India’s Envoy urges Ghanaian Businesses, particularly the SMEs sector to take advantage of the huge opportunities his country has on offer

India’s High Commissioner to Ghana, H.E. Manish Gupta says Ghana and India can harness opportunities that are of mutual benefits to the two countries especially in areas of Trade, Agriculture and Information, Communication and Telecommunication (ICT) sector.

He said there are huge potentials in the service sector and particularly with Ghana’s growing desire to develop and improve its human resource base, India is equally deeplyinterested in supporting the country in that regard.

According to him, there was a huge degree of interests among Indian businesses to doing business in Ghana, as such, his priority as an envoy is to ensuring that this materializes for the benefit of people from the two sides.

H.E. Gupta said this at a brief media interaction in Tamale on Monday, September 30, as part of his official visit to the Northern Region.

The Indian High Commissioner, who resumed duty barely seven months ago explained that he undertook the trip to familiarized himself with not only the growing Indian community in the area, but also to interact with Ghanaian scholarship beneficiaries from the Indian Government and other potential Ghanaian businesses wanting to do business with his country.

“On the government side, a billion dollar has gone into investments covering; social infrastructure, scholarshipsand specialized trainings for the public sector in Ghana, whereas in the private sector – the Small, Medium and Small Enterprises inclusive, over 2 Billion dollars had been invested in Ghana. We want to further strengthenpartnership,” he maintained.

According to H.E. Gupta, solid technological background is what will be driving the future – a future – which he added, is already here with India, playing a pivotal role even at the world’s stage.

Mr. Gupta, stated that India’s capacity has expanded in Trade, ICT, Health, Infrastructure, Agriculture and Education and these further offer opportunities for willing Ghanaians to take advantage.

“India and Ghana, though geographically distant, share several cultural, historical and economic ties. Both are former British colonies with nationalist movements and similarities in independence struggles with great leaderslike Gandhi and Nkrumah. Our two countries belong tothe Non- Aligned Movement (NAM). Significantly too, the two countries have rich and beautiful cultures, that are hailed globally,” H.E. Gupta remarked.