Greater appetite in world for investing in India: Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Friday said India is getting increasingly prominent in the global economy, as he underlined the reforms undertaken by the Modi government that contributed to the country becoming one of the strong destinations for inward foreign direct investment. Addressing a business event in Cyprus, Jaishankar said the technological and infrastructure progress that India has made in the last few years has clearly created a “greater appetite in the world for investing in India.” “Where India is concerned, it is a fairly objective statement today to make that we are getting increasingly prominent in the global economy. Out trade policies and reforms which were undertaken during this period and the inherent economic strength, all in a sense channeled by a clear economic vision of the Modi government has contributed to us becoming one of the strong destinations for inward foreign direct investment,” Jaishankar said. “Also the technological and infrastructure progress that we have made in the last few years, has clearly created a greater appetite in the world for investing in India. But it has also increased our own capabilities where trade and other economic activities are concerned,” he added. Jaishankar stated that India used the time under Covid pandemic to carry out very ambitious economic reforms. “Some of them were in the making since 2014. The Make in India Initiative and the Amanibhar Bharat which is a sort of self-reliance for promoting greater capacities within India. These were taken by the government in a much more focused way,” the External Affairs Minister said. He added that the goal is to make India a major manufacturing hub and emerge as a USD 5 trillion economy by 2025. Jaishankar also drew attention to the successes of the Productive Linked Incentive (PLI) program which intends to increase production based in India. “We are doing this not just for our own prospects, obviously, that is important bu