Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra Portal: Aiming at sustainable investment

The central government is aiming to launch a digital portal to facilitate domestic investors in the country. The portal will be named “Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra” is currently under the testing phase and is expected to launch on 15^th May 2021. This move is made by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) & the Ministry of Commerce. This portal will be fully dedicated to facilitation domestic investors and expected to strengthen the effort to increase and promote domestic investment in the country. The websites will be available in regional languages. The mobile application for this portal is under development and may get launched sooner after the launch of the website if not launched along with the website.

The Support system under the umbrella of Invest India Program

Invest India program (or agency) was established in 2009. This digital investment portal will be the under of this agency. Invest India is a non-profitable organization established under the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) & Ministry of Commerce.

This Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra Portal will be facilitated by Invest India program of the central government of India. Invest India will promote the portal by deploying a team for Digital investment promotion and customer support. This support system will help domestic investors to connect directly with the expert team of Invest India. This support system will help in resolving queries of domestic investors related to the investment and business. It will also assist in the following matter of concern for investors and the businesspersons:

• This will provide information on the availability of raw material
• Tender information
• The requirement for Managing Investment
• Training to investors and businessperson
• The information Related to the sources of funding

This Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra portal is going to be very significant to all domestic investors and businesses in almost all terms. Besides these above-discussed features of the support system of this portal, there are more features that make Atmanirbhar Niveshak Portal very special and crucial for the boost of ease of doing business.

Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra: Important Features

1. This Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra portal will provide daily updates on initiatives and policies introduced by both central and state governments.
2. Chat Bot (Artificial Intelligence Based) for quick resolution of investor’s queries.
3. For the better resolution of queries of investors, meetings and discussions will be arranged with investment experts registered with Invest India.
4. This portal will provide information on land availability and manufacturing clusters to investors.
5. It will also provide assistance in gaining information about the taxation system in India, approvals, licenses, clearances, etc.
6. It will act as a single-source platform for gaining access to all those portals that are facilitating Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) like MSME Sampark, Champions portal, etc.
7. All tender information will be available on the portal (both Central & State Government tenders).

Important Facts about Invest India 

• Facilitating the domestic investors and businesses is always a key focused area for Invest India.
• More than 2,34,399 businesses requested have been facilitated by the experts at Invest India (updated on 4^th March 2021).
• More than 29,812 global business requests (from more than 160 countries) have been facilitated by Invest India.
• Invest India has an indicative investment of Rs. 31,725 crores. The actual investment of Rs. 9,375 crores show an indicative potential for generating the employment of 77,213.
• Invest India is working with 1384 companies.
• Around 601 Domestic companies have been assigned dedicated relationship managers by Invest India.
• Invest India has an indicative global investment of 153.7 billion USD. The actual investment of USD 28.75 Billion shows an indicative potential for generating the employment of 29,91,626. The actual employment stands at 3,38,685 (updated on 4^th March 2021).
• UNCTAD had acknowledged Invest India for its gold quality service to investors.

Frequently Asked Question (FAQs): IASCurrent Affairs

Question No.1: What is Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra Portal? 

Answer: The Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) & the Ministry of Commerce is going to launch a portal named “Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra”. This portal is currently under the testing phase and is expected to launch on 15^th May 2021. This move is made by  This Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra portal will be fully dedicated to facilitation domestic investors and expected to strengthen the effort to increase and promote domestic investment in the country.

Question No. 2: Which departments will own Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra?

Answer: Invest India is owning Atmannirbhar Niveshak Mitra Portal. This portal is made by the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) & the Ministry of Commerce.

Question No. 3: What is Invest India agency?

Answer: Invest India program (or agency) was established in 2009. This digital investment portal will be the under of this agency. Invest India is a non-profitable organization established under the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) & Ministry of Commerce.

Source: PIB