Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman invited global investors to set up manufacturing bases, and technology and innovation centres in India, urging them to leverage talent and opportunity to build for the world.
Sitharaman highlighted India’s broad-based growth, reform momentum and expanding opportunities for long-term investment. Ms. Sitharaman emphasised that India’s investment proposition rests not on any single sector, but on the convergence of scale, growth, talent, infrastructure, technology, and sustained reform over the past decade.
Addressing a high-level Business Roundtable with leading investors and business leaders in Chicago on Friday (August 28, 2026), Ms.
The Finance Minister invited global partners to co-develop, co-produce and build for global markets.
“The policy environment is increasingly focused on enabling businesses to invest, manufacture, innovate and expand,” she said at the roundtable organised by India’s Consulate General in Chicago in association with U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum. The Minister said India’s Digital Public Infrastructure such as Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker, ONDC and India Stack, has created platforms at population scale. The focus is moving beyond assembly towards deeper component manufacturing, engineering and advanced technologies, supported by targeted policy measures including production-linked incentives, the Minister said. The Finance Minister said through initiatives such as Atmanirbhar Bharat and iDEX, India is building domestic capabilities in drones, autonomous systems and other advanced technologies.
