Make For India

Senior Associate Director of the SMU Office of Postgraduate Professional Programmes S N Venkat wrote about the reforms and new initiatives under the administration of India's prime minister Mr Narendra Modi, which bring opportunities to Singapore companies in the consumer, manufacturing and infrastructure factors. Mr Venkat also wrote about the Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan's call for a Make For India initiative that focuses on manufacturing in India for domestic consumption, and interviewed four business persons in Singapore to find out how they think about the prospects of doing business in India. They included former chairman of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) and executive director of Indo-Straits Trading Company Shabbir Hassanbhai; managing director of Clearpack Singapore Govind Bhandari; managing director of Baker's Heaven Simon Tay; and assistant secretary of the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA) Meenu Sarin.