Piyush Goyal

Commerce and Industry Ministry Piyush Goyal said that sector specific interventions, involvement of all the stakeholders and functioning of the government as a whole helped in achieving the growth. Simplification of procedures, and extension of timelines and licences has also resulted in the record performance of exports, he added.

Addressing the media here, Goyal, who also handles the Consumer Affairs portfolio, said that consumers are the priority for the government and hence, it has recently come up with the draft e-commerce rules for consumer protection. After these rules are finalised, the government will come up with the much-anticipated e-commerce policy, he said. On the foreign trade policy, Goyal said that the policy should be released by October.