Invest India, Infrastructure Asia tie-up on capacity building

08 Aug 2022 CW Team

Invest India, a national investment promotion and facilitation agency, signed a MoU with Singapore's Infrastructure Asia to jointly work on capacity building and sharing of knowledge as India implements its $1.4 trillion National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP).

“This MoU is targeted more at capacity building, sharing knowledge and making more introductions,” said Invest India Vice President Rahul Agarwal.

Infrastructure Asia, a Singapore based platform for infra players to discuss key issues, will bring the Singapore eco system into India and Invest India will act as facilitator into the country.

Agarwal exchanged the MoU with Infrastructure Asia Executive Director Lavan Thiru after the two-day infrastructure forum. He also shared the progress on the $1.4 trillion for the NIP, saying, “We will complete this funding as we are working across the sectors.”

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