MP Jo Johnson, brother of Boris Johnson and a former FT India correspondent.
Cameron has been highly critical of the last government's approach to the so-called Bric emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India and China. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown visited India but failed to create what Cameron is dubbing a "special relationship".
Johnson writes in this week's Spectator: "By dispatching himself and so many of his most senior colleagues to India, and so early on, Cameron is making a clear signal of his intent to revitalise a critical, bilateral relationship – and repair what he regards as a decade of neglect."
Ravi Pandey Senior Vice President of NIIT Technologies is a Sensenx listed company says that;
“Although this trading relationship began many centuries ago, the UK is still one of India’s strongest trading partners, in Europe over seventy percent of all outsourcing contracts are with the UK, apart from the history the big drivers for this relationship are language, rule of law and democracy. However going forward it is critical that India strengthens its literacy and infrastructure base in order to sustain the powerful growth it has managed to secure in recent years. NIIT has been at the forefront of the private sector driving through the skills revolution in India”
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