TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ India offers “golden opportunities” for global investors in sectors such as infrastructure, transport, agriculture and food processing, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said.
Not only the country is going to offer a world class infrastructure in highways in two years, waterways and agriculture are also undergoing massive reforms that include 325 irrigation projects and massive river-interlinking programme, the Road, Transport, Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation minister said.
Addressing the World Food India 2017 conference on the ‘Opportunities in Infrastructure Technology & Equipment’, Gadkari said, “There are golden opportunities for investors in food processing, agriculture, water transport, highways, shipping and other sectors.”
“We are bound to create a world-class infrastructure in coming two years. Of the 32 logistic parks, 24 have already been identified on National Corridors to be built at a cost of Rs 2 lakh crore. These parks will cater to key production and consumption centres accounting for 45 per cent of India’s road freight,” the minister said.
