QES captures employment data in respect of establishments employing 10 or more workers, mostly constituting the organized segment, in the nine selected sectors. These sectors are Manufacturing, Construction, Trade, Transport, Education, Health, Accommodation & Restaurants, IT/ BPOs and Financial Services.

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The main areas of discussion during the aforesaid meeting included regulatory environment impacting private investment, measures for promotion of exports amidst rising protectionist tendencies, Industrial production, logistics, Media & Entertainment services & IT & IT enabled services among others.

Along with the Finance Minister, the meeting was attended by Shri Anurag Thakur, Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Finance Secretary, Shri Rajeev Kumar, Shri Atanu Chakraborty, Secretary, Economic Affairs, Shri Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Revenue Secretary, Shri Yogendra Tripathi, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra, Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Shri Anup Wadhanwan, Secretary Department of Commerce, Shri Pramod Chandra Mody, Chairman, CBDT, Shri P.K. Das, Chairman, CBIC, Dr K.V. Subramanian, CEA and other senior officials of Ministry of Finance.

With a view to give boost to Indian economy, the representatives of Industry, Services and Trade Sectors submitted several suggestions concerning Ease of doing business for going concern by reduction of compliance burden , reduction of tax litigation , allowing self-certification in low risk industry , decriminalisation of Tax and Company Laws , reduction of cost of equity capital , simplification and rationalisation with regards to duties and labour laws , adoption of international standards of Alternative Dispute Resolution , Export Development funds for helping MSME exporters , ease of investment flow into manufacturing sector.

Representatives of Industry, Services and trade Sectors included Shri Vikram Kirloskar, President, CIL, Shri Sandip Somany, President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Shri Deepak Sood, Secretary General ASSOCHAM , Shri Ashish Vaid President, IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Shri DK Aggarwal , President , PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Shri Animesh Saxena, President, Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises, Shri Ajay Sahai, DG & CEO, FIEO, Shri C Veeramani, IGIDR, Shri Pramod Kumar Agrawal, chairman, GJEPC, Shri Rajeev Singh, Director General, ICC, Shri C.R. Janardhana, President, FKCCI, Shri Panaruna Aqeel Ahmed, Chairman, Council for Leather Exports, Shri V. Venugopal, President, Cochin Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Shri Padmanabh Sinha, Chairman, IVCA, Ms. Rajni Aggrawal, President, Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs (FIWE), Shri Sachin Taparia, Chairman & CEO, Local Circles India Pvt. Ltd, Shri Aswani Mahajan, Swadeshi Jagaran Manch, Shri Govind Lale, Laghu Udyog Bharathi, Shri Jitendra Gupta, Laghu Udyog Bharathi .

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