“On average, around one hundred Indian citizens in Singapore continue to register with the High Commissioner here for return flights, and more than 11,000 have registered it so far,” Indian High Commissioner P Kumaran said Wednesday.
Special flights have been organized as a component of the ongoing Vande Bharat project and, when necessary, more flights are added to help fulfill the main call from safe destinations to help Indian citizens return home as they have lost their jobs or return for medical care. treatment, or circle of distressed relatives, he says.
Kumaran said the High Commission will continue to paint enough repatriation flights, even though formal flights between Singapore and India have not resumed.
The High Commission has repatriated more than 17,000 Indian citizens by organizing special flights since May, Kumaran said.
Addressing PTI, the envoy also indexed his priorities through execution in India-Singapore from his tenure here, specificly through more intensive political commitment, focusing on expanding business and investment flows, and generation collaborations in the fintech and startup space.
“We have planned an India-ASEAN hackathon e-year as a component of similar hackathons between India and Singapore in the past,” he said. “We are also working harder on other collaboration opportunities, such as enabling virtual invoices in Singapore, India’s National RuPay cards, working in combination to expand a Global Stack, modeled on India Stack, and to make our MPME platforms interoperable. “
Discussions are taking place with the Singapore Manufacturing Federation (SMF) to explore trade partnership opportunities.
“India offers commercial sites in economic zones planned to advertise production,” he said, stressing that the country has a “very competitive” production ecosystem, its low labor costs.
Singapore, through regionally connected establishments and industry bodies such as SMF, as well as an ASEAN smart market, offers smart customers for a partnership in which everyone wins.
“This fits perfectly into India’s strategy of being a global production hub with Singapore’s investment in specialized production sectors and cooperation in mastery of reaching what is necessary for Indian workers,” Kumaran said.
“Singapore has long been an FDI country for the Indian market and, by expanding our collaborations with SMF, our goal is to integrate more industries into the country’s production sector,” Kumaran said.
Investors see India as a long-term market with an ongoing national call for domestic reforms and economic reforms that create a business-friendly environment as well as a government for export-oriented industries, according to Kumaran.
On the other hand, the High Commissioner is also expected to begin painting the new construction of the Indian High Commission on Stevens Road, on the outskirts of the Orchard Road hotel area and the central business district.
It is designed to be a multi-story apartment on the plot of absolute ownership through the Indian government, with the existing Chancellery and the Residence of the High Commissioner.
“We plan to complete India’s new High Commission in about 3 years,” the envoy said.
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