Government forms Working Group on Industrial Policy; Head- Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra

The Minister of Commerce and Industry formed a Working Group on Industrial Policy in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The Working Group has 21 members and is headed by Secretary, DPIIT. Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra is the Secretary, DPIIT.
The Working group will be responsible to prepare the contours of a new industrial policy which will aim at making India a manufacturing hub.
This will be the third industrial policy after the first in 1956 and the second in 1991. It will replace the industrial policy of 1991 which was prepared in the backdrop of the balance of payment crisis. The new policy will subsume the National Manufacturing Policy (NMP).
The committee has representatives from eight states: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.